Author: Tom McCann Greece shocked the world when it won the European Championships in 2004, Porto came from nowhere to win the Champions League in the same year and more recently Liverpool did the same. All four African representatives at the World Cup in Germany - Angola, Cote d'Iviore, Ghana and Togo ...
Author: Dan Berkman With the top five runners on both the men and women's cross country team sitting out this race with regional's this upcoming weekend, the JV teams stepped up in their place for the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) race. On a sunny and warm November day, the Middlebury runners ...
Author: Justin Golenbock Don't think I enjoy this. Don't think I wouldn't much rather return to the sand dunes of Qatar camel racing. Or Adirondack Mountain Unicycling tour (UMX). Or even Canadian Underwater Hockey (invented in 1954 by an English scuba instructor…obviously). But it's not like ...
Author: Eri Nosaka "Super-seniors" Jeff King and Colby Hewitt could not have asked for a better farewell to their beloved Middlebury field. After a newly-won New England Championship, the men's team trounced Vassar College by a score of 60-5 in the Quarterfinals of the Northeast Territorial tournament. ...
Author: Ryan W. Reese After eight straight wins, the women's field hockey team finally ran into a roadblock. The Panthers were stopped short of a NESCAC title this past weekend after cruising through the second half of the season unbeaten. On Saturday afternoon, Williams moved on to the championship ...
Author: Ryan W. Reese Seven consecutive wins. The streak just became more impressive. The Middlebury women's field hockey team dominated Rensselaer in a 4-1 win during its last regular season contest before diving head-first into the postseason with a 3-0 shutout win over Bates. There was never any ...
Author: [no author name found] Panthers go back to the future Before the Middlebury men's hockey team begins defense of its back-to-back national titles, it will have to take on a group of familiar faces. The Panthers will be battling an alumni team in an exhibition game this weekend, with the puck ...
Author: Tom McCann If the old adage that the foundation of every great team is a great defense is true, the Middlebury men's soccer team of 2005 can consider itself one of the best. Of course, all truly great teams have to win silverware, and at the semi-final stage of the NESCAC tournament, nothing ...
Author: Jonathan Brand For three quarters on Saturday, the Panthers had all of Alumni Stadium believing the football team could pull off what would have unquestionably been the biggest win of the Bob Ritter Era. The fourth quarter, however, grounded everyone in reality. The Trinity Bantams showed the ...
Author: Sarah Poling Luehrman The Panthers' regular season ended Tuesday with a 3-0 win over in-state rival St. Michael's. Last weekend's NESCAC Quad at Williams gave the Panthers a taste of the competition they will face next weekend when they travel to Colby for the NESCAC Championship tournament. ...
Author: James Kerrigan After a strong 2004 season which ended with a second place finish, the 2005 women's soccer team could not advance past the conference quarterfinals against Bowdoin. Middlebury built momentum coming into the playoffs with a strong performance against Plattsburg, followed by a win ...
Author: Eri Nosaka This weekend the men's team faced a doubleheader against Colby College and Coast Guard on its way to winning a New England Championship. On Saturday, the Panthers played against the Colby Mules and crushed them by a score of 27-7. Although Middlebury's ability to completely overwhelm ...
Author: Geoffrey Homer Hoping to continue its season long domination in the pool, the Middlebury men's water polo team competed last weekend in the North Atlantic Division Championships. Duplicating their season-long success, the Panthers conquered every team they faced in the pool, cumulating with ...
Author: Daniel Berkman Running conditions were close to ideal for this year's NESCAC cross country championship at Wesleyan University. The day was overcast and the course was dry despite a couple of stream crossings in the middle of the race. Considering all the rain and cold weather the past few weeks, ...
Author: Justin Golenbock The organizational contrast of ingenuity vs. chaos that is the Patriots vs. the Red Sox took another turn for the dramatic this past Sunday. In one of the most stunning and inspirational sports comebacks of my lifetime, Patriot Defensive Captain Tedy Bruschi returned after ...
Author: Stephanie Pritchard The weekend before Halloween and the Head of the Fish Regatta mark the end of Middlebury Crew's fall season. The Head of the Fish in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is famous for its laid-back atmosphere, poor weather and the costumes that some crews wear. Fortunately this year ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed The Middlebury women's tennis team brought its fall season to a close at the New England Women's Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament (NEWITT) on October 14-16. The Panthers were competing with a number of tough teams from throughout the region in six singles brackets and three doubles ...
Author: James Kerrigan The women's soccer team surprised top-ranked Williams but also suffered two tough, division losses on its way to an even two wins and two loses over the last two weeks. The Panthers did their best to match the season high eight goal outburst against Castleton on Oct. 5 with a ...
Author: [no author name found] When the Middlebury College women's field hockey team ran into a rough stretch earlier in the year, the team did not panic. Instead, the team rode the ups and downs of the season, as all great teams do, and has bounced back strong since a stinging double-overtime loss ...
Author: Steve Beslow After a sterling month, Middlebury men's tennis finished up its fall schedule with an unusual (and "friendly") match-up against Division I athletic powerhouses Boston College and Boston University. Middlebury showed serious toughness while taking on BU, claiming 11 of the 12 contests. ...