Author: Sally Hartman "There's no place like home, there's no place like home..." The unexpected wisdom of The Wizard of Oz's protagonist Dorothy proved to be true this weekend in Cumberland, Maine as the men and women's cross country teams faced off with conference and non-conference teams alike. ...
Author: Peter Yordan None but the most dilatory of students can still remain who remembers the exquisite torture of a Red Sox postseason on Middlebury's campus. Thanks to baseball's best lineup and an embarrassing (if not improbable) meltdown by the Mariners, all of us will get a chance to see the ...
Author: Mike Kennedy The Middlebury women's soccer team pushed its record to 5-1 after three impressive wins last week. The Panthers have now won five straight games, and rank third in New England and 20th nationally heading into this week's action. They are tied atop the NESCAC standings with Bates.The ...
Author: Dan Russell The Middlebury College volleyball team began an exhausting five-match stint this past Thursday, which started in against Union College. The much-improved Panthers had a very strong outing, as they swept the Dutchwomen in three straight games by 30-20, 30-27, 30-19 to win the match ...
Author: Sean Breen The Middlebury men's tennis team took to the road last weekend to test its skills against some Division I opponents at the Cornell Fall Invitational. Middlebury was the only DIII school invited to the seven-team tournament that included Cornell, Yale, the University of Connecticut, ...
Author: Heather Wright The Middlebury College women's tennis team has started out the 2003 fall season undefeated, with a win against Skidmore on Sept. 17 and most recently against Union last weekend. The Panthers traveled to Schenectady, N.Y., on Sept. 20 and convincingly defeated Union by a score ...
Author: Ryan Reece The football team ran into a roadblock on Saturday in Middletown, Connecticut. The Wesleyan College Cardinals turned up the intensity during the second half in order to send the Panthers home with a 26-7 loss. Despite holding a narrow lead at the half way mark, the Panthers could ...
Author: Dan Russell After an encouraging step forward with a 3-1 victory against Plattsburgh State this past Tuesday, the Middlebury College volleyball team suffered two disappointing losses in the inaugural NESCAC Tournament held at Williams College last weekend. The team faced its first NESCAC competition ...
Author: Dave Freedman Middlebury's men's soccer team fought tirelessly on Saturday in Middletown, Conn., to earn its fourth straight win of the season in a 1-0 decision over the Wesleyan University Cardinals before trouncing Colby-Sawyer four days later, 4-0. With their fifth straight shutout, the Panthers ...
Author: Peter Yord·n Someone should tell the Middlebury women's golf team that winning isn't supposed to be easy. The rookie team, in its first ever home invitational, waltzed away with the tournament victory, its second win in as many weeks. Despite having been in existence for less than a month, ...
Author: Tom McCann The Middlebury women's field hockey team took to the road once again last weekend in a bid to defeat Wesleyan and maintain its perfect start to the season. Middlebury had to come to terms with Wesleyan's home playing surface. The synthetic all-weather surface to which Middlebury ...
Author: Jack Donaldson After last week's encouraging showing at its own Duke Nelson Invitational, the Middlebury College Men's golf team had an up-and-down week that fortunately does nothing to spoil its championship hopes. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, the Panthers sent several players to Saratoga to play ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos Middlebury's College's cross country teams both had solid showings at the Williams Invitational last weekend. The men's team managed a sixth place finish out of the 11 teams in competition, while the Panther women posted a second-place result. With a series of stern tests ...
Author: Mike Kennedy The Middlebury College Women's soccer team rebounded from a disappointing last-second loss to Trinity with convincing wins against Norwich and Wesleyan this week. With the victories, the Panthers improved their record to 2-1 heading into what will be a trying week as the team squares ...
Author: Mike Kennedy The Middlebury women's soccer team opened its season on Saturday Sept. 13 with a disappointing 1-0 loss to Trinity in Hartford. The Bantams scored the game winner with only eight seconds remaining in the game, spoiling a great performance by Panther goaltender Els Van Woert '06 ...
Author: Peter Yordan Prompted by a wave of Division III athletic reform proposals championed by John McCardell, Middlebury College president and the chair of the Division III Presidents Council, Middlebury College has found itself in the middle of a maelstrom of contentious national debate over the ...
Author: Sean Breen The Middlebury men's tennis team opened its fall season by hosting the Middlebury Invitational last weekend. Despite the presence of Bowdoin, Bates and Rochester, the Panthers managed to dominate to the extent that the flight A and B singles finals, and top doubles final featured ...
Author: Ryan Reese The 2003 Panther Invitational this past Saturday marked the beginning of another successful fall men's and women's cross country campaign. A strong team finish for both squads foreshadows a season that promises to carry on a long and triumphant Middlebury cross country tradition. ...
Author: Peter Yordan The Middlebury women's golf team, in the first match in its history as a varsity program, won an overpowering victory over Williams, Cortland and Elmira, dominating the leaderboard with a team score of 324 strokes. By so thoroughly stamping their authority on their inaugural tournament, ...
Author: Tom McCann Last weekend saw the Middlebury College field hockey team travel to Trinity in an attempt to build on their season opening win against Skidmore the previous weekend. As co-captain Becca Brakeley '04 noted, "Intense competition between NESCAC teams means that on any given day, any ...