Author: Jacob Heller The estimated driving time from Middlebury, Vt., to Clinton, N.Y., is four hours. This weekend the Middlebury baseball team ensured that drive would be a long four hours for the Hamilton Continentals. Middlebury won all three games by scoring a run in the final inning - 7-6, 8-7, ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg Someone lit a fire underneath the Middlebury softball team. The Panthers have won eight of their last 10 games and six in a row. This past week, the squad dominated state rival Lyndon State and dismantled two New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) foes, Wesleyan ...
Author: David Lindholm Nine years ago, the Amherst College men's tennis team beat to their closest rival, Williams, 5-4. After that loss, the Ephs set off on a 53-match New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) winning streak that continued from 1994 until last Wednesday, when they traveled ...
Author: [no author name found] The Middlebury track and field teams traveled to Williamstown, Mass., to compete in the Williams Relays last Saturday on April 12. The previous weekend's heavy snowfalls led to the cancellation of the Panthers' home meet on April 5, but aside from a stiff breeze, the weather ...
Author: Zach Foster Success often leads to the willing disappearance of superfluous individual recognition. However, at other times certain athletes remind us that some recognition is not only necessary and well-deserved, but imperative. This past weekend, on the campus of Bowdoin College, Kristin Hanley ...
Author: David Freedman The fourth-ranked Middlebury men's lacrosse team put away three close games over top-20 opponents this past week to keep its unblemished conference record intact. The Panthers went on key second-half runs in each game to beat Tufts 12-7 on Wednesday, Bowdoin 13-11 on Saturday ...
Author: David Lindholm With a tight 4-3 victory over Tufts on Friday, the men's tennis team picked up some momentum heading into their most difficult match of the regular season. The team faces Williams today in a match that features the Ephs, the top-ranked team in the country, against the Panthers, ...
Author: Dan Shea Spring athletes were dismayed to see a layer of downy snowflakes atop their playing fields this week, but the piddling amounts of snow that seem determined to keep New England grumbling had women's tennis team Co-captain Sandy Spring '04 pleased this past weekend, for the annual Middlebury ...
Author: Peter Yordan April is indeed the cruelest of months. Students come back from vacation tanned, toned and ready for spring, only to have the chilly blasts of ice and snow snap them back into their discarded fleeces and hats. Yet for those in the know there is a fresh source of solace from the ...
Author: David Lindholm With any help from the weather, this Friday's game and Saturday's doubleheader against Hamilton will be the Panthers' first home games of the season. Tuesday's game against St. Michaels was postponed, and if the field clears, the baseball team will certainly be excited to get ...
Author: David Freedman The Middlebury men's lacrosse team has had its schedule delayed three times in one week by the latest winter storm, playing only one game in 10 days on the original date in the original venue. Playing in a constant and heavy rain reminiscent of the Gettysburg loss, the Panthers ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg The Middlebury softball team made history on Sunday. For the first time in its four-year existence, it beat perennial New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) powerhouse Williams in the first game of a doubleheader. Although the Panthers dropped the second of these ...
Author: Zach Foster As we push further into a snow-covered spring, the women's lacrosse team continues to melt competition while extending its blistering winning streak. In two games that promised to test the back-to-back national champions, the Panthers asserted their dominance with remarkable efficiency ...
Author: Peter Yordan There have been no two fouler words than "wintry mix" for spring athletes this season. With temperatures stubbornly hovering around the freezing mark, Middlebury's traditional winter wonderland has turned into an April nightmare for those who ply their trade out on the athletic ...
Author: Andrew Nicolo Zimmermann The 2003 Middlebury women's hockey roster reads like a who's who of eastern U.S. All-Stars. Almost all hail from prep or prestigious private high schools and all are very talented. The success of the hockey team speaks for itself. Yet when your eyes cross 5'0" senior ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg After being forced to practice indoors for a few weeks straight, the Middlebury softball team finally got a chance to play on an actual field when it traveled to Florida during Spring Break. Despite going 3-6 for the week, the team was very pleased with its performance and got ...
Author: Daniel Shea While most Middlebury College students enjoyed well-deserved rest last week, the Lady Panthers tennis team was getting into the swing of this season with an intense week of matches in sunny Hilton Head Island, S.C. The grandfather of Julia Stimson Thorne, first and former wife of ...
Author: David Freedman The Middlebury men's lacrosse team moved to 5-1 on the season after four games in the span of nearly 10 days. The Panthers picked up two New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) victories in an 18-8 decision over Connecticut College on March 22 and a 16-7 rout of ...
Author: Andrew Nicholas Zimmermann I In most sports, accomplishments are measured by points or rebounds, goals or assists, hits or strikeouts, touchdowns or interceptions. It's all about the stats. They are a meaningful, if not pompous way of comparing athlete to athlete. Yet for the climbing faithful ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos The Middlebury men's hockey team closed the door on its season after suffering a 6-0 loss to Oswego in the semifinals of the NCAA Division III tournament. The defeat put the Panthers' 2002-2003 overall season record at 22-5-2."We didn't play very well, obviously," commented ...