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The Setonian

Women’s Tennis Plays Well on Home Courts

The women’s team concluded its fall season at the Middlebury Invitational Women’s Tennis Tournament from Friday to Sunday, Oct. 20 to 22, on Proctor Tennis courts and in the Nelson Recreational Center. The Panthers competed against Williams, Case Western Reserve, and Brandeis in a form of hidden ...


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Field Hockey Looks to Defend Home Turf

The second-ranked women’s field hockey team kept their winning streak alive with a 4-1 triumph over Bates this past Saturday, Oct. 28. This victory, their tenth straight, garnered the Panthers a spot in the semifinals of the Nescac tournament next weekend at home against Bowdoin. Seeded first coming ...


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Field Hockey Forges Ahead

Not only did the Middlebury Field Hockey team blank both Trinity on Saturday, Oct. 14, and then Husson on Sunday, Oct. 15, but the Panthers have not allowed a goal in the last 245 minutes of game play. It was a big weekend. “It feels really good going 2–0 two weekends in a row, especially because ...


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Cross Country Crosses the Line

As the season is coming to a close, the Middlebury Panthers are continuing to assert their dominance at their meets. The women’s team captured first place while the men’s team was able to attain second place in their respective meets at the Connecticut College Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 14. ...


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Football Falls on Last-second TD

Hosting the Williams Purple Ephs on Saturday, Oct. 14, the Middlebury Panthers dropped a nail-biting contest that came down to the final six seconds of play. Middlebury dominated the first half of play, much as they have done in the rest of their games to this point. The Panthers burst out of the gate ...


The Setonian

Men’s and Women’s Tennis Holds Own in Cambridge

The men’s and women’s teams continued their fall seasons last weekend, playing from Friday to Sunday, Oct. 13 to 15. This weekend completes the men’s fall season, but the women are looking on to the annual Middlebury Invitational here at Procter Tennis courts next weekend. The men’s team competed ...


The Setonian

Volleyball Drops Two in Maine, Falling to Fifth in NESCAC

The Panther volleyball team played faced a tough slate of matches last Friday and Saturday that saw the team drop a pair of Nescac games to Tufts and Bowdoin before prevailing over The University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI). The Panthers (14–5, 5–3) now sit at fifth in the conference but still ...


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Men’s Soccer Sinks Trinity

The Nescac fourth-ranked men’s soccer team (9–4, 4–4) earned their third consecutive 1–0 win against Trinity (3–9–1, 1–7–1) last Saturday, Oct. 14. The win came on what would be coach David Saward’s last guaranteed home weekend game; over 40 Middlebury soccer alumni, accompanied by ...


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A (Re)defining Moment for the Quidditch Club

Hundreds of Harry Potter fans gathered on Battell Beach last Saturday, October 7 for the Middlebury Classic Quidditch Festival. “Middlebury College invented Muggle Quidditch in 2005, and [on Saturday] we revived a home-grown Middlebury tradition,” said Tabitha Mueller ‘18, a member of the Middlebury ...


The Setonian

Activism in the NFL: Two Takes on One Issue

On Sunday, Sept. 24, Pittsburgh Steelers left tackle Alejandro Villanueva came to embody, in an unexpected way, the height of the racial conflict that has embroiled the NFL for the past year. Embody, not because he is black or particularly affected by racial injustice in America — Villanueva is of ...


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Football Earns Mammoth Victory

The football team is 4–0 after beating the previously undefeated Amherst Mammoths 35–31 in a game that came down to the final minutes on Saturday, Oct. 7. It was not the prettiest of games, as Middlebury finished with under 300 total yards, 200 fewer than the Panther onslaught of Colby two Saturdays ...


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Reid Scores First Career Goal to Push Men’s Soccer Past Wesleyan

Men’s soccer (7–4–0, 3–4–0) went one for two in their double-header weekend last week, Oct. 7 and 8, as they bounded-back from being shut-out by 12th-ranked Tufts (8–1–1, 5–1–1) on Saturday when they squeaked by Wesleyan (5–4–1, 1–4–1) by a narrow 1–0 margin on Sunday. Much ...


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Weekend Wins for Women’s Soccer

The women’s soccer team had a huge weekend on the road, beating Tufts 1–0 on Saturday, Oct. 7, before heading west to beat Wesleyan in overtime on Sunday, Oct. 8. Middlebury now has momentum looking toward the conference tournament. “Saturday and Sunday were both important wins for us, against ...


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Field Hockey Makes Moves

The field hockey team surged past No. 4 Tufts and shutout Wesleyan on the road this past Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 8 and 9. The Panthers win over Tufts on Saturday was particularly significant because the Jumbos were undefeated and first in the Nescac before that game. With the wins, the Panthers moved ...


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Women’s Golf Takes Third at Taconic to Finish Fall Season

The women’s golf team took to Route 7 and headed south last weekend toward Williamstown, Massachusetts, to play for the Nescac championship on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 7 and 8. While the Ephs once again took to conference crown, the Panthers held their own on Williams’ home course at Taconic Golf ...


The Setonian

Men’s Tennis Faces DI Teams

The men’s tennis team faced a big challenge last weekend, Friday to Sunday, Oct. 6 to 8, as it competed against exclusively Division I teams in the Farnsworth Invitational at Princeton. The doubles pair of Andre Xiao ’21 and Will de Quant ’18 led the way by reaching the semifinals of the A-doubles ...


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Volleyball’s Win Streak Is Snapped

This past weekend, the Middlebury volleyball vanquished Connecticut College on Friday, Oct. 6, before falling to Wesleyan on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 7, snapping a 10-match winning streak. The Panthers (12–3, 4–1) now sit at fourth in the Nescac standings. In the weekend opener, the Camels did ...


The Setonian

Raffel Racks Up Kills, Enters Record Books

With three more wins, the Middlebury volleyball team pushes their winning streak to an impressive nine games, a mark they did not even reach last year when they won the Nescac crown. “Our team is getting better each time we step on the court,” Gigi Alper ’20. “Our winning streak is fueling ...


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Field Hockey Coasts vs. Colby

Middlebury Field Hockey, now an impressive 4–1 in the Nescac and 7–2 overall, swept Colby with a 6–1 win this past Saturday, Sept. 30. The Panthers, ranked seventh nationally, got on the board three times in both halves, only allowing one goal against 57 minutes into the game, on a penalty stroke. The ...




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