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Track Hurdles Competition at Tufts Meet

The indoor track and field team trekked to Boston through snowy conditions on Saturday, Feb. 15 to participate in the Tufts Cupid Challenge, hosted by the Jumbos at the Gantcher Center. The meet is often referred to as “Tufts’ Last Chance,” the final competition of the indoor season that offers ...


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Men's Hockey Squeaks by Williams in OT Thrillers

Men’s hockey captain Louis Belisle ’14 delivered a game-winner with forty seconds remaining in the overtime period against Williams on Saturday, Feb. 15 to win by a score of 2-1. Middlebury also played Williams to a 1-1 tie at the Ephs home rink on Friday, Feb. 14, with Liam Moorfield-Yee ’16 ...


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Ski Teams Finish Third at Williams Carnival

The Middlebury ski team traveled to Williamstown, Mass. this past weekend, Feb. 14 and 15, to take part in the Williams Carnival. Jiminy Peak was the venue for the carnival’s alpine events while Prospect Mountain held the Nordic events. Middlebury found itself in a tie for fourth place after day ...


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Women's Basketball Ends Season 1-11 in NESCAC

The Middlebury women’s basketball team wrapped up its season this past weekend with road games against conference foes Trinity and Amherst. The Panthers fell behind in the second half in a loss at Trinity on Friday, Feb. 14, before being beaten from tip to buzzer in Sunday’s matchup with twelfth-ranked ...


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The Road to Salem Part 5: Stuck in Reverse

Every year, certain games are circled on the calendar that mean just a little bit more than others. Follow surprise upstart Jake Brown and free-spirited Hunter Merryman as they prepare in the 12 hours before the biggest home game of the year.


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Men’s Basketball Secures Key NESCAC Wins After Falter

The Panthers split their four conference matchups sandwiching February break, dropping a home game against Williams and a road game at Hamilton, over the weekend of Feb. 1. However, the following weekend the Panthers rebounded with two victories at home against Colby and Bowdoin on Feb. 7 and 9. In ...


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Women's Hockey Skate to Five Consecutive Wins During Break

The Middlebury women’s hockey team kept its unbeaten streak alive through the end of February break; the women have yet to suffer a defeat through 14 games The Panthers defeated Bowdoin on Friday, Jan. 24 before tying the Polar Bears on the following afternoon. Middlebury then took two on the road ...


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School Records Fall For Track & Field

The track and field team stayed busy over J-term and the duration of February break with three consecutive weekends of meets. On Jan. 24, the Panthers headed up to Canada to participate in the McGill Team Challenge in Montreal, a larger and more competitive meet than those in which they had competed ...


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Men's Hockey Stumble in Conference Play

It is gut check time for the Middlebury men’s hockey team (8-10-2) who will face four must-win games in the coming two weekends to salvage a season that never quite lifted off the ground. In the past three weekends, Middlebury lost to Bowdoin, then beat Colby and Tufts before losing three straight ...


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Ski Teams Hit Rough Patch at Carnivals

The Middlebury ski team had a busy past couple of weeks, competing in the UNH, UVM, and Dartmouth Carnivals. The Panthers placed fourth at UNH, third at UVM, and fifth at Dartmouth. On day one at UNH, the men’s and women’s ski teams competed in the giant slalom event. Hig Roberts ’14, Christopher ...


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Panther Swim Teams Finish Fast in Home Finale

The men and women’s swim teams hosted the Middlebury Invitational at the Natatorium during the first weekend of February break on Friday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb. 1. NESCAC opponents Williams, Amherst, and Tufts participated along with Springfield and UVM. As has been the case in past Invites, no ...


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Women's Basketball Drops Games at Home

The Middlebury women’s basketball team went 1-2 in a trio of games over February break, picking up a narrow road win over Keene State on Tuesday, Feb. 4, before dropping a pair of NESCAC home games to Colby and Bowdoin on Friday, Feb. 7 and Saturday, Feb. 9. Taking a five-game losing streak on the ...


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Men’s Hockey Bested by Local Rivals on Home Turf

Ten games remain for the mystifying Middlebury men’s hockey team (6-6-2), who fell short this weekend against two strong out-of-conference opponents, fourth-ranked Plattsburgh (14-1-2) and fifth-ranked Norwich (12-3-2). Seventeen hundred fans came out on Friday night and juiced up Kenyon arena — ...


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Men’s Hoops Grabs a Pair at the Buzzer in Connecticut

Middlebury squeaked out two conferences wins over the weekend by a total of five points, then hammered Johnson State on the road in a 95-65 victory on Tuesday, Jan. 21. For the second straight year, 40 minutes were not enough to decide the outcome between the Panthers and the Wesleyan Cardinals. Last ...


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Women’s Hockey Holds Off Lord Jeffs to Lead NESCAC

In a matchup between the NESCAC’s top seeds, the Middlebury women’s hockey team traveled to Amherst, Mass. where the second-ranked Panthers gained a crucial advantage in conference play over the ninth-ranked Lord Jeffs, stealing a 2-1 win in the first game of the doubleheader before drawing 5-5 ...


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Before I Go

When I arrived at Middlebury four years ago, I knew that I wanted to write for the newspaper. A lifelong sports fan — and former varsity athlete adjusting to life as a NARP (I briefly entertained notions of trying to walk on to the football team before enjoying a brief, but formative career playing ...


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Women’s Basketball Drop Two NESCAC Games on the Road

The women’s basketball team dropped a pair of road NESCAC games this weekend, Friday Jan. 17 and Saturday, Jan. 19, hanging close until halftime in both games but ultimately falling to Wesleyan and Connecticut College. Playing against the Cardinals in Silloway gym on Friday night, the Panthers got ...


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Ski Teams Take Third Place At Colby Carnival

The Middlebury ski team finished in third place at the Colby Carnival, one spot ahead of their standing after day one. The Vermont Catamounts topped the charts this weekend with 1,012 points, Dartmouth came in next with 882 points, Middlebury followed by an exact 200 margin with 682 points, and the ...




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