The Middlebury softball team watched its season come to an end this weekend after losing two of three games in a must-win series against Wesleyan University. After winning game one of the key home series 5-0, the Panthers could not muster another win on the weekend, instead falling prey to the Cardinals ...
The Middlebury Women’s Lacrosse season came to an end with a 9-8 loss to Colby on Sunday in the NESCAC playoffs in the Quarterfinal game. Middlebury was coming off of an exciting 11-10 win over Williams in their final regular season game when they entered the playoffs. With the win, Middlebury earned ...
Middlebury men’s tennis encountered its toughest challenge of the season last weekend, hosting fifth-ranked Amherst in a battle of the two top teams not only in the NESCAC, but in the country as well. At 22-8 overall and 7-1 in league play, Amherst proved to be the opposite of the typical NESCAC pushover ...
Before opening day this season, before the first pitch and the first rained-out series and the first grudge match against Williams, I asked sophomore pitcher Dirk van Duym ’12 about the team’s expectations of themselves for the coming season. Van Duym responded by saying that the team would be very ...
For men’s lacrosse, it all comes down to this Friday against Williams. With a loss this Friday at Williams, the Panthers would enter the NESCAC playoffs as the number-eight seed for the first time ever. Just as quickly as three consecutive wins can revive a team, one critical loss can put it back ...
Middlebury’s men’s track teams made their mark at the 2010 NESCAC Championships held at Tufts on Saturday. The Middlebury women placed third overall, while the men took fifth. The Middlebury women finished the meet with four individual NESCAC champions and two winning relay teams. Kaitlyn Saldanha ...
9-0 wins, as spectacular as they may be for the winning side, inevitably get old after a while and especially on paper. Any and all readers will not be surprised to hear the Panthers yet again swept a powerless Skidmore team last weekend, led by their usual starting lineups. Andy Peters ’11, Andrew ...
Both Middlebury’s golf teams were in competition at Williams College’s Taconic Golf Course this past weekend in Williamstown, Mass. The men’s team vied for the NESCAC championship, while the women’s team competed in the annual Williams Invitational. Under the gorgeous, sunny spring skies, the ...
In what has been a season of extreme highs and lows for Middlebury baseball, the outlook has turned up for the moment. The team took two of three from the Hamilton Continentals last weekend, notching its first NESCAC series win this year. The Panthers won the first and third games of the three-game ...
“I think this series was a wake-up call for us,” said pitcher Ali McAnany ’11. In their two-game series at home against neighbor Castleton State College last Saturday, the Panthers went one-for-two in two very close match-ups. The first game of the day was characterized by a real lack of offensive ...
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team turned the tides of a rough patch in the season with an exciting 13-9 win over the sixth-ranked Tufts University Jumbos. The win for Middlebury, ranked 16th, snapped two streaks: Middlebury’s three-game losing streak and Tufts’ nine-game winning streak. The ...
All good things must come to an end. After enjoying a 12-1 run to open its season, including a 4-0 record in NESCAC play, the 15th-ranked women’s tennis team dropped two straight matches this week against perennial conference rivals Williams and Tufts. The week started on Wednesday in Williamstown, ...
As the NBA playoffs opened this past weekend, analysts took their turns predicting each series’ winner. Some dug through the numbers, while others followed their gut. If there was a constant thread, each analyst devoted serious attention to an individual star’s ability to come through when his ...
Middlebury men’s tennis hosted Bowdoin and Colby this past weekend, earning a pair of unchallenged wins in NESCAC play. To date, it was undoubtedly the team’s most convincingly dominant weekend, as not one player or doubles pair lost a set. The Polar Bears, who were the first Panther opponents ...
The men’s golf team competed this past weekend at the annual Williams Invitational against NESCAC rivals and the other “regulars” from around the New England area. Heavy rains slowed play at times, but the skies cleared by Sunday afternoon. Although the soggy conditions made clean ball-striking ...
Step aside, UVM; the title of first-ranked men’s varsity four boat in New England now belongs to Middlebury. The Middlebury men’s and women’s crew teams have started off the spring season with admirable success, capturing several first-place finishes in their regattas the past two weekends. The ...