SPORTSBRIEFS

Author: ZAMIR AHMED, SPORTS EDITOR

Renehan '06 grabs POTW

Middlebury's Elizabeth Renehan '06 was named the NESCAC Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week on April 3. The co-captain recorded six goals and three assists as the Panthers picked up two wins during the week to move to 5-1 on the season.

On March 28, Renehan notched two goals and added an assist as the number-two ranked Panthers cruised to an easy 15-5 home win over number-12 ranked Union College. Renehan followed up this performance with one even more impressing on March 30, this time netting four goals and tallying two assists in the Panthers' 16-11 win over NESCAC rival Trinity.

Renehan currently leads the team with 13 goals to go along with her three assists for a total of 16 points on the season. The midfielder has made herself known in other ways as well, picking up a team-leading 16 ground balls and causing 17 turnovers.

The Panthers currently sit at the top of the NESCAC standings with a 3-0 conference record. The team is looking to continue its divisional excellence this season. Middlebury has won all five NESCAC crowns since the league started deciding conference champions in 2001. The Panthers' next game will be April 8 at Kohn Field against Bowdoin College, the team most likely to challenge Middlebury for the conference title and presently undefeated on the season at 7-0.



Fly Fishing Club casts off

The Middlebury College Fly Fishing Club (MiddFly) will hold its first meeting of the Vermont fishing season on Thursday, April 6 at 8 p.m in the Gifford classroom. The club is open to fishers with skills ranging from expert to beginner as well as both students and faculty. The organization currently boasts an official membership of 200.

This season, MiddFly is looking to become more of a social club and expand its involvement in the College community. In the past, the club has mainly provided equipment for interested fishers to rent as well as providing information about local fishing areas. The organization hopes to expand its services this spring, with ideas such as free casting clinics, guided trout and salmon fly fishing trips in Vermont, a spring stream cleaning and a fly tying night.

One major event the club is looking forward to holding this spring is a fishing competition against Yale and Harvard. During the 1920s, these colleges traveled to Nova Scotia for a deep-sea fishing tournament in search of giant tuna but the event eventually came to a end. MiddFly hopes to revive this tradition with a competition against the colleges for steelhead, brown trout or rainbow trait. The meet will most likely take place in New Hampshire and Maine before the end of the academic year.

For those anglers looking for a more casual fishing experience that still would like to test their skills, the club's Web site is a place where College fishermen can send in pictures for the photo gallery as well as statistics of their best catches to compete for a place in the club's Trophy Room.

The fishing season runs from April 8 to Oct. 31 and offers students a chance to get outdoors and appreciate Vermont's majestic rivers and streams.