Author: Sally Hartman When asked if he was anxious about the impending football game against Hamilton early last week, linebacker Rich Decembrele '05 philosophically quoted Van Wilder, "Worrying is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere." Decembrele's wisdom ...
Author: Jack Donaldson As much hype as we have been hearing recently about "dynasties" in sports, there are actually very few great teams that, year in and year out, put up championship caliber performances and dominate their respective fields. The Chicago Bulls of the early 90s, the Yankees of the ...
Author: Peter Yordan One day, looking back during one of those Wonder Years moments, I might realize that my college career came to an end on an intramural soccer field on Oct. 26 when the Iron Monkeys, my intramural soccer team, were eliminated from the playoffs. It was a ragtag band of teenagers that ...
Author: Tom McCann The Middlebury women's field hockey juggernaut rolled into Tufts last Saturday, putting its 11-game winning streak on the line in the last road game of the season. Last year, the Panthers were extremely successful at home, while their form away from the immaculate turf of the Peter ...
Author: Ryan Reese The fall season of men's and women's crew came to a close this past Saturday. There was however, something "a little fishy" about the conclusion to a successful campaign. There was no foul play, cheating or illegal tactics at work. The fishy odor emitted wherever the Middlebury ...
Author: Dave Freedman The Middlebury men's soccer team got back on track in outstanding fashion with two wins this past week, securing a home game in the first round of the NESCAC Championship. The Panthers blanked St. Michael's College 2-0 on Thursday and traveled to Tufts two days later to earn a ...
Author: Mike Kennedy The Middlebury College women's soccer team lost a tough 2-1 decision to Tufts last weekend in Boston. The loss was the second in a row for the Panthers in NESCAC play and dropped them into a tie for sixth in the conference. The top seven teams qualify for the NESCAC playoffs, making ...
Author: Dan Russell The Middlebury College women's volleyball team played two of its final three regular season games this weekend traveling to Plattsburgh State in New York and Plymouth State in New Hampshire. The squad put in a grand effort to gain momentum for the upcoming NESCAC tournament, but ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos The Middlebury football team was dealt a 16-0 loss to Trinity College on October 25, a sour note during Homecoming weekend that put the Panthers at 2-4 for the season. With two games left on the 2003 schedule, Middlebury will need to win both in order to match last season's ...
Author: Sean Breen This year's fall men's tennis season came to a close with an impressive performance by two of it's rising stars. Nathan Edmunds '06 and Brian Waldron '06 were both invited to this past weekend's Dartmouth Invitational. The top New England Division I tennis teams were all there: ...
Author: Sally Hartman Homecoming Weekend will be an event not to be missed given the Middlebury College football team's performance at Bates last Saturday. The Panthers traveled to Lewiston, Maine, to face off with the Bobcats, who shied away from some characteristically fierce and persistent competition ...
Author: Dan Russell The Middlebury College women's volleyball team has gone an impressive 4-3 in its last seven outings, played over an exhaustive 10-day stretch. The Panthers began by playing Skidmore at home on Oct. 8. In a tight, four-game series, the Panthers narrowly beat out the Thoroughbreds ...
Author: Jake Heller This is the year. At the beginning of every baseball season Red Sox fans forget about the disappointment of the season before and reaffirm their steadfast belief that in fact this is the year. This is the year in which the Curse of the Bambino will be lifted and Boston will take ...
Author: Mike Kennedy With wins over arch rival Williams and non-conference opponent Lyndon State, and a disappointing loss to Bates, the Middlebury women's soccer team heads into the final two weeks of the regular season sitting in a fifth place tie in the NESCAC and ranked 22nd nationally. The Panthers ...
Author: Peter Yordan Fleet of foot and full of fury, the Middlebury cross country teams pulled of a pair of strong showings at the Albany Invitational last weekend in preparation for the upcoming NESCAC tournament. The men pulled off a respectable seventh place finish, while the women solidified their ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos In what can only be called a heartbreaking finale to an otherwise strong inaugural varsity season, the Middlebury women's golf team came up only one stroke short of St. Lawrence for a second-place overall finish at Williams on Oct. 12. The Panthers posted a team score of ...
Author: Jake Donaldson What started as a season full of hope and confidence ended inauspiciously this week, when the final glimmer of optimism for the men's golf team's fall season was extinguished at the 69th annual New England Inter-Collegiate Golf Association Championships (NEICGA) in Brewster, Mass. ...
Author: Dave Freedman The Middlebury men's soccer team lost its first two games of the season in back-to-back weekends, dropping a disappointing 2-0 loss to Williams College at home and a frustrating 2-0 score at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.Despite a midweek 5-0 rout of non-conference opponent ...
Author: Tom McCann Sports can be crazy. Sometimes, no matter what happens during a match between two teams, the final score just doesn't reflect the flow of the game. When the Middlebury women's field hockey team traveled to Bates on Oct. 18 attempting to take its season record to 11-0, it produced ...
Author: [no author name found] No Panther team this fall has even been able to approach the level of dominance displayed by the men's rugby team. The squad, which has established itself as a national power over the past several seasons, asserted its dominion over the state of Vermont with an overwhelming ...