Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Tarrah Beyster, a four-time All-American at Oregon State University, has been named the head softball coach at the University of Vermont. Beyster comes to Vermont after three seasons as an assistant coach at Indiana University, where she worked with the Hoosiers' pitchers and catchers. Prior to her stint with the Hoosiers, Beyster spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Bradley University. She helped the Braves post the program's best record in a decade during the 2005 season. Beyster, a native of San Diego, Calif., played her collegiate softball at Oregon State University. She put together a stellar career in Corvallis, Ore., earning NFCA/Louisville Slugger All-America honors all four years, a first in the OSU softball program. She was also a four-time All-Pac-10 Conference selection. Beyster hit .382 for her career and owned a 1.72 ERA with 694 strikeouts and 91 wins in the circle.

 

 

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Paul Morgan, an Essex Junction native and former standout shortstop at Williams College, has been named Head Coach of the Saint Michael’s College varsity baseball program, it was announced on Monday. Morgan is the 19th head coach in the program’s 96-year history, and only the third since the program was reinstituted as a varsity sport in 1990.
             Morgan, who last week completed his tenure as an assistant coach with the Vermont Mountaineers of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, spent the 2007-08 academic year as a mathematics teacher at The Salisbury (Conn.) School. While at Salisbury, Morgan served as the prep school’s assistant baseball coach, helping the Crimson Knights compile a perfect 20-0 season this past spring. He also helped mentor Salisbury great Anthony Hewitt, a first-round draft choice by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2008 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
             Morgan had a stellar four-year career as the starting shortstop at Williams College. As a senior captain, Morgan led the Ephs to the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) West and NESCAC Tournament titles, and to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in six seasons. He was twice named All-NESCAC and All-New England by the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association, and was selected to the NCAA Division III New England Regional All-Tournament Team as a senior. Over his career, Morgan batted .361 with 208 hits, 129 runs batted in, and 119 runs scored.
             For three summers as an undergraduate, Morgan played in the NECBL with the North Adams SteepleCats, and one summer in the prestigious Cape Cod League. He also served as an assistant coach for the Essex American Legion baseball team last summer.

 

 

Friday, July 18th, 2008

The University of Vermont women's basketball program will add four newcomers, including two Vermonters, for the 2008-09 season. Camille duPont of Marshfield, Tory Dennerlein from Exeter, R.I., Ashley Hoyt of Arlington and Jaclyn Renner from Newton, Mass. will continue their careers as Catamounts.                                                                                                                                   duPont, a 5-10 wing player, comes to Vermont from Twinfield Union High School. She led the Trojans to the Vermont Division IV State Championship in 2008 and was a 1,000-point scorer. duPont, a two-year captain, earned a spot on the Burlington Free Press All-State team and was a nominee for the McDonald's All-America honor.
Hoyt, another Vermonter and a 6-0 wing player, comes to UVM after a spectacular career at Arlington High School. She scored 1,330 career points and collected 1,110 career rebounds during her four-year career for the Eagles. As a senior she averaged 16.2 points, 11.8 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game and was a McDonald's All-America nominee. A three-time Marble Valley League All-Star, she was also named to the Burlington Free Press All-State team as a junior and senior. Both players played for the Vermont Senior All-Stars in their 65-58 win over New Hampshire in the Merchants Ban/Rotary All Star Classic last weekend at the Patrick Gym.

 

 

 

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Marc Klatt is the defensive coordinator for the inaugural football team at Castleton State.
Klatt has spent the past 12 years coaching at the high school andcollegiate levels, most recently as an assistant coach at St. Cloud State University, an NCAA Division II institution in St. Cloud,Minnesota. While at St. Cloud State, Klatt was charged with coaching the inside and outside linebackers and was also the co-strength andconditioning coach, responsible for developing, implementing and supervising the year-round strength and conditioning program for the entire team. Klatt held the same responsibilities during the 2005-06 academic year at The College of New Jersey alongside Castleton's head coach, Rich Alercio.
 

 

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Former University of Vermont standout hurler Bryan Rembisz signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim organization this past weekend. The righthander will be assigned to the Rancho Cucamonga (Calif.) Quakes of the Class A Advanced California League. Rembisz will join the Quakes Monday after dominating the independent Frontier League for the Traverse City (Mich.) Beach Bums since June of 2007. The Beach Bums' opening day starter, he was 3-1 with a 2.60 earned run average in seven starts this season. He ranked fourth in the league in ERA and walked just seven hitters while striking out 33 in 45 innings. In 2007, Rembisz was 7-0 with a team-record 1.87 ERA.

 

 

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The University of Vermont has been awarded the America East Academic Cup for the fourth consecutive year and becomes the first institution in conference history to win the award five times (1996, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008). UVM student-athletes boasted a 3.14 cumulative grade-point average during the 2007-08 season. The 3.14 GPA ties the record for the top GPA in the 12-year history of the award, which Vermont set in when it won the Academic Cup in 2006. The University of New Hampshire (3.12), University of Maine (3.10), Stony Brook University (3.06) and Binghamton University (3.04) were other institutions to compile grade-point averages of 3.00 or better in 2007-08.

 

 

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

University of Vermont softball head coach Marcie Hickey has resigned to accept the head coaching position at the University of North Florida. Hickey leaves Vermont after two years at the helm. Vermont posted a 14-27 mark last season overall and went 7-14 in America East play. The Cats defeated two Big East teams (Providence and Villanova) and their seven league wins were the most in school history.
 

 

 

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Bethany Torrice is the head coach for Castleton State women's hockey
and volleyball teams. Torrice, a 2005 graduate of Utica College, was most

recently an assistant coach for the State University of New York at Oswego .

While at Utica, Torrice was a member of the first-ever women's hockey

team in 2001. She finished her playing career ranked eighth in career scoring

and played in 96 games over four seasons. She was a team captain and earned

ECAC Women's West All-Academic recognition multiple times.

Prior to moving back to her native Oswego, Torrice spent one season at
the State University of New York at Cortland as an assistant women's
hockey coach. While at Cortland and Oswego Torrice was involved in all
aspects of recruiting, fundraising, on-ice instruction, and strength and
conditioning for the respective teams. 
 

 

 

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Joe Serafin of the University of Vermont was named the Pitcher of the Game at the 2008 New England College Baseball All-Star Game Saturday morning at Fenway Park. Serafin led a solid effort by four Catamounts for the University Division (Division I) in the annual all-star game. The College Division (D-II and D-III) held off the University Division, 6-3, in the contest. The 2008 America East Pitcher of the Year and an All-New England first-team selection, Serafin retired all six hitters he faced in two innings including three strikeouts. Fellow lefthander Eric Thompson, a second team All- New England pick, also hurled two perfect innings of relief with a pair of strikeouts. Justin Milo went 0-for-3 but hit the ball hard twice in three plate appearances. A first-team All-New England outfielder, Milo was flawless defensively in left field in front of Fenway Park's famous Green Monster. Third baseman and former Rutland Raider Kyle Massie played in the game for the second straight year and went 1-for-3 with one of the University Division's five hits. UVM head coach Bill Currier served as the University Division's first base coach and freshman Jason Leclerc  was the team's bullpen catcher. The contest at Fenway Park was the final collegiate game for Thompson and Massie, two of Vermont's four seniors.

 

 

 

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Former University of Vermont associate head basketball coach Jesse Agel finally has a Division One program to call his own. Agel was named Tuesday as the new head coach at Brown University in Rhode Island. He was an assistant and ultimately the Associate Head Coach at UVM for seventeen years under former Vermont head coach Tom Brennan. But when Brennan retired four years ago Agel was passed over for the top job in favor of current Cats coach Mike Lonergan. He served as coach at Colchester High School for a year before becoming the number one assistant at Brown under head coach Craig Robinson. Robinson, the brother in law of Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, resigned recently to become the head coach at Oregon State.  

 

 

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Matt Duffy of the University of Vermont has been named to Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's 2008 Louisville Slugger Freshmen All-American Team. A member of the America East All-Rookie Team, Duffy hit .308 this spring, third on the team, and led conference freshmen with 33 runs batted in and a team-high 18 doubles, tying for the second most in a single-season at Vermont. He also tied for second on the Cats in hits with 61, tying for seventh in a season. Duffy started every UVM game at shortstop. He pitched in relief in five games recording two saves while posting a 2.70 ERA. One of two America East players and one of two from New England named to this year's squad, Duffy is the fifth Catamount to be selected as a Collegiate Baseball Freshmen All-American. Jeff Barry '03 was named in 2000, Jason Carey '06 and Bobby Tewksbary '05 were named in 2002 and Miguel Magrass '07 was selected in 2004. Current teammate Justin Milo was named to the team in 2007 as a freshman at Cornell.

Meanwhile, the word that Harry Glynne of Hamden, Conn. will attend the UVM and play baseball at the school. Glynne rounds out a recruiting class that includes ten other newcomers that made commitments to the UVM baseball program throughout the year. A 6-foot, 180-pound, hard-throwing right-handed pitching prospect, Glynne comes to Vermont after graduating from the Kent School in Kent, Conn. where he has been a three- time Founders League All-Star. This past spring he had a 2.50 earned run average and struck out 68 hitters while walking just 19 in 48 innings. His senior season was highlighted by a no-hitter in a 1-0 win over Hotchkiss on April 9. Glynne graduates as Kent's all-time leader in strikeouts with 173 in his career.  Glynne's father, John '77, was a standout defenseman on the Vermont men's hockey team from 1973 to 1977 earning All-ECAC honors in 1975.

In addition to Glynne, Bobby Dean (RHP, Danvers, Mass.), Travis Dulude (RHP, Enosburg Falls, Vt.), Ben Hart (RHP/IF, Portsmouth, N.H.), Ryan Houghtalen (RHP, Rochester, N.Y.), James Katsiroubas (IF, Milton, Mass.), Michael McCarthy (C, Wallingford, Conn.), Gavin McCullogh (RHP/1B, Stamford, Conn.), David Soltis (IF, Plainville, Conn.) and Leif Sorenson (RHP, Bradford, Mass.) will be freshmen members of the Catamounts starting this fall. Richard McVey (OF, Colchester, Vt.) transfers to UVM after helping lead Crowder College of Neosho, Mo. to the NJCAA Division I Region 16 Championship this spring. He will have two seasons of eligibility at Vermont.
 

 

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Vermont midfielder Kristen Millar continues to pile up accolades following her junior campaign for the women's lacrosse team. Millar has been named to the WomensLacrosse.com All-America Third Team this week. She becomes the first Catamount to be honored by the website in the program's history. Last week, Millar garnered IWLCA Regional All-America honors for the third straight year and was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District I At-Large Team.

 

Two members of the Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team have been named to the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Association All-American teams. Senior Reid Berrien was named to the second-team, while senior Katherine Entwisle was a third-team selection. The duo helped lead the Panthers to a 12-5 season with a trip to the NCAA Regional Final.

 

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Three University of Vermont baseball players, pitchers Joe Serafin and Eric Thompson, and outfielder Justin Milo, have been named to the 2008 All-New England Division I Baseball All-Star Teams. Serafin and Milo were named to the first team while Thompson picked up second team honors.

Serafin was named the 2008 America East Pitcher of the Year and a first-team all-conference selection last week after leading the conference in earned run average (2.51), complete games (7) and opponent batting average (.221). The junior lefthander had a 6-5 record in 2008 and struck out 58 hitters in 79.0 innings. After three seasons he ranks fourth all-time at UVM in strikeouts (200) and is tied for sixth in victories (17).

A sophomore, Milo led the Catamounts in batting average (.328), hits (63), runs scored (50), slugging percentage (.573) and runs batted in (40). Named to the America East All-Conference second team, he led the conference and is tied for second in the NCAA with a UVM single-season record eight triples. Milo's 50 runs scored were one off the school record and his 63 hits tied for fourth.

Thompson's final campaign with the Catamounts was his best earning a spot on the All-America East second team and the America East All-Championship Team. He had a 7-1 record to tie for the conference lead in victories and ranked third in earned run average (3.45) in all games and his 2.84 ERA in league games was second. The senior lefty allowed only 10 extra-base hits in 70.1 innings pitched and did not give up a home run. Thompson's seven victories also tied for the fifth most in a single season at UVM and he finished his career tied for 10th all-time with 15 wins (15-10).

 

 

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

 

 

 

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

The season is over for the UVM Baseball Catamounts. Vermont got superb pitching for eight innings on Saturday afternoon on Long Island, but as they have been all through the America East Tournament, their bats were silent, and as a result they were beaten by Binghamton by a score of 4-0. Vermont's Justin Albert pitched a strong eight innings, shutting out the top seeded Bearcats on five hits ... but his teammates could not get him a run. Albert then tired in the ninth, giving up four hits and four runs to account for the final score. The Catamounts managed only three hits on the day. Their best chance to score came in the sixth inning when former Rutland Raider Kyle Massie singled, stole second and went to third on a ground ball to the right side. They had him at third with one out, but they failed to get him home as St. Johnsbury grad Ethan Paquette grounded to first against the drawn in infield and Miguel Magrass fouled out. But that was how it went all three days on the tournament for Vermont. Hitting was Vermont's bugaboo throughout. In going 1-2 in the tournament the Cats managed only eleven hits TOTAL in the three games. With the loss Vermont ends it's season 27-24.

 

 

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

The UVM Catamounts are still alive in the America East baseball Tournament. Vermont rode the five hit complete game pitching of Eric Thompson to a 5-1 win over Maryland Baltimore County in an elimination round game on Friday afternoon on Long Island. Thompson struck out four and induced 16 ground ball outs in tossing the gem. He got all the scoring he needed when the Catamounts pushed across two runs in the fifth inning and three more in the sixth. In the fifth Corey Moylan's triple drove home Miguel Magrass to tie the game at 1-1. Moylan then scored on a suicide squeeze bunt by former Essex Hornet Brad Currier. Vermont added three more in the sixth on an error, a Matt Duffy RBI double and a Jeff Nolet sacrifice fly. Vermont did not exactly light it up at the plate, producing only three hits on the day, but thanks to Thompson they survive and at 27-23 they will meet the loser of Friday night's Binghamton/Stony Brook game in another elimination round matchup on Saturday.

  University of Vermont junior Kristen Millar has been named to the Northeast Women's Lacrosse Regional All-America Team for the third straight year. Millar, who is the only player in UVM women's lacrosse history to earn a spot on this team, led the Catamounts to one of their most successful seasons in school history. Millar led the team in goals (35), assists (26), points (61), ground balls (58), draw controls (74) and caused turnovers (26) for the third consecutive year. She ranked third in the country in draw controls per game (4.24) and ninth in ground balls per game (3.41). Millar was named to the America East All-Conference First Team and All-Academic Team for her efforts this season. She became Vermont's all-time leader in points (178) and assists this season (71) and will enter her senior season 27 goals shy of becoming the all-time leading goal scorer in UVM history. Millar also ranks second among the NCAA's all-time leaders in draw controls with 257 for her career.

 

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

The UVM baseball Catamounts have fallen into the losers bracket of the America Baseball Tournament. The Catamounts were beaten 4-1 by top seed Binghamton in the tournament opener on Thursday afternoon on Long Island. Vermont wasted a strong effort by starter Joe Serafin. The America East pitcher of the year allowed only one earned run on six hits over eight innings. But three Vermont errors behind him opened the gates for three unearned runs, and Serafin did not help himself by giving up seventh and eighth inning homers. Binghamton scored an unearned run without a hit in the first inning to take a quick 1-0 lead and made it stand up until the Catamounts pushed across a run in the seventh to tie the game at one. Rutland High grad Kyle Massie singled, went to second on a sacrifice and scored on a Matt Duffy single. But the Cats wasted a chance for more. After tying the game they loaded the bases with one out, but Brattleboro grad Kyle Henry and catcher Jeff Nolet both struckout to end the inning. Binghamton then re-took the lead on a seventh inning homer and added two more unearned runs in the eighth on a two out two run homer to account for the final margin. UVM totaled five hits with two each from Duffy and St. Johnsbury alum Ethan Paquette, but they were not nearly enough. Vermont face a win or go home elimination game on Friday. 

 

Monday, May 19th, 2008

 

 

 

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

 The University of Vermont Catamounts secured themselves an America East Conference baseball playoff berth on Saturday afternoon, sweeping Hartford 3-2 and 3-1 in a doubleheader in Connecticut. Trailing 2-0 in the top of the fourth inning in the first game the Catamounts rallied for a pair of runs to tie the game.  Justin Milo walked, was sacrificed to second, went to third on a Matt Duffy single and scored on an infield out by Miguel Magrass to cut the Hartford lead to 2-1. Former Brattleboro Colonel Kyle Henry then reached on an error by the Hartford shortstop as Duffy scored the tying run. Then in the fifth Mark Micowski doubled with one out and scored on a two out hit by Milo to give Vermont the lead. Eric Thompson scattered nine hits and five walks over six innings to earn the win. Tom Kelly worked the seventh for the save. In the nightcap the Catamounts grabbed a quick 3-0 lead in the first two at bats and pitcher Justin Albert made it stand up, tossing a seven inning complete game and striking out nine. Milo hit a two run homer in the first inning and Micowski delivered the third run in the second with a sacrifice fly. With the wins the Catamounts, now 26-22 on the season, clinched the final playoff spot in the league, and with that accomplished the final game of the originally scheduled four game series was cancelled, allowing the Catamounts to get back to Burlington in time for UVM graduation on Sunday. The Cats advance to a meeting with top seeded Binghamton in the first game of the conference tournament on Thursday afternoon on Long Island.

 

 

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

The UVM baseball Catamounts came into their final regular season series of the year on Thursday knowing they needed to win two of the four games at the University of Hartford to advance into the America East conference tournament. Now they need to win two out of THREE. The Catamounts dropped the opening game of the series to the Hartford Hawks 2-0. Vermont ace Joe Serafin scattered six hits and struck out six in a complete game effort, but was bested by Hartford's sinker balling Weston Szymanski, who tossed a four hitter. Szmanski induced 17 ground ball outs in controlling the potent UVM offense. Vermont and Hartford continue the series with a doubleheader on Friday afternoon in Hartford.

Meanwhile the season is over for the Castleton State Spartans. The Spartans dropped a 16-7 decision to Southern Maine on Friday morning on Cape Cod, dropping out of the double elimination NCAA Northeast Regional in two straight games. The victorious Huskies jumped on Castleton starter and former Green Mountain Union ace Ken Cook for eight runs in the second inning and the Spartans were forced to play from behind the rest of the day. Down 9-0 the Spartans did mount a valiant rally, scoring seven runs in the sixth inning to cut the deficit to 9-7. Former CVU Redhawk Kyle Brooks doubled home one run, South Burlington alum Chris Ragis and Whitcomb High grad Ted Mills each singled in another, and Brad Polcare capped the inning with a three run double. But the Huskies answered right back with seven runs of their own in the top of the eighth to secure the win. The loss left the Spartans with a final season's record of 22-20.     

 

 

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

The Castleton State Spartans were beaten 9-5 by top seeded and undefeated Trinity on Wednesday afternoon in the opening game of the NCAA Division Three Baseball Northeast Regional in Harwich, Massachusetts.  Castleton, which got two hits each from Dan Conley and Kevin McPeek, falls into the losers bracket, and will next play in an elimination game on Thursday morning against fourth seeded Southern Maine.

Meanwhile the season is over for the Middlebury men's lacrosse team. The Panthers were beaten 11-10 in overtime at Cortland State in NCAA Division Three second round action. The Panthers led most of the way in the close, hard fought match. They had a 9-7 lead early inthe final quarter. Cortland rallied for three straight goals to go up 10-9, but Middlebury tied it on a Mike Stone goal with 1:16 remaining to force overtime. The Red Dragons then notched the game winner with 39 seconds left in the first five minute overtime. Jim Cabrera led the Panthers with three goals, while Stone and Tom Petty each added a pair. Middlebury's season ends at 13-3. 

 

 

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

The Castleton State baseball team is into the NCAA Division Three tournament for the first time, and the Spartans will be facing the iron right off the bat. Castleton will meet undefeated Trinity of Connecticut in their first round game in the Northeast regional on Cape Cod on Wednesday. The NESCAC Champion Bantams are 34-0 on the season.

 Eric Thompson of the University of Vermont was named America East Pitcher of the Week for the period ending May 11. Thompson tossed a complete-game, one-hitter to blank Maine, 1-0, in the second game of a doubleheader last Saturday at Centennial Field. He was one strike away from UVM's first no-hitter since 2005 allowing just a two-out single in the seventh. He retired the next batter to preserve the shutout, the first of his career. Prior to the lone hit, the senior lefthander had retired 13 hitters in a row.
 

 

 

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

In baseball on Sunday afternoon the University of Vermont Catamounts made it three out of four on the weekend, splitting a doubleheader with the Maine Black Bears at Centennial Field. In game one the Catamounts saw their pitching staff racked for 18 hits as Maine won 16-5. The Black Bears led the seven inning affair 8-5 going to the top of the seventh and then blew the game out of sight by scoring eight more runs. Former Rutland Raider Kyle Massie drilled three hits and scored a run and St. Johnsbury grad Ethan Paquette drove in two runs for the Catamounts. In the second game of the twinbill Vermont bounced back behind the pitching of Justin Albert. Albert spun a nine inning complete game, scattering five hits and striking out seven as the Cats won the game 9-1. Albert was backed by a 13-hit attack that included six extra-base hits. The Catamounts scored three times in the first and three more times in the third. Playing in his final home game senior Miguel Magrass drove in three of the six runs with a two-out RBI-single in the first and a long two-run homer in the third inning. Justin Milo and Massie also chipped in with back-to-back doubles in the third. Massie, who had three hits in both ends of the twinbill, doubled in a run in the fourth and had a RBI-grounder in the sixth. Paquette doubled and scored to close out the Cats scoring in the seventh. With the split Vermont is 24-21 on the season and 10-10 in America East conference play. They hold a one game lead on Hartford in the race for the last league playoff spot heading into a four game season ending series in Hartford next weekend.

Meanwhile the season is over for the Middlebury women's lacrosse team. The Panthers were beaten at Hamilton in the NCAA regional final on Sunday afternoon 9-7. Mimi Schatz and Dana Heritage each scored three goals for the Panthers, but Middlebury ends their season at 12-5. It marks the first time since 1993, when NESCAC allowed its teams to advance to the NCAA's, a span of fourteen years, that Midd has failed to make it to the Final Four.  

 

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

The UVM baseball team swept a crucial America East doubleheader on Saturday afternoon, topping Maine at Centennial Field 4-2 and 1-0. In the opener Joe Serafin worked a nine inning complete game, scattering seven hits and striking out six and Matt Duffy delivered the game's big hit, a two run fifth inning single that gave Vermont the lead for good. Former Rutland Raider Kyle Massie had three hits, stole two bases and scored a run and Essex grad Brad Currier added a single and an RBI double. In the nightcap Vermont's Eric Thompson came within one strike of a no-hitter before settling for a one hitter and the 1-0 win. He walked four and struck out eight. Mark Micowski drove in the game's only run with a fourth inning single. With the sweep Vermont improves to 23-20 overall and 9-9 in America East league play and climbs back into the fourth and final spot in the league playoffs with six regular season games remaining. They will host Maine in another twinbill on Sunday at Centennial Field.

Meanwhile Castleton State has their first ever North Atlantic Conference championship. In Glens Falls, New York the Spartans swept a pair of games from Husson 10-6 and 22-2 to claim the title and an automatic bid to the NCAA Division Three tournament. Second baseman Brad Polcare carried the Spartans on his back to the title, going ten for thirteen on the day with two doubles, a triple, two homeruns and eight runs batted in. Former CVU Redhawk Kyle Brooks added three hits and drove in three runs in the first game while Garrett Bissonnette drilled five hits and knocked in four runs and former South Burlington Rebel Chris Ragis chipped in four hits in the nightcap. Now 22-18 on the season the Spartans await word on their first round NCAA opponent.

In NCAA lacrosse the Middlebury men and women both advanced with Saturday wins.

In Middlebury the men overcame an early 4-1 deficit and went on to a 10-7 win over Bowdoin. Tom Petty, Dave Campbell and Skyler Hopkins each scored two goals for the Panthers, who move on to a quarterfinal matchup at Cortland State on Wednesday.

In Clinton, New York the Middlebury women topped Gettysburg 14-5. Leading 6-3 at the half the Panthers outscored their opponents 8-2 in the second half to win going away. Lindsay McBride scored four goals and Katherine Entwisle added three for the Panthers who will meet NESCAC rival Hamilton on their homefield in their next game on Sunday.

In Beverley, Massachusetts the Castleton State men saw their season end in the ECAC Semi-Finals, as they got blasted by top seeded Endicott 29-5. Michael Martinez scored three goals in the season finale for the Spartans.   

 

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008