NE/West Midweek Musings The Headmaster sends out a weekly email to all the bloggers detailing the week’s schedule and what needs to be done. We had Wednesday circled due to two BIG matches between the NE and the West. Bowdoin vs Redlands and Williams vs Pomona-Pitzer, both of which could end up with some major…
Psssst, hey you over there, remember Tufts? Yeah, Tufts. The team that both lost to MIT and beat Bowdoin in the span of about 48 hours at the end of last year? Well they’re playing tennis again for the first time in 2017. I know right, who knew! Luckily we’ve got you covered, and I’m here…
REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 03/13 – 03/19 Happy Monday, boys and girls! This week is a big one as even more top teams (including Chicago, Middlebury, Williams and Tufts) embark on their spring breaks. D3AS and D3Tree brought us an impressive This Week in Highlights (TWIH) earlier today, and now it’s time for your weekly…
#8 Wesleyan vs #11 Redlands Happy Friday, boys and girls. Today we have a bit of old meets new in the DIII tennis world. Redlands has struggled over the past couple years, consistently losing to its southern California nemeses in PP and CMS, while Wesleyan is a team that a certain blogger has been promoting…
STAG HEN X-FACTORS AS: Why am I writing this? I don’t know. Considering I have no teams of the 8 in the tournament, I should be enjoying a damn vacation at this point. But no, I’m stuck in 18 inches of snow talking to D3NE. Guess I’ll pass this off now. TOWEL WHIPPING NE: Ok,…
REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 03/06 – 03/12 Happy madness, boys and girls! We have an absolutely phenomenal week ahead of us between the Stag Hen and the opening weekend of the tournament. Please keep checking the site for Stag Hen coverage. We already have two Stag-Hen previews up, and hopefully we’ll have our master…
STAG-HEN QUARTERFINAL PREVIEW #2 #2 Bowdoin vs #12 Whitman 10 a.m. Bowdoin Power 6 Rating: 74.84/75.37. Luke Tercek (12.69), Grant Urken (13.26), Kyle Wolfe (12.73), Jerry Jiang (12.25), Gil Roddy (12.51), Luke Carstens (11.40)/Justin Patel (11.93) Whitman Power 6 Rating: 72.08. Zach Hewlin (12.32), Petar Jivkov (11.95), Chase “Symmetra Main” Friedman (12.27), Robert Carter (11.82),…
Amherst vs Kenyon: Monday, March 13 at 8 a.m. Amherst kicked off its 2017 season earlier today with a convincing 8-1 win over Stevens. The (hopefully) soon to be Hamsters will take on Roger Williams this evening, but D3Midwest and I are going to quickly look ahead to tomorrow morning’s bout between Amherst and Kenyon.…
There is a scene in SpongeBob SquarePants when the titular character and his starfish sidekick discover and eventually awaken their rodent pal from her annual winter slumber. At some point along the way, Patrick utters the line, “hibernation must mean the opposite of beauty sleep.” In this example, and in many other cases, the philosophy of Patrick…