Although the Colby field hockey team tallied its first win of the season last Sunday, Sept. 30, it dropped another one goal game the previous day against Middlebury College. Fortunately the Mules played like a winning team against the Panthers, despite the final score.
Men's water polo has done it again. For the fourth year in a row, the Mules' water polo team has collected the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin title by dominating both the Bobcats and the Polar Bears to make this elite Colby team a dynasty. At last weekend's water polo tournament at Bowdoin College, the Mules split the four games they played, suffering losses to Tufts University and Amherst College.
Just 4:34 into the contest on Saturday, Sept. 29 Nate Seiberling '11 headed in a cross from Logan King '09 to demolish Middlebury College's shut-out streak of the 2007 season. Despite scoring an early goal against the Panthers, the men's soccer team fell short of taking down the undefeated team.
This past weekend, the Mules demonstrated a solid showing at the men's Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Tournament in Williamston, Massachussettes. Competing as the eighth seed, Bryan Brown '09 made it to the quarterfinal match of the tournament where he eventually fell to third seeded Dan Greenberg of Williams College.
The Colby Mules football team traveled to Middlebury, Vermont on Sept. 29 in hopes of building on it well-played game the previous weekend against the Trinity Bantams. Unfortunately for Coach Ed Mestieri and the Mules, Middlebury proved to be a tough test.
The women's soccer team had another successful outing on Sept. 25 against non-conference opponent the University of New England. The intensity of this match-up was conveyed through the 0-0 score which remained through most of the game. "UNE was a very feisty team who worked very hard and kept the game very close," Captain Katie McCabe '08 said.
Overcoming the setback of two losses on the night of Friday, Sept. 28 and a loss Saturday morning at the Bates Invitational in Lewiston, Maine, women's volleyball came back Saturday afternoon to beat UMass-Dartmouth in just three games. The Mules won the match against UMass-Dartmouth 30-15, 30-25 and 30-25, with setter Jenny Lawrence '09 accumulating 31 assists and seven defensive digs.
Now I realize that many of you are coming off of an exhausting fantasy baseball season and are entrenched in fantasy football allure. You'll notice that Yahoo.com and various other fantasy sports sources have started fantasy basketball drafts. Although my fantasy baseball team has been miserable the last two seasons (eighth place both seasons, but consistent I suppose) and my football team this year is under achieving, my fantasy basketball team is always in the top two in the league.
October has begun, and as the leaves begin to change, the temperature starts to drop and we recognize that fall is upon us, one of the most exciting times in sports gets started. The Major League Baseball playoffs are here, leading up to the Fall Classic and the World Series, and if this year's playoffs are anywhere near as exciting as the regular season was, baseball fans everywhere are in for a real treat.
Leora Feldstein caught her first ever iPlay Flag Football touchdown catch on Sunday, Sept. 30 from the golden arm of Jake Franklin '08. Feldstein leaped into the air and caught the ball with one hand, juked two players on the opposing team, and scored the winning touchdown for her team, Los Hooliganos.
Although some skeptics might have anticipated that the men's tennis program would suffer due to the absence of previous number one singles player Brody Saunders '08, they had no idea that Bryan Brown '09 was yet to reach his peak. Stepping into the number one spot for the Mules, Brown showed not only his talent, but also his unyielding determination last weekend as he competed against some of the best tennis players in Division III at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Tournament at Williams College.