#1 Tufts (19-6, 8-2) vs. #4 Trinity (17-8, 6-4), 5pm, Medford, MA. Patrick Mahoney ‘21 leads all scorers on the Engineers with 15.1 points per contest and chips in with 5.7 rebounds/game. Premier Coverage of NESCAC Football, Women's Soccer, Men's Basketball and Baseball. Before college I never considered myself much of a writer, but I had a passion for sports and I had read enough NbN articles to at least be able to mimic the way they wrote. On top of the institution’s high academic caliber, the league is often considered the most competitive Division 3 … Not having any spring sports played certainly makes our job difficult given that there isn’t much to write about, but we haven’t forgotten about the baseball that we typically cover around this time of year. The Eph defense will keep this one close for a half or so, but give me the Jumbos to conclude their end-of-season road trip with a quality victory. Their only conference losses were at the hands of York College, once in the regular season and once in the conference championship. Losses to Tufts and Amherst late in the year dropped them to 2nd in the NESCAC by the end of the regular season, earning them a home game against 7th-seeded Bates in the quarterfinals. He’s also the tallest player in the starting lineup (albeit 6’5”), so he’ll need to continue hitting the boards to help with rebounding duties. For those of you who don’t know, MLB the Show has been the best baseball video game franchise on the market ever since Backyard Baseball stopped releasing new editions. Most NESCAC women soccer coaches work closely with the Admissions Department and are able to provide pre-reads to recruited athletes after July 1 before their senior year. In the end, Nothing But NESCAC became one of the greatest sources of pride and accomplishment for me during my time at Bates. Despite the 15-0 start, there were shaky performances in a largely uncompetitive schedule—a 4-point win against Bridgewater St., close games against Wentworth and Johnson St., and escaping in a 1-point win against New England College. He didn’t play at all over the 4 games after his injury, but last weekend Coach Strahorn tried sending him out there during the Mules’ triple overtime victory over Bates in the quarterfinals. A Will Wessman ’21 fly ball was just deep enough to score Phillips, putting Colby ahead 1-0. In the final five minutes, big man Luke Rogers ‘21 gave the Jumbos the lead for good with a layup followed by a successful three-point play, and with a plethora of converted free throws down the stretch, the Tufts’ players, coaches and fans erupted with joy as the seconds ran down, knowing they had finally emerged victorious. The senior didn’t bat an eye, fanning two consecutive hitters before securing the game with a weak infield popup. Even in their close win against Hamilton this past Friday, the Mules struggled to put together a complete effort and record a convincing win. She didnt get her pre-read (an Ivy) until the first week of Sept. and had until 1 week after her visits with other schools to give her answer. Former ace Mike McCaffrey ’19 sputtered out at the end of his career and relief man Ryan Earle ’19 didn’t really impress in his final season either. Unlike Middlebury, who is coming into the tournament on a two-game losing streak, the Owls are peaking at the right time, winners of 13 of their last 15. NbN gave me a chance to meet people I would never have met and try things I would never have tried and for that I will always be thankful. The hosts this weekend, the number 1 ranked team in the East region, and one of the hottest teams in the country are the Brockport St. Golden Eagles. Thankfully for Colby, their defense saved the day with fantastic perimeter defense. He had what would be perceived by his standards as a quieter effort in the quarterfinals against Hamilton, finishing with fourteen points and six boards; however, there is no doubt that his size and skill set in the low post attracts a multitude of helpside defenders, giving the rest of the team open lanes to drive and shots to knock down. Schaefer-Hood settled down and delivered his best performance to date, allowing a total of four hits in seven innings of one-run ball with six punch outs. Olson was relieved by veteran Andrew DeRoche ‘20, but Daues rudely greeted him with a single back up the middle to score Knight and stretch the Jumbos’ lead to 6-3. Having dropped four consecutive conference games, however, doesn’t instill much confidence in me to believe they can actually achieve this. But let’s not forget, however, that Williams recently put $22 million into their football field, Middlebury poured $46 million into a new fieldhouse, and Colby broke ground on a new $200 million athletic complex, among others. #2 Colby (23-2, 8-2) vs. #3 Amherst (18-7, 7-3), 7pm, Medford, MA. All roads to success for the Jumbos lead through the duo of Savage and Rogers, who averaged a combined 32.7 ppg during the regular season. As Tufts heads to the Big Dance, opposing teams with deeper rosters will look to use the Jumbos’ aggressiveness against them and draw contact in order to pile up both the fouls on Tufts and the free throw attempts. What a ridiculous, confusing, maddening, twisted couple of months. Pete is a huge reason that I was able to have the success that I did as a writer and I often attempted to mimic his voice in my early writings as I was still establishing an identity. The Polar Bears attempted to claw their way back in the seventh, getting a run across on some defensive miscues in the seventh. The year before, they were bounced from the Sweet 16, nothing to be ashamed of. The other six? (Sidenote—if Westfield St. upsets Midd and plays Brockport, not going to be the easiest game on the eyes). 1 West vs 4 East, 2 East vs 3 West)-We plan to stream the bracket play games online so that anyone can tune in and follow what’s going on. Another common factor that seems to reoccur when the Jumbos drop a contest is the number of fouls the team picks up. Even if it’s the Gilmour show again, Hamilton can get away with it against Conn, although it won’t be as comfortable of a win as they’d like it to be. Tufts, despite dropping out of the top 25 rankings, should still be firmly locked into postseason play regardless of Saturday’s result. In arguably the most intense atmosphere the rookie had experienced in his playing career to this date, Thoerner cooly sunk both free throws to force double overtime. Will Phillips ’21 and Will Wessman ’21 are important returning pieces, but it’s hard to know who would step up for the Mules this year. Member institutions believe athletic teams should be representative of school's entire student bodies, and academic standards are strictly followed. Smaller populations and campuses can often facilitate especially productive and consistent relationships between professors and students. Tufts opted to roll with RHP Aidan Tucker ‘22, who as a freshman impressed with a 7-1 record and a 50:16 strikeout-to-walk ratio. What actually binds these schools together, however, is their membership in the Ivy League, an NCAA Division 1 athletic conference. #10 Middlebury (19-3, 5-3) vs. #18 Tufts (18-4, 8-0), 7pm, Middlebury, VT. Tufts has already secured the title of regular season champions, but this match-up poses real threats to their unblemished conference record. The maturation and focus that was required of this team in order to regularly compete at the highest level was met with open arms, and the reward is the team’s first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 2016. First up we have Hamilton, who (to be quite honest) has been pretty irrelevant in a division that is usually quite competitive and volatile in terms of the playoff hunt. Either way I think this will be a good matchup, but I don’t see Colby’s season ending tonight. Tufts went to work against RHP Justin Olson ‘21, with DiMaria lacing his second double of the afternoon down the left-field line to open things off. Give me the Jumbos by 15+. When all was said and done, the Bobcats scratched across four runs, which was more than enough for Collins to work with. In a battle of the two preseason East Division heavyweights* (asterisk because we all know who Trinity’s Daddy really is in that Division), the Bantams head to Medford oozing with confidence; having notched a slew of quality wins, including taking two of three from Southern Maine and a sweep against Amherst, the Jumbos don’t scare the boys from Hartford. He handed the ball to known psychopath George Goldstein ’21, who worked around a walk in the 8th to keep the score knotted at 1 as they headed to the final frame. I first heard about Nothing But NESCAC on my overnight recruiting visit to Bates because they had recently released a NESCAC fantasy football draft in the early days of the site and the baseball players at Bates were buzzing about it. Conversely, a slip-up against Trinity would allow the Bantams to surpass them, so it’s safe to say this one will be a hotly-contested matchup. What’s more is that they already own a victory over the Jumbos, a 59-56 defensive battle that saw Tufts turn the ball over 23 times. After plunking OF James McCarthy ‘21 with a heater in the back, Michaud turned a comebacker into a 1-6-3 double play, taking the wind out of the Polar Bears’ sails. The biggest question mark with a team like Brockport is really just its strength of schedule, having played 18 of their 27 games in conference. In essence, getting an early read is a process in which a coach takes a recruit’s current academic information and presents it to an Admissions liaison to get a sense (a non-committal statement) of the … The Jumbos know they have the size advantage with Rogers down low and should allow him to pound away and kick the ball out to open shooters. Over the next 3 innings Driscoll worked his way out of a few jams, keeping the Panthers scoreless through 4. Two teams perennially in contention; Amherst and Wesleyan both find themselves right in the mix again this year in a crowded West Division. They love to drive into the lane and get to the free throw line, averaging right around 16 attempts per game. Despite having the seeding advantage over the Panthers, not many people would have expected Trinity to take down the nation’s 19th-ranked squad, and yet they not only did so for the second time this season, but the boys in blue and yellow did so in convincing fashion. Lamont faced the minimum during the first three innings but began to struggle with control the second time through the lineup; after back-to-back walks to open the bottom half of the fourth, Zaffino barreled a ball that clipped the left-field line and rolled to the fence, scoring Wallis and moving Brady Slinger ‘22 90 feet away from taking the lead. We’ve started our own fundraising page through GlobalGiving (link below) to help get masks, ventilators, and other lifesaving medical supplies to hospitals and clinics, deliver essential items to struggling families and older individuals in quarantined cities and refugee camps, feed children that rely on school meals as their only source of nutrition, and much more. Similarly to the Mules, the Panthers like to spread opponents out; however, they have some more height to combat star big man Luke Rogers ‘21 with the duo of Matt Folger ‘20 and Ryan Cahill ‘21 (still waiting on the return of big man Alex Sobel ‘22). Their -0.2 rebounding margin was 2nd to last in the NESCAC, another factor of their lack of size. I’d like to thank Pete Lindholm who was the editor-in-chief when I started writing for NbN, because he allowed me to dip my feet in the water and as I got more comfortable he gave me more to write.

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