Sports
Spring Break Highlights
March 31, 2016
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Track & Field
The men’s and women’s track and field teams opened the outdoor season with a home meet on Mar. 26. Adam Pfander ’16 led the men’s team, setting a new program record in the 10,000 meter run with a time of 31:07.20. In the sprints, Eli Saucier ’18 dominated the competition, winning three events (two individual and one relay). Saucier won the 100 meter dash with a time of 11.13, the 200 meter dash in 22.43, and ran the second leg of the winning 4 by 400 meter relay featuring Ryan Sedwick ’19, Nate Somes ’16, and Zach Pilson ’16. The women’s team also had an impressive debut at home, with five event winners and seven second place finishes. Hanna Jerome ’18 was first in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:57.05.
Golf
Libbie Warner ’19 set a women’s program record in the team’s dual match against St. Lawrence at Duran Golf Club in Viera, Fla. on Mar. 25. Warner shot a 1-under par 71, leading the Continentals to a team score of 336. But while the women’s team narrowly fell to St. Lawrence (336-330), the men’s team won their dual match by a score of 307-329. Three players for Hamilton—Joe Tigani ’18, Bayard Geeslin ’16 and Jeremy Benjamin ’19—broke 80 for the Continentals. Tigani’s 1-under par 71 led the way and tied his career-best score. Both teams are off until the second week of April, when the women play in the Vassar Invitational and the men compete in Skidmore’s Tim Brown Invitational.
Rowing
The women’s Varsity 8 boat is ranked 10th in this week’s Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Division III Top 15 coaches poll. At the team’s most recent event in the 34th Memorial Murphy Cup Regatta in Cherry Hill, N.J., the varsity 8 team notched a fourth-place finish in their heat. The field included 16 Division I boats and two other top-five Division III boats. The men finished 11th out of 16 in the Murphy Cup Regatta, with entries in the Varsity 8, the Junior Varsity 8 and the Novice 4. Both teams had trained in Tennessee for two weeks prior to the races, and will return to the water for a regatta hosted by Tufts University on Sat., April 2.
Baseball
The baseball team returned from spring break in Florida with a 9-5 overall record including two double-header sweeps against Lawrence University and Allegheny College. Outfielders Kenny Collins ’17 and Ryan Wolfsberg ’17 excelled at the plate in non-conference play, posting batting averages above .400 through the first 14 games of the season. Collins delivered the highlight play of the season for the Continentals so far, hitting a two-run walk-off home run in the seventh inning to beat University of Minnesota-Morris. Dan DePaoli ’18 has been excellent on the mound this season for Hamilton, sporting a record of 2-1 with a 2.60 earned run average. DePaoli has allowed just 10 hits in 17.1 innings pitched while tallying 14 strikeouts.