Sports Shorts
The Colby baseball team (14-12) enjoyed its best record in a decade and ended the season with a five-game winning streak. John-Charles Panio '96 (Scarsdale, N.Y.) led the pitching staff with a 6-0 record, and hurler Galen Carr '97 (Walpole, N.H.) posted a 3-0 mark. Outfielders Jerrod Deshaw '97 (Burlington, Vt.) and Pat McBride '97 (Woonsocket, R.I.) were the team's top hitters with batting averages of .398 and .376, respectively. . . . The men's tennis team posted an 8-4 record, including its first-ever undefeated spring-break trip. Top singles player Gerry Perez '96 (Mahopac, N.Y.) was 10-1, while the top doubles team of Perez and Staunton Bowen '97 (Toronto, Ont.) went 8-2. . . . The softball team posted a 14-12 record under first-year head coach Jen Holsten '90. Shortstop Meghan O'Neil '96 (West Newbury, Mass.) was named NESCAC Player of the Week in May for getting nine hits in 13 at bats, and second-base player Stephanie Patterson '99 (Margate, N.J.) was named NESCAC Player of the Week for her fielding prowess: she made only one error in 26 games. . . . The men's lacrosse team finished the season with a 7-7 record and a quarterfinal-round appearance in the ECAC playoffs. Brian Frank '98 (Essex Fells, N.J.) broke the school record for most saves in a season with 241, and Matt Williams '99 (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) set the school record for most assists (30) and total points (49) by a first-year student. Brian Emme '97 (Evergreen, Colo.) and Brett Nardini '96 (Scituate, Mass.) were named to the Brine/Lacrosse Foundation East all-star team. . . . Men's track and field was high-lighted by the performances of Patrick Fournier '98 (Bellows Falls, Vt.) and Conrad Saam '96 (Skillman, N.J.) at the NCAA New England Division III Track and Field Championships. Fournier clocked a 31:06.37 finish in his 10,000 meters win and broke the Colby record in the event. Saam scored 5,858 points to break the school decathlon record. He won the pole vault, long jump, 100-meter dash and 1,500-meter run on his way to a second-place overall finish in the decathlon competition. Donald Saucier '96 (Westport, Mass.) won the 100-meter high hurdles at the NESCAC championships. . . . In women's track and field, anchor runner Rachel Ehlers '96 (Richfield Springs, N.Y.) came from fourth place to lead the women's 4x100-meter relay team to victory at the ECAC championships.