Bill Nahill

That assumption, however, is wrong. Despite losing only two games and finishing the season ranked fourth in the nation-according to the D3hoops.com poll-the team felt that their performance could have been even better. This season, after graduating only two players and sporting a fifth-place preseason ranking from D3hoops.com,

Over fall break the Jeffs visited Lewiston, Me., to participate in the Wallach Invitational hosted by Bates College. Despite the less than ideal vacation destination, the team made the visit worthwhile by winning two of the six events and finishing second in three. Danny Babkes ’06 represented the Jeffs

Josh Rilla ’06, the 24th-ranked Div. III singles player in the nation, was the Jeffs’ best hope in the tournament. In a match against Middlebury the previous season Rilla flexed his muscle by beating Waldron, then the top-ranked player in the nation, 6-3, 6-3. Although Waldron avenged the

After an easy non-conference match against Keene State College on Wednesday, the volleyball team began NESCAC play over the weekend, winning one of two matches at the first quad match of the season. The Firedogs downed the Owls with ease early in the week, 3-0, and remained hot with another

Kouvaris helped blast the Firedogs to victories over Keene State and Bowdoin Colleges and kept the team in a close five-game match with Colby College. In a 3-0 walloping of Keene St., Kouvaris recorded nine kills in helping the ‘Dogs cruise to an easy victory. Kouvaris was back in

Senior tri-captain Skrivan sent the Jeffs home happy with a game-winning score on Saturday against the Trinity College Bantams in both teams’ season opener. Neither side had been able to find the back of the cage all day, but with 3:18 left in regulation, Skrivan finally lit up

The Jeffs were very optimistic heading into Saturday’s match against visiting Williams, last year’s NCAA runners-up. This contest was to be Amherst’s best chance to beat the Ephs in years, since the Jeffs graduated only one of their top six singles players from last

Despite having not played a match in two full weeks, the Jeffs had no difficulty shaking the rust off their games at Conn. on April 1, winning 7-0 and making fools out of the Camels, who won just 10 games in nine matches. Josh Rilla ’06 along with first-years

The team’s first spring tilt came against Cal-Lutheran. The Jeffs were looking to pick up where they had left off in the fall, bringing a flawless 4-0 record into the spring session. They came up just a bit short against the Kingsmen, however, despite victories by sophomore transfer

In the first match of the tournament the Jeffs faced a dangerous opponent in the 12th-ranked Colby White Mules, a team the Jeffs had narrowly beaten, 6-3, earlier in the season. Amherst got off to a hot start as co-captain Ashley Harmeling ’05 won her first match in straight

Coming into the week as the 11th-ranked team in the nation, the Jeffs were looking for an opportunity to slip into the top bracket in next weekend’s Howe Cup, reserved for the top eight teams in the country. A win over eighth-ranked Williams could have catapulted Amherst into

Coming into the Trinity Invitational with a 7-4 record, the Lord Jeffs had shown the ability to consistently hold off teams ranked in the mid- to upper-teens, defeating solid teams from Tufts University, and Hamilton and Middlebury Colleges to start the season. Faced with another such opponent in St. Lawrence,

It’s hard to pick out individual performances when a team beats two opponents by a combined 59 points, including an embarrassment of the Williams College Ephs at LeFrak Gymnasium. That being said, Bedford was particularly amazing over the weekend, torching the hated Ephs for 13 points, six rebounds

First-year Sasser caused jaws to drop at the Natatorium over the weekend, setting pool records and earning NCAA A-cuts in each of the three events she raced while leading the Jeffs to a victory over Middlebury. She swam the opening backstroke leg for the 400-yard medley relay in 57.90,

Div. I, II and III teams from all across New England competed in the tournament. While the actual competition was held on Monday and Tuesday, team members competed against each other the previous weeks in qualifying rounds for this tournament on the team’s home course. Over the two-day

Soggy weather at the Taconic Golf Course in Williamstown prevented play on Saturday, but the Jeffs got down to business on Sunday. They posted a composite 327, 24 strokes behind tournament winner University of Rochester, but ahead of NESCAC rivals Wesleyan University and Hamilton and Trinity Colleges. Senior captain Justin

With the graduation of only one team member, Daniel Altschuler ’04, and the return of the entire core lineup, including two-time Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA)/PING All-Northeast Region honoree captain Justin Sharaf ’05, the team will look to build off an impressive 2002-03 campaign that included