Raise your hand if you had Kate Upton in the “Least Likely to Tweet About NESCAC Lacrosse” sweepstakes. Because you just lost. This came after the Williams men’s lacrosse team upset No. 5 Union tonight.
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Welcome to Linking Around the NESCAC on a cloudy New England Thursday after an uneventful Wednesday. But that won’t stop us. And now, the links:
Football | A phone call before all the offensive calls (via Press Herald)
BRUNSWICK – Sometime Sunday, before his real work begins, New York Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride will place a phone call to Maine.
Gilbride won’t be talking about how Eli Manning can avoid the pass rush of New England Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork, or how his receivers can get open for another Super Bowl-winning catch. Gilbride will want to know how the Bowdoin men’s basketball team did.
“The last two weekends, in the afternoon the phone is ringing and it’s Kevin,” said Tim Gilbride. “He’s asking ‘How’d it go this weekend?’ Both times it’s a couple of hours before his game.”
Men’s Basketball | Jumbos ride the Ferris wheel to wild victory (via Tufts Daily)
Freshman guard Ben Ferris was almost the goat on Tuesday. With 0.2 seconds left in regulation and Tufts leading 74−73, he was called for a loose−ball foul. But UMass Dartmouth made just one of two at the line, giving Ferris another chance and sending the game to overtime.
By the end of the extra period, Ferris was the hero. He stole two passes and sank four free throws in the final 10 seconds, leading the Jumbos to their most thrilling win of the season, 84−82. In the extra session, the Corsairs took an 82−78 lead with just two minutes left. But after sophomore guard Kwame Firempong sank a jumper to decrease the margin to two, Ferris pushed his game to a completely different level.
Ice Hockey | Surging Bowdoin coming of age (via Maine Hockey Journal)
In its second game of its season, back in November, Bowdoin traveled to Middlebury and got embarrassed, 7-1.
There was nothing nebulous about it. The Polar Bears gave up three goals in each of the first two periods, got outshot by a 2-to-1 margin and were forced to make peace with a very unfulfilling opening weekend.
Flash forward two months, practically to the day. In the rematch, it was Bowdoin scoring twice in each of the first two periods against Middlebury and holding a big edge in shots in a 5-0 home win.
What can we glean from that? Plenty.
Women’s Lacrosse | Preseason IWLCA poll released, 8 NESCAC teams in top 20 (via IWLCA)
Tweet of the Day (Not the NESCAC Edition):
The holidays are almost over, which means NESCAC Insider will be back in full force. But for now, the links to keep you going.
Here we go:
Tweet of the Day (Bowl Game Edition; Also Hidden Profanity Edition):
(via NESCAC.com and the Conn. College Sports Information Office)
NEW LONDON, Conn. – Liz Longley, a former All-American, captain for Hamilton College’s 2007 NCAA Elite 8 team and recent head coach at Oberlin, has been named interim head coach of women’s lacrosse at Connecticut College effective Oct. 15.
Prior to her arrival at Oberlin, Longley spent three years as the assistant coach at Lynchburg College. At Lynchburg, Longley helped lead the Hornets from an 8-9 mark in 2008 to a 14-4 record and the program’s inaugural appearance in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championship in 2010.
Fran Shields, Connecticut College’s Katherine Wenk Christoffers ’45 Director of Athletics and Chair of Physical Education, says Longley, who has accepted a two-year interim appointment, is ready to meet the challenges of competing in the toughest lacrosse conference in the country.
“Liz has proved to be an effective leader as a player and a coach,” Shields said. “As an All-American at Hamilton, Liz helped propel the Continentals to an appearance in the Elite 8 that eventually led to the team’s first national championship. At Lynchburg, Liz helped turn around a program. We are very excited to have her on board.”
Longley, a native of Duxbury, Mass., says she looks forward to working with Connecticut College student-athletes and competing in the NESCAC.
“I am honored and excited to be the next women’s lacrosse coach at Connecticut College,” Longley said. “Connecticut College attracts quality student-athletes who are committed to excellence both on and off the field. It is this commitment to excellence that drew me to Hamilton as an undergraduate and draws me back to the NESCAC at Connecticut College. I cannot wait to get started and I want to thank Fran Shields and the entire search committee for the opportunity to lead the Camels to future success.”
In 2006, Longley garnered United States Lacrosse & Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaching Association All-America accolades and was honored as the Liberty League Player of the Year.
“Liz was a catalyst for our program,” Hamilton Coach Patty Kloidt said. “She is really honest. She knows how to win games and communicate that with her players. She will provide great balance between having fun and being competitive. I give her a lot of credit for the success we had.”
At the conclusion of her prolific playing career, Longley was honored with the Jack B. Riffle Award as the athletic department’s most outstanding female athlete. Longley still ranks second on the Hamilton all-time leader list with 87 assists and is fourth in program history with 197 points.
Longley earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Hamilton and received her master’s degree in counseling from Lynchburg.
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Don’t have a cow, sports fans. NESCAC Insider has got you covered with another batch of morning links from around the league:
Tweet of the Day (All-Star Summer Intern Edition)
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