A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E - Colby-Sawyer College
A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E - Colby-Sawyer College
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PHOTO: Gil Talbot<br />
post-season play. Leading the way for<br />
the Chargers was sophomore Adam<br />
Whitman (Newcastle, N.H.), who had<br />
a team-high 14 combined victories,<br />
including seven singles and seven<br />
doubles wins. Adam was named to the<br />
All-TCCC Honorable Mention team in<br />
singles. Whitman teamed with senior<br />
captain Rob Barnes (Wayland, Mass.)<br />
at the No. 2 doubles spot and went 7-7.<br />
Barnes also played all 13 of his singles<br />
matches at the second flight.<br />
Track and Field<br />
Five new school records were set and<br />
12 athletes qualified to compete in the<br />
New England Championships in the<br />
2011 men’s and women’s track and<br />
field season. Each team placed second at<br />
The Commonwealth Coast Conference<br />
(TCCC) Championships. The men’s<br />
4x100 relay team comprised junior<br />
Michael Bacote (Wilmot, N.H.), senior<br />
Matt Cole (Fiskdale, Mass.), senior Josh<br />
Commey (McLean, Va.) and freshman<br />
Ted Paquin (Middleboro, Mass.) set a<br />
new meet and school record of 44.02<br />
at the TCCC Championships. Junior<br />
Kristin <strong>Sawyer</strong> (Walpole, Mass.) also set<br />
a new school record at the TCCC championship.<br />
She broke her own school<br />
record with a new mark of 39.33 meters<br />
in the hammer throw. Paquin set a new<br />
school record in the 200 meter dash<br />
at 22.77, two weeks earlier. Commey<br />
set a new 100-meter dash record as<br />
he clocked in at 10.94 at the Tufts<br />
Snowflake Classic. In the same race,<br />
freshman Joe Rand (Bradford, Mass.)<br />
shattered the school record in the 5000meter<br />
run by more than 11 seconds.<br />
Rand’s new mark sits at 16:54.45. Josh<br />
Commey and Ted Paquin qualified to<br />
compete at the Eastern <strong>College</strong> Athletic<br />
Conference (ECAC) Championships in<br />
Bethlehem, Pa.<br />
Tyler Murdoch ’11<br />
46 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE<br />
Sara Juel-Larsen ’11<br />
Equestrian<br />
The <strong>Colby</strong>-<strong>Sawyer</strong> equestrian team<br />
had a successful horse show season<br />
this year and was led by seniors Sara<br />
Juel-Larsen (Storrs, Conn.), Nicole<br />
Morin (Sanbornton, N.H.), Tracey<br />
Proctor (Concord, N.H.) and Sammy<br />
Ray (Weare, N.H.). The team took<br />
home three first place ribbons at the<br />
Regional Championships held at<br />
Dartmouth <strong>College</strong> on April 3. Juel-<br />
Larsen was the Reserve Champion in<br />
the Open Challenge Cup. Junior Leah<br />
Robson (Billerica, Mass.) was named<br />
the Walk Trot Canter Champion, while<br />
sophomore Sam Down (Cambridge,<br />
Mass.) was the Walk Trot Champion.<br />
Robson and Down also competed at the<br />
Intercollegiate Horse Show Association<br />
(IHSA) Zone Finals hosted by Mount<br />
Holyoke on April 9. Robson placed<br />
seventh in the Walk Trot Canter, while<br />
Down finished sixth in the Walk Trot.<br />
Men’s Basketball<br />
(12–13; 8–5 TCCC)<br />
For the 16th consecutive year, the<br />
Chargers made a post-season appearance.<br />
The Chargers earned the seventh<br />
seed in the TCCC standings and traveled<br />
to second-seed Wentworth for<br />
a quarterfinal contest. The Leopards<br />
ended <strong>Colby</strong>-<strong>Sawyer</strong>’s season with a<br />
67-54 victory. Junior Will Bardaglio<br />
(Wayne, Maine) had a highlight-filled<br />
season. He scored a career-high 38<br />
points and became the 14th member<br />
of the <strong>Colby</strong>-<strong>Sawyer</strong> 1,000-point club<br />
PHOTO: Jenna Leigh Teti<br />
in the same game against Western New<br />
England. Bardaglio hit nine treys in<br />
the game, which tied the school record<br />
for threes made in a game set by Jim<br />
Durrell ’94 and TJ Gondek ’95. His<br />
38 points was the highest point total<br />
by a Charger since 1999, when Brian<br />
Wilder ’99 scored 45 against Norwich.<br />
Bardaglio, who led <strong>Colby</strong>-<strong>Sawyer</strong> in<br />
scoring with 16.5 points per game, was<br />
named to the All-TCCC First Team. He<br />
led the conference in three pointers<br />
with 52. He also finished the season<br />
nationally ranked in several categories,<br />
including fifth in three-point field<br />
goals made per game, 11th in threepoint<br />
field goal percentage and 14th in<br />
free throw percentage. He finished his<br />
junior season with 1,026 points and<br />
245 career three-point field goals, ranking<br />
him third all time. <strong>Colby</strong>-<strong>Sawyer</strong>’s<br />
inside scoring option was freshman<br />
Robbie Burke (Cheshire, Mass.). Burke<br />
was named to the All-TCCC Third<br />
Team and Co-Rookie of the Year among<br />
Division III schools in New Hampshire,<br />
according to the N.H. Basketball<br />
Coaches Association. He was second on<br />
the team in scoring with 15.8 points per<br />
game and led the team with 8.2 boards<br />
per contest. He recorded 10 doubledoubles<br />
in his first season. Sophomore<br />
Corey Willis (Easton, Mass.) was the<br />
starting point guard in his second season<br />
with the Chargers. Willis led the<br />
Will Bardaglio ’12<br />
PHOTO: John Quackenbos
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