Bobcats of the week of April 23, 2007
Will Paddock ’08 Bates junior Will Paddock(Denver, Colo.) played superbly in his first two starts for the Bates men’s lacrosse team last week.Paddock made 17 saves while allowing only five goals in Bates’ 6-5 win over Colby on Thursday, for a sparkling save percentage of .773. Two days later at Tufts, the first-place team in the NESCAC, Paddock made 13 saves and allowed nine goals in over 65 minutes of action, as the Bobcats fell by a 9-8 score in the second overtime period. |
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Katie Nickerson ’08 Bates junior goalkeeperKatie Nickerson(Windham, N.H.) made 11 saves in the Bobcat women’s lacrosse team’s 12-11 win over NESCAC rival Tufts on Saturday. And it was the last two that really stamped her performance as a great one.In the final minute of the game, Tufts, which had rallied from an 12-8 deficit to cut the Bates lead to 12-11, saved two point-blank, free-position shots in the final minute to preserve Bates’ win.
Nickerson also made 20 saves in a loss at Middlebury on Wednesday. |