Bobcats of the week of March 23, 2009

Bates senior attackman Tyler Moore (North Andover, Mass.) played a key role in the Bobcats men's lacrosse team gaining its first win of the season last Wednesday against Gordon College.

With the Bobcats facing an 8-6 deficit to start the fourth quarter against the Fighting Scots, Moore scored three goals in the final period as Bates finished the game with a 7-0 run to win 13-8. Moore led the Bobcats in scoring in the game with a season-high four goals and one assist.

Moore followed that effort up three days later with a hat trick in Bates' deceptively close 11-8 defeat to No. 15-ranked Wesleyan University.

Moore leads Bates in scoring through seven games thus far with 13 goals and one assist.

As Bates senior diver Kelsey Lamdin was warming up last Friday for the final competition of her collegiate career, her goal was to win an eighth All-America award and become the most decorated diver in Bates history.

But she would soon unintentionally prove herself as one of the toughest athletes ever to put on a Bobcat uniform.

Practicing a reverse one-and-a-half somersault before Friday's 1-meter diving competition at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships, Lamdin (Brunswick, Maine) struck her hands and head on the edge of the board. Only 80 minutes remained until her event was to begin, but her head and hands were bleeding and required immediate medical attention.

"I was actually angry," says Lamdin. "I couldn't believe I had done that in my last meet."

Fortunately, the University of Minnesota Medical Center was nearby on campus. A miraculously quick visit to the emergency room, abetted by Bates diving coach Mike Bartley's prodding of the staff on hand, got Lamdin back to the pool with about 10 minutes left to prepare for the final dives of her career. Swollen hands, 15 staples in her scalp, and no anesthesia to mask the pain were no match for Lamdin's determination to compete one more time.

Lamdin, who had finished sixth two days before in the 3-meter competition, notched the 10th best score out of a field of 22 competitors, not good enough to make the finals but securing her coveted eighth and final All-America honor.