{"id":2531,"date":"2004-06-21T17:46:46","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T21:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=2531"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:41:10","slug":"nescacs-best-whacks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2004\/summer04\/departments\/sports-notes\/nescacs-best-whacks\/","title":{"rendered":"NESCAC&#8217;S Best Whacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/Summer04\/wiegaard.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"143\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ari Beilin, one of Middlebury&#8217;s players.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>In the finals it was all NESCAC as Middlebury&#8217;s players including Ari Beilin, shown serving here rallied to defeat Williams, 4-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edited by H. Jay Burns and Doug Hubley<\/p>\n<p>Eight teams from across the nation began the 2004 NCAA Division III Men&#8217;s Tennis Championships at Bates&#8217; James G. Wallach Tennis Center. But in the finals it was all NESCAC as Middlebury&#8217;s players \u2014 including Ari Beilin, shown serving here \u2014 rallied to defeat Williams, 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>The smoothly run competition netted kudos for tournament director and Bates tennis coach Paul Gastonguay &#8217;89, while fellow All-America Bud Schultz &#8217;81 keynoted the championship banquet. And Will Boe-Wiegaard &#8217;06, All-America in 2003, competed in a first-round match in the individual championships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exhilaration of playing in the national championship\u00a0alone is amazing,&#8221; Boe-Wiegaard said. &#8220;Playing on my home courts and having fellow Batesies there to support me was indescribable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the finals it was all NESCAC as Middlebury&#8217;s players including Ari&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":2529,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2531","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13728,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2531\/revisions\/13728"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}