{"id":2312,"date":"2009-02-24T12:15:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:40:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:40:47","slug":"taggart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/02\/24\/taggart\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Taggart &#039;09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/72taggart-5845.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/72taggart-5845.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Marc Taggart &#039;09\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bates men&#8217;s squash team capped an excellent season by going 2-1 at the College Squash Association Team Nationals last weekend at Princeton University, finishing 11th in the country with wins over Navy and Franklin &amp; Marshall and a narrow 5-4 loss to Western Ontario, the top seed in the Hoehn Cup &#8220;B&#8221; Division in which the Bobcats were entered.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The key to the Bobcats&#8217; success was their depth, exhibited best when they won at positions 5 through 9 in defeating F&amp;M for 11th place, meanwhile avenging a 5-4 loss to the same opponent earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<p>No Bobcat was more effective at his position than senior Marc Taggart (Skippack, Pa.), who went 3-0 on the weekend at the No. 8 position by defeating Navy&#8217;s Tommy McNamara in three games, Western Ontario&#8217;s Rafik Bhaloo in three games and, in the final match of his career, outlasting F&amp;M&#8217;s Ben Lurio in five games.<\/p>\n<p>For the season, Taggart compiled a 16-5 singles record, giving him a career mark of 50-30 over his four years as a Bobcat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates men&#8217;s squash team capped an excellent season by going 2-1 at the College Squash Association Team Nationals last weekend at Princeton University, finishing 11th in the country with wins over Navy and Franklin &amp; Marshall and a narrow 5-4 loss to Western Ontario, the top seed in the Hoehn Cup &#8220;B&#8221; Division in which the Bobcats were entered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":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":""},"categories":[24,11012],"tags":[1758,11035,8112],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-bobcat-of-the-week","tag-profiles","tag-squash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89008,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/89008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}