Williams' Football Team Opens 2-0

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WATERVILLE, Maine. -- Bobby Maimaron threw for 166 yards, and Justin Nelson had 98 receiving yards Saturday to lead the Williams College football team to a 24-7 win over Colby.
 
The Ephs (2-0) travel to Trinity next Saturday.
 
Men's Soccer
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Amherst scored in the 51st minute to erase a one-goal deficit and earn a 1-1 tie with Williams on Saturday afternoon on Cole Filed.
 
Malcolm Singleton scored for the Ephs (3-1-1, 2-1-1 NESCAC), who host Bates on Sunday at 1 p.m.
 
Women's Soccer
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Williams women's soccer team built a 3-1 half-time lead and hung on for a 3-2 win over Amherst on Saturday.
 
Natasha Albameze, Victoria Laino and Kristina Alvarado scored for the Ephs, who got five saves from Oliva Barnhill.
 
Williams (6-0, 5-0 NESCAC) host Bates on Sunday at 11 a.m.
 
Field Hockey
WILLIAMSTOWN, Masss. -- Amherst's Elizabeth Turnbull scored the tying goal in the 60th minute of regulation and the game-winner in overtime to give the visitors a 3-2 win over Williams on Saturday.
 
Alex Bennett had a goal and an assist for the Ephs (4-2, 2-2 NESCAC), who host Bates on Sunday at 10 a.m.
 
Men's Cross Country
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. --The  Purple Valley Classic did not disappoint, with convincing team performances all around, and a few excellent individual showings.
 
In the men's 8k, SUNY Geneseo won with a cool 87 points, followed by RPI (95), Amherst (109), and Middlebury (117). The Ephs came in fifth with 136 (12-15-29-34-46-54-59), led by captain Ben Decker '18 who placed 12th in 26 minutes, 47 seconds.
 
In another demonstration of pack running, captain Liam Simpson '18 (26:51), Mitchell Morris '19 (27:08), Austin Anderson '19 (27:14), Peter Kirgis '20 (27:27), Nick Gannon '20 (27:39) and Sam Wischnewsky '20 (27:44) all came in less than a minute apart. Gannon ran the second fastest 8k of his collegiate career, approaching his 2016 Little Three result of 27:11 on a much more challenging course. 
 
Women's Cross Country
WILLIMASTOWN, Mass. -- The Williams women placed 4th overall in a very strong field of 26 teams at the Purple Valley Classic on Saturday.
 
Senior captain and returning all-american Victoria Kingham led the team with a fifth-place finish and a time of 22: minutes, 22 seconds. Sophomore Audrey Rustad raced her first 6k, showing the extra distance was not a problem, with an 11th place finish and great personal record of 22:49.
 
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Williams Seeking Town Approval for New Indoor Practice Facility

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board last week gave Williams College the first approval it needs to build a 55,000-square foot indoor athletic facility on the north side of its campus.
 
Over the strenuous objection of a Southworth Street resident, the board found that the college's plan for a "multipurpose recreation center" or MRC off Stetson Road has adequate on-site parking to accommodate its use as an indoor practice facility to replace Towne Field House, which has been out of commission since last spring and was demolished this winter.
 
The college plans a pre-engineered metal that includes a 200-meter track ringing several tennis courts, storage for teams, restrooms, showers and a training room. The athletic surface also would be used as winter practice space for the school's softball and baseball teams, who, like tennis and indoor track, used to use the field house off Latham Street.
 
Since the planned structure is in the watershed of Eph's Pond, the college will be before the Conservation Commission with the project.
 
It also will be before the Zoning Board of Appeals, on Thursday, for a Development Plan Review and relief from the town bylaw limiting buildings to 35 feet in height. The new structure is designed to have a maximum height of 53 1/2 feet and an average roof height of 47 feet.
 
The additional height is needed for two reasons: to meet the NCAA requirement for clearance above center court on a competitive tennis surface (35 feet) and to include, on one side, a climbing wall, an element also lost when Towne Field House was razed.
 
The Planning Board had a few issues to resolve at its March 12 meeting. The most heavily discussed involved the parking determination for a use not listed in the town's zoning bylaws and a decision on whether access from town roads to the building site in the middle of Williams' campus was "functionally equivalent" to the access that would be required under the town's subdivision rules and regulations.
 
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