Williams Field Hockey Edges Bates

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Libby Dolan scored twice, and Alex Bennett had two assists Sunday to lead the Williams College field hockey team earn a 3-2 win over Bates.
 
Abby Lloyd and Emma Santucci split time in goal, combining for four saves.
 
The Ephs (5-2, 3-2 NESCAC) go to Springfield College on Wednesday.
 
Women’s Soccer
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Victoria Laino scored in the 53rd minute to help Williams salvage a 1-1 tie against Bates.
 
Olivia Barnhill stopped three shots for Williams, which remained unbeaten at 6-0-1 (5-0-1 NESCAC).
 
Williams hosts Connecticut College on Saturday.
 
Men’s Soccer
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Andrew Matthew scored midway through the first half to erase a one-goal deficit and send the Williams men to a 1-1 tie with Bates.
 
Bobby Schneiderman stopped four shots for Williams (3-1-2, 2-1-2).
 
Williams hosts Skidmore in a non-league game on Wednesday at 4:30.
 
Men’s Golf
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Trinity College Bantams shot the lowest team score of the weekend (290) to pull away from the 19-team field and win the 2017 Williams College Invitational Tournament at Taconic Golf Club.
 
The host Ephs fell short by five shots this year, recording a 294 on Sunday that placed them in second with a score of 589.
 
No other team cracked 600 on the weekend, with the next best score being a 601 from Western New England College.
 
Women’s Tennis
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. --  In its first match of the year, Williams’ women’s tennis team overcame rival Amherst by a score of 7-2 on Saturday.
 
"Williams versus Amherst is special and both teams always bring a little extra something to the court," Williams coach Anik Cepeda said.
 
"What I saw today was some gritty tennis," said Cepeda, "It wasn't perfect, it wasn't consistently pretty, and still we found a way."
 
The Ephs secured wins in two of three doubles matches to start the day with Chloe Henderson and Rachel Cross pairing up to defeat their opponents, 8-1. Senior duo July Raventos and Julia Cancio battled to a 9-7 win. Amherst bounced back in the third doubles slot, however, as sophomores Camille Smukler and Maddie Dewire beat the team of Mia Gancayco and Sasha Cayward.
 
Play shifted to singles with Williams needing three wins to clinch. After Raventos fell to Smukler 7-6, 6-2 in first singles, the Ephs did would not lose another match. Cross and Gancayco each picked up wins in two sets, while Cayward and Henderson battled through three in order to ultimately emerge victorious. Leah Bush also picked up her first official win of the day with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Amherst's Vickie Ip.
 
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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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