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Whitman is home to two new All-Americans. On Monday, Sep. 29, sophomore Elise Otto won the singles draw in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Pacific Northwest Fall Championships in Salem, Ore., then claimed the doubles title with senior Katie Oost. Otto and Oost advance to the ITA National Small College Championships starting Thursday, Oct. 16.
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The men’s tennis team will get a chance to see its spring competition early when it plays in the annual ITA Regional Tournament this weekend. The team which had 12 players in the final 16, and seven of the final eight last year, is going into this year’s tournament with varying expectations.
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Class of 1966 alumnus Jim Moore slipped into his baseball stripes last Saturday and stepped up to the plate at Borleske field against Whitman’s varsity team for the annual alumni baseball game. Several other alumni joined Moore on the diamond, losing narrowly to the current varsity team. Over 40 years after Moore graduated from […]
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Major League Baseball has never had a similar postseason to this one. The Tampa Bay Rays are in it for the first time in franchise history, the Milwaukee Brewers are in it for the first time in 26 years, and the Philadelphia Phillies have made it in back to back years for the first time […]
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Last semester senior Stephen Phillips was playing soccer on dirt fields with balls that weren’t fully pumped up, and against people wearing no shoes. On Sat. Sept. 12, he was back playing under the lights on a pristine field wearing his cleats. The latter event was Walla Walla, last semester was Ghana.
Phillips, a co-captain of […]
