The Bowdoin Women's Volleyball Team welcomed Gordon, Bates, Keene, Brandeis, Emmanuel, Wheaton and Keuka to campus this past Friday as it played host on the first day of the 2007 Midcoast Classic Tournament.
Bowdoin opened the Midcoast Classic with a 3-0 victory over Gordon, in final set scores of 30-25, 30-23 and 30-27.
The teams entered the tournament with relatively equal season records: Bowdoin with 11 wins and 8 losses and Gordon with 8 wins and 6 losses.
However, with the leadership of Gillian Page '10 and Jenna Diggs '10, the Polar Bears triumphantly swept the Fighting Scots.
Page contributed 15 kills and 24 digs, and Diggs had 18 assists and nine kills.
Later that evening, Bowdoin faced Keuka in its second match of the Midcoast tournament, a match that culminated in another successful 3-0 Bowdoin sweep.
With a record of 10 wins and eight losses, Keuka too seemed evenly matched with Bowdoin, but the Polar Bears easily triumphed in sets of 30-12, 30-20 and 30-19.
Key players included Stephanie Drumright '11 and Skye Lawrence '10, who each added 10 kills.
Diggs again played a major role with 27 assists, and captain Margo Linton '08 had 21 assists and an impressive eight aces.
Bowdoin therefore entered its Sunday home match against the NESCAC leading Amherst Jeffs with a five-match winning streak, but to no avail; Bowdoin fell to Amherst in a tight five-set match with scores of 27-30, 30-26, 30-20, 27-30 and 15-8.
It was only the fifth time in their season that the Polar Bears have played a complete five sets, and the three that the Polar Bears lost they did not give away easily.
In the fourth set, the Polar Bears rallied for eight straight points, aided by kills from Lawrence and Drumright, to break even with the Jeffs.
Though the Bears took this fourth set, they were unable to recover from Amherst's 8-5 lead in the fifth.
Drumright closed the game with 13 kills and seven aces, while Page finished with 16 kills and 20 digs, and Linton posted 20 digs and 22 assists.
Diggs was also a major contributor, with the triple-header of 25 assists, 12 digs and three aces.
Captain Amanda Leahy '08 expressed her gratitude towards the team's home fans, saying "The support of the Bowdoin community means so much to us."