The historic “Battle on Blake” between CC and DU in February ended in the “Battle on Bake” – with CC taking the heat and forking over five strawberry-rhubarb pies as the payoff in a friendly wager between the two schools. CC President Jill Tiefenthaler and DU Chancellor Rebecca Chopp took the long-simmering rivalry between the two schools to a new level — the kitchen.

The wager: Cupcakes for the Tigers if Colorado College won; strawberryrhubarb pie for the Pioneers if the University of Denver won (which they did, 4-1).

Making good on CC’s promise, seven students, all members of the President’s Council, gathered at the end of Block 6 in President Tiefenthaler’s kitchen to bake pies. The pie-bakers included Emma Wilson ’18, Emma Whitehead ’16, Isabella Bussian ’18, Mac Gustafson ’16, David Andrews ’18, Michelle Cordell ’16, Erin Harty ’16, President Tiefenthaler, and Caitlin Apigian, special assistant to the Board of Trustees. “It was an incredible experience,” says Wilson. “Just hanging out, baking pies in Jill’s kitchen. It was very fun.”

“I hope this is pass/fail,” says Gustafson (in the orange jacket and cap) who, the following day with Cordell and Wilson, delivered the fruits of their labor to the Denver hockey team in their locker room. “The last laugh is on DU. I couldn’t bake my way out of a pie if I had to.”