SLIAC Weekly Release - Jan. 15
This week in the SLIAC is a weekly review of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. It recaps the prior weeks results and highlights upcoming events. You can also find the latest standings, statistics, schedules and awards.
HEADLINES
SLIAC Spotlight: Wylie
Mangelsdorf (January 10, 2014)
Principia College senior Wylie Mangelsdorf is featured in this
week's interview. Mangelsdorf, a cross country and track runner,
talks about his life as a NCAA Division III student-athlete....MORE
Hayes Tops 1,000 Point
Mark (January 11, 2014)
Spalding senior guard Kerstin Hayes reached a career milestone
this weekend, becoming just the second player in school history to
reach the 1,000 point mark......MORE
Eeten Breaks SLIAC
Scoring Record (January 11, 2014)
Eureka College senior guard Caty Eeten set a new SLIAC record for
most points by a women's basketball player.....MORE
SLIAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
The SLIAC Players of the Week are honored for their performances during the week. Click on the sport link below to see the full list of 2013-14 Players of the Week. For this week's Player of the Week release - HERE
Men's Basketball- Brady Slagle, MacMurray College
Women's Basketball- Kelsey Shoemake, Eureka College
Men's
Basketball l Women's Basketball
SLIAC STANDINGS
| Men's Basketball | Women's Basketball |
| School | SLIAC | Overall | School | SLIAC | Overall |
| Spalding | 6-0 | 8-5 | Eureka | 5-1 | 9-4 |
| MacMurray | 4-1 | 8-4 | Spalding | 5-1 | 5-7 |
| Webster | 4-1 | 7-5 | Iowa Wesleyan |
4-1 | 9-3 |
| Westminster | 4-2 | 7-6 | Webster | 4-1 | 7-5 |
| Greenville | 3-2 | 7-5 | Westminster | 3-3 | 5-7 |
| Iowa Wesleyan |
2-3 | 5-7 | Fontbonne | 2-4 | 4-9 |
| Principia | 2-4 | 3-9 | Blackburn | 2-4 | 3-10 |
| Fontbonne | 2-4 | 2-11 | Greenville | 1-4 | 4-8 |
| Eureka | 1-5 | 2-11 | MacMurray | 1-4 | 1-10 |
| Blackburn | 0-6 | 0-13 | Principia | 1-5 | 2-9 |
AROUND THE SLIAC
Blackburn's Shelby Smith exploded for 27 points in a win over
Principia last week. Smith finished the game 10-of-16 from the
floor and added seven rebounds, two steals and two blocks. On the
week she averaged 23.0 points and 5.0 rebounds per game in helping
her team to a pair of conference wins. |
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Greenville's Ron Harris was efficient on the court last week,
shooting 74-percent from the field. Harris was 14-of-19 on the
week. He scored 19 points against Fontbonne on 8-of-11 shooting and
followed with 18 points in win over Westminster on 6-of-8
shooting. |
Karla Vietinghoff poured in 35 points last week in a win over
Viterbo. Her point total was the second most in program history,
just two behind the record. In that game she knocked down seven
three-pointers, tying the school record for three's in a game. |
MacMurray senior forward Brady Slagle had a memorable weekend,
reaching multiple career milestones. Slagle joined the 1,000 point
mark, becoming the 22nd player in program history to reach the
plateau. He also reached the 100 steal and 500 rebound marks for
his career. |
The Principia men's basketball team had their two game winning
streak snapped on Tuesday in a loss to MacMurray. The Panthers will
look to add to their three wins this season with games against
Webster and Eureka later this week. |
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Kaliann Rickard had an impressive all around performance in her
team's win over Westminster last week. Rickard finished the game
with 16 points, on 6-of-8 shooting, while adding six assists and
five steals with four rebounds. |
Westminster senior Joe James reached the 1,000 point mark for his
career last week in a game against Webster. James tallied his
1,000th career point on a three-pointer early in the game and
finished the contest with eight points. |
Eureka's Caty Eeten become the SLIAC's all-time points leader for
a women's basketball player. Eeten surpassed the previous mark of
1,688 by Christina Speer of Principia College. Eeten is currently
averaging 20.4 points per game this season, tops in the
conference.
The Fontbonne women's basketball team returns home after a short
two game road trip. The Griffins will host Spalding on Thursday
before heading back to the road to face MacMurray on Saturday. The
Griffins will be looking to snap a two game losing streak and hold
an impressive 4-2 record at home this season.
Spalding junior forward Jessica Guy helped lead her team to a
65-55 win over Eureka College last week; recording a double-double.
Guy finished the game with 22 points and 11 rebounds, adding two
steals in the game.THIS WEEK'S SLIAC SCHEDULE
To see a complete schedule of this week's SLIAC action click HERE
KEEP UP WITH THE SLIAC ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Be sure to keep up with the SLIAC using various social media tools. You can follow us on Twitter (@sliac) HERE or Facebook (St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) HERE
Be sure to participate in our Social Media fun each week with Trivia Tuesday, Throwback Thursday and Feature Friday.
Each Tuesday on Twitter we will ask a SLIAC trivia question where the first person to respond with correct answer wins SLIAC gear!
On Thursday's you can reminisce by looking at old photographs when we remember prior SLIAC Student-Athletes.
Friday's are Feature Friday's where we will get to know our current SLIAC Student-Athletes through a series of video interviews. Last week's feature was SLIAC Spotlight with Principia College student-athlete Wylie Mangelsdorf. Watch HERE