SLIAC Weekly Release - Jan. 22

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: Donny Fuhrhop (January 17, 2014)
Blackburn College senior Donny Fuhrhop is featured in this week's interview. Fuhrhop, an outfielder for the Beavers, talks about his life as a NCAA Division III student-athlete....MORE

SLIAC Game of the Week: MacMurray vs. Webster (January 21, 2014)
Saturday's game is a battle between MacMurray and Webster for second-place in the conference. Both meetings last year were decided on field goals in the last minute .....MORE

Webster Baseball Ranked #8 In Preseason Poll (January 22, 2014)
The Webster baseball team is ranked #8 in the 2014 D3Baseball.com Preseason poll. This marks the third consecutive season the Gorloks have been in the Top Ten nationally in the preseason......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- Larry Patterson, Principia College
Women's Basketball- Jessica Guy, Spalding University

Men's Basketball l Women's Basketball

SLIAC STANDINGS

AROUND THE SLIAC

The Blackburn basketball teams will be looking to make a big stand over the next three weeks as they begin a season long six game home stand. The Beavers will play host to Eureka, Spalding, Webster, Westminster, MacMuray and Greenville over that stretch. Both of the women's teams conference wins this season came at home while the men will be seeking their first conference win of the year.

The Red Devils women's basketball team puts a four game winning streak on the line this week with games against Blackburn and Westminster. The Red Devils have won three of their last four games by double digits and sit in a tie for first-place in the SLIAC.

Did you know that the Fontbonne men's basketball team currently ranks first among SLIAC teams in free-throws made and free-throws attempted per game. The Griffins are averaging 16.5 free-throws made and 23.9 free-throw attempts per game this season.

Did you know that the Lady Panthers are the only women's team with a player ranking in the top five of each of the shooting percentage rankings? Missy Deal leads the conference in field goal percentage while Whitney Vitt is fourth in three-point percentage and Emily Gundy is second in free-throw percentage.

Iowa Wesleyan announced their Dean's List for the fall semester and placed 62 student-athletes on the list. These students maintained a grade-point average of 3.50 or above while also balancing their team in competing with their athletic team. For a full list of the Tigers on the Dean's List go HERE

The MacMurray women's basketball team won back to back games for the first time this season with a pair of wins last week. The Highlanders topped Greenville 63-59 for their second conference victory of the season and followed with a 62-37 non-conference win over Mount Mary.

Principia's Larry Patterson was this week's SLIAC Men's Basketball Player of the Week. Patterson averaged 15.7 points, 8.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.3 steals in three contests last week. His recorded back to back double-doubles with his top performance coming in a win over Eureka with 21 points, 14 rebounds and five assists.

Spalding's Jessica Guy is the SLIAC Women's Basketball Player of the Week this week. Guy averaged 16.5 points and 11.5 rebounds per game in helping her team to a pair of conference wins. Guy notched 20 points in a win over Greenville and followed with 13 points and 12 rebounds against Fontbonne.

It has been quite a return for Webster men's basketball student-athlete Kevin Miller. After a three year absence Miller has returned to average 14.4 points and 8.3 rebounds per game. He ranks 8th in the conference in scoring and 2nd in rebounding. Miller is also 3rd in the conference in blocked shots with 14.

The Westminster women's basketball team is starting to make some noise. They had a season best four game winning streak snapped in a loss to Spalding earlier this week. But with the four wins the Blue Jays moved their conference record above .500 and are currently fifth in the SLIAC standings.

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! This week's question was, What is the highest combined score for a SLIAC Men's Basketball game? Answer: 243, by Greenville and MacMurray in the 2005 season.

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 Blackburn College baseball student-athlete Donny Fuhrhop. Watch HERE