SLIAC Weekly Release - March 19
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
Feature Friday: SLIAC
Spotlight with Zach Carel (March 14, 2014)
Feature Friday is a weekly video series produced by the
SLIAC with the goal of showing what it is like to be a NCAA
Division III student-athlete. This week's interview is with Zach
Carel, a baseball player from Fontbonne University.....MORE
Gorlok Baseball Holds
at #6 in Latest D3 Baseball Poll (March 18, 2014)
The Webster University baseball team held at
#6 in the latest d3baseball.com poll, the second consecutive week
they have held that position......MORE
Webster's Bunch Named
D3 Hoops Midwest Coach of the Year (March 18, 2014)
Chris Bunch, Webster University head men's
basketball coach, was named the D3 Hoops 2013-14 Midwest Region
Coach of the Year. Bunch becomes the first St. Louis
Intercollegiate.....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
Baseball- (Hitter) Deion Hughes, Westminster College
(Pitcher) Zach Schneider, Webster University
Softball- (Hitter) Paige French, Spalding University
(Pitcher) Jodi Bowen, Eureka College
Women's Tennis- Hanne Andersen, Principia College
Baseball l Softball l Women's Tennis
SLIAC STANDINGS
| Baseball | Softball |
| School | SLIAC | Overall | School | SLIAC | Overall |
| Spalding | 3-0 | 5-3 | Spalding | 1-1 | 3-6 |
| MacMurray | 2-1 | 5-6 | Blackburn | 1-1 | 3-9 |
| Principia | 1-2 | 3-7 | Fontbonne | --- | 8-4 |
| Westminster | --- | 6-2 | Eureka | --- | 5-3 |
| Fontbonne | --- | 5-2 | Greenville | --- | 7-5 |
| Webster | --- | 5-2 | Principia | --- | 2-2-2 |
| Greenville | --- | 2-7 | Iowa Wesleyan | --- | 4-6 |
| Eureka | --- | 0-6 | Webster | --- | 4-6 |
| Iowa Wesleyan | --- | 0-8 | Westminster | --- | 1-3 |
| Blackburn | 0-3 | 0-11 | MacMurray | --- | 0-3 |
AROUND THE SLIAC
The Blackburn softball team split their 2014 conference opening
double header against Spalding, falling 11- in game one but
responding with a 4-3 win in game two. Amber Byrley worked out 10
hits to record the win while Aimee Kerley added to her league
leading RBI total (10) with two more runs batted in. |
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After winning their first two games of the 2014 season the
Greenville baseball team dropped all seven games last week in
Florida during their spring break. The Panthers will have a chance
to get back into the win column with games against Illinois College
and Spalding later this week. |
The Iowa Wesleyan sotball team is off to a 4-6 start this season
after competing in the USCAA Invitational. Their games against Coe
for this week have been postponed and they are set to return to
action this weekend with games against Westminster and
Principia. |
The MacMurray baseball team took two of three games in their 2014
SLIAC opener against Principia. MacMurray won game one 11-9 behind
a 5-for-5 performance by Derek Crouch, in which he added four runs
batted in. They took game two 3-1 on the strength of the arm
of Anthony Willeford who went 7.1 innings and allowed one run on
three hits while striking out 14. |
The Principia baseball team picked up their first conference win
of the season with an 8-3 win over MacMurray in the final game of a
three game series. The Panthers were led by Gavin Thomas' 3-for-5
game while Sawyer Grow went 8 innings, striking out seven, to pick
up the win. |
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The Gorlok softball team is currently 4-6 on the season and
are set to begin their SLIAC schedule this weekend with a road
double header against Eureka. Gorlok infielder Rachel Franck is
currently second in the conference in hitting with a .469 batting
average. |
The Blue Jays softball team has played just four games this
season, going 1-3, after having a double header against Grinnell
cancelled earlier this week. They are schedued for a busy week this
week however as they are set to face Iowa Wesleyan, Blackbrun and
Wartburg. |
The Eureka softball team is off to a solid start, going 5-3 in the
Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The Red
Devils won their final two contests in the classic, defeating
Rivier 4-3 and Cazenovia 14-5. They are set to open the home
schedule, and SLIAC play, this weekend against Webster after their
games against MacMurray were postponed.
The Fontbonne softball team continues their season opening
road trip with five more games this week in Clermont, Fla. The
Griffins have already played all 12 games this season on the road
and are not scheduled to play their first home game of the season
until March 25 against Principia.
The Spalding baseball team jumped out to a fast start in
conference play, sweeping Blackburn in a three game series. The
Golden Eagles won 10-2, 20-10 and 4-3. They head to Tucson, Arizona
this week to face Wisconsin-La Crosse, Macalester and Cal Lutheran
before returning home this weekend to face Greenville in a SLIAC
double header.THIS WEEK'S SLIAC SCHEDULE
To see a complete schedule of this week's SLIAC action click HERE
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Friday's are Feature Friday's where we will get to know our current SLIAC Student-Athletes through a series of video interviews. This past week's Feature Friday was with Zach Carel, a baseball player from Fontbonne University. Watch HERE