SLIAC Weekly Release - April 9

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

Blackburn Looks To Set Guinness World Record, Raise Money For Cancer Research (April 3, 2014)
Blackburn College will host a Guinness World Record attempt for the world's longest soccer game next week in an attempt to raise $100,000 for research on pediatric cancer at St. Louis Children's Hospital.....MORE

Welcome to NCAA Division III Week (April 7, 2014)
This week marks the annual Division III Week for all 441 NCAA Division III institutions. This year's Division III week is of special importance as it is the 40th anniversary of NCAA Division III....MORE

Crouch and Lutz Awarded SLIAC Post Graduate Scholarships (April 8, 2014)
MacMurray College senior Derek Crouch and Westminster College senior Leigh Ann Lutz have been awarded the 2013-14 St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) Male and Female Post Graduate Scholarships....MORE

Fontbonne Softball Moves Up In NFCA Top 25 (April 9, 2014)
The Fontbonne University softball team moved up two spots in the Top 25 of this week's NFCA Coaches Poll, and are ranked #22 in NCAA Division III....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) Max Morohashi, Webster University
              (Pitcher) CJ Lee, Webster University
Softball-  (Hitter) Kelsey McDowell, Spalding University
               (Pitcher) Kelci Flener, Spalding University
Men's Golf- Jonathon Gandia, Spalding University
Men's Tennis- Travis Blair, Webster University
Women's Tennis- Kelly Adams, Principia College
Men's Track & Field- (Field) Kyle Jenkins, Spalding University
                                (Track) Eric Whipple, Spalding University
Women's Track & Field- (Field) Taylor Brunner, Greenville College
                                     (Track) Sarah Litwiller, Principia College

Baseball l Softball l Men's Tennis l Women's Tennis l Men's Track & Field l Women's Track & Field

SLIAC STANDINGS

AROUND THE SLIAC

Blackburn College will host a Guiness World Record attempt this week when they participate in the world's longest soccer game. The goal is to help raise $100,000 for research on pediatric cancer at St. Louis Children's Hospital. To donate go to www.worldrecordsoccergame.com

The Eureka baseball team continued their recent surge, winning three games over a five game stretch last week. Eureka picked up a win over Westminster, 4-3, and swept a double header against MacMurray to improve to 4-6 in SLIAC play.

The Fontbonne baseball team had a six game winning streak snapped last week as they dropped three in a row. The Griffins found their way back into the win column however with a 4-3 win over Greenville. The Griffins are set to host Westminster in a mid-week doubleheader before facing Eureka in a three game series this weekend.

The Greenville softball team suffered their first two losses of the season last weekend, falling 9-1 and 7-2 to Fontbonne. The Lady Panthers will look to get back into onto the plus side as they have a busy week with games against MacMurray, Rose-Hulman and Webster.

The Iowa Wesleyan baseball team notched an impressive 8-6 win over Washington University-St. Louis this week, splitting a double header against the Bears. Iowa Wesleyan came from behind for the win, plating one run in the eighth and two more in the ninth as three different Tigers recorded two hits in the game.

It will be a busy week for the MacMurray softball team as they will play ten games in a six day stretch. The Highlanders face Greenville, Eureka and Spalding in conference double headers before taking on St. Louis College of Pharmacy on Sunday in a non-conference meeting. The Highlanders then return to SLIAC action on Monday against Blackburn.

Principia junior Sarah Litwiller was impressive in her showing at the Greenville Select Meet last weekend. Litwiller finished her 5,000-meter race in a time of 18:00.91, nearly 43-seconds faster than the next competitor. She earned SLIAC Women's Track and Field Player of the Week honors for her effort.

The Spalding baseball team has won five of their last six games and take a three game winning streak into this week's action. They will face Iowa Wesleyan in a mid-week double header before hosting MacMurray for a three game series this weekend.

The Webster baseball team extended their winning streak to 13 games and will put that streak on the line this weekend with a three game series against Greenville and another game against Illinois State. The Gorloks are currently ranked #3 in the latest D3baseball.com poll.

Westminster senior pitcher Brittany Lee added to her record breaking season last weekend as she picked up two more school records and tied a third. Lee is the program's all-time innings pitched leader as well as saves leader. At the plate she also became the school's career leader in sacrifice hits.

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 Andy Pichler, a baseball player from Westminster College. Watch HERE