SLIAC Weekly Release
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
Greenville's Ackerman
Records 200th Coaching Win (September 28, 2013)
With the most recent Panther volleyball victory at Principia
Saturday, head coach Tom Ackerman was credited with his 200th
career coaching win.....MORE
Spalding Men's Golf
Ranked in Top 25 (September 30, 2013)
The Spalding University men’s golf team is ranked no. 17
this week at golfstat.com.
This marks the first time the program has ranked in the top 25
nationally since the university made the move to NCAA Division-III
in 2012...MORE
SLIAC Game of the
Week: Greenville at Webster - Women's Soccer (October 1,
2013)
The SLIAC Game of the Week is a weekly feature during conference
play that highlights an upcoming scheduled event for the week....MORE
SLIAC Comes Together
For Canned Food Drive (October 1, 2013)
The SLIAC and members of SAAC have joined together to give back to
local communities by teaming up for a year long canned food drive
competition....MORE
SLIAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
The SLIAC Players of the Week are honored for their performances during the week of Sept. 24-Sept. 30. Click on the sport link below to see the full list of 2013 Players of the Week.
Men's Cross Country - Wylie Mangelsdorf (Principia)
Women's Cross Country - Sarah Litwiller (Principia)
Men's Soccer Offensive - Jackson Cantrell (Spalding)
Men's Soccer Defensive - Raul Romero (Westminster)
Women's Soccer Offensive - Kristin Montgomery (Webster)
Women's Soccer Defensive - Rachel Perea (Principia)
Volleyball Offensive - Corinne Coon (Greenville)
Volleyball Defensive - Jamie Schollenbruch (Greenville)
Full Release for Sept. 30 Players of the Week...HERE
Men's Cross Country l Women's Cross Country l Men's Soccer l Women's Soccer l Volleyball
SLIAC STANDINGS
Men's Soccer | Women's Soccer | Volleyball |
School | SLIAC | Overall | School | SLIAC | Overall | School | SLIAC | Overall |
Webster | 1-0 | 6-2-3 | Webster | 1-0 | 9-2 | Greenville | 7-0 | 13-3 |
Fontbonne | 1-0 | 6-5-1 | Fontbonne | 1-0 | 5-2-3 | Webster | 7-1 | 11-3 |
Blackburn | 1-0 | 5-3-1 | Blackburn | 1-0 | 4-4 | Principia | 3-2 | 9-6 |
Greenville | 1-0 | 2-5-3 | Principia | 1-0 | 3-4 | Fontbonne | 3-2 | 5-8 |
Westminster | 1-0 | 2-6-1 | Greenville | 1-0 | 2-6 | Westminster | 4-3 | 7-5 |
Spalding | 0-1 | 5-6 | MacMurray | 0-1 | 4-6 | Iowa Wesleyan |
4-3 | 6-14 |
Principia | 0-1 | 2-5-2 | Spalding | 0-1 | 2-4-1 | Spalding | 1-3 | 5-8 |
MacMurray | 0-1 | 1-8 | Westminster | 0-1 | 2-7-1 | MacMurray | 1-5 | 3-13 |
Eureka | 0-1 | 0-7 | Eureka | 0-1 | 2-6 | Eureka | 0-5 | 0-11 |
Iowa Wesleyan | 0-1 | 0-8 | Iowa Wesleyan |
0-1 | 1-5 | Blackburn | 0-6 | 1-9 |
AROUND THE SLIAC
Blackburn's men's soccer team is on a roll as of late, winning four of their last five games including their 2013 conference opener with a 2-1 win over MacMurray. The Beavers now have five wins this season, just two behind last year's total. |
The Red Devils Kelli Dunne put together a solid all-around performance against Lincoln Christian last week. Dunne finished the match with 11 kills and 20 digs, marking her third consecutive double double. |
The Fontbonne women's soccer team extended their winning streak to three games with wins over Oakland City and Iowa Wesleyan. Fontbonne's unbeaten streak is currently at four games and they hold the longest current winning streak in the conference in women's soccer. |
The Greenville soccer programs each picked up wins in their SLIAC
conference openers last weekend. The men's team won a 2-1 overtime
thriller against Spalding while the Lady Panthers won by the same
2-1 score. It marked the second wins of the season for both
teams. |
The Iowa Wesleyan golf team placed second in the MacMurray
Invitational last week. The Tigers finished their round with a team
score of 307 and were led by Blake Mitchell and Trent Hoekstra who
each shot a 75 to tie for 5th place overall. |
MacMurray announced the hiring of Abby Lowe to the women's
basketball coaching staff. Lowe, a 2010 graduate of MacMurray, was
a SLIAC First Team All-Conference performer in 2009. |
Principia swept this week's Cross Country Players of the Week
honors with Wylie Mangelsdorf and Sarah Litwiller taking the
honors. Mangelsdorf ran a time of 24:57 in his 8K race and placed
2nd overall while Litwiller finished her 6K race with a time of
22:41 and finished 9th overall. |
Jackson Cantrell was a one man machine in helping his team to a
3-2 overtime win over Centre last week. Cantrell netted all three
goals in the game for Spalding including the game winner in double
overtime. For his efforts he earned Men's Soccer Offensive Player
of the Week. |
Jessica Davis of the women's soccer team etched her name in the
Webster record books last week. Davis is now in third place on the
school's career saves list and is third all-time in career
victories. |
The Westminster men's soccer team started conference play the
right way with a 1-0 win over Principia last week. The Blue Jays
were led by goalkeeper Raul Romero who recorded his first
collegiate shutout while making seven saves. Westminster has now
won two of their last three games. |
THIS WEEK'S SLIAC SCHEDULE
To see a complete schedule of this week's SLIAC action click HERE
KEEP UP WITH THE SLIAC
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! Last week's question was can you name the two current Athletic Director's in the SLIAC that were former SLIAC student-athletes? The answer was Fontbonne's Maria Eftink and Blackburn's Angie Morenz. Congrats to our winner Vinnie Birk. He is owner of a new SLIAC hat!
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. This past week's Feature Friday video was a Day in the Life of Alexis Richie (Blackburn College) Check it out HERE