SLIAC Weekly Release - Oct. 16th
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
D3 News Releases
Women's Basketball Preseason Preview (October 11, 2013)
D3 News, a publication focusing on NCAA Division III Basketball,
has released their 2013-14 Women's Basketball Preseason
publication.....MORE
Grand Re-Opening of
the SLIAC Online Store (October 9, 2013)
The St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference has announced
the grand re-opening of its online store and with it comes your
chance to save 25% on all orders!.....MORE
Fontbonne Soccer Holds
SPENSA Day (October 15, 2013)
The Fontbonne University men's and women's soccer programs hosted
SPENSA last Saturday for a special game at halftime of the men's
soccer game against Eureka College....MORE
SLIAC Game of the
Week: Principia at Webster; Women's Soccer (October 15,
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 PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
The SLIAC Players of the Week are honored for their performances during the week of Oct. 8-14. Click on the sport link below to see the full list of 2013 Players of the Week.
Men's Cross Country - Haile Jemane (Spalding)
Women's Cross Country - Alyssa Tonner (Fontbonne)
Men's Soccer Offensive - Connor Hallrah (Westminster)
Men's Soccer Defensive - Shane Rogers (Blackburn)
Women's Soccer Offensive - Dee Dee Sliter (Spalding)
Women's Soccer Defensive - Allison Ferguson (Webster)
Volleyball Offensive - Sam Kersting (Webster)
Volleyball Defensive - Katie O'Toole (Webster)
Full Release for Oct. 16- 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 | 4-0 |
9-2-3 | Webster | 4-0 | 12-2 | Greenville | 11-0 | 18-4 |
| Westminster | 4-0 |
5-7-1 | Fontbonne | 4-0 | 8-3-3 | Webster | 12-1 | 19-4 |
| Spalding | 4-1 |
9-6 |
Spalding | 4-1 | 6-4-1 | Principia | 7-4 | 14-8 |
| Fontbonne | 3-1 |
8-6-1 | Greenville | 3-1 | 4-9 | Westminster | 6-4 | 10-9 |
| Greenville | 3-1 |
4-7-3 | Principia | 2-2 | 4-7-1 | Spalding |
5-5 | 10-10 |
| Blackburn | 1-3 | 6-6-1 | Westminster | 2-2 | 4-9-1 | Iowa Wesleyan |
5-6 | 9-17 |
| Principia | 1-3 | 3-7-2 | Blackburn | 1-3 | 6-7 | Fontbonne | 4-6 | 6-12 |
| Eureka | 0-3 | 0-9 |
Eureka | 0-3 | 3-9 | MacMurray | 3-7 | 7-15 |
| MacMurray | 0-4 | 1-13 | MacMurray | 0-4 | 4-9 | Eureka | 1-10 |
1-16 |
| Iowa Wesleyan | 0-4 | 0-12 | Iowa Wesleyan |
0-4 | 1-9 | Blackburn | 0-11 | 1-18 |
AROUND THE SLIAC
Blackburn's Shane Rogers had a busy game in a 2-0 loss to Webster
last week. Rogers faced 23 shots, stopping 21 of them in keeping
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The Greenville men's soccer team picked up their second
consecutive conference win and have now won three of their last
four SLIAC games. With their recent push the Panthers are 3-1 in
the SLIAC and tied for 4th in the standings. |
The Tigers golf team closed out their fall season by competing in
the William Penn Fall Invitational last weekend. The Tigers placed
5th in the tournament field led by Michael Neff who shot a 189 and
finished 10th overall. |
Junior center Clayton Whitlock was named D3 News Preseason
All-American. Whitlock averaged 14.7 points per game last season
and earned First Team All-Conference honors after leading the
conference in field goal percentage. |
The Principia cross country team broke in their new home course
with an impressive run last weekend, capturing first place spots on
both the men's and women's sides. Sarah Litwiller took first in the
women with a time of 19:33 while Wylie Mangelsdorf took first in
the men's race with a time of 16:06. |
The Spalding women's soccer team defeated Principia for the first
time in program history last week. Spalding had dropped all four
previous meetings in the series history. |
Cross Country runner Ethan Jeffries secured his second win of the
season becoming the first Gorlok to win multiple meets in their
career. His time of 25:13 marked the fourth time this season he
broken a school record. |
With his first career hat trick last week junior Connor Hollrah
spurred the men's soccer team to a win over MacMurray, helping his
team remain undefeated in SLIAC play. The Blue Jays are now 4-0 in
the conference and tied for first place in the standings. |
The Eureka women's volleyball team is racking up the mileage as
they are in the early parts of a season long 11 consecutive matches
away from home. The Red Devils have already played four of thos
matches and will not return home for a match until November 5th
when they host Blackburn College.
The Fontbonne cross country teams had a strong showing in the
Illinois College Invite with four runners placing in the top 15.
For the women Alyssa Tonner took 3rd place and set a school record
with a time of 23:08 while teammate Olivia Beggs placed 10th. On
the men's side Justin Horneker took 2nd and Cristian Sellers placed
15th.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! Our question this week was how many women's soccer regular season titles have Webster University and Principia College combined for? The correct answer was 18. Congrats to this week's winner Jarrod Huskey!
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 with Tyler Cook (Westminster College) Check it out HERE