SLIAC Weekly Release - Nov. 6th
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
Westminster Takes
SLIAC Women's Cross Country Championship (November 2,
2013)
Saturday morning the Saint Louis Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference crowned their 2013 Women's Cross Country Champion,
Westminster College. In addition Principia's Sarah Litwiller took
home the individual championship.....MORE
Mangelsdorf Leads
Principia To Men's Cross Country Title (November 2,
2013)
Principia College's Wylie Mangelsdorf took charge on Saturday and
helped lead his team to a 2013 SLIAC Men's Cross Country
Championship. Mangelsdorf dominated today's race in capturing the
individual title and helping his team to their 5th conference title
in program history....MORE
Webster's Wallner
Named CoSIDA Academic All-District (November 5, 2013)
Webster University's Jeff Wallner has been named to the Academic
All-District first team for men's soccer ....MORE
Watch Highlights and
Interviews of the SLIAC Cross Country Championships
You can watch interviews and highlights of the 2013 SLIAC Men's
and Women's Cross Country Championships.
Women's Race and Interviews- VIDEO
Men's Race and Interviews- VIDEO
SLIAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
The SLIAC Players of the Week are honored for their performances during the week of Oct. 21-27. Click on the sport link below to see the full list of 2013 Players of the Week.
Men's Soccer Offensive - BJ Dryer (Webster)
Men's Soccer Defensive - Tyler Brown (Webster)
Women's Soccer Offensive - Hayley MacWilliams (Principia)
Women's Soccer Defensive - Heidi Koehl
Volleyball Offensive - Tess Roundtree (Principia)
Volleyball Defensive - Summer Switzer (Principia)
Full Release for Nov. 4- 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 |
| Westminster | 8-1 |
9-8-1 | Webster | 9-0 |
17-2 | Greenville | 16-1 | 23-6 |
| Fontbonne | 8-1 |
13-6-1 | Greenville | 6-1-2 | 7-9-2 | Webster | 15-2 | 23-8 |
| Webster | 8-1 | 13-3-3 |
Principia | 6-2-1 | 8-7-2 | Westminster | 12-5 | 17-10 |
| Greenville | 5-3-1 |
6-9-4 | Fontbonne | 6-2-1 | 10-5-4 |
Spalding | 12-6 |
18-11 |
| Spalding | 5-4 | 10-9 | Spalding | 6-3 | 8-7-1 | Principia |
11-6 | 19-10 |
| Principia | 4-4-1 | 6-9-3 | Westminster | 4-5 | 6-12-1 | Iowa Wesleyan |
8-10 |
12-21 |
| Blackburn | 2-7 | 7-10-1 | Eureka | 3-6 | 6-12 | Fontbonne | 6-11 |
9-17 |
| MacMurray |
1-7-1 | 2-16-1 | Blackburn | 1-7-1 | 6-11-1 | MacMurray | 5-12 |
9-21 |
| Iowa Wesleyan |
1-7-1 | 1-15-1 | MacMurray | 1-8 | 5-13 | Eureka | 1-16 |
1-22 |
| Eureka | 1-8 | 2-14 | Iowa Wesleyan |
0-8-1 | 1-13-1 | Blackburn | 0-17 | 1-26 |
AROUND THE SLIAC
Blackburn women's soccer player Alexis Richie led the SLIAC in
scoring this season, finishing the year with 17 goals and 37 total
points. She ranked 25th in the nation in goals per game and 44th in
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Greenville freshman runner Alivia Powers took home the SLIAC
Newcomer of the Year award in Women's Cross Country after a strong
showing at the SLIAC Championships. Powers placed 7th in the race,
finishing with a time of 23:35. |
Jacob Ayers wrapped up the Tigers first cross country season in
the SLIAC with a 22nd place finish in the SLIAC Championships.
Ayers finished the race in 27:16 and was the top finisher for the
Tigers. |
MacMurray's Hollie Schultz finished second in the SLIAC in aces
per set this season. Schultz recorded 47 service aces this year,
avearging 0.49 per set. As a team the Highlanders finished third in
the conference with 167 total service aces, averaging 1.65 per
set. |
Principia's cross country programs swept individual honors at the
SLIAC Championships with Sarah Litwiller winning the women's race
and Wylie Mangelsdorf winning the men's race. Litwiller finished
her race in a time of 22 minutes flat while Mangelsdorf finished
his course in 24:30. |
After a second place finish at the SLIAC Championships last year,
Spalding's Haile Jemane placed in the top five once again with a
4th place finish this year. Jemane finished the 8K race in 25:41
and earned First Team All-Conference honors for the second
consecutive season. |
The Webster women's soccer team recorded the program's sixth
undefeated conference season this year by going 9-0 in league play.
The Gorloks are the #1 seed in the SLIAC Tournament this week and
will be looking to repeat as Tournament champions after defeating
Greenville in last year's championship game. |
Westminster's Women's Cross Country team captured their program's
first ever SLIAC Championship over the weekend. The Blue Jays
placed four runners in the top ten and were led by Sarah Koestner's
4th overall finish with a time of 22:51. Coach Jim Marshall took
home the Conference Coach of the Year award. |
The Eureka women's soccer team ended the season with a 1-0 shutout
win over Blackburn College. The Red Devils' Jenna Brooks scored the
games only goal, tallying the score at the 69 minute mark. It was
the team's sixth overall win and third conference win of the
season.
Fontbonne senior runner Alyssa Tonner completed her racing career
on Saturday with a 2nd place finish in the SLIAC Cross Country
Championships. Tonner finished the 6K race in a time of 22:25,
earning First Team All-Conference honors. 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: Who has made the most tournament appearances for each fall sport? (Men's Soccer, Women's Soccer, Volleyball). The answer was Fontbonne, 18 times in men's soccer; Principia, 19 times in women's soccer; and Webster, 19 times in volleyball.
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 Getting to Know Paige Pfankuch (Fontbonne University) Check it out HERE