SLIAC Weekly Release - Sept. 10
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
Spalding Set to Expand
Campus Size, Add Playing Fields (September 5, 2014)
Spalding University has finalized plans to expand their
playing fields after purchasing 7.2 acres of land in downtown
Louisville.....MORE
Webster Knocks off #11
Wartburg (September 6, 2014
Facing the #11 nationally ranked NCAA III team, the Webster
University men's soccer team came away victorious with a 3-2
win in double overtime against Wartburg College. Mike Wells
scored the game winner for the Gorloks with just 3:09 remaining in
the contest.....MORE
SLIAC Game of the
Week: Greenville vs. Principia (September 9, 2014)
This week's SLIAC Game of the Week is a rematch of the 2013
Volleyball Championship first round meeting between Greenville and
Principia....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 2014-15 Players of the Week. For this week's Player of the Week release - HERE
Men's Soccer (Offensive)- Julio De Loen, Spalding University
Men's Soccer (Defensive)- Thomas Crown, Greenville College
Women's Soccer (Offensive)- Tayisah Pohtos, Westminster
College
Women's Soccer (Defensive)- Jessica Davis, Webster University
Volleyball (Offensive)- Tess Rountree, Principia College
Volleyball (Defensive)- Jamie Schollenbruch, Greenville
College
Men's Cross Country- Jason Hickson, Webster University
Women's Cross Country- Casey Richardson, Spalding University
Men's Soccer l Women's Soccer l Volleyball l Men's Cross Country l Women's Cross Country
SLIAC STANDINGS
| Men's
Soccer |
Women's Soccer |
Volleyball |
| School | SLIAC | Overall | School | SLIAC | Overall | School | SLIAC | Overall |
| Spalding | --- | 4-1 | Fontbonne | --- | 4-0 | Greenville | --- | 4-4 |
| Greenville | --- | 3-1 | Webster | --- | 1-1-2 | MacMurray | --- | 2-2 |
| Webster | --- | 2-2 | Blackburn | --- | 1-2 | Webster | --- | 3-4 |
| MacMurray | --- | 1-3 | Westminster | --- | 1-2 | Fontbonne | --- | 3-5 |
| Westminster | --- | 1-3 | Iowa Wesleyan | --- | 0-2-1 | Westminster | --- | 2-6 |
| Iowa Wesleyan |
--- | 0-2 | Spalding | --- | 0-2 | Principia | --- | 1-7 |
| Eureka | --- | 0-3 | Eureka | --- | 0-4 | Spalding | --- | 1-8 |
| Fontbonne | --- | 0-3 | Greenville | --- | 0-4 | Eureka | --- | 0-4 |
| Blackburn | --- | 0-4 | MacMurray | --- | 0-4 | Blackburn | --- | 0-7 |
| Principia | --- | 0-4 | Principia | --- | 0-4 | Iowa Wesleyan |
--- | 0-7 |
AROUND THE SLIAC
The Blackburn men's and women's soccer teams will open up SLIAC
soccer action this year when they host MacMurray College on
Thursday. The women's game is set for a 3 p.m. start will the men
kick at 5 p.m. The Blackburn women topped MacMurray 2-0 in last
year's meeting while the Blackburn men won 2-1. |
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Thomas Crown, senior goal keeper for the Panthers men's soccer
team, was named the SLIAC Defensive Player of the Week. Crown
allowed just two goals in two games last week while recording 17
saves. He notched 13 saves in a win over Illinois College and added
four more saves against Rose-Hulman. |
The Iowa Wesleyan women's soccer team picked up their first points
of the season when they tied Rockford 2-2. The Tigers took a 1-0
lead on a goal from Rachyl Williams in the first-half. Rockford
tied it up early in the second and just two minutes later took the
lead. The Tigers evened it up on a Savanna Blair goal with just
five-seconds left in regulation. Neither team was able to break
through in the overtime periods. |
This is a busy week for the MacMurray volleyball squad as they
will play four matches over the next four days. The Highlanders
will play a pair of double headers as they take on Augustana and
Knox on Wednesday night in Galesburg, Illinois. MacMurray then
travels to Greenville, Illinois on Saturday where they will square
off against Westminster and Greenville. |
The Principia men's tennis team had a solid outing in the fall
tournament at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, garnering three
trophies. Panthers Joey Sander and Jason Wissman won A Flight
doubles while Wissman was runner up in A Flight singles and Andrew
Kratz won B Flight of the back draw. |
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Webster picked up a pair of SLIAC Player of the Week awards last
week as Jessica Davis, goal keeper on the women's soccer team, and
Jason Hickson, from men's cross country, took home top honors.
Davis extended her scoreless streak 253 minutes while Hickson
finished first in the Hanover Invitational becoming just the third
Gorlok in program history to win a meet. |
The Westminster volleyball team notched their first two wins of
the year this week defeating Mount St. Joseph and Robert
Morris-Springfield. The Blue Jays have been led by returning
All-Conference performer Amanda Kiso. Kiso leads the conference in
hitting percentage this season with a .404 mark and in solo blocks
with 13. |
The Eureka men's golf team opened the fall season with a 9th place
finish at the Loras College Invitational. The Red Devils were led
by Tyler Ramsey with an 85, tying for 28th individually in the
tournament. The Red Devils concluded the tournament with a team
score of 364.
The Fontbonne University women's soccer team continued their hot
start to the 2014 season, winning a pair of games over the weekend
to push their record to 4-0 overall. The Griffins have recorded
three consecutive shutouts and out scored their opponents 9-1 this
season.
The Spalding men's golf team took second place in the competitive
Rosencrans-Mauer Invite in Springfield, Ohio. The tournament field
featured numerous ranked teams with Spalding placing ahead of the
9th, 27th, 40th and 43rd ranked teams. The Golden Eagles shot a
team score of 601, finishing behind only #5 Wittenberg with a
590.THIS WEEK'S SLIAC SCHEDULE
To see a complete schedule of this week's SLIAC action click HERE
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Once again this year Friday's will be Feature Friday's where we will get to know our current SLIAC Student-Athletes through a series of video interviews. Stay tuned as we roll out the videos in the upcoming weeks!