SLIAC Weekly Release - March 12
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
Feature Friday: SLIAC
Spotlight with Emily Gundy (March 7, 2014)
Feature Friday is a weekly video series produced by the
SLIAC with the goal of showing what it is like to be a NCAA
Division III student-athlete. This week's interview is with Emily
Gundy, a women's basketball player from Greenville College.....MORE
Lady Eagles Fall to
Rhodes in NCAA First Round (March 8, 2014)
The Lady Eagles put up a good effort but lost their first NCAA
tournament appearance to Rhodes College. The Lynx of Rhodes College
defeated Spalding 83-59 Friday night, in Memphis, Tenn., as they
host the 2014 NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball
Tournament.....MORE
Titans Tip-Toe Past
Gorloks (March 8, 2014)
Webster's 'David' narrowly fell to Illinois Wesleyan University's
"Goliath", 71-70, in the NCAA III first round regional match up in
Bloomington, IL, on March 7. Webster entered into the game on
Wesleyan's home court a heavy underdog to the #6 nationally ranked
Titans, who needed two free throws with nine seconds left to nip
the Gorloks.....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) Taylor Stoulp, Webster University
(Pitcher) Will Miller, Westminster College
Softball- (Hitter) Erin McGinnis, Webster University
(Pitcher) Samantha Powers, Webster University
SLIAC STANDINGS
Baseball | Softball |
School | SLIAC | Overall | School | SLIAC | Overall |
Westminster | --- | 2-0 | Eureka | --- | 2-0 |
Fontbonne | --- | 2-1 | Fontbonne | --- | 5-2 |
Webster | --- | 2-1 | Greenville | --- | 3-3 |
Greenville | --- | 2-2 | Webster | --- | 3-4 |
Spalding | --- | 2-3 | Iowa Wesleyan |
--- | 2-4 |
MacMurray | --- | 1-2 | Principia | --- | 1-2 |
Principia | --- | 1-3 | Blackburn | --- | 1-5 |
Eureka | --- | 0-2 | Spalding | --- | 1-5 |
Blackburn | --- | 0-6 | MacMurray | --- | 0-1 |
Iowa Wesleyan |
--- | 0-6 | Westminster | --- | 0-2 |
AROUND THE SLIAC
The Blackburn softball team had a busy first week as they headed
to Myrtle Beach for a tournament. The Beavers faced a tough road as
they will play a total of ten games in five days. They picked up
their first win of the season with a 3-2 victory over Keystone. |
The Eureka softball team headed to Myrtle Beach to kick off their 2014 season. They opened with a pair of wins in the first of eight games on the East Coast. They topped Baptist Bible 17-0 and followed with a 10-0 win over Hilbert. |
After winning their season opener, 12-10 over Washington (Mo.), two weeks ago the Griffins returned to action last week with a split double header against Carthage. Jacob Becker picked up the Griffins win last week, going a full nine innings and allowing one earned run on four hits while striking out five. |
Greenville picked up their third win of the young season with a
5-3 win over Medaille. The Panthers are currently 3-3 on the season
and will continue play this week in Myrtle Beach with six more
games on the schedule. |
The Iowa Wesleyan women's basketball team capped their first
season in the SLIAC with a regular season title. The Tigers then
defeated Rochester 85-63 in the consolation game of the USCAA
National Tournament. |
The MacMurray baseball team picked up a 7-3 win over Ecclesia in
their 2014 season opener. The Highlanders held off Eccelsia for the
win, closing things out with three runs in the top of the ninth.
They pounded out 15 hits in the game. |
The Principia softball team started the season with a 6-3 win over
Wesley as they competed in hte Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic in
Myrtle Beach. Casey Lee recorded the win while Christine Nacewicz
and Jessyca McMullin each added two hits in the win. |
After dropping their first two games of the season the Spalding baseball team got into the win column with a pair of wins, sweeping Millikin in a double header. Spalding pounded out 12 hits in a 15-1 win in game one with Matt West leading the way with five runs batted in. They reached double digits in hits in the second game as well with 10, winning 11-1. |
The #8 ranked Webster Gorloks went 2-0 last week, including a 10-5
win over #10 Cortland State. Infielder Taylor Stoulp was named
Diamond Sports/SLIAC Hitter of the Week. Stoulp led the Webster
offense, hitting .625 on the week, while converting all 12 chances
in the field. |
The Westminster baseball team started the season strong with a
pair of wins last week. The Blue Jays were led by Will Miller, who
earned Diamond Sports/SLIAC Pitcher of the Week honors. Miller
threw a complete game shutout, striking out seven and allowing just
five hits in the game. |
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 Emily Gundy, a women's basketball player, from Greenville College. Watch HERE