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
MacMurray Women's
Basketball Lends A Hand (September 20, 2013)
The MacMurray women’s basketball team spent an early morning
last week on a service project, helping the Jacksonville Chamber of
Commerce set up for the Chamber’s annual Steak Fry later that
evening...MORE
Kim Johnson Named
Eureka Baseball Head Coach (September 23, 2013)
Kim Johnson has been named baseball head coach at Eureka College,
interim Eureka Director of Athletics Mark Scherer announced
Monday. Johnson owns 26 years of collegiate baseball coaching
experience, including 20 seasons and 515 victories as a head
coach....MORE
SLIAC Game of the
Week: Greenville at Principia - Volleyball (September 24,
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 Sept. 16-Sept. 23. Click on the sport link below to see the full list of 2013 Players of the Week.
Men's Cross Country - Jesse Edwards (Westminster)
Women's Cross Country - Sarah Koestner (Westminster)
Men's Soccer Offensive - Jacob Stieb (Webster)
Men's Soccer Defensive - Brian Woodward (Webster)
Women's Soccer Offensive - Ally Nikolaus (Webster)
Women's Soccer Defensive - Vickey Benhart (Eureka)
Volleyball Offensive - Corinne Coon (Greenville)
Volleyball Defensive - Summer Switzer (Principia)
Full Release for Sept. 23 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 | 0-0 | 5-2-3 | Webster | 0-0 | 8-1 | Greenville | 6-0 | 12-3 |
| Blackburn | 0-0 | 4-3-1 | Fontbonne | 0-0 | 3-2-3 | Webster | 7-1 | 11-3 |
| Fontbonne | 0-0 | 4-4-1 | MacMurray | 0-0 | 4-5 | Principia | 3-1 | 9-5 |
| Spalding | 0-0 | 4-5 | Blackburn | 0-0 | 3-4 | Iowa Wesleyan | 3-2 | 4-11 |
| Principia | 0-0 | 2-4-2 | Spalding | 0-0 | 2-2-1 | Westminster | 3-3 | 6-5 |
| Greenville | 0-0 | 1-4-3 | Westminster | 0-0 | 2-6-1 | Spalding | 1-2 | 5-6 |
| Westminster | 0-0 | 1-6-1 | Principia | 0-0 | 2-4 | Fontbonne | 1-2 | 3-6 |
| MacMurray | 0-0 | 1-7 | Eureka | 0-0 | 2-5 | MacMurray | 1-4 | 2-11 |
| Eureka | 0-0 | 0-6 | Iowa Wesleyan | 0-0 | 1-3 | Blackburn | 0-5 | 0-8 |
| Iowa Wesleyan | 0-0 | 0-6 | Greenville | 0-0 | 1-6 | Eureka | 0-5 | 0-11 |
AROUND THE SLIAC
Alexis Richie helped the Blackburn Women's Soccer team pick up a
pairof wins last week, topping Lincoln Christian and Robert Morris-Lake County. Richie netted two goals against Lincoln Christian and followed with a three goal, one assist performance against Robert Morris that included the game winning goal. |
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The Lady Panther volleyball team extended their winning streak to
11 matches. Of their 11 consecutive victories only two have come
without a sweep, both going into the fourth set. The Lady Panthers
currently sit in first place in the SLIAC by one game. |
Iowa Wesleyan's Savannah Blair had a game to remember against
Stephens. Blair netted a school record nine goals and added one
assist in her team's 15-0 win. Blair got off 19 shots in the game,
including 16 on goal in helping her team to their first win of the
season. |
The MacMurray women's soccer team picked up a pair of wins last
week, topping Faith Baptist Bible 4-0 and Lincoln Christian 9-0.
With the pair of wins the Highlanders now have four wins this
season, surpassing their mark of three wins last year. |
Principia's Meg Anderson got some work in this fall for the
Panthers women's tennis team. Anderson competed last week in the
ITA Small College Regional. She feel to Zoe Kasivrak of Dennison by
the scores of 6-3 and 6-0. |
The Spalding Men's Cross Country team placed 10th this past
weekend in the National Catholic Championships hosted by the
University of Notre Dame. Spalding was led by Haile Jemane who
finished 18th in the 8K race with a time of 26:31. |
Webster sent a pair of women's tennis players to the ITA Regional
Championships last weekend; Isabella Espinoza and Marissa Lewis.
The duo won their opening doubles match but lost in the next round
to the eventual runner-ups. |
The Westminster cross country teams swept the SLIAC Player of the
Week awards this season with Jessed Edwards taking the men's award
and Sarah Koestner winning the women's award. Edwards finished his
8K race in 26:42 and helped his team to an 8th place finish while
Koestner completed her 5K race in 18:58. |
You can keep up with all of Eureka College action on their YouTube
channel.
The Fontbonne Volleyball team notched their first victory of the
season last week with a 3-1 win over St. Louis College of Pharmacy
on Tuesday night. The Griffins won 22-25, 25-23, 25-19 and 25-20.
Tara Ballman had a team high 16 kills while Abbie Bergtholdt added
11 kills.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!
On Thursday's you can reminisce 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.