SLIAC Weekly Release - Dec. 18th
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 President to
be Keynote Speaker at NCAA Convention (December 12,
2013)
A former Division III student-athlete who became the first woman to
row solo across the Atlantic Ocean and one of the first two
women to ski cross country to the South Pole will be the keynote
speaker for the Division III business session at the 2014 NCAA
Convention.....MORE
SLIAC Online Store,
Holiday Special (December 13, 2013)
The SLIAC online store is bringing you a holiday special.
From now until December 24 customers will save 10% on all
purchases.....MORE
Feature Friday: Getting to Know (December 13, 2013)
This week's Feature Friday video is with Westminster College
student-athlete Danielle Smulczenski.....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
Men's Basketball- Seth Wickert, Eureka College
Women's Basketball- Caty Eeten, Eureka College
Men's Basketball l Women's Basketball
SLIAC STANDINGS
Men's
Basketball |
Women's
Basketball |
School | SLIAC | Overall | School | SLIAC | Overall |
Westminster | 3-0 | 5-3 | Iowa Wesleyan |
3-0 | 5-1 |
MacMurray | 2-0 | 5-3 | Eureka | 3-0 | 6-2 |
Spalding | 2-0 | 3-5 | Webster | 2-1 | 4-3 |
Webster | 2-1 | 4-4 | Greenville | 1-1 | 4-5 |
Greenville | 1-1 | 5-3 | Fontbonne | 1-1 | 3-5 |
Fontbonne | 1-1 | 1-7 | Westminster | 1-2 | 2-5 |
Iowa Wesleyan |
1-2 |
2-5 | Spalding | 1-1 | 1-5 |
Eureka | 1-2 | 2-7 |
Principia | 1-2 | 2-6 |
Principia | 0-3 |
1-7 |
MacMurray | 0-2 | 0-7 |
Blackburn | 0-3 |
0-9 | Blackburn | 0-3 | 1-7 |
AROUND THE SLIAC
The Blackburn men's basketball team is led by a youth movement.
The team features no seniors and currently their top two scorers
are freshmen. Chris Davis leads the team at 15.6 points per game
while Tommy Ulinski is second at 12.2 points per game. |
Red Devil Women's Basketball senior Caty Eeten poured in 40 points in an 83-80 win over Westminster on Tuesday night. The 40 points are the second most by a SLIAC player in a conference game and is the second most point total in program history, behind only her career high 49 point game against Knox in 2011. |
Fontbonne freshman Bryan DeGeare has been on a roll lately, recording a double-double in three of his last four games. Most recently DeGeare tallied 18 points and 14 rebounds in a 100-85 loss to Concordia. The 18 points are his second highest total while he established a new career high with the 14 rebound effort. |
Greenville's Ron Smith is just one of three players in the SLIAC
currently in the top 10 leaders of both scoring and rebounding.
Smith is averaging 13.2 points per game (10th) and 9.1 rebounds per
game (1st). He also ranks 10th in the league in shooting percentage
at 51.6 percent. |
The Iowa Wesleyan men's basketball team notched their program's
first ever SLIAC win over the weekend with a 74-69 victory over
Blackburn. Iowa Wesleyan placed five players in double figures in
scoring, overcoming a 35-28 deficit at halftime. Ramon Taylor led
Iowa Wesleyan with 15 points while Duane Lee added 14 points. |
The MacMurray men's basketball team took on #14 ranked Augustana
College last Saturday, falling 100-69. The Highlanders were unable
to slow down the Augustana offense, which scored 58 points on
70-percent shooting in the first-half. Brady Slagle led MacMurray
with 16 points, although he recorded just one point in the
second-half. |
Principia College was awarded to be host of the 2017 NCAA Division
III National Championship. The newly re-designed course will
feature an observation deck located on the center ridge of the
course and allow for viewing of nearly the entire race course. |
The Spalding women's basketball faced #1 ranked DePauw University over the weekend, falling 79-53. The Golden Eagles took an early 13-11 lead but a run by DePauw gave the top-ranked team a 42-27 lead at halftime. Kerstin Hayes led Spalding with 10 points while Jessica Guy finished with eight points and 10 rebounds. |
Men's basketball junior guard Ahmad Smith led Webster with 26
points in an overtime loss to Eureka. Smith was 11-of-21 from the
field and knocked down the game-tying shot at the buzzer in
regulation to force overtime. |
Westminster women's basketball senior Leigh Ann Lutz recently
became the program's career leader in three-point field goals. Lutz
surpassed the previous record of 194. Lutz has finished in the top
five in the SLIAC of three-pointers made in each of her first three
years. Finishing 4th as a freshman, 2nd as a sophomore and 1st as a
junior. |
THIS WEEK'S SLIAC SCHEDULE
To see a complete schedule of this week's SLIAC action click HERE
KEEP UP WITH THE SLIAC ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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! This week's question: Who holds the SLIAC Women's Basketball record for points in a conference game? Answer: 42 points scored by both Laura Williams (Principia) and Laurie Kralemann (Fontbonne).
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 with Danielle Smulczenski (Westminster College) Check it out HERE