Good luck in finals and in all competitions. We’ll keep covering sports through this blog as several sports begin their post season campaigns. Both men’s and women’s tennis will play their first matches this weekend. Track and field continues to qualify athletes for the outdoor national championships later this summer. Baseball and softball wrap up their seasons this week.
Congratulations to senior Priya Srikanth of swimming and diving, senior Morgen Leonard-Fleckman of track and field, and senior Troy Ruths of men’s basketball. The Bears received $7,500 educational grants through the NCAA postgraduate scholarship program. They are three of the 58 Winter Sports recipients in all Divisions. Ruths led the men’s basketball team to their first national title, Leonard-Fleckman is the 2008 Indoor Pole Vault National Champion and Srikanth continued to set new school records coming in eighth at nationals in the three meter spring board event.
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Congratulations to junior Shanna-Lei Dacanay of women’s basketball who led all of Division III with a 2.83 assists/turnover ratio this season. In all divisions, Dacanay was seventh.
Congratulations to sophomore Jeremy Rogoff for being the first Wash. U. and UAA athlete named this year by the National Collegiate Baseball Writer’s Association Player of the Week honorable mention. Rogoff struck out a career high 14 batters against Case Western Reserve as Wash.U. won 12-1.
Men’s Tennis
The Bears will host the NCAA Central Regionals this weekend. The Bears advances to the next round against No. 16 DePauw University after beating Grinnell College 5-1.
Men’s Tennis defeated DePauw University 6-0 to advance to the NCAA Quarterfinals at Bates College. They will face either Gustavus Adolphus College or the University of Texas-Tyler.
Women’s Tennis
The team earned at large berth to the national NCAA tournament and face Huntingdon College on Friday. The winner of this match will face UAA champion Emory University.
After sweeping Huntingdon College in the NCAA first round, Wash. U. fell to No. 4 Emory 5-0. The Bears were unable to overcome the 3-0 deficit from doubles play. They will return next school year for another run at the UAA and NCAA championships.
Softball
Wash. U. was swept in a doubleheader against Missouri Baptist University dropping the first frame 5-4 before falling once more 5-1. The Red and Green end their season with a home doubleheader against the number one team in the country, DePauw University on Saturday.
The Bears came close but were unable to pull off the upset. Wash. U. scored the first run in the bottom of the six as a high pop up by junior Lindsay Cavarra landed right between the pitcher and the shortstop. While the Tigers were looking up for the ball, sophomore Ashton Hitchcock came tearing through the bases to score.
DePauw managed to tie the score in the seventh through some clutch hitting.
Wash. U. had a bases loaded opportunity in the bottom of the seventh but couldn’t complete it. It came down to the tiebreaking 8th inning with tiebreaker rules in effect. DePauw loaded the bases and with a full count, a bases clearing double scored three runs for DePauw.
One run separated the winners from the losers in the second frame. One run ended DePauw’s 37 game winning streak as the Wash. U. Bears held on for the 1-0 win. Junior Lindsay Cavarra celebrated her 21st birthday with the only RBI of the game as she sent a double to left field. Freshman Claire Voris held the number one team in the country to only two hits as she picked up the win.
The Bears find out on Monday if they advance into the postseason.
Baseball
Baseball demolished Maryville with a 14-3 win on Thursday. The Bears lost both frames of a doubleheader against California State East Bay on Friday. The Bears ended their season with a 14-4 loss to Greenville College. Wash. U. ended with a 15-14 record.
Track and Field
The number one women’s track team in the country and the men’s track and field team competed at the Butler Twilight this weekend in Indianapolis, Ind. against schools from all divisions.
Seniors Tricia Frisella and Tyler Mulkin took first and second respectively in the 3,000 meter run. Classmate Angela Hartman took second in the 800 meter run while sophomore Molly Schlamb took third in the 1,500 meter run.
The women’s 4 x400 relay team of Hartman, junior Danielle Wadlington, junior Erika Wade and Schlamb also took first. Senior Morgen Leonard-Fleckman notched another provisional NCAA mark with a 3.70m height in her first place pole vault finish while teammate junior Jessica Lane finished third with a 3.40m height.
On the men’s side, the 4 x 400 meter relay squad of junior Tanner Coghill, senior Marcus Woods, freshmen Ben Harmon and Skyler Moots took first. Sophomore Keith England took second in the javelin throw.
Full results of the Butler Twilight can be found here.
Junior Danielle Wadlington has already automatically qualified for the triple jump with a distance of 12.02m. Several Bears from both squads have also provisionally qualified for a multitude of events.
Top results for this season can be found here.
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