Men’s Tennis
May 13
Only four teams remain and the Bears are one of them as they defeated No.6 Gustavus Adolphus College 5-0 to zip to the NCAA Semifinals. It promises to be a match of titans as the Bears face the highest ranked team left in competition, No. 2 Claremont Mudd Scripps College.
The other two teams left are No. 3 Emory and No. 7 Middlebury. The winners of the matches will face off for the championship crown while the losers play in the third place match.
May 9
The No. 5 men’s tennis team has advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals which will be held at Bates College in Maine. Wash. U. became the Central Regional Champion after dispatching No. 16 DePauw University 6-0. They will face No. 6 Gustavus Adolphus College on May 13. Gustavus Adolphus is on a 12 match winning streak.
Juniors Charlie Cutler and Chris Hoeland have also qualified in doubles while sophomore John Watts has qualified for singles in the 2008 Division III Men’s Individual National Championship held from May 16-18.
Softball
May 10
The sixth seeded Coe College struck fast and hard to end the seventh seeded Bears’ season. Coe scored two runs in the second, added an insurance run in the third and then padded their lead with four more in the sixth. Wash. U. (25-15) fell 7-0 to the Kohawks committing four errors. The Red and Green were limited to three hits the entire game.
Coe nearly blew the game wide open in the second. After scoring their first two runs, Coe had loaded the bases. With two outs, freshman Claire Voris got the batter out swinging. Voris ended the season with a 15-7 record on the plate.
All five seniors played in their last game as Wash. U. Bears. Seniors Amy Vukovich and Laura D’Andrea each recorded a hit. The 2008 UAA Champions will return next year.
May 9
The Bears lost to the number one team in the country DePauw University 5-0. DePauw got the early lead scoring three runs on a costly error by the Bears in the top of the second. A deep hit to right field went off the glove of senior Karli Stander to clear the bases. Wash. U. was in contention the entire game but were unable to score any of nine runners who were all left on base. DePauw cushioned their lead with a two run fifth inning. Freshman Claire Voris struck out six in the loss.
Track and Field
Junior Danielle Wadlington has automatically qualified for nationals in the triple jump. Other Bears have provisional NCAA marks in several events including senior Morgen Leonard-Fleckman’s school record 3.75m height in the pole vault. The team continues to compete in order to qualify more contestants in the Outdoor National Championships this summer.
Wash. U. sees action at the Dr. Keeler Invite in Naperville, Ill. from May 8-9.
Senior Tyler Mulkin and freshman Taryn Surtees provisionally qualified in the 5,000 meter run at the Dr. Keeler Invite. Senior Jesse McDaniel also provisionally qualified in the 10,000 meter run.
Senior Angela Hartman raced to a NCAA provisional time of 2:14.60 in the 800 meter run while classmate Abbey Hartmann had a provisional time of 10:56.69 in the 3,000 meter steeplechase. Sophomore Hope Rathnam also provisionally qualified in the steeplechase. Wadlington also provisionally qualified in the 100 meter hurdles but had run a faster time in an earlier meet.
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