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SCAC Players-of-the-Week
(9/20/04)
Men's Cross Country
GRAHAM WELLMAN OF DEPAUW
UNIVERSITY, a
senior from Frankenmuth, Mich., has
been selected the SCAC Men's Cross Country Runner-of-the-Week for
meets run Friday, September 17 and Saturday, September 18.
Wellman
placed
16th at the Indiana Intercollegiates with a time of 26:41; he placed
fourth in the Little State results. Wellman, the two-time defending
SCAC Runner-of-the-Year, led his team to the Little State Championship as
well as upsetting host school Purdue University.
Women's
Cross Country
CARLY DESSAUER OF MILLSAPS COLLEGE,
a senior from Folsom, La., has been selected the SCAC Women's
Cross Country Runner-of-the-Week for meets run Friday, September 17 and Saturday,
September 18. Dessauer
won her first race of the year at the Millsaps
Invitational (5K) this past Saturday with a personal-best time of 19:36.
She placed :36 seconds ahead of the next competitor out of a field of 42. Dessauer
led the race from start to finish and improved her time by :42 seconds
from the same race last year.
Field Hockey - Offensive
BECCA GAINES OF DEPAUW
UNIVERSITY,
a sophomore forward from Columbus, Ohio, has been
selected the SCAC Field Hockey Offensive Player-of-the-Week for
matches
played Monday, September 13 through Sunday, September 19.
Gaines, who paced DePauw's
attack with eight shots, scored
the game's lone goal with 25:55 left in the second half to provide the
Tigers with all they would need in Sunday's 1-0 defeat of Rhodes. She had
two shots in Friday's 1-0 blanking of Sewanee. DePauw sits atop the SCAC
standings with a perfect 2-0 mark (5-2 overall).
Field Hockey - Defensive
SARA SHALOWITZ
OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY,
a senior goalkeeper from Stow, Ohio, has been
selected the SCAC Field Hockey Defensive Player-of-the-Week for
matches
played Monday, September 13 through Sunday, September 19.
Shalowitz posted two
shutouts over the weekend with four saves against Sewanee and seven
against Rhodes.
Football - Offensive
On Saturday, TRINITY UNIVERSITY broke a
school-record that had been standing since 1952, and also shattered the CAC/SCAC
mark for that same record. And for acknowledgement of that record-breaking
performance, another first is in order.
For the first time, a team's entire starting offensive line is being recognized
as the league's "Player-of-the-Week."
TRINITY UNIVERSITY'S BEN PRATER,
a 6-2, 283-pound senior guard from Spring, Texas, TOMMY FORD, a
6-0, 270-pound senior center from Houston, Texas, BILLY MORAN, a
6-2, 266-pound junior tackle from Friendswood, Texas, BRANDON SPENCER,
a 6-0, 274-pound junior guard from Coppell, Texas, and COREY GRANT,
a 5-11, 291-pound junior tackle from Houston, Texas, have been
selected the SCAC Football Offensive Players-of-the-Week for games
played Saturday, September 18.
The Tiger offensive line powered Trinity to a record-breaking performance on
Saturday, as the team piled up 701 yards against Redlands - a team that has
made the NCAA playoffs the last two years.
Also, 389 of those yards came on the ground as the front five controlled the
line of scrimmage for its best team rushing performance in three years. The
team rushed the ball just 44 times in the game, giving them an average of 8.8
yards per carry. And the line allowed Trinity quarterbacks all day to pick
apart the Redlands' defensive backfield, as the Tigers' completed 21 of 24
passes for 312 yards and four TDs without an interception, a QB hurry or a sack
allowed.
Overall, Trinity averaged better than 10 yards per play on offense, needing
just 68 plays to break 700 yards. The 701 yards is both a school and CAC/SCAC
record for a single-game, breaking Trinity's previous record of 680 yards
against Texas A&I in 1952. The old conference mark was set by Trinity in 2001
against Rose-Hulman (670).
Football - Defensive
MATT JACKSON OF
ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
a 5-10, 215-pound senior linebacker from Dayton, Ohio, has been
selected the SCAC Football Defensive Player-of-the-Week for games
played Saturday, September 18.
Jackson returned an interception 77 yards for a touchdown and
recorded a safety to help lead Rose-Hulman to a 23-3 victory over
Concordia (Ill.).
Jackson's interception return on Concordia's first drive of
the game gave the Engineers a 14-0 lead, then his safety provided
the first points of the second half and a 16-3 edge.
For the game, Jackson recorded a team-high nine tackles,
including two tackles-for-loss.
Men's Soccer - Offensive
CHRIS QUINN OF TRINITY
UNIVERSITY,
a senior forward from San Antonio, Texas, has been selected the SCAC Men's
Soccer Offensive Player-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday,
September 13 through Sunday, September 19. It is his second consecutive POTW
honor and sixth of his career. Quinn scored two goals over the
weekend to lead the Tigers to two SCAC victories. Quinn needed just
five shots to knock in two goals against Millsaps and Oglethorpe, and
scored the eventual game-winning goals in both contests. For the season,
Quinn has scored nine goals in six games for Trinity, as well as
collecting three assists to lead the team with 21 overall points. Quinn
has totaled three game-winning goals.
Men's Soccer
- Defensive
JON NELSON OF RHODES COLLEGE, a
senior goalkeeper from Little Rock, Ark.,
has been selected the SCAC Men's
Soccer Defensive Player-of-the-Week for matches played from
Monday,
September 13 through Sunday, September 19. Nelson recorded this third
shutout of the season, making three saves and cutting off several crosses,
in Rhodes' 3-0 blanking of ninth-ranked and previously undefeated
Dominican (Ill.) University. For the season, Nelson is third in the
league in goals against average (0.98) and fourth in total saves with 21.
Women's
Soccer - Offensive
CLAIRE EDWARDS OF TRINITY
UNIVERSITY, a first-year forward from Austin, Texas, and
JESSICA POWERS OF SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, a
junior midfielder from
Colleyville, Texas,
have been selected the SCAC
Women's Soccer Offensive Co-Players-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday,
September 13 through Sunday, September 19.
Edwards finished the weekend with three goals on eight shots, leading
the team to a weekend sweep in the SCAC openers for the Tigers. Edwards
scored once in the first game of the weekend, and then scored two goals
against Oglethorpe - including the eventual game-winner - to cap her first
taste of conference play. This weekend marked the first goals of
Edwards' collegiate career, and she is second on the team with three
goals and six points overall.
Powers
led the Pirates to a 2-0 conference record on the weekend and their third
straight win with an 8-1 victory over Oglethorpe and a 6-0 win over
Millsaps. In two games, Powers netted two goals and added three
assists to total seven points on the weekend. The Pirates have scored 15
goals in the last three matches, while only giving up one goal.
Women's Soccer -
Defensive
ABBY CURRENS OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY, a
first-year goalkeeper from Lexington, Ky, has
been selected the SCAC Women's Soccer Defensive Player-of-the-Week for matches
played from Monday, September 13 through Sunday, September 19.
Currens,
in her first career start in goal,
posted a shutout of seventh-ranked Ohio
Wesleyan, tending a scoreless net for 107 minutes with 11 saves in the 1-0
double-overtime victory.
For the season, Currens has allowed just one goal in 204 minutes in
goal (0.44 GAA) and has 15 saves.
Volleyball
LEAH
BALLINGER OF CENTRE COLLEGE, a senior setter from Butler, Ky., and
RACHEL NOVOTNY OF RHODES COLLEGE, a senior middle hitter
from Boulder, Colo., have been named SCAC Volleyball
Co-Players-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday, September 13 through
Sunday, September 19.
Ballinger
was
named the Colonel Classic MVP as the Colonels went undefeated on the
weekend. Ballinger had 47 assists in a three-game match (15.6 per
game) in the 3-0 win against local rival Transylvania. In the same match,
she also had 11 digs, four kills and two block assists. Against Brescia (NAIA),
Ballinger racked 37 assists and 12 digs in a trhee-game match. And
against Earlham, she only averaged 10 assists per game, but had five
service aces to balance out the effort. For the weekend, Ballinger
totaled 147 assists (12.25 per game) and added 12 kills, with just two
errors in 39 total attacks (.256 hitting %). She also had 27 digs (2.25
per game), seven service aces, one solo block and five block assists.
Novotny
was the
model of consistency this weekend as the Lynx posted a perfect 5-0 weekend
at the Rhodes College Invitational. Novotny had 53 kills (3.12
kills per game) with only 10 errors on 104 attempts for a hitting
percentage of .413. She also had six service aces and 12 blocks on the
weekend.
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