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In a change handed all the way down from the NCAA presidential level, the MIAC must now honor the extra year of eligibility granted to students who redshirted when transferring into the conference from Division I and Division II schools.

Redshirting refers to when players are allowed to practice with a team but do not participate in NCAA competition, and therefore maintain that year’s worth of eligibility. All NCAA athletes are allowed four years of eligibility, and until this change was made, student-athletes who transferred into the MIAC after redshirting lost that year’s worth of eligibility.

D3Football.com selected St. Thomas’ offensive line for Division III Team of the Week after an exceptional performance Sept. 19 against St. Olaf. The offensive line helped push the Tommie run game to 201 yards on the ground, including two touchdowns for junior running back Ben Wartman.

St. Thomas men’s and women’s cross country teams are now both ranked in the top four in the region as the men moved up to fourth and the women slid down to third after last weekend’s races.

The women’s soccer team ran its conference unbeaten streak dating back to last season to 15 games with a 5-0 win Wednesday at Hamline. The win is St. Thomas’ fourth in a row, moving the team to 6-2 on the year and 3-0 in MIAC play.

The women’s soccer team will be in action 4 p.m. Tuesday at Hamline. St. Thomas is fresh off a 2-1 victory over Augsburg on Saturday and beat Hamline 2-1 last year in overtime. But the Tommies lost 3-2 to Hamline in 2007, the last time the women played on the Pipers’ home field. Jordan Osterman …

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The women’s golf team took fifth out of 20 teams at the Division-III Classic this weekend while the men’s team finished 11th out of 20 teams at the St. John’s University Invite.

The Tommie women battled through the absence of injured senior All-American Laura Heck to post a team score of 659. St. Thomas finished 31 strokes behind tournament champions Gustavus. The Tommies had only four players, so the score for every golfer for both rounds were counted. Senior Amy Anderson led the Tommies with a 156, which was good enough to tie for fifth in the entire field.

The St. Thomas intramural football league will “kick off” its season with a field goal contest at 5 p.m. on Palmer Field.

The event is open to all faculty and students who are not members of the varsity or junior varsity teams. Anyone looking to enter the contest should report to the field before 5 p.m. to sign up.

The St. Thomas baseball team will start defending its national championship tomorrow morning with inter-squad scrimmages on Koch Diamond. Coach Dennis Denning and the rest of the Tommies begin the fall schedule with close to 90 players, Denning said. Freshmen and new players will play in the early game at 9 a.m., while returning players …

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The popular student-run intramural football league is set to be back on campus this fall. Registration is open for the six-on-six two-hand-touch league, which will play its games at O’Shaughnessy stadium from 7 to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and even some Sundays. The league is split into Monday/Wednesday, and Tuesday/Thursday divisions. Division winners will …

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It’s easy to get caught up in the moment as you follow a team, but when you step back and put a year into perspective, it can be shocking to put together the big picture. That’s the way the 2008-2009 year was for St. Thomas sports. No time was wasted at the beginning of the …

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