Football makes playoffs, faces Monmouth (Ill.)

The Tommies are in.

ESPN News announced at 2:13 p.m. that the St. Thomas football team will face Monmouth College in the first round of the NCAA Division III playoffs. The game will be played at noon Nov. 21, at Monmouth, Ill.

The back room at Davanni’s on Cleveland Avenue was packed with more than 100 players and fans and a roar of shouts rocked the restaurant when St. Thomas’ name appeared on the screen.

Football gets first 9-win season since ’83

[slidepress gallery=’footballnorthwestern-111409′] St. Thomas crushed Northwestern College Saturday 63-14 to all but guarantee an NCAA playoff bid. The Tommies tallied 477 total yards and the offensive explosion of 63 points tied a season-high and modern-day school record.

Volleyball’s regional bracket has six top-ranked teams

After losing to St. Olaf in the MIAC playoffs, the St. Thomas volleyball team received a second chance with an at-large bid into the NCAA Division III playoffs. The sixth-seeded Tommies boarded the bus this morning on the way to Oshkosh, Wis., where the Tommies will take on the third-seeded University of Wisconsin-Whitewater at 12:30, Thursday in the first round.

Former basketball stars team up and beat Blizzards

Some familiar former St. Thomas men’s basketball players took to the court again at St. Paul Central High School, Nov. 7.

Recent St. Thomas graduates B.J. Viau and Lonnie Robinson among others geared up for the exhibition game against the Minnesota Blizzards of the American Basketball Association. The team of graduated Tommies took down the Blizzards 88-77.