No. 6-ranked volleyball team beat a tough conference opponent in No. 17-ranked Concordia 3-1 in Moorhead Saturday. Senior Kyley Crotty’s 14 kills and junior Emily Foster’s 42 assists helped lead the Tommies to its 33rd consecutive conference win.
Junior Tori Jones added 11 kills as St. Thomas moved to 12-2 overall and 3-0 in MIAC play. Juniors Jill Osborne and Katie Bonine each added eight kills and freshman Kaitlin Wachter had 24 digs.
Senior Amy Anderson led the women’s golf team to a second place finish on Sunday at the St. Ben’s Invite. Anderson shot a 159 for the two-day tournament to record her second medalist finish in the last three weeks.
St. Cloud State took first place in the six team field. St. Ben’s came in third and Carleton took fourth place behind the Tommies.
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The No. 14-ranked women’s cross country team finished seventh out of 27 teams Saturday at the University of Minnesota Roy Griak Invite. Senior Kelly Russ led the Tommies with her 27th place finish out of a field of 500 runners. St. Thomas had four other runners in the top 45 to take third behind Bethel …
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The men’s and women’s soccer teams split their Saturday afternoon ticket at Bethel. The women posted a 2-1 win while the men lost 2-1.
The women fell behind 1-0, but two unanswered goals in five minutes was enough to give the Tommies the victory and run its win streak to five games. Junior Lexie Fisher tied the game with a goal assisted by senior Erin Sprangers and St. Thomas got the eventual game-winner from freshman Anna Strehlow, the first of her college career.
The St. Thomas football team flexed its muscles Saturday, improving to 3-0 on the season with an overwhelming 63-10 victory at Hamline. The 63-point performance was St. Thomas’ highest point total in 20 years.
“You never go into a game expecting you’ll score 63 points but we just played our hearts out,” said freshman defensive end Ayo Idowu. “The best part was the fact that we came in after halftime and kept up the tempo we had the whole game.”
The Tommie men’s golf team will divide its team between two tournaments this weekend, starting 10 a.m., Saturday, at the St. Olaf Invite. The second tournament, the Wis.-Eau Claire Invite, begins Sunday at 11 a.m.
The second and final round of the St. Olaf Invite tees off at 10 a.m., Sunday, and the Wis.-Eau Claire Invite finishes Monday starting at 10 a.m.
The game had no lack of physical play as both teams fought it out in front of the net and in the corners all game long.
The women’s golf team will head to Sartell Saturday for the first of two rounds in the St. Ben’s Fall Classic.
The Tommies have had strong showings in its last two events, finishing fifth last weekend at the Division III Classic and coming in at sixth at the Wartburg Invite the weekend before.
St. Thomas did not compete in the St. Ben’s Classic last season. Tee off is at noon.
In its first “home game” at Concordia’s Gangelhoff Center St. Thomas topped St. Mary’s 3-0. The Tommies ran its conference winning streak to 32 Wednesday, Sept. 23 with set scores of 25-13, 25-12 and 25-20.
The team is fresh off a week of tryouts, returning 13 players to the 24-man roster.
Coming off a win over St. Olaf in the MIAC opener, the Tommie football team looks to improve to 3-0 on the season as St. Thomas travels across town to visit the Hamline Pipers (1-1).
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.
