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VOLLEYBALL
Tigers can’t solve UDel
Photos by Eric Gazzillo/The Towerlight
Above, TU’s Shelynne Hoyt, Katee Luecke and Britney Loomis watch helplessly as as a ball hit by the
Tigers soars into the net in a 3-0 loss to Delaware at the Towson Center. Below, senior Missy Rohrbaugh
tries to defend against the UDel attack. Two Blue Hens finished with nine kills, while Stephanie Barry
had 13 digs. For Towson, star senior Alysha Fanning had a .294 hitting percentage with eight kills,
while Rohrbaugh had a match-high 17 digs. The Blue Hens continued their recent dominance over the
Tigers, winning three of the last four. However, Towson’s one win in that span earned them a playoff
spot in 2008. The Hens followed it up with a victory over Towson in the opening round.
SWIMMING & DIVING
Tigers open up at American
MARVIN JONES
Contributing Writer
The Towson men’s and women’s
swimming teams both opened the season
at the Potomac Relay Invitational
Friday. The event was hosted by
American University and included
seven teams: Towson, Georgetown,
George Mason, Mary Washington,
American, George Washington and
Howard.
The Towson women dominated the
competition, winning every event in
the meet and setting meet records in
seven of the nine events. The team
was led by juniors Brooke Golden
awin the 1000-yard freestyle relay with
a time of 10:02.90. The team also
placed first in the one-meter diving
event, the three-meter diving event,
the 500-yard freestyle, and several
other events.
The men finished in sixth place
out of seven teams, and scored a total
of 248 points. Their best finish was
fourth place in the 200-yard freestyle
relay. The team was led by senior
Bradley Bolin, who won both diving
events at the meet. Bolin scored
246.50 points in the one-meter event
and compiled 236.70 points in the
three-meter event.
WOMEN’S GOLF
SPORTS
Freshman falls
ill, Tigers don’t
get scores at
ECAC Tourney
KATHLEEN JORDAN
Contributing Writer
After placing first in the Dartmouth Invitational last weekend,
the Tigers suffered setbacks before the Eastern College Athletic
Conference Women’s Tournament at the Kiskiac Golf Club in
Williamsburg, Va. The team entered the tournament with four players
instead of the preferred five. Illness and injury affected them
from the start; the night of the practice round, freshman Chelsea
Harris had to be taken back to Baltimore due to illness.
According to head coach Brian Yaniger, the girls “all played very
hard, but we’re doing so with very little sleep,” because the night
before, the team spent “a great deal of time at the hospital.”
The remaining three healthy players competed as individuals on
Saturday, because no team score could be accumulated. A team’s
score is determined through the combination of the lowest four
scores from the regular five competing players.
Junior Emily Kwak shot an 81, freshman Ali Tutelman finished
with an 84, and senior Diana Woodall ended the day with a 90.
Next weekend the girls travel to Richmond, Va. to compete in the
Spider Invitational.
FIELD HOCKEY
Despite breaking
trend of big losses
to ODU, Monarchs
beat TU in overtime
COLIN STEVENS
Staff Writer
Towson’s struggles continued this weekend, dropping two conference
games and falling to last place in the CAA.
Sunday, the Tigers lost 2-1 to powerful Old Dominion.
The Monarchs, who entered the game ranked 12th in the
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nation, had caused problems for Towson
teams in the past, but the Tigers came
out ready to play, taking the game into
an extra period.
Initially, it seemed like ODU was ready to run away with the
game. In only the seventh minute, ODU midfielder Kathryn Kirk
scored the first goal of the contest, but Towson wasn’t about to
let them take the game.
The Tigers kept battling, eventually tying the game up in the
first half off a scrambling goal by Blythe Mackie.
The rest of the game, however, Towson had difficulty creating
opportunities for themselves, being outshot for the game, 13-4.
With a scoreless second half, the game went into overtime,
where it was quickly ended by ODU only 23 seconds into the
period.
After the near win, Towson head coach Michelle Webber still
had many of the same concerns for her team as she has had
throughout the season.
“It was a good game,” Webber said. “In [the past], they’ve
always been a team that we usually struggle against. The players
executed the game plan that we had. [We] stepped up, put pressure
on, counterattacked; we just didn’t put it in.”
Though it’s been a tough season so far, this team still has a lot
of promise, and Webber believes they are on the verge of exploding
on opponents.
They are growing as a team, and with six home games still
ahead, a playoff push is not out of the question, but they still
have a ways to go.
“It’s just a tough season,” Webber said. “[We’re] doing great,
but at the end of the day, you got to be in the win section, not
the [loss] section.”
The Towerlight October 5, 2009
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