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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 TOWSON 1 OLD DOMINION 2 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 23
The Towerlight October 5, 2009 24 The Towerlight SPORTS Field Hockey... Women’s Golf... Swim & Dive... Women’s Soccer... Volleyball... Cross Country... MEN’S SOCCER Drexel tops Towson in penalty kick thriller, 6-5 SAM SMITH Staff Writer Colin Stevens Staff Writer ...page 23 ...page 23 ...page 23 ...page 21 ...page 23 ...Online The Tigers lost their second CAA game in a double overtime shootout to Drexel, 6-5. Scoring five goals was not enough to prevent Towson’s losing streak from slipping to four games, and their record now stands at 3-5. “We’re scoring five goals and not win- TOWSON 5 DREXEL 6 ning the game,” sophomore Liam Maloney said. “If you are in any other game and you score five goals, you are expecting to win the game.” See GOALS, page 22 Plenty of time left in NFL season for changes We’re a quarter of the way into the NFL season, a time when most fans have already passed judgment on their teams as playoff worthy or not. But with so many games left, there is no reason to write any team off yet. Okay, maybe I spoke too soon. If your team started 0-4, just kiss the season goodbye. Four teams started 0-4 last season, and only one, the Houston Texans, didn’t finish with a losing record. Being winless a quarter of the way through the year usually means your team just doesn’t See NFL, page 22 www.TheTowerlight.com Sports Online: Can Cole Hamels lead the Phillies to another National League title? FACE-OFF PAGE 22 UNH: Tigers blocked by brick wall Photographer/The Towerlight Above, New Hampshire’s Kyle Flemings blocks Towson punter Bill Shears’ kick in the first quarter of UNH’s 57-7 win Saturday. The Wildcats also scored a safety and a touchdown on Tiger punts. Below, Justin Harris drops a kickoff, where the Tigers also struggled. From page Cover Athens, however, had a day he most certainly will want to forget. He threw five interceptions, four in the first half. Two of those interceptions were returned for touchdowns by New Hampshire, including a 96-yard return by Wildcats safety Ryan McGuinness. Athens was replaced in the second half by sophomore Blair Peterson. Peterson threw an interception of his own, and was just 2-6 for 40 yards. “Extremely frustrating,” Ambrose said of the quarterbacks’ performances. “Are [the interceptions] all [Athens’] fault? No… [Blair] worked his way up. I can tell you that at the No. 2 quarterback position we’ll have a little bit of a competition this week.” The performance of the Towson special teams unit was equally abysmal. Hakeem Moore struggled, returning kicks all afternoon, and the punt protection unit wasn’t any better. A snap over the head of punter Bill Shears, who was camped deep in his own end zone, resulted in a New Hampshire safety and put the UNH up 16-0. The Wildcats returned the safety punt for another touchdown. Even without preseason CAA Offensive Player of the Year quarterback R.J. Toman, the Wildcats were able to move quite effectively. Thanks to the short fields the defense was often able to give Toman’s replacement, Kevin Decker, Towson still played on its heels most of the game. Decker was efficient, throwing for 140 yards and had three total touchdowns. “I have a lot of confidence in the kid,” New Hampshire head coach Sean McDonnell said of Decker. “I thought he did a great job running our offense today. Towson is going to beat some teams in the league this year. I just watch the way they play, especially defensively, and they’re starting to do the things that you need to do in this league.” Check the Web site for a cross country story and the NFC East Blog...
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