For the fourth year in a row, the women's basketball team had competed in a national championship game. In just three seasons, Ray Diener '65 struck out 264 batters to set a program career record that still stands today. Men's Basketball / February 27, 2023. Opens in new window. Widener University. This commitment applies but is not limited to decisions made with respect to hiring and promotion, the administration educational programs and policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic or other College administered programs. February 25, 2023 Men's Basketball. Etown men's soccer players were named All-Americans eight times in the decade, with Jay Varrato and Robbie Martin both becoming two-time All-Americans in 1990. MADISON, N.J. - The Drew University men's basketball team built a nine-point halftime lead, then held off a second-half comeback as the Rangers defeated Elizabethtown College 82-71 in a Landmark Conference affair Wednesday evening in Baldwin Gym. Ranked No. Chris Grubb '93 set an Etown record for most career hits with 164 between 1990 and 1993, and Ian Smeltz '96 recorded 161 hits in his career and set the Etown career stolen base record with 59. The official 2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster for the Wilson College Phoenix. The team also played in the East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) tournament in 1975 and 1976. The basketball program has won seven Prep B state championships. Box Score; Recap; Game Program (PDF) . By 1977-78, the team played 25 games in a season, a total comparable to what men's basketball teams had been playing for years. The official 2022-23 Basketball (Men) Roster for the Cabrini University Cavaliers. 54. Alumni Game at 11 a.m. -- 3/4 Canes at Halftime . Schedule. Men's soccer was added in the fall of 1938, allegedly as a way for Herr to get his basketball players in shape for the winter season. The official 2022-23 Men's Basketball schedule for the Messiah University Falcons . The 2000-01 team went 20-6 and finished as the Commonwealth Conference runner-up. Men's Sports. He finally got some help in 1949, when J.H. The team won its second MAC championship in 1995, going 13-4 overall. The Blue Jay men's soccer team competed in the NCAA Atlantic Coast Regional Championship in 1962, 1963, and every year from 1966 to 1971. Earl Brinser '69 became the first Etown All-American wrestler in 1968. The Official Site of Elizabethtown College Athletics. At Elizabethtown, unlike many other institutions, intercollegiate athletics was not simply assumed to be an essential part of the life of a college. Varsity golf was reinstated and began its first season in the spring of 1988 under head coach Royal Snavely. 18t in WBCA Div. In women's tennis, Kauffman took over as the head coach in 1970 and guided the team to a 72-11 record from 1970 to 1979. Baseball Schedule Roster News Basketball Schedule . Julie Phillips was one of the top women's swimmers of the era, and her best 50 and 100 yard freestyle times remain the top standards in the events at Etown today. Damian Burnside '85 set program records for most steals in a career (235) and most assists in a career (521) that remain intact today. View the 22-23 Elizabethtown varsity basketball team schedule. Attitudes at Elizabethtown gradually changed, and much of the impetus for this change came from the students themselves. The men's track & field team won the 2003 MAC indoor championship in just its fourth year of varsity competition the least amount of time any program at Elizabethtown has taken to win a conference title since its inception. Basketball Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Schedule Cross Country: . The field hockey team that year, under the direction of first-year head coach Jean Ann Rogers Finkbiner, went 8-0 and never allowed a goal. Risser also took over the women's basketball team from Jane Ulmer, who took over from Herr in 1954, and guided the team to an 8-2 finish in 1956-57. Collegiate cross country changed more over the course of the 1990s than any other sport Elizabethtown sponsored. Pennington basketball continues to add to the longstanding tradition of highly competitive basketball teams that have donned the black and red on the courts. There were some bright spots during this period for men's basketball, however, most notably that of Guy Buch '45, who led the country in points per game in 1945 with 23.7. As soon as the war was over, the team rebounded to 6-5 in 1945-46. Print; Roster Layout: Go; . In 1986, Dale Luy took the reins of both the men's and women's cross country programs, and before long had both teams consistently competing at higher level than any point since the early 1970s. Eventually, a roving position was added as well, including a player who could roam the whole length of the court. The 1990s witnessed a renaissance in swimming at Elizabethtown. Ranked No. In the circle, Linda Milnes '99 struck out 113 batters in 1999, setting a program record at the time, and Sallie Mohr won 31 games from 1994 to 1997. In 1997, the team made the NCAA Division III tournament field for the first time, and it advanced all the way to the Final Four, which it also hosted at Herr Field. His assistant, Bill Helm, took over as the head coach in 1984 and led the team to a 26-15 finish that season. In Greene's final season, 1957, the Blue Jays went 8-2 to set a program mark for wins, and Etown equaled that feat the next season, Herr's first back at the helm. View the 22-23 Elizabethtown varsity basketball team schedule. Ryan Billet '98 was the top scorer for Etown in the 1990s, compiling 1,657 points, the fourth-best total in program history. Barb Shenk returned as the head coach in 1997 and led the team to a 18-15 finish that year. John Tulley took over as the head coach in 1970, and Etown had its first winning season in dual matches in 1974 when it went 7-4, and the team posted an 8-4 mark in 1975. The women's swimming team built a bit more slowly than the men, but by 1993-94 and 1994-95, it was finishing fourth at the MAC championships. Basketball. The team also won the Penn-Mar Conference championship that year and set a new program record for wins, going 14-2-1. Although the track & field teams would not compete at the varsity level until January 2000, Chris Straub was hired as the new men's and women's track & field and men's and women's cross country coach in the summer of 1998 to begin building the programs. The NCAA split into three divisions, with Etown joining Division III, a move that brought an end to athletic scholarships. The official 2021-22 Women's Basketball Roster for the Elmira College Eagles Goucher College W 80-67 Box Score: 1/25/2023 . When it comes to track and field at Elizabethtown, the old saying, "the third time's a charm" has certainly proven true. Moravian University. Bryan Zeamer finished the season with a 40-7 record, while Justin Barbush completed the season with a 41-3 mark. Ober was one of the most influential figures in the history of Blue Jay athletics. In 2002, in addition to finishing 15th in the nation over hill and dale, the men's cross country team also ranked first in the nation in the classroom with the highest team cumulative GPA out of all NCAA Division III men's cross country programs in the nation. 2023-23 Team. Kara Metzger '96 ran up a 79-14 record, the highest win total in program history , from the spring of 1993 to the fall of 1995, and Michelle Artz '94 posted a 70-17 overall record from the spring of 1991 to the fall of 1993. In only its second season, the women's soccer team posted its first winning record, going 8-6-1 overall. The 1990s began with a bang for the team, as it went 13-1-1 under new head coach Ed Batistsa, and Amy Hyde '93 became the program's first All-American that year. From 1970-71, when Yvonne Kauffman took over as the team's head coach from Cathy Clemens, who led the team for one year in 1969-70, to 1978-79, the women's basketball team compiled a 99-50 record. Joseph Todd took over the program in 1952-53, and Greene guided the team in 1953-54. Ira Herr instituted the men's cross country program in 1956. Official recognition of intercollegiate athletics finally came in 1928 with the hiring of Ira R. Herr as the school's first coach and athletic director, although he faced an uphill struggle in the early years to get funding and administrative support. A telling example of how geopolitical problems wreaked havoc with Etown athletics is demonstrated by the record of the baseball team during the early 1940s, as the 1941 team set a record for wins by going 10-4 and did not play again until the spring of 1945, when the team went 3-7. The team went 189-142 over the course of the decade. Dave Parry '86 became Elizabethtown's only All-American in diving in 1986 for the men's swimming team. Nazareth College Athletics. Liz Bishard '98 set program records for most kills in a career with 1,295 and most digs in a career with 1,440. Full Story. Jim Hepfer '90 became the men's basketball program's second All-American three years later, and he finished his career with 1,867 points. Cardenas, ranked 11th nationally and first in the Mideast Region, advanced to the semifinals with a 15-0 technical fall over Shkeb Nadir of Scranton and a 9-7 sudden victory versus Kyle Nase . Print. The field hockey team followed that performance with a 10-1 season in 1956, setting a record for wins that would not be broken until 1975. 1200 Main Street.Bethlehem, PA 18018 PH: (610) 861-1534 . Ranked No. Kathy Montgomery became the head men's tennis coach in 1997, and in 1998, she led the team to a 15-4 overall mark, the highest win total in the history of the program. The official Men's Basketball page for the Drew University Rangers OVERALL 10-11 0.48 Win % CONFERENCE 5-5 3rdLancaster-Lebanon . TV: MACtv . By 1977-78, the team played 25 games in a season, a total . The team continued to get better, going 36-12 in 1985 and posting a program-best 45-10 mark in 1986. Although the team did not repeat as MAC champion, the Blue Jays did make the NAIA playoffs again, and they advanced all the way to the national championship game, where they battled Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology) to a 2-2 tie to share the national title and finish the season with a 10-1-1 overall record. The team remained in the race for a post-season bid until the very last day of the season, and the team, which has quickly established a reputation for its stifling defense, achieved a rare shutout in 2003. . The women's basketball team won the Commonwealth Conference championship and returned to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Division III tournament in 2001, and it concluded the 2000-01 season with a 20-6 overall record. Story Archives. The baseball team continued its run of success as the 1991 team went 26-9-1 and reached the NCAA tournament for the third time in its history. . The 1995-96 team tore through its dual meet season, going 13-3, while the 1996-97 team went 11-6. His 11 wins in 1995 remains a program record, as does his 11 complete games that season. Since 2000, the men's tennis team has posted a 37-21 overall record. Jon Flood '98 coached the team in 2000 and 2001 and led it to a combined 15-8 record in those two years. Dave Berdan '04 became Etown's first MAC individual cross country champion in 2001, and Dustin Scott '03 duplicated the feat in 2002. (); : Elizabethtown College Elizabethtown College: 2013 - 2017: 2: 2-0: 100%: 153-118: Bob Schott guided the women's tennis team to a 31-13 record from 1990 to the spring of 1993. Thompson Gymnasium was dedicated in 1970. Bob Schlosser became the head men's basketball coach in 1990-91 and guided the team to the NCAA tournament in 1992-93, as the team that year compiled a 19-7 record. One of the gyms in which the basketball teams played in the early years is today's Tempest Theater. . In 1997-98, the team again went 13-3 in its dual meet season, and at the end of the season it captured its first MAC championship ever. Entering the 2002 season, the softball team, which was coming off the heels of an 11-19 season the previous year and had a new coaching staff with head coach Diane Lokey and assistant Kathy Staib, was picked to finish last in the conference pre-season coaches' poll. (17-11) 31. His 93 strikeouts, accomplished in just 56-2/3 innings in 1962, remains tied as the single-season Etown record. Ranked No. Following that experience in futility, officially sanctioned college sports took hold to stay later in 1928 when Coach Herr led the fledgling men's basketball team to a 27-22 victory over Millersville December 8 en route to a 5-12 season. No. Emily Morris '04 shattered the career record for digs in 2003, finishing with 1,895. general / February 27, 2023. The old Ira R. Herr baseball field will be converted to practice fields in the near future. The South Florida Bulls (21-4, 10-0 AAC) are trying to build on an 11-game win streak when they visit the SMU Mustangs (14-6, 5-3 AAC) on Saturday, February 4, 2023 at Moody Coliseum. John Tulley guided the team for a season in Wright's stead in 1969 and led it to a 13-7 mark. Print. Robert Garrett retired at the conclusion of the 1988 season, and Bob Schott began doing double duty as the head coach of both the men's and women's tennis teams in 1989. The men's basketball team had its first winning season in 1937-38, going 10-8. In those days, the emphasis in cross country was on winning dual meets, and the Blue Jay harriers posted their first winning mark with a 6-2 record in 1958 and improved to 7-3 in 1959. Every year from 1995-96 to 1998-99, the men's basketball team won either 15 or 16 games. Donald Smith retired in 1988 with a 331-275 record as head coach of the men's basketball team in 26 seasons, and he was succeeded by Donald Marsh in the 1988-89 season. 27. III Coaches Top 25 (1/17) ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. - The Albright women's lacrosse team (2-2) was in action for their first night game of the season and held off a late comeback attempt by Elizabethtown (3-1) downing the Blue Jays by a final score of 9-8.Tonight's win is the second road win of the season and also the Lions fifth straight win over the Blue Jays. Elizabethtown field hockey players earned All-America honors six times throughout the decade. The wrestling team posted its first .500 finish in 1962-63, going 6-6 under Lester Baum. The Blue Jays finished the season with a 26-1 overall record, setting a new program record for best winning percentage in a season at .962. Women's Basketball Places Three on College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Women's Basketball Team. Michelle Morris '04 emerged as one of the best pitchers in Etown history, striking out a program-record 177 batters in a season as well as becoming the first single-season 20 game winner ever at Etown in 2002, and setting new season records for innings pitched and appearances in 2003. Outstanding players from the era included Andy Folmer '78, Pete Heisey '76 and Randy Stauffer '76. R. Herr Athletic Hall of Fame. Barry Dohner '83 took over as the head coach of the women's soccer program in 1994, and by 1996 he had led the team to its first MAC championship and an 18-2-2 record. The team went 128-101 from 1990-91 to 1998-99. The women's swimming team went 36-14 in dual meets from 1969-70 to 1974-75, and the team's record of 9-4 in 1974-75 under coach Janet Harringer stood as the program's record-high win total until 1988-89. The women's soccer team has had a player named an Academic All-American for each of the last three consecutive years, the most recent being defender Megan Halladay '04 in back-to-back seasons in 2002 and 2003. Ranked No. Bob Schott took over as head coach of the women's tennis program in 1984 and immediately led the team to a 10-2 record that spring. In 1965, the men's cross country team went 11-1, won its first-ever MAC title, and finished 26th in the nation out of 56 teams at the NCAA College Division national championship meet in Chicago, IL. Eagles Ground Falcons on Saturday Night. Top competitors for Etown in the 1970s included sprinter Jim Yeingst '80, mid-distance runners Tim Moyer and Wade Pratt '80, distance runner Bob Berlin, hurdler Don Tyrie '80, jumpers Gary Fowler and Rob Wardius '76, throwers John Luzik '77 and Scott Sweitzer, and pole vaulter Tim Seager '81. Jalen Archer. Lutz set the program record for most career points with 1,757, and Meyer set the record for most points in a year with 683. HOME 9-2 . B. Although the value of physical education alongside academic endeavors was emphasized early in the history of the College and participation in it was a requirement for students, actual competition was frowned upon by the College's Church of the Brethren-run administration, which viewed highly competitive, forceful contests as being out of tune with its peace-oriented values. GoMessiah.tv. (3) Mail your registration form and payment to Amish Conference 2022, Young Center, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022-2298. The 2003 team took things a step further, finishing as the Commonwealth Conference runner-up rather than just a semifinalist. Jodi Kuehn batted .341 from 1994 to 1996, and Monica Lehman batted .349 over 1992 and 1993. He served as athletic director for 14 years and 29 years as head wrestling coach. Instead, the softball team put together one of the most surprising seasons by any team in school history, shattering the program record for wins by going 30-12 and reaching the post-season for the first time since 1994. Owen Wright took over the men's soccer and baseball programs in the 1961-62 academic year. In women's cross country, Melissa St. Clair '05 became Etown's first All-American in the sport just a few weeks ago, and the team placed eighth at the Mideast Regional in 2003 for its highest regional finish ever. Indiana's Grace Berger (34) is fouled by Purdue's Jayla Smith (3) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, in Bloomington, Ind. The field hockey program had an equally astonishing run of success in the 1980s. forward Marquis Ratcliff from the Moravian University basketball teams have been selected to the Lehigh Valley Small College Basketball Team of the Year by the LVSCB Organization at its final luncheon . The 1947-48 women's basketball team went 12-2-1, setting a program record for wins that would not be broken until 1977-78. III Coaches Top 25 (1/24) The golf team was founded in 1965, and it posted its first .500 season in 1969, going 7-7 in dual matches. In 1987, Swope became the program's first All-American. Box Score; Recap; Annville, Pa. Sorrentino Gymnasium. The 54 base hits by shortstop Emily Morris '04 in 2002 set a new Etown single-season record as well. Linda Eshleman '63 became the field hockey program's first All-American in 1962. BOX SCORE HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, Va. - Junior Adam Brazil (Mooresville, NC) scored 18 points, including the go-ahead three-point field goal with 2:55 remaining, to lead Hampden-Sydney College to a 63-59 home win past Emory (GA) University in the first round of the 2023 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament on Friday night in S. Douglas Fleet Gymnasium at Kirby Field House. Skip Roderick took over as the head coach in 1994 and led the team to a 9-6 finish in 1995. Keith Marks took over as the program's head coach in 1995, and that year Ben Smith '98 became the College's first MAC individual champion in golf. Story Links. The men's tennis team went 10-3 in 1991 and 12-2 in 1992. In 1987, the team won its first MAC championship and went 25-3. Froujke Taconis became the first Etown women's tennis player to win the MAC individual singles championship in 1995. The team went 42-54 during the decade of the 1950s. In Owen Wright's final season as the head coach in 1983, the team made its first trip to the NCAA Division III tournament and produced a 22-16 record, the most wins in a season ever for the team at the time. The Etown women's swimming team had its first winning season in 1966-67, going 3-2, and the men's swimming team posted its first winning record in 1967-68, going 7-3 and quickly becoming one of the best teams in the MAC by the end of the decade.