2006-07 No. 35 - May 7, 2007
SPRING SPORTS
Baseball
(45-5, 19-1 PSAC East)
Last Week’s Action
MON
4/30 —
Kutztown 10, Albright 0
– Kutztown University erupted for eight runs in the first
inning, en route to a 10-0 win over Albright College in the
Baseballtown Classic at First Energy Stadium. Kutztown sent 14
men to the plate and rapped out nine hits in the eight-run first
inning.
Chad Lightcap (so.
Boyertown/Boyertown)
had two hits in the inning, a single in his first trip and a
two-run double in his second. He finished 2-for-3 with two
RBI.
Garrison Rausch (jr.
Allentown/Parkland)
was 2-for-2,
Dan
Gavlick (sr.
Medford,
NJ/Shawnee)
was 2-for-3 and
Dom
Fantanarosa (so.
Coatesville/Coatesville)
was 2-for-2.
Steve Craig (so.
Wilkes-Barre/Bishop Hoban)
started for
KU, pitching four innings with three strikeouts.
Ryan Loper (sr.
Boiling
Springs/Cumberland Valley)
got the win, pitching two innings of relief.
Ryan Cassidy (fr.
Langhorne/Archbishop Wood)
went the final three innings, with four strikeouts, for the
save. KU's pitchers combined to allow just three Lion hits.
THU 5/3-FRU
5/5 — at PSAC Championships
THU 5/3 —
Kutztown 2, Shippensburg 0
-
Matt Keller (sr.
Fleetwood/Fleetwood)
took a
no-hitter into the ninth inning to lead Kutztown to a 2-0 win in
the PSAC baseball championship.
Keller
struck out seven and walked one, hit one and two reached on KU
errors, facing just 32 batters.
Rausch was
3-for-3 with a run scored,
Sean Bond (sr. Malvern/Great Valley)
was 2-for-3 with a run scored. The win was the 45th for
Kutztown a new single-season record for victories.
East Stroudsburg 9, Kutztown 5
- Kutztown's 16-game winning streak was snapped with a 9-5 loss
to East Stroudsburg. The Warriors erupted for five runs in the
bottom of the sixth to break the 3-3 game open.
Philip Rummel
(jr.
Exeter/West-Mont Christian)
started the game, going five innings in the loss.
FRI 5/4 —
California (PA) 4, Kutztown 3
- The Golden Bears were eliminated, 4-3, by California (PA).
Nate
Kranz (so.
Silver
Spring/Cumberland Valley)
was hit by a pitch once, his KU career record tying 43rd time
being hit by a pitch.
Mike McCardell (sr. West Chester/Henderson)
went the distance for Kutztown, striking out 11 and walking
none.
Jeff Craig (sr.
Wilkes-Barre/Bishop Hoban)
and
Loper were
both 2-for-4.
Upcoming Action
THU 5/17 —
NCAA North Atlantic Regionals
-SUN 5/20
(site TBA)
Men’s Tennis
(11-3, 4-0 PSAC)
Last Week’s Action
THU 5/3-FRI
5/4 — NCAA EAST REGIONALS
THU 5/3 —
KUTZTOWN 5, BENTLEY 0
- Kutztown defeated Bentley in the first round of the NCAA East
Regionals. The Golden Bears swept all three doubles matches.
Santiago Baquerizo (so.
Guayaquil,
ECUADOR) and
Lukas Labitsch (so.
Bruck an der
Mur, AUSTRIA)
won 8-0 at #1,
Lukas Beman (sr.
Woodend,
AUSTRALIA)
and
Rubens Vianna (jr.
Belo Horizonte,
BRAZIL) won
8-3 at #2, and
Gernot Gruss (fr.
Rheinland
Pfalz, GERMANY)
and
Somdeep Appineni (sr.
Hyderabad,
INDIA) won
8-3 at #3.
Gruss won in
straight sets, 6-0, 6-0, at #4 singles, then
Appineni
finished off his opponent in the fifth seed match, 6-0, 6-1, to
complete KU's victory.
FRI 5/4 —
MERCY 5, KUTZTOWN 3
- Mercy won a three-set thriller at sixth singles to secure a
5-3 win over Kutztown in round two. Mercy snapped Kutztown's
streak of five-straight East Regional championships. The Flyers
swept the three doubles points. Kutztown fought back in
singles, winning at seeds one, two and five.
Baquerizo,
6-1, 6-1, and
Labitsch,
6-1, 6-4, won at the top two seeds, while
Appineni won
at #5, 6-1, 7-6.
Season Complete
Outdoor Track and Field
Last Week’s Action
THU 5/3-SAT
5/5 — at PSAC Championships
M: 8th/14 -
The Golden Bear men placed eighth at the PSAC Championships at
Shippensburg University. KU scored 28.5 points. Lock Haven
edged Shippensburg for the men's crown, 139-138. Slippery Rock
was third at 134. Cheyney finished seventh with 45 points,
while Clarion was behind KU in ninth with 21.
Steve
Tyson (jr.
Bridgeport/Upper Merion)
highlighted KU's effort, winning the shot put with a distance of
53-0 3/4, an NCAA provisional throw.
Tyson placed
seventh in the discus with a throw of 147-10. The trio of
Justin Gibbs (jr.
Pottstown/Pottstown)
(14.82),
VonKurt Redley (jr.
Elkins
Park/Cheltenham)
(15.18) and
Cory Crider (fr.
Mechanicsburg/Cedar Cliff)
(15.79) placed fourth, seventh and eighth in the 110 hurdles.
Joe Haughey (sr.
Richboro/Council Rock South)
came in seventh in the 3,000 steeplechase.
Brian Dodds (jr.
Wyomissing/Wilson)
tied for sixth in the pole vault with a height of 14-2 and
Cody Hartzler (so.
Belleville/Indian Valley)
finished seventh in the high jump with a height of 6-2 3/4. In
the men's decathlon,
Shane Reigel (fr.
Kutztown/Kutztown)
finished as the top KU athlete with 5,879 points to finish in
eighth place.
In the
hammer throw,
Chris
Boutsikaris (so.
Andover,
NJ/Newtown)
finished
eighth with a throw of 143-6.
W: 2nd/14 -
Kutztown finished second at the PSAC Championships and put three
KU records in the books. The Golden Bear women scored 115.5
team points, behind only Slippery Rock, which won the team title
with 189.5 points. Lock Haven was third with 112.
Renee Marchand (sr.
Hawley/Wallenpaupack)
won the heptathlon and set a KU record.
Marchand,
who had set the record earlier this season with 4,596 points,
shattered her mark by winning the event with 4,698 points. She
won four of the seven events.
Rebecca Kerchak (so.
Sinking
Spring/Wilson)
finished
eighth with 3,680.
Desiree Bower (sr.
Bethel/Tulpehocken)
won the
3,000-meter steeplechase with a KU record time of 11:06.31,
shattering the old record of 11:13.54 set by Megan Seefeldt in
2001. The 4x100 team of
Corri Speakman (so.
Reading/Exeter),
Katie
Quinn (so.
Glenolden/Interboro),
Laura
Deller (jr.
York/Dallastown)
and
Doofan
Tor-Agbidye (so.
Stewartsville,
NJ/Phillipsburg)
set a KU record with a time of 48.55 (48.56, 2001) and finished
fourth.
Marchand,
Quinn and
Tor-Agbidye
were also joined by
Brooke McMurray (so.
Hawley/Wallenpaupack)
on the fourth-place 4x400 relay team.
Marchand
placed fourth in the long jump with a distance of 18-1, one inch
short of the KU record (Andrea Sellitti, 2001) and was seventh
in the 100 hurdles (15.35).
Deller came
in seventh in the long jump with a distance of 17-8.
McMurray
earned All-PSAC with a third place showing in the high jump with
a height of 5-5 3/4.
Quinn was
second in the 200 (25.52) and third in the 100 (12.38) to earn
All-PSAC honors in both races.
Tor-Agbidye
was third in the 400 (57.02) to earn all-conference honors,
while also placing sixth in the 200 (26.18).
Stephanie
Williams (jr. Harrisburg/Riverside)
won the 10,000 (37:16.46) and placed second in both the 3,000
(10:16.53) and 5,000 (17:35.81), with NCAA provisional times in
all three races.
Joanna Horstmann (so.
Downingtown/Downingtown West)
placed third
in the 800 (2:17.09).
Rachel
Weigle (fr.
Red Lion/Red
Lion) earned
All-PSAC honors by finishing third in the pole vault with a
height of 10-11 1/2.
Kelly
Strickland
tied for fourth in the pole vault with a height of 10-5 1/2.
Michelle Hughes (jr.
Warminster/William Tennent)
was sixth in the hammer (131-3) seventh in the shot put (38-8
1/4).
Upcoming Action
THU 5/24 — at
NCAA Championships TBA
-SAT 5/26
(at Charlotte, NC)
Softball
(42-16, 22-2 PSAC East)
Last Week’s Action
THU 5/3-SAT 5/5 — PSAC CHAMPIONSHIPS
THU 5/3 — KUTZTOWN 6, EAST STROUDSBURG 1
-
Ashley Fitzgerald (so.
Kitchener, ONT/Resurrection)
was 3-for-4 with two RBI to lead Kutztown to a 6-1 won over East
Stroudsburg in its frist game of the PSAC Championship.
Krista
Cameron (so.
Formosa, ONT/Sacred
Heart) hit a
two-run single for KU to take a 4-0 lead in the third.
Cameron hit
a solo home run in the fifth.
Kaitlin
Arbogast (fr.
Ambler/Wissahickon)
pitched a four-hit complete game for the win.
Cameron was
2-for-4 with three RBI.
Adriane
Willmer (sr.
Kitchener, ONT/Resurrection)
went 3-for-4 and scored two runs.
FRI 5/4 — KUTZTOWN 3, LOCK HAVEN 0
-
Arbogast
pitched a two-hitter and Kutztown scratched across three
unearned runs to defeat #2 Lock Haven, 3-0.
Arbogast
struck out nine batters in the complete game. Kutztown had five
hits by five players.
Steph Denlinger (so.
Harleysville/Souderton),
Kathy Gregg (jr.
Narvon/Garden
Spot) and
Cameron had
KU’s RBI.
SAT 5/5 — LOCK HAVEN 7, KUTZTOWN 5 (15 innings)
– Lock Haven hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the 15th
inning to win 7-5 win over Kutztown. Kutztown led 5-2 heading
into the bottom of the seventh inning, and
Arbogast got
the first two outs before Lock Haven scored three runs to tie
the game and send it to extra innings.
Arbogast
went 14.2 innings, allowing 17 hits and seven runs. She struck
out 11.
Denlinger
was 3-for-7 with an RBI, her PSAC single-season record 69th of
the season.
Gregg was
4-for-6.
LOCK HAVEN 5, KUTZTOWN 2
- Lock Haven defeated Kutztown 5-2 to win its second straight
PSAC Softball Championship. KU scored its runs in the seventh
on a two-run home run by
Cameron, her
16th of the season.
Rachel Weidensaul (jr.
Ashland/Cardinal Brennan)
took the loss. She struck out three over six innings. The
Golden Bears finish second in the PSAC Championship for the
fourth time, the first since 1996.
Upcoming
Action
THU 5/10 — NCAA MID-ATLANTOIC REGIONALS
-MON 5/14 (at Kutztown)
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