From: Jeff Febus (jfebus@calvin.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 23 2003 - 22:19:54 EDT
CALVIN SPORTS REPORT FOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2003
VOLLEYBALL
Calvin stretched its win streak to eight and moved back into a tie for first
place in the MIAA standings with a 30-5, 30-16, 30-18 victory over visiting
Olivet Thursday evening at the Calvin Fieldhouse.
Now 21-5 overall and 11-1 in the MIAA, Calvin is tied for first place in the
conference standings with Alma. The Knights are now also 5-0 at home in 2003.
Junior Kara Kuipers (Unity Christian HS) paced the Knights with 12 kills and
five blocks. Kuipers is currently third nationally in blocks-per-game with an
average of 1.68. Freshman Kristen Kalb (Stow, OH) was next with 11 kills and
four service aces while sophomore Christine Hendricks (Cincinnati, OH) had 10
kills and a career-high eight service aces.
Junior Kristin DeGroot (Tulare, CA) and senior Trisha Balkema (Tulare, CA)
added 11 and 17 digs respectively while sophomore setter Jill Scholten (Holland
Christian HS) tossed out 36 assists. Scholten is currently ninth in the latest
set of NCAA III statistics in assists-per-game average (12.35).
Calvin will now prepare for a busy weekend as the Knights host the Midwest
Invitational Friday and Saturday at the Calvin Fieldhouse. Calvin's first
round match against Adrian will also double as an MIAA conference match. Alma
and Kalamazoo will also meet in a first round match Friday afternoon that will
also count as an MIAA contest. The Alma-Kalamazoo match is set for 3:00 p.m.
while the Calvin-Adrian match is set for 4:30 p.m.
MIAA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS THROUGH 10-23-03
Alma 11-1
Calvin 11-1
Hope 10-3
Adrian 6-7
Kalamazoo 5-7
St. Mary's 4-9
Albion 2-10
Olivet 0-12
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
The latest set of NCAA Division III cross country rankings were released
earlier this week and the Calvin men's cross country team has moved all the way
up to the number-two spot while the Calvin women's cross country team remains
ranked sixth. Wisconsin-Oshkosh remains the top-ranked team in the men's poll.
Last Saturday, Calvin battled Wisconsin-Oshkosh to a first place tie of 36
points at the Titans' own Wisconsin-Oshkosh Invitational. The Calvin women's
cross country team tied host Wisconsin-Oshkosh for second place in last
Saturday's race with a team score of 49 points.
Both Calvin teams are in the midst of bye weeks and will return to action next
Saturday when they compete at the MIAA Championships hosted by Albion at the
Whiffletree Golf Course.
NCAA Division III Men's Cross Country Poll #7
October 21, 2003
(Poll conducted by John Zupanc, head coach at the University of
Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
(Poll does not include votes from Great Lakes Region)
Rank School Region Points
1 Univ. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Midwest 199.5 (7.5)
2 Calvin College (Mich.) Great Lakes 191.5 (0.5)
3 North Central College (Ill.) Midwest 185
4 Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Midwest 172
5 Willamette Univ. (Ore.) West 168
6 Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse Midwest 163
7 Haverford College (Pa.) Mideast 153
8 Nebraska Wesleyan Univ. Central 138.5
9 Tufts Univ. (Mass.) Northeast 135
10 Wartburg College (Iowa) Central 127.5
11 Keene State College (N.H.) Northeast 125
12 The College of New Jersey Atlantic 113
13 State Univ. of New York-Geneseo Atlantic 102
14 Univ. of St. Thomas (Minn.) Central 94
15 Elizabethtown College (Pa.) Mideast 89
16 Carleton College (Minn.) Central 83
17 Grinnell College (Iowa) Central 63
18 Williams College (Mass.) Northeast 58
19 Albion College (Mich.) Midwest 47
20 Emory Univ. (Ga.) South 42
21 St. Lawrence Univ. (N.Y.) Atlantic 38
22 Colorado College West 35
23 Carnegie-Mellon Univ. (Pa.) Mideast 25
24 Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater Midwest 20
25 Univ. of Puget Sound (Wash.) West 12
Others Receiving Votes
Pomona-Pitzer Colleges (Calif.) West 9
Univ. of Chicago (Ill.) Midwest 7
Ney York Univ. Atlantic 5
NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Poll #7
October 21, 2003
(Poll conducted by Jeff Miller, head coach at the University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater)
Rank School Region Points
1 Middlebury College (Vt.) Northeast 200 (8)
2 Trinity College (Conn.) Northeast 192
3 Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Midwest 183
4 Williams College (Mass.) Northeast 177
5 Univ. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Midwest 168
6 Calvin College (Mich.) Great Lakes 160
7 State Univ. of New York-Geneseo Atlantic 145
8 Amherst College (Mass.) Northeast 143
9 Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse Midwest 140
10 Wartburg College (Iowa) Central 129
11 The College of New Jersey Atlantic 116
12 Nebraska Wesleyan Univ. Central 112
13 Willamette Univ. (Ore.) West 104
14 Dickinson College (Pa.) Mideast 93
15 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges (Calif.) West 90
16 Ithaca College (N.Y.) Atlantic 76
17 Emory Univ. (Ga.) South 68
18 Wesleyan Univ. (Conn.) Northeast 67
19 Allegheny College (Pa.) Mideast 62
20 Haverford College (Pa.) Mideast 46
21 Luther College (Iowa) Central 41
22 Washington Univ. (Mo.) Midwest 28
23 Denison Univ. (Ohio) Great Lakes 24
24 College of St. Benedict (Minn.) Central 14
25 Bowdoin College (Maine) Northeast 11
Jeff Febus
Sports Information Director
Calvin College
(616) 526-6169 Office
(616) 526-8551 Fax
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