CSR (Baseball at Hope Postponed/Tennis Tournaments Set to Begin/Hillsdale Relays Open)

CALVIN SPORTS REPORT FOR April 26, 2007

Baseball Doubleheader at Hope Postponed;
Tennis Teams Prepare for MIAA Tournament Competition;
Decathlon Competition Underway at Hillsdale Gina Relays

BASEBALL

Calvin's scheduled baseball doubleheader at Hope today has been postponed
because of rain. The doubleheader will be made up on Friday at Hope with first
pitch set for 2:00 p.m. The series will continue on Saturday with a twinbill at
Calvin beginning at 1:00 p.m. All four games are scheduled to be broadcast via
RealAudio through the Calvin web site at:
http://www.calvin.edu/sports/ram/calvinsports.ram

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS TEAMS PREPARE FOR MIAA TOURNAMENT COMPETITION

(From MIAA Publicist Tom Renner)

The design of the MIAA's season-ending tournaments has changed from flight
play to a team format. This conforms with changes made by the NCAA to allow
conferences to automatically qualify their champion to the national tournament.
This year's MIAA tournament champion in women's tennis will gain an automatic
berth in the NCAA tournament.

This year's champion in men's tennis will not gain an automatic berth because
the MIAA does not meet the requirement of having at least seven competing
teams. (Tri-State is a provisional NCAA member.)

MIAA Women's Tennis Tournament
Friday & Saturday at Kalamazoo College

FIRST ROUND MATCHES
#1 Kalamazoo vs. #8 Alma
#2 Albion vs. #7 Tri-State
#3 Hope vs. #6 Olivet
#4 Saint Mary's vs. #5 Calvin

MIAA Men's Tennis Tournament
Friday & Saturday at Albion College

FIRST ROUND MATCHES
#1 Kalamazoo has first round bye
#2 Calvin vs. #7 Adrian
#3 Albion vs. #6 Tri-State
#4 Hope vs. #5 Alma

TRACK AND FIELD

The Hillsdale Gina Relays are underway and two Calvin athletes are currently
competing in the two-day decathlon competition which opened today. Competing
for Calvin in the decathlon are senior Eric DeVries (Unity Christian HS) and
junior Kelby McClelland (Mercer, PA).

The decathlon competition will continue on Friday while several other running
and field events will also take place on Friday afternoon and evening. The
three-day meet will conclude on Saturday.

For more on the Hillsdale Gina Relays, visit the meet web site at:
http://www.hillsdale.edu/Chargers/womens/track/2007/07GinaRelays/GinaRelays07homepage.htm

Jeff Febus
Sports Information Director
Calvin College
(616) 526-6169 Office
(616) 526-8551 Fax
Received on Thu Apr 26 14:10:09 2007