CSR (Volleyball Splits at Wittenberg Border Battle/Men's Soccer Falls at ONU)

CALVIN SPORTS REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Volleyball Splits at Wittenberg Border Battle;
Men's Soccer Falls at ONU

VOLLEYBALL

SPRINGFIELD, OH -- Calvin split a pair of matches on the opening day of the Wittenberg Border Battle featuring four teams from Ohio and four teams from the MIAA. Ranked 10th in the latest Division III Top-25 poll, Calvin dropped its opening match to 18th-ranked Ohio Northern, falling 30-28, 30-23, 30-23. The Knights (7-2) then came back to defeat Baldwin-Wallace 30-18, 31-29, 30-26.

In the loss to Ohio Northern, Calvin received 15 kills from senior Kristen Kalb (Stow, OH) and 12 kills from senior Molly Krikke (Greenwich, OH). Senior setter had 27 assists and junior libero Lauren DeGroot (Tulare, CA) 19 digs.

In the win over Baldwin-Wallace, Kalb came up with 16 kills and 10 digs while Krikke had 13 kills and five blocks. Freshman Kim Wigboldy (Scottsdale, AZ) also hit double digits with 10 kills while Zondervan amassed 50 assists and 14 digs while DeGroot had 17 digs. Sophomore Kelsey Sears (Traverse City West HS) also chalked up 16 digs in the back row.

Calvin returns to action tomorrow when it faces the College of Mount St. Joseph and then meets top-ranked and undefeated Wittenberg. Wittenberg won both of its matches on Friday but was nearly upset by Hope as the Flying Dutch took the Tigers to five games.

MEN'S SOCCER

ADA, OH -- Calvin dropped the opener of the OAC/MIAA Shootout on Friday, falling to host Ohio Northern 2-0. Calvin (1-3-1) outshot the host Polar Bears 27-15 overall including a 16-8 advantage in the second half but the Polar Bears (4-3-0) were able to score single goals in each half. Trailing 1-0, Calvin nearly tied the game early in the second half on a breakaway by senior Jared Litty (Hudsonville HS) but Litty's shot attempt to the corner was deflected just wide of the goal by a leaping save by the Ohio Northern goalkeeper.

Ohio Northern then put the game away with a goal in the 71st minute of play.

Junior Luke Panacassio (Sydney, Australia) received his first start in goal for the Knights and collected four saves.

Calvin is back in action on Saturday at 12:30 when it takes on Baldwin-Wallace. Hope defeated Baldwin-Wallace 3-2 in Friday's other first round game. Saturday's Calvin/Baldwin-Wallace will feature a meeting of brothers as Calvin freshman Jeff Grater (Stow, OH) will go head-to-head against older brother Michael Grater who is a junior for Baldwin-Wallace.

Jeff Febus
Sports Information Director
Calvin College
(616) 526-6169 Office
(616) 526-8551 Fax
Received on Fri Sep 14 23:20:05 2007