CALVIN SPORTS REPORT FOR September 22, 2007
Men's Soccer Nips Hope In Dramatic Fashion;
Women's Soccer Tops Tri-State;
Cross Country Teams Cruise at MIAA jamboree
Women's Golf 9th at Olivet Invitational
MEN’S SOCCER
Calvin 1, Hope 0
(written by Bruce VanBaren ’09)
GRAND RAPIDS -- Calvin finally got the break Coach Chris Hughes was waiting
for as the Knights beat rival Hope College 1-0 Saturday’s afternoon at
Calvin’s Zuidema Field. The victory was Calvin’s first over Hope at home
since 2004.
"This team has been battling so hard with the stats in our favor in the past
[eight games] we've played," Hughes said. "It's good to get a break. The kids
work so hard, it's good to see the ball go in the net."
Calvin, who had out shot every opponent on its schedule, had only scored only
one goal and was 1-4-0 in its last five games.
In the 48th minute, freshman back Scott Hooker (Hudsonville/ Unity Christian)
beat a Hope defender in the corner and found the head of sophomore back Luke
Holtrop (Hudsonville/ Unity Christian) with a beautiful chip past Hope
goalkeeper Jordan Goorhouse. Holtrop was left open on the far post and put the
header in the net for his first goal of the season. A year ago he had two
goals as a midfielder, but he was moved to stopper to fill the void left by
Maurice Wright, now an assistant coach.
"We realeased Holtrop [from the stopper position] the last two games," Hughes
said. "He had the ability to go as forward as possible into our offense.
Releasing him creates more offense in the middle of the field for us."
Escalating the rivalry even further was the fact that both teams lost their
MIAA conference openers and desperately needed a win to stay in the hunt for
the MIAA title. Hope, the defending conference champion, falls to 0-2 in
league play while Calvin evens its record at 1-1 and is now in a four-way tie
for third place in the MIAA standings.
"We had to come out and prove ourselves," Hughes said. "Both teams really
needed that three points today that come with a win and definitely during a
Calvin-Hope game, you have to protect your home turf."
Protecting Calvin's home turf today in a huge way was junior goal keeper
Darrin Cline (Grandville HS) who collected fives saves and posted his second
shutout victory of the year on Saturday.
"The Hope coaches [asked], 'What did we say to Cline at halftime?' because he
was unreal in [the second half]," Huges said. "He's just an incredible athlete
and he was playing at a higher level in the second half. If you look at the
game as a whole he got the job done."
Cline who was in for the injured Dave Fortosis (West Chicag, IL/ Wheaton
Academy) finished the game with five saves and saw 14 Hope shots come towards
his goal. Calvin was out shot for the first time this season 14-12.
Not only did Calvin have to fend off a Hope offense that scored 52 goals a
season ago to lead the league, they had to play the final 25 minutes a man down
after back-to-back yellow cards sent a player to the bench.
"The players have played their hearts out every game this year and they just
work hard," Hughes said of his team's ability to play with Hope despite being a
man down. "It's just a group of kids who want it and want it badly and today
they found the back of the net and they were rewarded for it."
After Calvin scored in the 48th minute they did not sit back and play defense,
but instead conitued to attack. Jared Litty (Hudsonville/Hudsonville) and
Michael Holwerda (Grand Rapids/ Grand Rapids Christian) both had shots from
inside the six blocked that nearly put the Knights up by two goals late in the
game.
"The flow of play was even," Hughes said. "So instead of dropping into a
shell and having ten minutes of misery from the sidelines watching balls being
shot at your net we just continued play and ran one striker up top to just
force something and it panned out."
Calvin's continued pressure kept the field spread, but Hope nearly tied the
game twice in the final minutes. A shot missed just wide right in the 75th
minute and Hope's Kevin Bartosek was stuffed by Cline after he broke free in
the 82nd minute.
It was the first time these two teams have met this early in the season since
the 2002 season when Hope opened up its MIAA schedule with a 3-2 win over
Calvin.
The Knights have been struggling with finishing on the many opportunities they
create all season.
"We needed to anticipate," Hughes said. "We did a much better job
anticipating today what was happening."
Perhaps expected, but there was a total of 26 fouls for Hope and 18 for Calvin
called in the game.
"They're a physical team, we knew that," Huges said. "The Calvin-Hope rivalry
is one of those games where it's not always the most beautiful game. It's a
physical battle and we don’t have a real big team - that's something we had
to watch for. But our guys battled. They battled in the air, they battled on
the ground. We had to get the possession game going, we had to counter them as
much as they countered us."
Calvin's next game will be at Olivet on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. The Comets are
1-1-0 in the MIAA as well.
OTHER MIAA MEN’S SOCCER SCORES ON 9-22-07
Adrian 1, Albion 0
Tri-State 0, Alma 0 (OT)
Kalamazoo 2, Olivet 1
MIAA MEN’S SOCCER STANDINGS THROUGH 9-22-07
Kalamazoo 2-0-0
Alma 1-0-1
Adrian 1-1-0
Albion 1-1-0
Calvin 1-1-0
Olivet 1-1-0
Tri-State 0-1-1
Hope 0-2-0
WOMEN'S SOCCER
(Written by Annalise Venhuizen '08)
Calvin 13, Tri-State 1
GRAND RAPIDS -- Calvin opened up its conference season with a dominating win
over visiting Tri-State University (0-7-1, 0-1-0 MIAA) Saturday afternoon at
Calvin’s Zuidema Field. Previous to this week, Calvin (4-3, 1-0 MIAA) had
not scored in 300 minutes of play; in its last two games, however, the Knights
have put away 16 goals.
Freshman Carly Prins (Hudsonville/Unity Christian) had a tremendous showing,
completing a hat-trick in four minutes within the first 19:00 of play. The
three goals from Prins and one from freshman Mindy Capisciolto
(Hudsonville/Unity Christian) gave Calvin a 4-0 lead. Prins and Capisciolto
led Calvin in shots with six and seven, respectively. Prins' goals were
numbers four, five, and six on the season.
Other goals in the first half game from junior Liz VanRees (Muskegon/Western
Michigan Christian) in the 23rd minute of play and from sophomore Allison
Boender (Grandville/Calvin Christian) at 33:51. VanRees' first goal of the
season was an unassisted goal scored off a blast from the far right wing.
Boender headed in her goal off of a corner kick by junior Ashley Bolen (Urbana,
IL/Urbana), giving Calvin a 6-0 lead at the half. Boender scored her second
goal of the game and the season early in the second half with a shot to the far
post.
Unwilling to give the game away without an offensive showing, Tri-State's
Jackie Havenaar drove in an unassisted goal off of a breakaway fifteen minutes
into the second half. The goal came off of Tri-State's only shot of the game.
Calvin ended the game with a 55-1 shot advantage.
Quickly making up for the Tri-State goal, junior Elizabeth Ribbens (Tinley
Park, IL/Victor J. Andrew) scored her fourth of the season off a cross by
VanRees. A throw-in by Ribbens then deflected off of the Tri-State keeper and
into the goal, giving Calvin the 9-1 lead. Calvin's then scored three more
times in just over two minutes with back-to-back goals from freshman Stephanie
Malburg (Grand Rapids/Forest Hills Northern), her first and second of the
season. Ribbens added an unassisted goal to put Calvin up 12-1. The Knights
scored one more time with just over five minutes left when Capisciolto made
good on an assist by Bolen. Bolen had a busy day taking almost all of Calvin's
17 corner kicks and giving out three assists.
In goal for the Knights today was sophomore Kayla Sulzer (St. Charles,
MO/Whitfield). Tri-State keepers Megan Zieles and Allison Bramblett split the
time and had a combined 21 saves.
Calvin's next conference game, a home game against Hope, is scheduled for next
Saturday, September 29 at noon.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
ANGOLA, IN -- The nationally-ranked Calvin men's and women's cross country
teams turned in dominating performances at an MIAA jamboree hosted by Tri-State
University on Saturday. Both teams posted perfect scores of 15 points with the
top-ranked Calvin men's team claiming the top six spots and the second-ranked
Calvin women's team taking seven of the top eight. Saturday's jamoboree is
worth one-third of the final league title. The MIAA Championships, scheduled
for October 27 at Albion, will make up the remaining portion of the final
league crowns.
In the men's 8K race, Calvin was led by senior Jon Gries (King of Prussia, PA)
who took first place in a time of 26:28, racing across the line a half-second
ahead of junior teammate Jed Christiansen (Greenville, PA) who was second in
26:28. Senior Tad Hulst (Zeeland HS) was next in a third place time of 26:30
while junior Nate DeHaan (South Christian HS) was fourth (26:37) and junior
Erik VanKampen (Elmhurst, IL) fifth (26:52) as just 24 seconds separated
Calvin's top five. Senior Dan VandenAkker (South Christian HS) also had a
strong race with a sixth place time of 27:01 while junior Andrew Stutzman
(Kutztown, PA) kept up the pace with an eighth place time of 27:03. Also
placing in the top 10 for the Knights was freshman Jake Christiansen (New
Ipswich, NH) ninth in 27:06.
In the women's 5K race, senior Christina Overbeck (Seattle, WA) led the
Knights with a first place time of 19:23. Junior teammate Jesi Hale (Rehoboth,
NM) was second in 19:34 with junior Lauren Bergstrom (Century, MN) third
(19:36), senior Lynn Marsh (North Vernon, IN) fourth (19:47) and junior Calah
Schlabach (St. Michaels, AZ) fifth (19:47). Freshman Alison Tuuk (Grand Rapids
Christian HS) and sophomore teammate Jessica Koster (Grand Rapids Christian HS)
rounded out Calvin's top seven as Tuuk was seventh (20:05) and Koster eighth
(20:11).
Both Calvin teams will now prepare to run at the prestigious Notre Dame
Invitational next Friday afternoon.
MIAA MEN'S JAMBOREE TEAM SCORES FOR 9-22-07
Calvin 15
Tri-State 63
Hope 78
Albion 86
Adrian 163
Kalamazoo 163
Alma 181
Olivet 254
MIAA WOMEN'S JAMBOREE TEAM SCORES FOR 9-22-07
Calvin 15
Hope 70
Albion 71
Saint Mary's 97
Kalamazoo 168
Adrian 190
Tri-State 207
Alma 218
Olivet 235
WOMEN'S GOLF
MARSHALL -- Calvin closed out the two-day Olivet Invitational with a ninth
place finish, posting a 36-hole round total of 766 strokes. The tournament was
held at the Marshall Country Club.
Ferris State took first place in the 11-team field with a final total of 614
strokes. Calvin was led individually by sophomores Kelli Visser (Grand Rapids
Christian HS) and Emily Tuuk (Grand Rapids Christian HS) as Visser was 26th
(89-95=184) while Tuuk was tied for 26th (86-99=185). Sophomore Julienne
Louters (Grand Rapids Christian HS) finished tied for 44th (97-103=200) while
senior Erin Kammers (Belding HS) was 58th (121-107=228).
Racquel Hansen of Ferris State was the tournament medalist with a two-day
total of 152 strokes (77-75).
Calvin returns to action on Tuesday when it competes at an MIAA outing hosted
by Alma at the Bucks Run Golf Club.
OLIVET INVITATIONAL FINAL TEAM SCORES
Ferris State 614
Olivet 662
Tri-State 687
North Central 724
Hope 746
Albion 746
Alma 747
Kalamazoo 759
Calvin 766
Adrian 771
Northwestern of Ohio 942
Jeff Febus
Sports Information Director
Calvin College
(616) 526-6169 Office
(616) 526-8551 Fax
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