CKSR (Weekend Sports Wrap)

CALVIN KNIGHT WEEKEND SPORTS WRAP FOR NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Men's Soccer to Face University of Redlands in Sectional Semifinal Game
Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Teams Defeat Hope in Dual Meet Action

MEN'S SOCCER

The four-team field for the sectional tournament that the Calvin men's soccer team is competing in is set for next weekend. Calvin (17-5-1) will take on the University of Redlands (Ca.) in a sectional semifinal game next Friday. Randolph College (Va.) will face the University of Texas-Tyler in the other sectional semifinal game. The sectional site will be announced on Monday.

Redlands (20-3-1) advanced to the sectional semifinals with a 3-0 win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Sunday night. Randolph (18-5-0) advanced to the sectional round with a 3-2 win over DeSales on Sunday while Texas-Tyler (17-2-2) advanced with a 2-0 win over Trinity (Tx) on Sunday. Calvin advanced to the sectional round with a 4-0 win over Loras College Saturday night.

Calvin will be making its third straight appearance in the Round of 16 of the NCAA III Tournament including its fourth appearance in the last seven years.

MEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING
Calvin 148, Hope 146

HOLLAND - Calvin picked up an exciting dual meet victory over Hope on Saturday afternoon, grabbing a two-point lead with two events remaining and then holding on down the stretch. The Knights are now 2-2 in dual meet action this year.

Key to the Calvin win was the performance of its 200 IM swimmers in the second-to-the-last event of the day as the Knights went 1-2-5 to garner 14 points. Junior Stephen Kraft led the 200 IM charge with a first place time of 2:03.06 while freshman Travis Vincent was second (2:03.49) and sophomore Peter Johnson fifth (2:06.73).

Calvin then needed to just finish second in the 400 freestyle relay to clinch the win and the Calvin quartet of freshman Alex Baumann, sophomore Andrew Mitchell, junior Mark Rushlow and senior Ross Battoclette did just that, placing second with a time of 3:16.70, finishing less than a half-second out of first place.

Calvin also outscored Hope 32-0 in the diving events. On the one-meter board, sophomore Andrew Krafft was first (255.05), freshman Jordan Kaster second (210.60) and junior Josh Dreska third (162.00). On the three-meter board, Krafft was first (229.20), Kaster second (166.70) and Dreska third (139.35).

In the pool, Battoclette was a winner in the 200 freestyle (1:46.79), Johnson a winner in the 200 butterfly (2:03.64) and Rushlow a winner in the 100 butterfly (54.60).

Calvin's 200 medley relay team of Mitchell, senior Greg Groham, Johnson and Rushlow also won with a time of 1:38.56, edging Hope's team by two-tenths of a second.

Calvin will now break until December 1-3 when it hosts its own Calvin Invitational.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING

HOLLAND - Calvin improved to 2-2 in dual meet action with a 164-135 win at rival Hope Saturday afternoon.

Calvin took first place in eight indvididual events led by sophomore Sam Klaasen and freshman Lexi Scott who were both double-winners. Klaasen took both diving competitions, winning the one-meter board (244.55) and three-meter board (245.45). Scott meanwhile won the 200 breaststroke (2:34.66) and 200 IM (2:16.19).

Other individual winners for Calvin included junior Elizabeth Counsell in the 100 breaststroke (1:09.97), junior Stephanie Fox in the 200 freestyle (1:57.21), freshman Erika Waugh in the 200 backstroke (2:15.29) and sophomore Samantha Musolf in the 50 freestyle (26.04).
Calvin will now break until December 1-3 when it hosts its own Calvin Invitational.
Received on Sun Nov 13 22:03:24 2011