Wis.) paced Beloit at the meet with a 176. Knox Spring Sports Recap Coll ege wo n the 1997 MWC tourney with a score The team continued to of 639. find success this year in the Midwest Conference. T he Beloit team continued its improve­ After winning their first MWC title ever last year, men t in 1997. The Bucs finished eighth at the the Buccaneers battl ed their way back to the MWC Men's Tennis Championshi ps early in May. championship game this year. The Bucs we re The Buccaneers ended up with 23 points, just a defeated 2-0 by in the title point out of seve nth, which is more than double game held at Lawrence, but that didn't put a last year's tourney total. Beloit's number-one damper on a great year by Coach playe r, J onas Karlsson (H aninge, Swed en ) , Ron Splan's softball squad. This pulled one of the biggest upsets in the entire was the sixth time in the '90s that tournamen t. After winning his first-round match, the softball team has made it to the Karlsson went on to up-end the championship's Midwest Conference third-seeded player. Championship Tournamen t. The Buccaneer men 's and women 's track and All-conference performers fi eld teams gave some outstanding ind ividual Carrie Bieniek (Greendale, Wis.) performances all spring long, culminating in and Jamie Cassette (Twin Lake, eight Bucs turning in all-conference perfor­ Mich.) wrapped up their stellar mances at the Midwest Conference Outdoor careers at Beloit by leading the Track and Field Championships at Grinnell Bucs to a 20-12 overall record and a College. 7-3 mark in the MWC. Bieniek, who Junior Alanna Moss (Durham , Con n .) earned made the all-conference team for a very impressive fo u r top-eigh t fi nishes at the the fourth time in her four years at MWC Meet. She was confe rence champ in the the College, again led the team in triple jump, took second in the high jump, third most offensive categories. Cassette, in the 100-meter hurdl es, and ended up seventh Alanna Moss'98 who now holds ever y pitching in the long jump. Moss led the women to a sev­ record the school keeps, led the Mi dwest enth-place team finish . Also earning all-MWC Conference in ERA and was an all-MWC pick for honors for the wo men with their efforts we re J en the second consecutive year. Kennington (Duluth, Minn.) , who raced to a title The Beloit team, which finished up in the 3,000-meter run, Paula Sadler (Crystal, 13-19 overall and 6-10 in the MWC, had a record­ Minn.), who came in fourth in the high jump, breaking 1997 season. On Saturday, March 29, and Alina Soros (Houston, Texas) who th rew her the baseball squad , coached by Dave way to a fifth place in the j avelin. DeGeorge'89, slugged its way into the NCAA O n the men's side, Todd Braje (Michigan record books. In their game with Kn ox Coll ege, City, Ind.) raced to a second in the 5,000 meters the Bucs posted a new NCAA Division III record and a third in the 10,000-meter run to pace the with 20 RBis in a 20-run second inning during a men to an eighth place in the team standings. 20-3 victory over the Prairie Fire. Mark Haag (Clinton, Wis.) also placed in two Senior second baseman Josh Mickelson even ts fo r the Bucs. He took a seven th in the (Wausau, Wis.) also put himself into the record triple jump and an eigh th in the long jump. Evan books. Mickelson tied a Division III rmark with McLeod (River Forest, Ill. ) picked u p a fourth­ Marie Mullooly'97 his three hits in that big second inning. H e is the place finish in the 400-meters and pole vaulter seventh player in history to rap Scott Stanley (Grand Rapids, Mich.) earned a out three hits in a single inning seven th place in his even t. and the first to do so since 1992. The Bucs placed four players Mullooly tabbed honorable on the all-MWC baseball team. Senior center fi elder Brian mention Kodak All-American Chesick (Beloit, Wis.) and fresh­ man pitcher Pat Wire (Cary, Ill.) Marie Mullooly'97 has been named to the each mad e the first-team all­ Division III Kodak Honorable Mention 1996-97 league roster and designated hit­ All-American team by the Women's ter Alex Cherney (Phoenix, Coaches Associ ation. Ariz.) and catcher Mike Mullooly was named the Midwest Meteyard (Racine, Wis.) both Conference's Player of the Year for the 1996-97 made the second team. season and is a three-time all-MWC selection. The Beloit College team T he 6-1 senior forward ended her career by hosted the Midwest Conference leading Beloit to its second Midwest Confe rence Tournament this spring. The champio nship in three years and its third­ Bucs finish ed in a tie for seventh straight NCAA Division III National Tournament place, with a 710 score, at the bid. She averaged 23.5 points-per-game and 6 two-day confe rence meet. Senior rebounds per game in the two MWC tour nament Matt Schellinger (West Bend, con test and she put up 17 points in a tough first-

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