Voice of: Joe Hansen
Good morning, St. Scholastica!
When I said I’d “try something new” this week, my intentions were not to forget about the VOTS audience, but it happened to end up that way. My sincerest apologies! I’ve been busy with school work all week. Professors, these days! Don’t they understand the need to please the masses with blogs? Oh well, next week will see the return of 5 Questions, so we need not worry about missing two weeks worth of Tuesday blogs. So, without further adu…
- Men’s Soccer continues on their hot streak with three straight shutouts from goalkeeper Sam Reed. He hasn’t done it alone of course, as his defense held Hamline, Bethany Lutheran, and Martin Luther to just nine combined shots on net in the three contests. Freshman Erik Trochimchuk and sophomore Brandon Stemwedel were the offensive stars over the past week, with two goals each in the three games.
- Speaking of soccer stars, junior Greg Doornink was named UMAC Defensive Player of the Week for his part in the pair of conference shutouts over the weekend.
- The Saints women earned a pair of shutout victories over Homecoming weekend as they prepare for an exciting run starting this weekend with games against Minnesota-Morris (Saturday) and Augsburg College (next Wednesday). Senior Angie Groh led the Saints with two goals and three assists on the weekend, and they’ll need that offensive firepower to continue going forward.
- But, even Groh’s scoring prowess was outshined as sophomore Molly Bergmann had her first start in net on Friday afternoon and earned her first collegiate victory and shutout en route to being named UMAC Defensive Player of the Week for women’s soccer.
- After a disappointing Friday evening for Saints volleyball, the women turned it around on Homecoming Saturday and swept their two opponents, Bethany Lutheran and the dreaded Wis.-Superior Yellowjackets. For their part in the weekend, Saints sophomore Nikki Hughes and freshman Sarah Kurtovich were also named UMAC Players of the Week.
- Hughes earned the honor of volleyball’s Defensive Player of the Week with 4.5 digs per set and a .946 receiving percentage. Kurtovich was Setter of the Week with 5.5 assists per set helping the Saints to a .219 attack percentage over the weekend. (And if you understand all of that, my hat’s off to you.)
- And in the biggest game in the short history of Saints football, CSS “brought home the Bacon” (hat tip to the real voice of Saints athletics, Dave Cook) and earned a 22-16 victory over Minnesota-Morris thanks to the late-game heroics of third-string freshman quarterback Matt Bacon. With sophomore starter Jake Olson out for the game with an injury, and sophomore back-up Alex Thiry injured on a two-point conversion try late in the first half, Bacon went 9-13 passing for 120 yards and a rushing touchdown in the second half and helped clinched the Saints’ second victory of the season. Chris Henagin had 156 yards on the ground and a score, while Jonny Bennett had 95 yards and one touchdown receiving. All in all, a great game for the Saints…
- … and in the great injustice of the week, NOBODY earned UMAC Player of the Week honors from the football team. The powers that be at the UMAC must not enjoy cured meat.
- Cross country ran an important race over the weekend, the University of Minnesota’s Griak Invite. Once again, Nick Mangan and Katelyn Meger starred for their respective teams. I'm beginning to sound like a broken record on that one, but they're both excellent runners.
- In coaching news, Chad Salmela, head coach of the Nordic Ski program, has been chosen to once again cover the Winter Olympic Games for NBC. He’ll do some color commentating in Vancouver, and since he did it in 2002 at the Salt Lake games, he can’t be any worse than me. Click here for the full story and here for the Vancouver Games’ official site.
- As for next week’s 5 Questions victim, you’ll just have to wait and see. Oh, the suspense!
That’s all for this week’s P&P. Thanks for reading!
Have a great weekend,
-jh
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