Viking Sports Weekly Volume 2 • Number 27 March 11, 2013
Women’s Basketball Begins Tournament Play at YSU ... page 2 Golf Teams Playing in Florida on Monday and Tuesday... page 2
Willeford Wins EWL Title at 125 Pounds; Earns NCAA Bid
Tennis Squads Take Spring Training Trip to Florida... page 2 Willeford Earns Viking of the Week Honors... page 3
What To Watch For TH IS W EEK IN VIKING AT HLET ICS | MARCH 1 1, 2013
WRESTLING CSU competed
at the EWL Championships on Saturday in Edinboro, Pa., with two grapplers earning spots in the NCAA Championship. Junior 125-pounder Ben Willeford won two matches, including a pin in 4:32 in the title match, to become CSU’s first EWL champion since 2009. He leads the team with 22 wins this season. Freshman heavyweight Riley Shaw will join Willeford at nationals, after placing third at the EWL Championships.
MEN’S TENNIS The Vikings will close out their Florida roadswing
this week, facing Stetson at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 12. Over the weekend CSU dropped a pair of 6-1 contests to North Florida and Central Florida – falling to 3-8 on the season. Matt Ford and Matt Kuelker picked up Cleveland State’s lone victories over the weekend, Ford at No. 6 singles against UNF and Kuelker at No. 2 singles against UCF. Ford and Kuelker each have 11 singles wins on the season.
WOMEN’S TENNIS Cleveland State will continue
its Florida roadswing this week, facing North Florida on Monday (March 11) and Stetson on Tuesday (March 12). The Vikings stand at 6-5 on the season, and have won five straight entering Monday’s contest. Maria Lazaris and Kara Sherwood lead the Vikings with five singles wins this spring, while the trio of Alex Bush, Nicole Janek and Mathilde Orange each have four singles victories. For the 2012-13 season, Sherwood has a team-high 10 wins.
MEN’S GOLF The Vikings return to action on Monday and Tues-
S halonda W inton WOMEN’S BASKETBAL The Vikings will begin Horizon League Tournament play
this week, facing second-seeded Youngstown State in a quarterfinal matchup on Wednesday (March 13) at 7:00 p.m. at the Beeghly Center. CSU, who enters the tournament as the No. 7 seed, stands at 13-16 this year and finished the regular season with a 5-11 league record. The winner of Wednesday’s quarterfinal contest will face the winner No. 3 Loyola vs. No. 6 Milwaukee in a semifinal matchup on Friday, March 15. The two semifinal winners will face off in the championship game on Sunday, March 17. Shalonda Winton leads the league averaging 22.1 points per contest and ranks second in rebounding (10.6), while Cori Coleman ranks 13th in scoring (12.3) and Kiersten Green ranks 22nd (10.2). Winton also leads the league in blocked shots, averaging 1.3 blocks per contest.
MEN’S SWIMMING Alex Lewis and Justin Hill
represented Cleveland State at The Ohio State Last Chance Meet on Sunday, concluding CSU’s season. Lewis was second in the 100 fly (48.79), while Hill was fifth in the 50 free final with a time of 20.72.
day (March 11-12) at the Benbow Invitational in Jacksonville, Fla. Butler is serving as the host school. CSU started its spring campaign last month, going 1-2 at The Match Play at Reunion with a 7-0 win over Seton Hall and losses to DePaul and Marquette. Junior Andrew Bailey, the reigning Horizon League Player of the Year, sophomore Michael Balcar, junior Brendan Byrne, senior Jon Riemer and freshman Mike Bishop all won two of their three matches.
WOMEN’S GOLF CSU opens its spring season at the Benbow Invi-
taitonal in Jacksonville, Fla., on Monday and Tuesday (March 11-12). Butler is serving as the host. The Vikings played five tournaments in the fall, including a runner-up finish at the CSU Invitational. Senior Ariel Sparrow posted a 79.0 scoring average in the fall, including a 73 in the first round of the CSU Invitational, tied for the second lowest round in school history en route to runner-up honors at the event. Sparrow had three top-20 finishes in the fall.
SOFTBALL The Vikings will continue their spring break road
trip this week, as they head to Jackson, Miss. for six games over three days at Jackson State. CSU is coming off a 2-3 weekend at Oklahoma State, a stretch that saw them pick up wins vs. Santa Clara (7-1) and Northern Iowa (5-4). Sophomore Erica McNew led the way with two home runs on the weekend. She is second on the team in batting average (.342) and hits (13), while leading the team in home runs (4).
Viking Of The Week B e n W i l l e f o r d // W r e s t l i n g
Last Week
Class: Junior Position: 125 Pounds Hometown: Baton Rouge, La.
Willeford, seeded third at the EWL Championships, captured the 125 pound title with a pair of wins and earned a berth in the NCAA Championships. Following a round one bye, Willeford earned a 6-4 win in the semifinals before picking up a fall in 4:32 in the championship match. Willeford, who leads CSU with 22 wins this season, is the first Viking to win an EWL crown since Rashard Goff in 2009.
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Volume 2, No. 27 • March 11, 2013
V iking S ports W eekly
This Week’s Schedule Mar. 13 Mar. 15 Mar. 17
Women’s Basketball at Youngstown State * (Quarterfinals) 7:00 p.m. at HL Semifinals * (if win in quarters) TBA at HL Championship * (if win semifinals) TBA
Mon. Mar. 11 Don Benbow Invitational Tues. Mar. 12 Don Benbow Invitational
Men’s Golf
Mon. Mar. 11 Don Benbow Invitational Tues. Mar. 12 Don Benbow Invitational
Women’s Golf
Thur. Mar. 14 at Jackson State (DH) Fri. Mar. 15 vs. UTEP vs. Mississippi Valley State Sat. Mar. 16 vs. Mississippi Valley State at Jackson State Tues. Mar. 11 at Stetson
All Day All Day All Day All Day
Softball 4:00 2:00 4:00 3:00 5:30
p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.
Men’s Tennis 2:30 p.m.
Women’s Tennis Mon. Tues.
Mar. 11 Mar. 11
vs. North Florida at Stetson
2:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
* - Game can be seen live on the HORIZON LEAGUE NETWORK
Last Week’s Results Mar. 5 Mar. 7 Mar. 8 Mar. 9 Mar. 10
Men’s Basketball at UIC Women’s Basketball at Wright State Softball vs. Santa Clara Softball vs. Northern Iowa Men’s Tennis at North Florida Women’s Tennis at Florida Atlantic Softball at Oklahoma State Softball vs. Northern Iowa Wrestling at EWL Championships Softball at Oklahoma State Men’s Tennis at Central Florida
L, 82-59 L, 61-53 W, 7-1 L, 6-2 L, 6-1 W, 4-3 L, 4-2 W, 5-4 6th L, 10-1 L, 6-1
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