Viking Sports Weekly Volume 1 • Number 25 March 26, 2012
Men’s and Women’s Tennis Teams Open League Slate With Win... page 2
Bailey & Vikings Continue Spring Season at Butler Invitational
Softball Wins League Opener at UIC... page 2 Toman Named Viking of the Week... page 3
What To Watch For THIS WE E K IN V IK ING ATHLE TICS | MA RCH 2 6 , 20 1 2
WOMEN’S TENNIS
MEN’S GOLF
Following a six-match road swing the Vikings will return home this weekend, as they host Youngstown State at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 31. CSU, who enters the weekend with a 9-7 (1-0 HL) record, will be playing at home for the first time in over a month on Saturday. The Vikings opened Horizon League play with a 4-3 victory at Detroi on Friday, posting their third straight win over the Titans. CSU collected four singles victories to claim the win, including one from junior Maria Lazaris who posted her 50th career singles win. The Vikings also got wins from Catrine Bjerrehus at No. 1 singles, Alex Power at No. 5 singles and Mengdi Liu at the No. 6 spot. Power’s victory marked her 18th of the year, and she is now just two wins shy of her first 20-win season. Liu, who won by default at Detroit, has won seven straight, with two of those wins coming by default.
SOFTBALL CSU is back in action this week when the Vikings head to Robert Morris for a doubleheader at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday before a three-game series at Youngstown State with two games on Friday and a single game on Saturday. The Vikings opened Horizon League play with a 1-2 trip to Chicago where they took on the defending Horizon League Tournament champions from UIC. CSU took the first game on Saturday (March 24) by a 3-1 count, thanks to a solo homer from Dara Toman and a two-out, two-run single in the sixth from Andrea Nagy. That was all the support starting pitcher Sara Shields needed as she allowed just one run in her seven innings of work. UIC took the second game of the doubleheader 8-1 and won Sunday’s (March 25) rubber game 6-5 in 10 innings.
M at t K u e l k e r
Men’s Tennis Hosts Two Matches This Weekend Cleveland State will return home to host two matches this weekend, first hosting non-conference opponent Western Michigan at 1:00 p.m. on Friday (March 30), before facing Youngstown State at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday (March 31). The Vikings enter the weekend with a 6-7 (1-0 HL) record, most recently topping Detroit, 4-3 to open their league schedule. The win over the Titans marked the 26th straight Horizon League regular season victory for CSU, as the Vikings have posted perfect 7-0 records in league play over the past three seasons. At Detroit, CSU got singles wins from Yannick Goossens (No. 1), Matt Kuelker (No. 2) and Matt Ford (No. 6) along with doubles wins from the teams of Ali Shabib and Nolan Marks (No. 1) and Goossens and Ford (No. 2). Goossens’ win at No. 1 singles marked his fourth against Detroit, as he is now a perfect 4-0 against the Titans on his career.
Cleveland State continues its busy start to the spring schedule when the Vikings compete in the 36 hole Butler Spring Invitational on Monday and Tuesday (March 26-27) in Avon, Ind. It will be the third of five spring tournaments for CSU leading up to the Horizon League Championship at the end of April where the Vikings will be after their fourth title in five years. CSU finished 13th of 15 teams at the UCF Rio Pinar (March 19-20) which featured four of the top 100 teams in the country in its last event. Andrew Bailey tied for 20th pace with rounds of 69-76-72 (217) and continues to lead the team with a 73.3 scoring average. He had three rounds of par or better in Florida and now has a team-leading eight this year and 16 for his career, tied for the fourth most in school history.
WOMEN’S GOLF The Vikings are back of action this week when CSU competes in the 36 hole Butler Spring Invitational on Monday and Tuesday (March 26-27) in CSU also begins play in the IPFW Spring Invitational with the first round on Sunday (April 1). The Vikings opened the spring season at the Benbow Invitational in Jacksonville, Fla., on March 12-13, carding rounds of 330 and 334. Ariel Sparrow tied for 19th place overall, firing rounds of 76-84 (160), while Micaela Cronin and Madeline Kaminski tied for 35th place. Cronin shot 87-80, while Kaminski carded rounds of 80-87. Playing as an individual, Shelly Ford tied for 28th place at 165 (84-81). The Vikings scoring average for the season is 324.8, putting CSU on pace to record the lowest scoring average in a season (333.4 in 2009-10).
Viking Of The Week Dara Toman // Softball Class: Junior Position: 1B Hometown: Westerville, Ohio
Last Week
Toman was 5-for-9 (.556) over the weekend during CSU’s series with UIC. The junior first baseman belted a solo shot - her ninth homer of the season - in the second inning of Saturday’s (March 24) 3-1 win over the Flames. She finished that game 2-3 and was issued three walks in the second game of the doubleheader. On Sunday (March 25), Toman was 3-for-5 with a run scored. A first team Preseason All-Horizon League selection, Toman is tied for sixth in the league in hitting (.388), tied for the league lead in homers (nine), second in RBI (22) and tied for fourth with 20 runs scored.
Volume 1, No. 25 • March 26, 2012
V iking S ports W eekly
Upcoming Schedule
Men’s Golf
Mon. Mar. 26 Tues. Mar. 27
at Butler Spring Invitational at Butler Spring Invitational
Mon. Mar. 26 Tues. Mar. 27 Sun. Apr. 1
at Butler Spring Invitational at Butler Spring Invitational at IPFW Spring Classic
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Women’s Golf All Day All Day All Day
Softball Weds. Fri. Sat.
Mar. 28 Mar. 30 Mar. 31
Fri. Mar. 30 Sat. Mar. 31
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Mar. 31
at Robert Morris (DH) at Youngstown State (DH) at Youngstown State
3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m.
Men’s Tennis
WESTERN MICHIGAN YOUNGSTOWN STATE
1:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Women’s Tennis
YOUNGSTOWN STATE
12:00 p.m.
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