Viking Sports Weekly Volume 1 • Number 22 March 5, 2012
Men’s Basketball Falls in Horizon League Semifinals... page 2 Bashak Walk-Off Home Lifts Softball to Win... page 2 Men’s Tennis Sweeps Two Matches... page 2
Winton & Vikings Begin Horizon League Championship At Home vs. Youngstown State
Wrestling Competes in EWL Championship... page 2 Keane Named Viking of the Week... page 3
What To Watch For THIS WE E K IN V IK ING ATHLE TICS | MA RCH 5 , 2 01 2
MEN’S BASKETBALL
MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING
Cleveland State dropped a 63-58 decision to Detroit in the Horizon League Championship semifinals on Saturday (March 3) in Valparaiso. The loss dropped the Vikings to 22-10 this year and CSU will now await word on if it will be selected to a postseason tournament. D’Aundray Brown, who had missed seven of the previous eight games, returned to lead the Vikings with 17 points, seven rebounds and a pair of steals in 32 minutes. Tim Kamczyc added 11 points, while Jeremy Montgomery had 11 points and three assists. CSU was down by as many as 12 points with 12 minutes left in the game, but rallied to tie the game with just over three minutes left. However, the Titans regained the lead, hit free throws down the stretch and blocked a Viking three-point attempt with five seconds left that could have tied the game.
Cleveland State juniors Berry Thompson and Justin Hill competed in the Last Ditch Qualifying Meet, hosted by Ohio State, on Sunday (March 4). Both swimmers were attempting to shave time off their season-best times in hopes of qualifying for the NCAA Division I Championships. Hill swam a 20.24 in the 50 free and Thompson was clocked at 43.96 in the 100 free, just shy of automatic qualifying times. Hill swam a 20.30 at the Horizon League Championships last week and Thompson’s time was just off the school-record 43.33 he earned at the league meet. The NCAA “A” cut time is 19.35 seconds and the “B” cut time is 20.29 in the 50 free. Thompson was already under the “B” cut time of 44.37 but came up short of the “A” cut time of 42.26.
MEN’S TENNIS The Vikings will head south to Florida for spring break next week, opening play at Embry-Riddle on Sunday (March 11) at 10:00 a.m. It will be the start of CSU’s Spring Break trip. CSU is 5-5 overall. CSU went 1-1 over the weekend, defeating Case Western Reserve, 6-1 and falling at Michigan State, 6-1. Jorg van der Vloet posted two singles victories over the weekend, including a 6-4, 7-5 win at No. 4 singles against MSU.
WOMEN’S TENNIS The Vikings will head south to Florida for spring break next week, opening play at Embry-Riddle on Sunday (March 11) at 10:00 a.m. It will be the start of CSU’s Spring Break trip. CSU is 7-3 this season after splitting two matches last weekend, sweeping Dayton, 7-0 and falling at No. 66 Indiana, 6-1. Mengdi Liu was the lone Viking to post a win against the Hoosiers, notching a 6-4, 6-4 win at No. 6 singles.
Cori Coleman Vikings Open Play in Horizon League Championship Cleveland State will open the 2012 Horizon League Championship on Monday (March 5), as they earned the No. 7 seed and will host No. 10 Youngstown State in a first round matchup at 7:00 p.m. The winner of Monday’s first round contest will travel to second-seeded Detroit on Wednesday (March 7) at 7:00 p.m. Cleveland State was able to secure the seventh seed with a 79-69 victory over Youngstown State on Saturday (March 3), ending the regular season with an overall record of 11-18 and a 6-12 mark in league action. The trio of Shalonda Winton, Takima Keane and Cori Coleman led CSU against the Penguins last Saturday, Winton tallying 25 points and Keane and Coleman each notching 14. For the season, Winton is averaging 18.4 points per contest and 9.9 boards per game, ranking second in the league in scoring and fourth in rebounding. In league contests only she led all players with 402 points and was third with 185 total rebounds.
WRESTLING Three different grapplers placed at the 37th annual Eastern Wrestling League Championships, hosted by Clarion on Sunday (March 4). Corey Carlo (165) took third, while Ben Willeford (125) was fifth and Aric Thurn (174) took sixth. As a team, the Vikings placed seventh for the third consecutive season.
SOFTBALL The Vikings went 1-3 at the fourth annual Georgia Bulldog Invitational in Athens, Ga. over the weekend. CSU played 7th-ranked Georgia tough before falling, 4-2, and also lost to Minnesota, 9-5, on the opening day. The Vikings defeated Rutgers, 5-3, and fell to Ohio, 9-0, in five innings on Sunday. Dara Toman led the offense with a .400 batting average in 10 at-bats, including two homers to pull into second in the Horizon League with four blasts. The highlight of the weekend was Megan Bashak’s two-run homer in the seventh inning that put CSU ahead 5-3 in the win over Rutgers.
FENCING The men took 10th and the women were 15th - combining to take 12th - over the weekend at the 14th annual Midwest Fencing Conference Championships in South Bend, Ind. Nine fencers will represent the program this weekend when Cleveland State hosts the NCAA Midwest Regional on Saturday and Sunday in Woodling Gym.
V iking O f T he W eek Takima K eane // Women’s Basketball Class: Senior Position: Guard Hometown: Ajax, Ontario
Last Week On Senior Day, it was only fitting that senior Takima Keane played a major role in helping Cleveland State to a 79-69 win over Youngstown State. Keane scored 14 points, hitting 6-of-9 from the field, and added a career-high eight assists. She also tallied three steals, two rebounds and two blocked shots as CSU clinched a first round home game in the Horizon League Championship.
Volume 1, No. 22 • March 5, 2012
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Upcoming Schedule
Women’s Basketball
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YOUNGSTOWN STATE * Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship
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NCAA REGIONALS NCAA REGIONALS
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Last Week’s Results
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Men’s Tennis at Michigan State L, 6-1 Women’s Tennis at Dayton W, 7-0 Women’s Basketball hosts Youngstown State W, 79-69 Men’s Basketball vs. Detroit L, 63-58 Wrestling at EWL Championships 7th place Men’s Tennis hosts Case Western W, 6-1 Women’s Tennis at Indiana L, 6-1 Men’s Swimming at Ohio State Last Ditch NTS
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