Muhlenberg College Sports Daily (October 13, 2003)

Monday, October 13, 2003

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A weekly look at what’s going on in the Centennial Conference:

Football

Gettysburg stunned McDaniel, 30-20, handing the Green Terror its first CC loss to a team other than Johns Hopkins since 1996. The Bullets are 4-1 overall and 1-0 in the CC heading into this Friday’s game at 19th-ranked Johns Hopkins. The Blue Jays are 6-0 for the first time since 1931 following a 37-14 defeat of Franklin & Marshall.

Men’s Soccer

The top three in the CC marched on, with Gettysburg edging Franklin & Marshall, 2-1, and Johns Hopkins combining a 4-1 win against Haverford with a 1-0 non-CC win against regionally ranked Arcadia. Gettysburg hosts Hopkins on Wednesday in the second of the three meetings among the front-runners ... Washington beat Dickinson in overtime in a matchup of teams hoping to make the playoffs.

MUHLENBERG	5-0	10-3
Gettysburg	4-0	9-2
Johns Hopkins	3-1	10-1-1
McDaniel	3-2	9-5
Washington	2-2-1	5-4-2
Dickinson	2-3	7-7-1
Swarthmore	2-3	4-8-1
Haverford	1-2-2	4-5-3
Ursinus	0-4-1	4-9-1
F & M	0-5	1-8-1

Women’s Soccer

Gettysburg stayed in first place with a pair of 1-0 wins against McDaniel (in overtime) and Washington. The Bullets have a tough week ahead of them, with road games against Johns Hopkins and Muhlenberg ... The Mules also face a hot Franklin & Marshall team this week. The Diplomats are unbeaten in their last five ... Swarthmore posted a stunning 2-1 overtime win against Johns Hopkins.

Gettysburg	5-0	9-3
MUHLENBERG	4-1	8-3-1
Ursinus	4-2-1	9-3-3
Johns Hopkins	3-2	9-4-1
Dickinson	3-2	7-4-1
Swarthmore	3-3	7-6
F & M	2-2-1	5-4-3
McDaniel	2-3	9-4
Haverford	2-3	4-9
Washington	0-5	4-7
Bryn Mawr	0-5	2-7-1

Field Hockey

The two CC unbeaten teams remained so, as Ursinus doubled up Haverford, 6-3, and Gettysburg (Muhlenberg’s next opponent) blanked Franklin & Marshall, 3-0 ... Johns Hopkins won a pair of games, 4-2 against Swarthmore and 4-3 against F&M, to improve to 3-1 in the CC ... Both Hopkins (Dickinson and Haverford) and McDaniel (F&M and Swarthmore) face a pair of road games this week.

Ursinus	5-0	8-4
Gettysburg	4-0	7-3
McDaniel	4-1	10-3
Johns Hopkins	3-1	5-6
MUHLENBERG	2-2	10-2
Washington	3-3	6-5
F & M	2-3	6-6
Dickinson	2-3	5-7
Swarthmore	1-4	4-8
Bryn Mawr	0-4	4-8
Haverford	0-5	5-8

Volleyball

Gettysburg improved to 5-0 in the CC and ran its winning streak to 12 with its pair of victories at Muhlenberg. Swarthmore swept Ursinus to go to 3-0 in the CC ... Johns Hopkins defeated Haverford on Wednesday and Franklin & Marshall on Saturday – both in three games – in matches involving contenders. Hopkins, F&M and Dickinson are all 3-1.

Soccer Teams Drop in Rankings But Have Chance to Move Up

Although both Muhlenberg soccer teams dropped in the weekly NSCAA regional rankings, they will have the opportunity to move back up in next week’s poll when they play teams ranked ahead of them.

The men fell from fourth to sixth following a 1-0 loss at Elizabethtown, the team ranked first in the region and fifth in Division III. Moving ahead of the Mules were Drew and Gettysburg, two teams Muhlenberg will play in next two weeks. The Mules host Drew (which received votes in the national poll) on Wednesday and travel to Gettysburg on Saturday, Sept. 25.

For the second straight week, Muhlenberg is responsible for the lone loss by two top-20 teams, No. 13 Johns Hopkins and No. 16 Stevens Tech.

MEN’S POLL

1. Elizabethtown (10-1-1)
2. Johns Hopkins (10-1-1)
3. Carnegie Mellon (7-1)
4. Drew (9-1-2)
5. Gettysburg (9-2)
6. Muhlenberg (10-3)
7. Messiah (9-2-2)
8. Arcadia (10-2-1)
9. Eastern (9-3)
10. Widener (10-3)

The women fell from seventh to eighth despite a 1-0 week, displaced by a Lebanon Valley team that tied Messiah. Muhlenberg hosts Gettysburg, the only other Centennial Conference team ranked in the region, on Saturday.

WOMEN’S POLL

1. New Jersey (10-2)
2. Messiah (10-1-1)
3t. Scranton (13-0-1)
3t. Richard Stockton (11-1)
5. Lebanon Valley (6-1-3)
6. Gettysburg (8-3)
7. Montclair State (8-3)
8. Muhlenberg (8-3-1)

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Last updated October 13, 2003