Transcript 33½, 33 Respective margins of victory at the Centennial Conference Championships for 2005 women’s outdoor track and field and 2001 men’s golf. The women’s track.

33½, 33
Respective margins of victory at the
Centennial Conference Championships for
2005 women’s outdoor track and field and
2001 men’s golf.
The women’s track team won its first
conference title at home at Scotty Wood
Stadium just three years after finishing seventh. The two previous CC meets
had been decided by a total of five points, but the Mules easily dethroned twotime defending champion Gettysburg, 173½-140.
The golf team was so dominant that
it didn’t even count the score of
tournament medalist Matt Berman in
the third and final round. The Mules
had four of the first six finishers to
capture their third title with a team
score of 940. Gettysburg was
second at 973.
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Seconds into overtime for the field
hockey team to upset sixth-ranked
Johns Hopkins 1-0 in 2008. After losing
to the Blue Jays in a contentious
Centennial Conference semifinal playoff
game the previous year, the Mules
gained a measure of revenge when
Tara Cohn scored the lone goal of the
game. Hopkins entered the game
seventh in Division III in scoring and
had not been shut out in a CC regularseason game since 2005.
In 2009, Muhlenberg duplicated its 1-0
upset of the Blue Jays (then ranked
10th), with Cohn assisting on the
winning goal in the second overtime.
31-21
Score of the football team’s win against Salisbury in the
first round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament.
The Mules led 21-6 early in the second quarter, only to
have the Sea Gulls tie the score with 7:33 left in the fourth.
A 38-yard field goal by Jordon Grube with 4:37 on the
clock put Muhlenberg back ahead, and a 31-yard
touchdown reception by Edward DeRisi a minute later
was the icing on the cake.
The win against a highly regarded
opponent gained the Mules
considerable respect on the national
scene.
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Centennial Conference players of the
year for Muhlenberg in the decade.
Among them are
Jacquelyn Inverso, the
Most Outstanding
Performer for field events at
the CC Indoor Track and
Field Championships in
both 2004 and 2006,
Danielle DeLucia, the CC
pitcher of the year as a
freshman in 2001, and Kodi
Shay, the CC offensive
player of the year and a
second-team All-American
in 2003.
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Finish at the NCAA Championships for the men’s
cross country team in 2006. The Mules earned an atlarge bid, their first ever, after coming in fourth at the
NCAA Mideast Regional. Ranked 33rd in the Division
III poll prior to the meet, Muhlenberg finished ahead
of three other teams at the national meet. Stephen
Rothwell was the top Mule runner and both the
regional and national meets.
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Final national ranking for the women’s tennis team in 2004. The Mules won
their first outright Centennial Conference title by going 10-0 in the conference,
the biggest win a 5-4 upset of 16th-ranked Swarthmore, and received
consideration for an NCAA Tournament berth. Muhlenberg’s final record of 123 included a school-record seven 9-0 shutouts. The team’s only losses came
on the road, all to teams that were invited to the NCAA Tournament.
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Goals scored by James Henshaw
(2002-05), the most by a men’s
soccer player in the decade. A
three-time All-Centennial
Conference and two-time all-region
selection, Henshaw is tied for 12th
on the Mules’ all-time goals list.
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Wins by the women’s
basketball team in 2005-06
and 2008-09. The 26 wins
are a Centennial Conference
record and one short of the
Muhlenberg College record
for any sport, set by the
volleyball team in 1992.
Both teams won the CC championship. The 2005-06 squad (pictured)
finished 26-3, posting what was at the time one of the biggest
improvements in Division III history after going 11-14 in 2004-05. In
2008, it was voted the top women’s team in the first 50 years of
coeducation at Muhlenberg.
The Mules ended with a 26-4 record in 2008-09.
26-for-26
Record shooting from the foul line for the men’s basketball
team in a 73-65 win at Swarthmore in January 2009.
The previous best perfect game from the line for the Mules
was 12-for-12 against West Virginia in 1944. The old
Centennial Conference record was a 21-for-21 effort by
Ursinus vs. Lebanon Valley in 2003.
Muhlenberg came close to the NCAA Division III mark of
28-for-28, set by Albany against Potsdam State in 1994.
Swarthmore’s 12-for-13 shooting from the line gave the
two teams a combined 38-for-39, breaking the Division III
record of 37-for-39 set by Muskingum and Ohio Wesleyan
in 1981.
Ryan Foster went 11-for-11 from the line and scored 25
points.
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2000 softball
2000 women’s soccer
2001 softball
2001 women’s golf
2001 men’s golf
2001 football
2001 women’s soccer
2002 women’s tennis
2002 football
2003 softball
2003 football
2003 women’s soccer
2003 men’s soccer
2004 women’s tennis
2004 men’s golf
2004 football
2005 women’s outdoor track and field
2005 men’s soccer
2006 women’s basketball
2007 women’s golf
2007 football
2008 women’s basketball
2008 football
2009 women’s basketball
2009 softball
Centennial Conference championships for Muhlenberg in the decade.
Softball had the first one and the last one, but football had the most, with six.
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Consecutive scoreless innings pitched by Phil Cresta
for the baseball team in 2008, breaking a nine-yearold school record. Cresta shut out Gettysburg, Ursinus
and McDaniel in three road
starts in an eight-day span en
route to tying a school record
with eight wins for the
season.
One of the top two-sport
athletes of the decade,
Cresta also was a two-time
All-Centennial Conference
wide receiver in football. He
finished his career (2006-09)
third on the all-time list with 161 receptions and tied a
CC record with a touchdown catch in seven straight
games.
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School-record wins for the baseball team in
2002. The Mules reached the 20-win mark for
the first time in their 85-plus-year history and
posted their best Centennial Conference
record (11-7) to finish in fourth place and
qualify for the first CC playoff tournament.
Muhlenberg notched its first postseason wins
since 1980, eliminating the third
(Ursinus) and second (Franklin &
Marshall) seeds to reach the best twoof-three final against No. 8 Johns
Hopkins. There, the Mules lost a pair of
close games (3-1 and 5-4) to finish with
a record of 23-17.
Mike Morris had big hits in both playoff
wins, including a home run leading off
the top of the 10th to beat F&M, 5-4.
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Long jump by John Brodowski in 2005, tying a
long-standing school record. Ben Hubbard set the
mark in 1916, and it went unmatched until
Brodowski’s performance at the NCAA
Championships.
Tying the old record was just one of many highlights
of Brodowski’s career. He won six Centennial
Conference gold
medals and was
named Most
Outstanding Performer for field events at the
CC outdoor meet in both 2003 and 2005. He
set or tied eight school records, seven of which
still stand, and competed in the NCAA
Championships in the decathlon three straight
years, earning All-America honors by finishing
fourth as a senior in 2005. Brodowski is the
men’s field athlete of the decade.
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Centennial Conference wrestling
champions for Muhlenberg from 2000
to 2009. The Mules rank just behind
McDaniel (24) and Ursinus (22) for
most titlists in the 2000s; since the
start of the CC in 1994 Muhlenberg
(38) trails only Ursinus (39).
Eleven Mules were responsible for the
21 championships. The six multiple
winners included three who won at two
different weight classes. Andy Faust
(149 in 2000 and 165 in 2002) was the
only one to prevail after moving up two
weight classes.
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Scoring average for Mark Lesko in his
junior season of 2000-01, making him the
first Mule in 30 years to average 20 points
for an entire season. Lesko’s 38-point effort
at New York University was the best by a
Muhlenberg basketball player in the
decade.
Lesko, the men’s basketball player of the
decade, finished his career as the Mules’
all-time leader with 165 blocked shots and
eighth on the all-time scoring list with 1,399
points. He is the only Mule to be named
first-team All-Centennial Conference three times and the first to be voted CC
player of the year. He earned All-America honors as a senior.
20-11
Record of the volleyball
team in 2001, including
an 8-2 mark in the
Centennial Conference.
The Mules had tied for
sixth place in the CC the
previous two years and
surprised everyone by
earning the top seed in
the CC playoffs. The
program’s first win ever
against Gettysburg
highlighted the regular
season, but the Bullets
ended the dream
season by beating
Muhlenberg in the CC
championship match.
Dana Ferrelli (left) and Meaghan Billie (right) combined to give the Mules two
first-team All-CC selections for the first time.
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Goals scored by Kristen Bruschi as a
sophomore in 2002, breaking a 40-year-old
school record. The new record went
unmatched until … the next season, when
Bruschi scored 19 again.
The field hockey player of the decade,
Bruschi is the Mules’ all-time leader in goals
(59), assists (17) and points (135). She
received All-Centennial Conference honors
three times and remains the only player in
program history to be named to the All-CC first
team twice. She was named to the All-South
Region team three straight years and was
selected to the All-America third team by
womensfieldhockey.com in 2004.
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Improvement, in feet, of the school
record in the javelin by Sarah Mitchell
(2004-07). She broke the previous
mark of 127-8 in her fifth collegiate
meet and kept upping the distance,
topping out at 145-4 as a senior.
Mitchell became the first member of the
women’s track and field team to earn
All-America honors when she placed
seventh at the 2006 NCAA
Championships. A four-time Centennial
Conference champion in the javelin,
she was named Most Outstanding
Performer for field events at the 2007
CC outdoor meet.
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Mule cross country runners to compete in the
NCAA Championships in the 2000s – 17
more than had before the start of the decade.
Timothy VanSyckle (2005-08) made three
trips to the national meet and is the men’s
cross country athlete of the decade. His
third-place finish at the 2008 Centennial
Conference Championships tied the best
ever by a Mule runner, and his seventh-place
showing at the NCAA Mideast Regional that
year is the best ever by a ’Berg male.
VanSyckle was sixth at the 2007 CC meet.
Karen Mount (2002-05) is the women’s cross country athlete of the decade.
She became the first Muhlenberg female to qualify for nationals in 2005, when
she placed fourth – a program best for both genders – at the regional meet. She
also finished fourth at the CC Championships that year. A three-time all-region
runner, Mount is the only Mule female to place in the top 10 at the CC meet twice.
Consecutive wins by the women’s soccer team in 2001. After starting the
season 2-2, with losses to national powers Trinity (Texas) and Scranton, the
Mules reeled off a streak that took them to the third round of the NCAA
Tournament. The 17-game winning streak is tied for the second-longest in a
season in Muhlenberg athletic history.
Included in the incredible streak were a 1-0 win against Johns Hopkins,
avenging the Mules’ lone Centennial Conference loss in 2000, shutouts of
Franklin & Marshall and Hopkins in the CC playoffs, and a 3-1 defeat of
Elizabethtown in the NCAAs.
The run finally came to an
end with a loss to top-ranked
New Jersey. Muhlenberg
was ranked 18th in the final
Division III poll, and its 19
wins tied the most for a Mule
soccer team — men or
women.
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Total points lost by Gena Ross in
her march to the 2003 Centennial
Conference singles championship.
Ross won four of her five matches in
straight sets, including a 6-1, 6-0
victory in the final. A tight 6-0, 6-7,
10-3 match in the quarterfinals was
her biggest challenge. She won six
sets 6-0 and two others 6-1.
Ross was Muhlenberg’s first conference singles
champion since 1988 and will probably be the last,
since the CC Individual Tournament was
discontinued in 2006. Ross finished the 2002-03
year with a 20-3 singles record and was voted to the
All-CC first team.