Transcript School-record pins in the career of Bill Holsinger (1999-2002). Holsinger is the Mules’ all-time winningest wrestler by a wide margin, with.

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School-record pins in the career of Bill Holsinger (1999-2002). Holsinger is
the Mules’ all-time winningest wrestler by a wide margin, with a record of
118-28. He set school records for wins (37) and pins (15) in a season in
2000-01 and was a three-time Centennial Conference champion and NCAA
qualifier.
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Years in between conference winners
in the javelin for the men’s track and
field team. When Jim Hayes took first
at the 2000 Centennial Conference
Championships, he was the Mules’
first gold medal winner in the jav since
1950. Hayes would go on to win three
straight conference titles, break the
school record in the javelin and, in
2002, become the first Muhlenberg
male athlete to participate in the NCAA
Championships in a field event.
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Long field goal kicked by Chris Reed
in his spectacular 2002 season. Reed
booted two field goals of 49 yards en
route to leading Division III with 16
field goals (seven of 40 yards or
longer). He set seven school records
during the year and was named a
first-team All-American – a first for a
Mule placekicker.
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Score of 2004 wrestling match against
Maritime in which the Mules tied an old
school record with seven pins. The
standard was set on Jan. 17, 1947, against
Brooklyn Polytechnic. Four of the pins came
in the first period, including one by 149pounder Dale Mills, who would go on to win
the first of his two Centennial Conference
championships that year.
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Consecutive games scoring a goal
for Sara Hiller (2006-09). The
streak, one of the longest in
Division III women’s lacrosse
history, spanned all four years of
Hiller’s career. Six other
Muhlenberg players scored more
goals than Hiller, but none had a
streak longer than 29 games.
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All-Americans during the last 10 years, representing
13 different sports.
Among them were
Meghan Courtney
(2004-07), the first AllAmerican in
Muhlenberg women’s
basketball history, and
John Schoeller
(1997-2000), an
offensive lineman who
was one of a record
three All-Americans for
the 2000 football team.
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Record of the women’s tennis team from
2002 to 2005, including a 36-4 mark in
the Centennial Conference. The Mules
won a school-record 12 matches in three
of the four seasons, won their first two
CC titles in 2002 and 2004 and made
their first NCAA Tournament appearance
in 2005. Emily Oster, the lone member
of the women’s tennis Class of 2005,
holds the school record with 45 doubles
wins in spring dual matches.
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Extra points attempted without a miss by Michael Katz in 2008. No other
kicker in Division III was perfect on PATs with that many attempts, and no
other Centennial Conference kicker ever had a better perfect season. Katz
eventually ran his string to a school-record 53 straight extra points.
Football number worn by two-sport star Tyler
Cathey (1999-2002).
In wrestling, Cathey was a four-time Centennial
Conference champion and NCAA qualifier at
heavyweight. His final career record of 66-14
included a 50-4 mark in dual meets. He won the
2002 Chris Clifford Award for the most career points
in CC tournament bouts.
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In football, Cathey was a twotime All-Centennial Conference
defensive lineman.
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Margin of victory in back-to-back drought-breaking football wins against
McDaniel. The Mules had not defeated the Green Terror in 13 years before
posting a 43-0 win at home in 2007. Two-time first-team All-Centennial
Conference defensive end Chris Musselman and his teammates allowed
only four first downs and 100 total yards. The following year, the Mules
scored their first win in Westminster since 1988, prevailing by a 49-6 count.
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Passes defended in the career of All-America
defensive back Mike Burke (1997-2000). Burke
set a school record (since tied) with 26 pass
breakups and picked off 16 passes (one short
of the school record). In 2000, he recorded nine
interceptions to tie a 58-year-old school record
and received third-team All-America honors.
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Score of football win against Gettysburg three
years in a row. The Mules had given up 539
yards in a 42-28 loss to the Bullets in 1999
before turning their defense around to win 41-0
in 2000 – their first shutout of Gettysburg since
1984. Muhlenberg won by the exact same
score the next two years, an oddity made
possible by a missed extra point in the middle
game. It was the first time the Mules shut out
the same team three straight years since they
blanked Albright from 1946 to 1948.
Justin Jones helmed the last two wins,
rushing for three touchdowns in 2001 and
adding two more TDs in the 2002 game en
route to being named Centennial Conference
offensive player of the year.
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Centennial Conference-record
stolen bases by Justin Graf in his
senior year of 2003. Graf swiped
six bases against King’s in the
fifth game of the season and
never slowed down, shattering the
previous school record of 27 in a
season. He finished sixth in
Division III in stolen bases per
game. Graf also hit .360, set
school records (since broken) for
doubles and runs scored in a
season and was named to the allregion second team – the first
Mule baseball player so honored.
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Approximate area, in thousands of
square feet, of the three-level
addition to the Life Sports Center,
which opened in August 2004.
Featuring a new main entrance
facing the campus and expanded
weight room and cardio-fitness
areas that offer spectacular
views of Scotty Wood Stadium,
the addition has been a great
benefit to Mule athletes and all
members of the Muhlenberg
community.
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Game-ending run for the men’s basketball team at
Franklin & Marshall in a 2001 Centennial Conference
semifinal game. The Mules trailed 48-37 eight minutes
into the second half before their stunning surge, which
resulted in a 76-58 win. F&M was the defending CC
champion and had been to the “Final Four” the previous
year.
The result snapped the Diplomats’ 21-game home
winning streak and put Muhlenberg in the CC
championship game, where it lost to Gettysburg. Michael
Barletta scored 12 of his game-high 21 points in the big
run.
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Wins vs. nationally ranked opponents for Mule teams in the
decade. Not all of these were upsets – sometimes
Muhlenberg was ranked higher – but most were.
Baseball (3) beat No. 8 Johns Hopkins in 2002, No. 21 Johns Hopkins in 2005 and No. 9 Johns Hopkins in 2008.
Women’s Basketball (6) beat No. 25 Springfield and No. 9 Scranton 2001-02, No. 19 Moravian in 2005-06, No. 14
DeSales and No. 17 Bowdoin in 2008-09 and No. 23 Moravian in 2009-10.
Field Hockey (7) beat No. 11 Western Maryland in 2001, No. 20 Johns Hopkins in 2002, No. 9 Montclair State and No. 19
Susquehanna in 2003, No. 19 Gettysburg in 2007, No. 6 Johns Hopkins in 2008 and No. 10 Johns Hopkins in 2009.
Football (4) beat No. 26 Johns Hopkins in 2002, No. 13 Johns Hopkins in 2003, No. 10 Salisbury in 2007 and No. 22
Union in 2009.
Women’s Lacrosse (1) beat No. 18 Drew in 2006.
Women’s Soccer (3) beat No. 9 Messiah in 2000 and No. 7 Johns Hopkins and No. 16 Swarthmore in 2009.
Men’s Soccer (5) beat No. 16 Macalester in 2002, No. 8 Johns Hopkins in 2003, No. 9 Johns Hopkins in 2005, No. 7 New
Jersey in 2007 and No. 10 Dickinson in 2009.
Softball (4) beat No. 3 Bridgewater State and No. 16 Ursinus in 2000, No. 21 Moravian in 2002 and No. 2 Wartburg in
2008.
Women’s Tennis (3) beat No. 21 Swarthmore in 2002, No. 17 Salisbury in 2003 and No. 16 Swarthmore in 2004.
Wrestling (2) beat No. 25 McDaniel in 2002-03 and No. 26 Messiah in 2007-08.
The listed ranking is the highest national ranking at the time of the game.
Softball defeated the highest-ranked team (No. 2 Wartburg in 2008),
although baseball’s big win that spring came against a Johns Hopkins team
that came within one strike of winning the national championship.
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Points scored by Ryan Bonda in a
thrilling 108-101 double-overtime win for
the men’s basketball team at Widener in
January 2003. Bonda hit a three-pointer
with four seconds left in regulation to help
force overtime, then nailed another trey
with 3.6 seconds left in the first overtime
to force a second extra period. He scored
six of the Mules’ 11 points in the second
overtime and finished the game 7-of-10
from three-point range.
The win was the only one for either
Muhlenberg basketball team in a multipleovertime game in the decade. The men
played two triple-OT games but lost both.
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School-record goals scored by Kyle
Farris in his senior season of 2008.
Farris broke the previous record of 29,
set in 1974 in the first run of men’s
lacrosse at Muhlenberg, and finished
his career with school records for
career goals (101) and hat tricks (18).
He was named to the All-Centennial
Conference first team and earned AllAmerica honorable mention in 2008.
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Score for the men’s cross country
team at the 2002 Centennial
Conference Championships, by far
the best in program history. The
team’s previous best was 105 points
the year before, and its best since is
56 in 2006. The Mules finished
second to 10th-ranked Haverford by
only 11 points in what remains the
closest race for the CC title.
Muhlenberg’s top five runners all
placed in the top 12, including Rob
Uniszkiewicz in fifth place.
Uniszkiewicz would go on to place
15th at the Mideast Regional to
qualify for the NCAA
Championships.
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Combined points (13), rebounds (11) and assists
(10) for Kelly McKeon at Ursinus in 2009 – the
second triple-double in Muhlenberg women’s
basketball history. McKeon had three assists and
a rebound in the last 50 seconds alone as the
Mules closed on an 8-0 run to pull out a 68-65 win
in a game in which they trailed by 15 points late in
the first half.
The outstanding performance was one of several
in the clutch for McKeon in 2008-09. She
averaged 16.3 points, 10.0 rebounds and 5.7
assists in the season’s last nine games, including
two in the Centennial Conference playoffs and
three in the NCAA Tournament.