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(03/22/04 5:00am)
The hospital room became a very familiar place for junior Jonathan Craig last spring. He was sent there after playing the sport he loved gave him a fractured hip and jammed a safety pin into his arm. Craig isn't a football player or a varsity athlete. He's a member of AU's Cycling team.
(03/04/04 5:00am)
Everything was in place Tuesday afternoon at Reeves Field for a positive beginning to the Women's Lacrosse season. The air was a spring-like 68 degrees and few clouds dotted the sky as AU took a two-goal lead over Towson into halftime.
(03/01/04 5:00am)
It was a season of milestones last year for Women's Lacrosse. The Eagles' record, 11-8 overall, 5-1 in Patriot League play, gave them the most wins in school history.
(03/01/04 5:00am)
Lady Eagles split weekend, but lose shot at first PL regular-season title with surprise loss to Lafayette
(02/26/04 5:00am)
Ethan Bassett looks to be one of the bright spots for the AU Men's Swimming and Diving team as the Patriot League Championships begin today in Annapolis, Md. The two-time All-PL swimmer has come a long way since he graduated from high school with hopes that a swimming scholarship could make paying for school a little bit easier. He wasn't recruited at first, but two years of training paid off and a scholarship offer from AU made college possible.
(02/16/04 5:00am)
Most basketball games played by teams in the major five conferences get televised. The players on those squads make the cover of national sports magazines and are glorified on television. While those players come and go, sometimes sooner than later, there is only one constant image with which fans can become familiar: the head coach. Naturally, when he decides it's his last season on the sideline, the nation takes note.
(02/09/04 5:00am)
Sports fans can make a case for February being the worst month of the year. Professional basketball and hockey are in the doldrums of the midseason. College football is long gone and the only thing remaining from the professional football season is the post-Super Bowl hangover and the following cold shower that is the Pro Bowl. The only thing this season has going for it is college basketball, right?
(02/02/04 5:00am)
AU Men's Basketball got an explosive offensive output from an unlikely source during this weekend's home stand: second-year junior forward Raimondas Petrauskas.
(01/29/04 5:00am)
Lafayette's Justin DeBerry has it made for a Patriot League point guard. Third in the conference in assists, he can look to the wing for Winston Davis, a 55 percent three-point shooter in PL games.
(01/26/04 5:00am)
The AU Swimming and Diving teams hosted an evening of rarities Saturday against Lehigh at Reeves Aquatic Center. In only the teams' second home meet of the season, the Men's side won its first dual meet in a year, 166-112, and Women's Diving performed for the first time this season but fell 173-119.
(01/22/04 5:00am)
It seems every reference to AU's most notable Men's Basketball accomplishments ends with the phrase "when it was led by current Maryland coach Gary Williams." The Eagles missed a chance to erase this attribution for at least one feat on Saturday when they fell in overtime to Lehigh, 63-58.
(01/15/04 5:00am)
Joni Comstock became AU's director of athletics Dec. 15, taking over the position left vacant by Tom George, who resigned in July. Comstock spent the last three years as the athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Asheville after spending the previous 11 years in the Purdue University athletics department. She spoke with The Eagle about her goals and the state of AU sports.
(12/08/03 5:00am)
The team on the losing end of a 3-0 volleyball match doesn't always have much to be happy about. AU was an exception Friday night in College Park, Md., in its first-round match with No. 25 Maryland in the NCAA Tournament before a loud crowd of 1,012, about a fifth were Eagles fans.
(12/04/03 5:00am)
The volleyball gods must be happy.
(11/24/03 5:00am)
Sunday's Patriot League Volleyball championship in Bender Arena had all the trappings of a typical match-up between AU and Bucknell. There were multiple lead changes, an aggressive Bucknell defense to counter AU's powerful hitting, and a yellow card given to the Bisons animated coach, Cindy Opalski.
(11/20/03 5:00am)
AU's Volleyball team was surprised by an ice storm last December when it traveled to Chapel Hill, N.C., for the NCAA tournament. As the team bus made its way up a hill on the edge of the University of North Carolina campus, it passed vehicles spun out across the road.
(11/17/03 5:00am)
It may have been Senior Night for AU Volleyball Saturday, but the small Bender crowd knew it was really Kucerkova Night.
(11/10/03 5:00am)
Both teams in Saturday's Patriot League Field Hockey championship made it there by the slimmest of margins.
(11/10/03 5:00am)
Both teams in Saturday's Patriot League Field Hockey championship made it there by the slimmest of margins. No. 19 AU got the berth with a 3-2 overtime win over No. 24 Lafayette in the semifinals. Holy Cross finalized its spot in a similar way by beating Bucknell 2-1 in overtime.
(11/03/03 5:00am)
Apparently, nobody told Army it was supposed to go down easily to AU in Saturday's volleyball match in Bender Arena.
The Black Knights had hit only .131 in Patriot League matches before this weekend, but they defied that statistic Saturday, firing on all cylinders to hit .235.
But despite their aggressive offense, and an equal aggressive fan contingent, the Black Knights (15-12, 6-5 PL) were topped 3-1 by AU (15-9, 11-0) by scores of 26-30, 30-14, 30-17 and 30-27.
Although AU eventually won three straight games, Army gave the Eagles a post-Halloween scare in the first round. AU led only once as the Knights hit .333. Army's physical front row of Erin Kennedy and Jen Wynn frustrated the Eagles with a pair of blocks.
"To be honest, we were a little bit surprised at how well they came out," said senior Karla Kucerkova, who led both teams with 30 kills. "We didn't do our job well because we let them surprise us. We have to be better in anticipating their strong defense and them going for us."
The Knights rarely gave easy points to the Eagles. Army had only three errors to AU's nine, something that AU Head Coach Barry Goldberg challenged his team to change before the second game.
"It wasn't that they were better than us," Kucerkova said. "We just had to be more careful."
The Eagles did just that as they made only one error and hit a big .621 in game two to push Army away from a match victory.
The match was played before an unusually raucous crowd as more than a dozen Army fans drowned out the sound of the Screaming Eagles and the AU Pep Band. Kucerkova admitted that the intense atmosphere might have caught the team off guard in the beginning. The team didn't even realize it was trailing by as much as it was because of this, she said.
Sophomore Cutrina Biddulph had a solid outing with 16 kills, but when the Eagles fell behind early, Kucerkova took control of the offense to keep her squad on top of the match.
Goldberg said he had wanted to spread the offense around early. He wanted starting junior setter Courtney Mulford to pass the ball to Biddulph in the middle. AU's first point of the match instead came off a Mulford assist to Kucerkova on the outside, but Goldberg didn't blame her for the choice.
"Part of it is who the setter trusts to put the ball away," Goldberg said. "In this system, how can you not trust [Kucerkova] to put the ball away?"
Kucerkova will gladly take every pass she can get. She now needs 72 more to pass Natasha Sylvain's 1,660 as the school's all-time kill leader. With five matches remaining in the regular season, Kucerkova can pass the mark if she continues at her current pace of 5.4 kills per game. AU also smashed Holy Cross Friday 3-0 (30-12, 30-24, 30-8). The Crusaders (6-18, 3-8) hardly put up a fight as they hit a paltry .057 and made 19 errors. Kucerkova had 13 kills to lead the Eagles, who hit .513.