Sports

AU cuts all sports but b-ball

By Matt "Boss" Stapleton · Thursday, March 31, 2005

When AU's teams hit the fields and courts next year, the only sport fans might recognize is basketball. In a move unprecedented in college sports, AU Athletics announced it will reduce the number of teams to 14 while competing only in basketball and Division I's obscurest sports.

Women's Lacrosse stays perfect in PL

By Jordan Beane · Thursday, March 31, 2005

With two tough games in five days, AU Women's Lacrosse came out even, winning its Patriot League home opener against Villanova, 7-5, on Saturday but losing at University of Maryland-Baltimore County, 9-8, in double overtime Wednesday afternoon. The Eagles got everything they could handle when the Villanova Wildcats came to Reeves field.

Sports Briefs

By Ian Quillen and David Bergman · Thursday, March 31, 2005

Kollof's top-10 finish leads way for AU golf at Diablo Grande invite Playing in its fourth tournament in as many weeks, the AU Men's Golf team placed 12th at the Diablo Grande Invitational in Patterson, Calif. The team finished with a combined score of 968, 64 strokes off the lead.

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golf brief

By David Bergman | March 24

Playing in the fourth tournament in as many weeks, the AU Men's Golf team placed 12th at the Diablo Grande Invitational in Patterson, Calif. The team finished with a combined score of 968, 64 strokes off the lead. However, only 32 strokes separated fourth through twelfth place with AU being kept out of the top ten by a mere 13 strokes.

Sports

How Wrestling fought 15-point takedown

By Kevin Hilgers | March 24

With the Tennis and Golf programs in their penultimate year, questions have been swirling around campus about the vision AU Athletics has for its future. Those who don't want to see tennis and golf cut might find hope in the AU Wrestling program, which was rescued three years ago by alumni fund raising and lobbying.

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Basbeall Preview

By Jesse Epstein | March 24

As April rolls around, let's look at the return of our national pastime as hell froze over and the Red Sox finally won the World Series. Will they repeat? Will the Evil Empire return to prominence? Will the National League break through and surprise some people? Here's a division-by-division look at this year's hot stove.

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