Sports - The Eagle

Three wrestlers take first at Keystone as team places 3rd overall

By Ian Quillen · Monday, Nov. 22, 2004

The AU Wrestling team turned in its best performance in recent memory Saturday, seizing three individual first-place finishes en route to a third-place team finish at the Keystone Classic in Philadelphia. AU ended the meet with 89.5 points with only seven of its 10 wrestlers competing, behind No. 23 Rider, which won with 141 points, and host No. 20 Pennsylvania, which came in second with a score of 105.5.

Team's Hart gone, but McFerrin ready to play

By Jesse Epstein · Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004

Athletic Director Joni Comstock was at the women's Final Four last year. On a scouting trip. Instead of watching UConn romp, she watched her future head coach, Melissa McFerrin, lead the Minnesota Golden Gophers to national prominence. Comstock looked to make a splash with her first major hire as athletic director, and if she has anything to say about it, Eagles backers may still be drying themselves off, as McFerrin looks to be the gem that AU knew it was getting.

Basketball falls in season opener to Richmond at NIT

By Ian Quillen · Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004

The AU Men's Basketball team dropped its season opener at Virginia Commonwealth in overtime Monday, 82-76, in a preseason National Invitational Tournament first-round game that had more than its share of mixed messages. For sophomore guard Andre Ingram, it was his first game in his hometown of Richmond, Va., since his high school career. And despite being subjected to heckling from some of his hometown fans, the guard was obviously inspired, scoring a career-high 38 points.

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Soccer will take on LIU in Round 1

By Ian Quillen | November 18

With only one loss in its last 12 matches, advancing past the first round and deep into the NCAA tournament is a realistic goal for the AU Men's Soccer team (14-5-2). Now, knowing it will return to Reeves Field for its first-round encounter, a 1 p.m. Saturday tilt with Long Island (9-6-4), the reality of a second-round clash with No. 4 seed Virginia on Tuesday is within reach.

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Long live the king that is AU sports

By Jesse Epstein | November 18

As I sit here writing this column, I am following the AU Men's hoops team live on the Internet in its pre-season NIT game at Virginia Commowealth University. Well, we just lost, but it certainly speaks to a movement that's going on at our school. Never in my life did I think I'd be intently following a live game tracker of an AU sport. Before coming to AU, I didn't even know what our school mascot was. And I am an athlete. But there is a movement going on at AU, and it has nothing to do with anti-war protests, vegans or candlelight vigils for a failed political season. It has everything to do with our athletic department.

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Soccer topples Lehigh for PL title

By Ian Quillen | November 15

The Patriot League opposition of the AU Men's Soccer team knew who to keep an eye on coming into this weekend's PL tournament at Reeves Field - or so they thought. Lafayette and Lehigh both kept sophomore midfielder Salvatore Caccavale and senior forwards Sean Albright and David Marut in check, and PL Offensive Player of the Year Shawn Kuykendall was at least contained.