Randolph-Macon College womens basketball student-athlete Amanda Hiltunen has been awarded a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. The award is a $7,500 scholarship for academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree as a full-time or part-time graduate student.
Emory & Henry College's head women's basketball coach announced Monday that she is stepping down after 28 years of coaching E&H basketball teams to take on full-time teaching responsibilities at the college.
The ODAC split the ODAC-USA South Senior All-Star Basketball Games last weekend at Hampden-Sydney College, marking the third straight year the teams had each won a contest. The ODAC women evened their record at 2-2 while the ODAC men suffered their first loss in four tries.
For the fourth consecutive year, the ODAC and the USA South are bringing a little extra basketball to the region. Hampden-Sydney College will serve as host of the ODAC/USA South Senior All-Star Games.
Randolph-Macon played No. 6 Thomas More evenly in the second half of play, but the Yellow Jackets could not recover from a fifteen-point halftime deficit as R-MC fell 76-61 in the first round of the NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament Friday at Brubaker Auditorium in Grantham, Pennsylvania.
Amanda Hiltunen connected on a three-pointer with 2:43 to play to open up a tight second half of back-and-forth action, providing the cushion for a 69-65 victory for Randolph-Macon College over Bridgewater College in the 2009 ODAC Womens Basketball Tournament championship game. The Yellow Jackets improve to 23-5 on the season while the Eagles bow out with a 17-11 overall record.
Bridgewater College kept its repeat chances intact on Saturday afternoon as the Eagles upset top seeded Roanoke College, 69-58, in the first semifinal of the 2009 ODAC Womens Basketball Tournament. Bridgewater improves to 17-10 on the season while the Maroons fall to 23-4.
Behind 28 points and 10 rebounds from Molly Ariail, the Randolph-Macon womens basketball team scored a 75-55 victory over Virginia Wesleyan College to advance to the championship game of the 2009 Old Dominion Athletic Conference Womens Basketball Tournament.
Caitlyn Long scored 11 of her 16 points in the first few minutes of the game to stake Roanoke to an early lead on its way to defeating Lynchburg College, 75-48, in the first quarterfinal of the 2009 ODAC Womens Basketball Tournament. The Maroons improve to 23-3 on the season while the Hornets end their campaign with a 9-17 record.
Bridgewater College took its first step in a repeat bid on Thursday afternoon as the Eagles outlasted Washington and Lee University, 77-65, in the second quarterfinal of the 2009 ODAC Womens Basketball Tournament. Bridgewater improves to 16-10 on the season while the Generals end the year with a 14-12 record.
Amanda Hiltunen hit 4-of-7 three-pointers and came up one assist short of her third 10-assist day of the season as Randolph-Macon College turned back Eastern Mennonite University, 86-68, in the third quarterfinal of the 2009 ODAC Womens Basketball Tournament. The Yellow Jackets improve to 21-5 while the Royals end their season an even .500 at 13-13.
Tonia Jones scored a game-high 21 points to lead Virginia Wesleyan College to a 70-54 victory over Guilford College Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Tournament quarterfinals Thursday night.
Randolph-Macon College senior Molly Ariail earned her third major women's basketball award in as many seasons as the Yellow Jackets' center repeated as the ODAC Player of the Year in the league's annual all-conference voting. Roanoke College mentor, Susan Dunagan, was tabbed as the ODAC Coach of the Year for the seventh time. Washington and Lee University guard, Meghan Ingram, was selected as the ODAC Freshman of the Year, and Amanda Hiltunen joins her R-MC teammate as a repeat honoree as she earned the ODAC/Farm Bureau Scholar-Athlete award for the second straight season.
The top 10 finalists for the prestigious Jostens Trophy were announced today by members of the Rotary Club of Salem, Va. The club is responsible for the initial review of annual nominations and narrowed the pool to 10 men and 10 women finalists.
The pairings for the 2009 ODAC Men and Women's Basketball Tournaments feature of pair of teams with championship pedigree holding down the #1 seeds. Guilford College earns top billing on the men's side for the second straight season and Roanoke College returns to the top of the ODAC women's postseason seedings for the first time since 1997.
Stability best characterizes ODAC womens basketball as the leagues 11 teams prepare for the 2008-09 season. The new campaign opens on Thursday, November 6, as the media gets its first look into the conference at the annual ODAC Womens Basketball Media Day in the Salem Civic Center.