March 4, 2013

ODAC Players of the Week

Thru Week Prior to: March 4, 2013

BASEBALL
Matthew McInaw, Emory & Henry, Fr., Pitcher
McInaw, a freshman from Honey Brook, Pa., pitched seven scoreless innings to help the Wasps picked up their second shutout in a week's time. He allowed just three hits and walked one batter while fanning four. After taking nearly 11 years to post a shutout (Apr. 17, 2002 vs. Roanoke), Emory & Henry has blanked two opponents in the past seven days.

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BASEBALL
Jonathan Mason, Bridgewater, Sr., Outfielder
Mason, a senior from Sterling, Va. Hit .455 in the Eagles 3-0 week as Bridgewater gave up just six runs in defeating Mary Washington (10-0) and sweeping Randolph-Macon (10-5, 8-1). Mason went 5-for-11 over the three games, but also walked five times to post a .625 on-base percentage. Four of his five knocks went for extra bases as he had a triple and a homer to go along with two RBI in game one against R-MC. He had a double in each of the other remaining two contests. For the week, Mason scored five runs and drove in six more. He has 16 RBI through 18 games, which ranks atop the ODAC.

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GOLF
Teddy Corcoran, Washington and Lee, Freshman
Corcoran, a freshman from Rochester, N.Y., was the individual medalist at the Pine Needles Intercollegiate hosted by Guilford College. He shot a two-under par 69 to win the weather-shortened event by one stroke. For the year, Corcoran has posted a 76.1 stroke average over 10 rounds played between the fall and spring campaigns.

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MEN'S LACROSSE
Jess Hawthorne, Hampden-Sydney, Sr., Midfielder
Hawthorne, a senior from Richmond, Va., helped the Tigers to a pair of non-conference wins last week. He scored six goals on 12 shots in two games. On Wednesday at Catholic University, he scored twice on the way to a 14-5 win. On Saturday at Ohio Wesleyan University, Hawthorne netted four goals including the game-winner and the insurance tally with one second left on the shot clock to clinch the game with 1:13 to go in the 9-7 win. For the season, Hawthorne has scored eight points, all coming off goals.

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MEN'S TENNIS
Taylor Shamshiri, Washington and Lee, Sophomore
Shamshiri, a sophomore from Austin, Texas, helped Washington and Lee to a trio of ODAC wins by going 2-0 in singles and 2-0 in doubles. In a 7-2 win over Roanoke on Thursday, he notched a 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 1 singles and an 8-3 win at No. 1 doubles. In a 9-0 win over Guilford on Saturday, Shamshiri posted a 6-1, 6-0 victory at No. 2 singles and an 8-2 win at No. 1 doubles. For the season (fall and spring combined), he has notched a 7-9 singles record and an 11-4 doubles mark.

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OUTDOOR TRACK
Chad Norton, Guilford, Jr., Mid-Distance
Norton, a junior from Walled Lake, Mich., won the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Powersox Invitational hosted by Lenoir-Rhyne University. Norton posted a time of 9:50.38, marking a personal-best showing in the event and the seventh-best time in Guilford history. He came back to post the top Division III result and placed eighth overall among 43 runners in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:01.17. Norton competed in two other events as he ran a leg on Guilford's 4x400-meter relay team that placed sixth among 14 teams in 3:41.93. He also ran the 200-meter dash for the first time in his career and placed 32nd in 25.18 seconds.

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OUTDOOR TRACK
Amanda Theall, Shenandoah, Sr., Throws
Theall, a senior from Blossvale, N.Y., competed in all four throwing events with three wins at the Sigler Spring Meet hosted by Salisbury University. Theall won the shot put with a toss of 11.11 meters and did the same in the discus with a heave of 35.11 meters. She set a school record in winning the hammer throw with a spinning release that covered 41.44 meters. She also placed eighth in the javelin as she fired the apparatus 18.11 meters.

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SOFTBALL
Stephanie Cameron, Shenandoah, Jr., Pitcher
Cameron, a junior from Ocala, Fla., went 2-1 for the Hornets, firing a trio of seven inning complete efforts. She scattered 10 hits and walked three while giving up just one run in a 2-1 win over Mary Washington. She fanned 10 in a four-hit shutout of Neumann on Friday, and finished the week with a 4-3 loss to Methodist in which just one of the four runs she surrendered were earned. Cameron struck out 17 batters on the week while giving up five runs (two earned) on 21 hits in 21 innings. Cameron is 3-1 on the season with a 1.00 earned run average in 28.0 innings pitched.

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SOFTBALL
Courtney Bogan, Virginia Wesleyan, Fr., Outfielder
Bogan, a freshman from Round Hill, Va., helped Virginia Wesleyan to a 6-0 week that included a four-game sweep at the Beach Blast Tournament last week as she had hits in 10-of-15 at bats (.667). She opened with a 1-for-2 effort in a sweep of Averett University (5-0, 3-2) prior to the tournament. She began Blast-play with a two-run double in a 9-0 win over Neumann College, and then went 2-for-2 with a triple in a 9-1 win over Bethany. Bogan capped her weekend with a pair of 3-for-4 efforts in wins over Rutgers-Camden (9-1) and SUNY Old Westbury (7-3). She belted a pair of triples and homerun while driving in two runs against Rutgers-Camden. Bogan recorded six RBI in total, also scoring nine runs over the half-dozen contests.

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WOMEN'S LACROSSE
E'leyna Garcia, Guilford, Jr., Attack
Garcia, a junior from Plantation, Fla., picks up her second weekly award of the season after helping the Quakers to a 1-1 week. She scored 13 goals over the two games, including a school-record 10 tallies in Guilford's 21-7 triumph over cross-town rival Greensboro. Her outburst broke the former nine-goal standard that was set in 1993. Garcia, who had three goals and an assist in a 14-12 loss to Rochester Institute, moved into seventh place on the GC all-time goal-scoring list with 121 goals in 38 games played. Garcia also collected three draw controls in each contest.

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WOMEN'S TENNIS
Sonja Meighan, Washington and Lee, Sophomore
Meighan, a sophomore from McLean, Va., went 5-1 last weekend at the ITA National Indoor Team Championships. Against #17 Trinity (Texas), Meighan won 6-2, 6-1 at #1 singles against Mackenzie Knoop, the fourth-ranked player in the West Region (by the ITA). Meighan and teammate Patricia Kirkland topped Knoop and Thavindra Ekanayake (#3 West) in #1 doubles, 9-7. Meighan posted a 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 win at #1 singles over Nataly Mendoza (#12 in Northeast) to lead the nationally seventh-ranked Generals to a 6-3 win over #16 Skidmore. Meighan and Kirkland beat Melissa Hirsch and Alex Smith, 8-3, at #2 doubles. Against #10 DePauw, Meighan dropped a tight three-setter (6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5)) to Maggie MacPhail (#8 in Central), but rebounded for an 8-4 win at #2 doubles with Kirkland over MacPhail and Caroline Emhardt (#6 in Central). Meighan is ranked #17 in the Atlantic South Region in singles play and #9 with Kirkland in doubles action.

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