March 4, 2013
ODAC Players of the Week
Thru Week Prior to: March 4, 2013
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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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