CMS Athletics Week In Review (3/14 - 3/20/16)
Athletics Week In Review (Full Version)
=============== Winter – Women===================
Women’s Swimming & Diving
Kelly Ngo (CMC ’17) competed in the NCAA Division III Championships for the Athenas last week. Ngo finished 17th in the 100 free at 51.42; 25th in the 50 free with a time of 23.75; and swam the 200 free preliminaries at 1:55:03 but did not qualify for the evening event. This wraps up a solid 2015-16 season for the CMS swimming and diving program in which the Athenas finished second in the conference and had two swimmers qualify for the NCAA Championships.
========== Spring – Women==============
Women’s Golf
The Athenas finished second in the UC Santa Cruz Invitational held March 19-20 at the Pacific Grove Golf Links course in Pacific Grove with a two-day score of 647 at 35-over par. Maya Bhat (CMC ’18) finished in seventh place with a 14-over score of 158, while Mary Bryan Owen (CMC ’19) and Kelly Ransom (CMC ’19) tied for 10th at 162. The CMS women’s golf program will next compete in the SCIAC #2 tournament April 2-3 in West Covina.
Women’s Lacrosse
The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women’s lacrosse team went 4-0 last week with wins over Whitman (Wash.), Puget Sound (Wash.), Colorado College and Kalamazoo (Mich.). The Athenas dominated their competition by a combined score of 67-13, including two shutouts to improve their overall record to 8-2 (3-1 SCIAC). Six Athenas scored hat tricks in at least one of the four wins, with Ellen Berkley (CMC ’18), Katie Hill (CMC ’18) and Corie Hack (CMC ’19) posting three-plus goals in two games. CMS will play a road game for the first time in over a month April 6 at Occidental.
Softball
Now 18-5-1 (11-1 SCIAC) on the year, the first-place CMS softball team swept doubleheaders with Hamline (Minn.) and Whittier last week with three shutouts. Pitchers Anna Gurr (CMC ’18) and Molly Rubidoux (CMC ’16) earned two wins apiece while Carly Roleder (CMC ’18) totaled 11 RBI. CMS has won six in a row and will look to keep the streak alive this week at Redlands on March 25.
Women’s Tennis
The Athenas won all three of their matches last week, defeating No. 6 Amherst (Mass.) 6-3, No. 25 Whitman (Wash.) 9-0 and No. 2 Bowdoin (Maine) 7-2. The top doubles pairing of Caroline Ward (CMC ’16) and Katie Kuosman (CMC ’17) won all in three contests, and Ward, Jessie Cruz (CMC ’19) and Bria Smith (CMC ‘18) swept all of their singles matches throughout the week. Now 10-1 (3-0 SCIAC) on the year, the women’s tennis team will travel to Emory University in Atlanta for three matches this week March 25-27 against top-25 competition.
Women’s Track & Field
Despite not sending any distance runners to the event, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's track & field team finished in first (283 points) at the Ross and Sharon Irwin Invitational hosted by Point Loma University of March 19. Sophomore Tyra Abraham (SCR ’18) stole the show for the Athenas in the 100 and 200 meters as she ran the fastest times in all of NCAA Division III this season in those events. She finished first in the100 meters at the event and her 100 time of 12 seconds flat was just off her PR which is a CMS record (11.93). Then she finished second in her heat of the 200 meters (first for D-III athletes) with a PR of 25.22 which ranks fourth all-time at CMS. CMS now has two weeks off before its next competition, the second SCIAC multi-dual meet of the season, on April 2 at Redlands.
Women’s Water Polo
The Athenas lost their only match of the week, falling to Bucknell (Pa.) 13-7 at home. Ellen Perfect (CMC ’17) netted three goals in the loss, her highest single-game goal total of the season. CMS (2-13, 0-1 SCIAC) will look to get back in the win column with its second SCIAC match on March 23 at Cal Lutheran before taking on the Virginia Military Institute on March 25 at home.
====================== Winter – Men========================
Men’s Swimming & Diving
Matthew Williams (CMC ’17) won the NCAA Division III Championship in the 100 backstroke event last week in Greensboro, N.C., while also finishing second in the 200 backstroke. All told, Williams had seven combined All-America (top-8) and honorable mention All-America (top-16) swims during the four-day NCAA Championships, either in an individual event or as a member of a CMS relay team. Other highlights included Matthew Valentine (HMC ’16) who earned 11th overall in the 200 IM and sixth in the 200 fly. In the 50 free, Alex Poltash (CMC ’16) finished 11th and Noah Deer (CMC ’18) came in 28th. The 200 medley relay team of Williams, Zach Alleva (CMC ’16), Poltash and Joseph Hinton (CMC ’16) won the consolation finals at 1:29.78; the 200 free relay team of Poltash, Williams, Hinton and Deer earned fifth overall at 1:21.37. The 400 medley relay squad of Williams, Alleva, Valentine and Deer swam the event in 3:19.27, good for a 13th-place finish. This wraps up a solid 2015-16 season for the CMS swimming and diving program in which the Stags finished first in the SCIAC and 10th in the NCAA Championships, marking the fourth straight year CMS has secured a top-10 finish.
====================== Spring – Men========================
Baseball
The Stags went 1-2 in their series with Chapman on March 18-19 and sit seventh in the conference at 5-16 overall, 3-9 SCIAC. Sam Baughman (CMC ’17) pitched 6.2 innings in the win, allowing only four hits and one unearned run while Jack Witte (CMC ’16) went 2 for 4 with one RBI and a run scored. The Stags will open a trio of games with Cal Lutheran on March 25 in Thousand Oaks and at home on March 26.
Men’s Golf
The men’s golf program finished fourth overall at the Collegiate Invitational at the Jekyll Island Golf Club on March 18-20, with a three-day score of 864, even with par. The finish marks the Stags’ best-ever finish at the event, which featured the best teams in Division III. Alex Wrenn (CMC ’19) shot a 212 at 4-under par to earn third place overall and lead all Stags. CMS will next compete in the West Cup in La Verne from March 27-29.
Men’s Tennis
After defeating UConn, Whitman (Wash.) and Amherst (Mass.) last week, the CMS men’s tennis team suffered its second loss of the year, this time to Bowdoin (Maine), putting the Stags at 12-2 (1-0 SCIAC) on the season. Glenn Hull (CMC ’17) won all three of his singles matches while Max Macey (CMC ’17) and Oliver Seifert (CMC ’16) went three of four in their doubles matches. CMS has two home matches on March 25 against Chicago and Chapman.
Men’s Track & Field
Despite not sending any distance runners to the event, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men's track & field team finished in fourth (157 points) at the Ross and Sharon Irwin Invitational hosted by Point Loma University of March 19. On the men's side in the 200 meters, Corbin Bethurem (CMC ’19) won his heat and had the third-fastest time (22.00) of the meet. His time ranks eighth in Division III and he just snuck into the CMS top-10 list with the 10th fastest 200, all-time for the Stags. CMS now has two weeks off before its next competition, the second SCIAC multi-dual meet of the season, on April 2 at Redlands.
====================== Club Sports ========================
Men’s Lacrosse
Claremont had the week off from competition and next play on Friday, March 25 against Northern Arizona on South Athletic Field on Pomona College’s campus.
Men’s Rugby
On March 19, the men’s rugby team defeated Loyola Marymount 53-6 at Parents Field. The win secured the No. 1 seed for the Lions in the Pacific Coast Cup Playoffs. The Lions host Santa Rosa College at Parents on April 2 with kickoff at noon. The winner will advance to the NSCRO National Round of 16.
By Tony Steege and Chris Watts
Sports Information Assistant and Director of Athletics Communication