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| 09/10/10 | The
ETSU women’s soccer team will host the ETSU Soccer Invitational
presented by DoubleTree Hotel today and Sunday at Summers-Taylor Stadium
featuring Winthrop, Temple and Miami University of Ohio. Miami and Winthrop
kick off the Invitational today at 4:30 p.m. with ETSU and Temple facing
off in the nightcap at 7 p.m. The RedHawks will face the Owls on Sunday
at 1 p.m., and the Buccaneers and Eagles close out the tournament at 3:30
p.m. The Bucs (3-1-1) are 2-0-0 at home coming into the weekend after wins
over Tennessee Wesleyan 4-0 and King College 2-0. Freshman Ramey Kerns (Kings
Mountain NC) leads ETSU in goals (3), points (7) and shot percentage (.273).
ETSU is 2-0-0 all-time against Winthrop after a pair of 3-0 wins in 2003 and 2004. This will be the first ever meeting between the Bucs and Temple. The Owls (2-3-0) have lost two of their last three contests after falling to Albany 3-2 and Niagara 2-1. Temple is led by Kate Yurkovic as she leads the team with three goals and nine points. Winthrop (0-2-1) is looking for its first win this season as the Eagles dropped matches to Appalachian State 2-1 and Jacksonville 3-0 after tying Marshall to open the season. WU is led by Tricia Vensel as she has tallied one goal and two assists on the season. Miami (3-2-0) comes into the ETSU Soccer Invitational having lost two-straight after opening the season with a three-game win streak. The RedHawks, who are in the middle of a six game road swing, have four players with at least three goals. Jess Kodiak tops the list for Miami with three goals, five assist and 11 points already in her sophomore campaign. |
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The
ETSU men’s soccer team is set to face Bradley and Evansville
this weekend in the ProRehab Aces Soccer Classic in Evansville, Ind. The
Bucs face Bradley today at 6 p.m., and then close out the tournament Sunday
at 3:30 p.m. against the host Purple Aces. Both Bradley and Evansville have
a rich history of success making several trips to the NCAA tournament. The
Braves have made it to the NCAA tournament in four of the last seven years
including an Elite 8 appearance in 2007, while the Purple Aces have played
in 11 NCAA Tournaments. The Bucs (1-1-0) are coming off one of the biggest wins in the program’s brief history defeating Clemson 1-0 on the road Monday. Senior Guilherme Reis (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) had the game-winner on a penalty kick in the second overtime. This will be the first meeting for the Bucs against both the Braves and Purple Aces. |
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The
ETSU baseball team opened fall practice on Thursday as the Bucs
start to prepare for the 2011 season. The Buccaneers suited up 33 players
for their first full-squad practice as the Bucs return 17 men from a 2009
team that finished third in the Atlantic Sun. The baseball team will close out the fall with the Blue/Gold World Series |
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The
King College men’s and women’s tennis teams opened the
2010-11 season Thursday with a pair of 9-0 victories over nearby Emory &
Henry College in front of a home crowd. Both the men’s and women’s
squads swept doubles action to gain control of the matches. The Lady Tornado
only lost four points while the men combined for a 24-6 result in doubles.
Newcomer Virginie Brisoschi (Geneva, Switzerland) won at No. 1 singles 6-1
and 6-0 over Savanna Tickle. Crystal Harwell (Nashville) and Nerece Stoltz
(Witbank, South Africa) were 8-0 winners in pro set matches. Harwell and
Stoltz teamed up for an 8-1 doubles’ victory. Sarah Anderson (Bristol)
also won 8-0 at No. 2 singles. After the three Tornado doubles’ points,
King secured the match with wins at No. 1, 2 and 3 singles. Oriol Mirallas
(Barcelona, Spain) was a 7-5 and 6-2 winner at No. 1. Freshman Jose Avila
(Cuernavaca, Mexico) won 6-3 and 6-3 while Patrick Jones (Bristol) locked
up the win for King after his 6-2 and 6-2 decision at No. 3. Seth Hale (Knoxville),
Eirikur Magnusson (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Christopher Harvey (Columbia
SC) all won 8-0 from No. 4 to No. 6 singles, respectively. Last season the Tornado had five 9-0 victories with two by the Lady Tornado. The Tornado and Lady Tornado will welcome Milligan College to Bristol for a |
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After winning its fourth straight A-Sun Championship a year ago, the ETSU men’s tennis team will kick of its 2010 fall tournament season today at the UVA Invitational in Charlottesville. The Bucs return seven key members from last year’s championship team, including 2010 Atlantic Sun Player of the Year Sander Gille (Kuringen, Belgium) and NCAA Singles Championship participant Charles Bottoni (Bois Guillaume, France). The Bucs also return all-conference members Robin Akser (Ornskoldsvik, Sweden) and Grega Teraz (Mojstrana,, Slovenia) as well as all-freshman member Jesus Bandres (Caracas, Venezuela). There are also two new faces on this year’s squad. Roger Ordeig (Gurb, Spain) and Jorge Varon (Valencia, Venezuela) will look to make an immediate contribution to the squad as both will be competing this weekend. ETSU head coach Yaser Zaatini will also send Jeremy Bonneville (Keerbergen, Belgium) and Bandres to the event to compete. Following the UVA Invitational the Bucs will hit the road to Louisville for the Louisville Invitational beginning next Friday. |
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The Atlantic Sun Conference and Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS) announced the schedule of games for their popular CSS A-Sun Game of the Week television package, marking the ninth consecutive year of A-Sun men’s basketball being featured in primetime. All 11 member schools will be featured at least once during the seven scheduled weeks of broadcasts. The slate of games opens on the first Friday of 2011, January 7 when Kennesaw State travels to Buies Creek NC for a meeting with one of the league’s four reigning regular-season champions. One week later, the conference’s two-most senior members, Mercer and Stetson meet in DeLand. The two met in a CSS Game of the Week at the Edmunds Center a season ago with the home-standing Hatters topping the Bears. The two-time General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Basketball Champion ETSU Buccaneers host Lipscomb on Friday, January 21. The following Friday Belmont welcomes FGCU to the Curb Event Center. The Eagles swept the season series a year ago, the first two wins for the Eagles against the Bruins. The February slate of games opens with USC Upstate travelling south to take on Stetson on February 4. The conference’s two postseason participants from a season ago, ETSU (NCAA) and Jacksonville (NIT) meet in Johnson City one week later. The Dolphins picked up the league’s first win in the NIT since 1996 with a thrilling, last-second victory at Arizona State. The Buccaneers have won three straight against the Dolphins and eight of 10 since joining the league in 2005. After opening the CSS slate at Campbell, Kennesaw State bookends the regular-season schedule of broadcasts with a familiar foe, UNF, in Jacksonville, on February 18. The Owls and Ospreys have met 26 times, going back to their time as rivals in Division II. CSS will carry five games of the 2011 General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Basketball Championships from Mercer’s University Center. Like it has since the men’s and women’s merged into a single event, CSS will provide wall-to-wall action of Semifinal Friday, airing all four contests on March 4. The women’s semifinals air at noon and 2:30 p.m. with the men’s games set for 6:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. The women’s title game on Saturday, March 5 concludes the CSS schedule of games. |
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