6 E : : i :5 a CIARAN KOHLl—LYNCH sports@technewsiit.com TechNews | Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Cross-country stays strong in competitions

By Kira Vincent
TECHNEWS WRITER

Both the men’s and women’s cross
country teams are off to a strong start this
season: The women have three new freshmen,
Amy Zasadzinski, April Wangas, and Isabelle
Romero, in addition to eight returning rune
ners: The men’s team obtained two new fresh,
men, Konrad Sniezek and Landon Vowels,
to add to their twelve returning members:

The women’s team worked hard
through the preseason, and their efforts have
paid off They received preseason votes, giving
them a national ranking: OnAugust 31st, both
teams travelled to Elmhurst, Illinois, and the
women competed well in the 4ekilometer race:
They placed 4th out of 16 teams and were only
points away from 3rd: Sophomore Abby Jahn
led the lady hawks ﬁnishing 3rd overall in a
time of 14:50, setting both a school and a per,
sonal record: Sophomore Courtney Rouse was

the next teammate across the line with a time
of 15:07, a personal record, and she placed 7th
overall Continuing the streak of personal ref
cords, senior Kira Vincent ﬁnished in atime of
16:06 claiming the 31st overall place: Coming
through in 42nd place with a time of 16:19 was
junior Jordan Kelch: Finishing out the scoring
for IIT was Anne Crotteau, who placed 56th
with a time of 16:40: Junior Natalie Kruit
and Amy Zasadzinski ﬁnished out the top
seven with times and places of 17:32/78th
and 17:59/92nd respectively The women per,
formed equally well the following Saturday at
UWeParkside, Wisconsin, placing 5th out of
19 teams in the 5 kilometer race: Abby Jahn
ﬁnished in 4th, followed closely by teammate
Courtney Rouse in 6th with times of 18:50 and
19:07 respectively Next across the line was
Jordan Kelch for the 21st place with a time of
19:43: Finishing out the scoring for the team
were Anne Crotteau and Kira Vincent in place
es of 44th and 46th with times of 20:25 and
20:29 respectively The strong ﬁnishes of the

women’s team at both races has earned them
the highest number of votes in school history,
and they are currently ranked 23rd nationally

The men’s team had a strong show,
ing through preseason despite the setbacks
they faced due to having several of their top
runners injured or just returning from injury
In the 6ekilometer race at Elmhurst, the men
placed 8th out of 17 teams: Junior Phil Cano
led the men placing 43rd overall with a time of
20:26: He was followed closely by teammates
junior Ethan Montague and senior Kenny
Murphy who placed 46th and 47th respece
tively, crossing only steps apart from one an,
other and both running a time 0f20:37: Senior
Derek BurgeeBeckley ﬁnished with a time of
21:30, earning him 67th place: Finishing the
scoring for the team was senior Zach Gates
placing 71st with a time of 21:33: Finishing
out the 6th and 7th positions for the team
were sophomore Colin McQuone and sophoe
more Peter Lau, ﬁnishing 106th and 107th
with times of 23:07 and 23:09 respectively

The men competed in the 8k at UWeParkside,
ﬁnishing respectably in 7th out of 15 teams:
Phil Cano was the ﬁrst hawk across the line
with a time of 27:29 earning him 34th place
overall: Ethan Montague was the next to ﬁnish
in a time of 27:44 for a place of 38th overall:
Finishing in times of 28:06 and 28:08 for 55th
and 58th place were Zach Gates and Kenny
Murphy respectively The last member of the
scoring team, Colin McQuone, came through
in a time of 31:32 at 104th place: The 6th and
7th runners, Jeﬁ’erey Somerﬁeld and Andrew
Montague, ﬁnished with times of 31:48 and
31:57 in 105th and 106th place respectively

On September 22nd, both teams
will be traveling to compete in the Wheaton
“GileDodd” invite: The women will be run,
ning in a 6ekilometer race and the men will
be competing in the 8ekilometer race: Both
teams have put in a lot of tough workouts over
the past few weeks, and expect all their hard
work to show in their upcoming competitions:
Wish them luck as they go off to represent IITI

Battle to the end, women’s volleyball falls short

By Roma Mirutenko
TECHNEWS WRITER

Over the last two weeks the Illinois
Tech women’s volleyball team has been on a
roller coaster, ﬁghting for a conference win and
a chance to compete with the top teams in the
nation: Despite the ﬁerce competition that the
team has faced, they have been able to stand
out and show that even though the team may

be small they are willing to ﬁght for everypoint:

On the weekend of Septeme
ber 7th, the Hawks traveled to Madone
na University, Coach Jacque Gatt’s alma
matter, to play a tournament with teams
from Michigan, Canada, and Illinois:

The tournament was very competie
tive but the Scarlet Hawks came in ready to play
ending 31 at the end of the weekend: Captains
Rebecca Bograd and Kate Kendall ended the
weekend strong with 132 assists and 39 digs

and kills, respectively Sophomore standout
Taylor Duman was named to the AlleTournae
ment team ending with 34 kills and 10 blocks:

Coming off the high of that week,
end, the Scarlet Hawks were prepared to ﬁght
their next opponent, Cardinal Stritch Univer
sity from Wisconsin: Over the week, practice
was devoted to becoming a better middle hit,
ting team: Duman stated that, “This week was
mentally challenging for us because we had
to reelearn how to be a middle: We needed to

Premier League Soccer back

By Nathan McMahon
TECHNEWS WRITER

The Premier League was
back in action this weekend after last week’s
international break: A matchup between Nor,
wich and West Ham ended in a 070 draw and
was overall a rather uneventful match: Nor,
wich sat one point out of the bottom three,
with three points, while West Ham sit on
the other end of table with seven: In an ab,
solute thrashing, Arsenal beat Southampton
61: The goals for Arsenal came from Theo
Walcott, Lukas Podolski, and two from Yao
Gervinho: Southampton received a bit of bad
luck as they conceded two own goals from
deﬂections: However, Arsenal players were al

lowed much too much space, which allowed
for the crosses that cost them their own goals,
so Southampton was not doing itself any fa,
vors: Arsenal has now moved into third place,
with eight points, while Southampton cone
tinues their struggle to adapt to life in the top
division: They sit at the bottom of the league
table and have yet to register any points:

Aston Villa claimed a big three
points jumping to the middle of the table af
ter defeating a strong Swansea side 20 The
Villans received quality performances from
goal scorers Matthew Lowton and Chris,
tian Benteke: Swansea has now dropped two
places and sits outside of the top three with
seven points: Fulham won three points af
ter defeating West Brom 370 with two goals

Lady Hawks begin

By Heather Bickerton
STAFF WRITER

The Illinois Tech women’s soc,
cer team were on the road this week to
South Bend, Indiana to face the Bethel Col,
lege Pilots: Unfortunately for the Scarlet
Hawks it seemed that their current run of
lackadaisical performances was to contine
ue after the Pilots dominated the ﬁrst half

Despite this, IIT found some en,
ergy and life in the second half 7 possibly
spurred on by Bickerton’s new shiny and
vibrant cleats r and fought their way back
into the game, despite the ultimate loss:

Bethel’s ﬁrst goal came when Nicole Steller
intercepted one of the Hawks passes which
led to a breakaway and a ﬁne goal from the
forward, who blasted the ball past IIT’s Amy
Arnhart in the goal: Only seven minutes later,
Steller found the net once more after placing
a ball through the Hawks’ defence from the
edge of the sixeyard box: The Scarlet Hawks
had moments of creativity once they calmed
down on the ball and passed it around, how,
ever no real chances emerged for the visitors:

The second half was a completely dif
ferent game as Illinois Tech began to connect
and look like a team that wanted to ﬁght for
something: Senior Lauren Capuano weaved her
way through the Pilots’ defence to ﬁnd Junior

from the recently signed Dimitar Berbatov
The other goal came courtesy of midﬁelder
Steve Sidwell: Goalkeeper Mark Schware
zer kept an impressive clean sheet with seven
saves: Fulham now has six points, while West
Brom sit one point above them with seven

Manchester United put on a show
against Wigan Athletic in a 40 win with goals
from Paul Scholes, Alexander Buttner, Nick
Powell, and Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez
United now sits in second place behind Chele
sea with nine points, while Wigan has four

One of the more surprising results
was Queens Park Rangers getting a 070 draw
with Chelsea, who had failed to drop a point
until this match: Chelsea remains at the top
of the table with ten points, and QPR still ref

become faster and trust our training to do so?’

The game was a battle to the end,
but Tech fell short, losing the match 2 to 3
against a strong outside hitting team: Due
man and Kendall both posted 12 kills, Junior
Roma Mirutenko posted 13 kills and Bograd
provided 40 assists: The Hawks look for,
ward to playing again this week with away at
Trinity International University on Tuesday,
and Judson University at home on the 20th:

in action

sides in the bottom three with a mere two: A
struggling Liverpool side only managed a 171
draw with Sunderland: Goals came from Live
erpool’s Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez, and
Sunderland’s Scottish forward Steven Fletcher:
Liverpool dominated but failed to take the
three points: Liverpool now has two points
following a miserable start to the campaign:

After struggling with two draws up
until this point, Tottenham put on a domie
nating performance in a 30 Victory over a
newly promoted Reading side: Goals came
from Gareth Bale and two from Jermaine
Defoe: Tottenham now sit in the top half of
the table, while Reading remain in the bot,
tom three with one point to their name:

to ﬁnd their form

Mariah Kuitse on the back post who slotted the
ball in, much to her surprise: This goal lifted
the team tremendously after little action in
front of the goal in their last few performances:

Fifteen minutes later after
pummelling Bethel’s goal, the equalise
er came when Veronica Torres released a
rocket fresh from the NASA space cene
tre into the top right corner of the goal:

The game was incredibly close, the
ball constantly going back and forth between
the two teams jockeying for a win Unfortu
nately for the Scarlet Hawks an unlucky incie
dent in their own box led to McPherson slot,
ting the ball in off the right post for the lead:

“After a disappointing start trail,

ing 20, the girls fought back to tie the
game and had chances to take the lead,"
stated Head Coach Marc Colwell: “If we
come out and play a full game the way we
did in the second half we will ﬁnd success?’

Despite the loss, it seems that
the Lady Hawks have ﬁnally found their
rhythm and they are looking forward to
building on this performance in their next
game at home vs: Taylor University

Come out and cheer on your Illinois
Tech Women’s Soccer team on Wednesday,
7pm as they search for their ﬁrst win: The
ladies are also playing on Saturday Septeme
ber 22nd for Homecoming and Senior Day