6 E ::i :5 a CIARAN KOHLl-LYNCH sports@technewsiit.com TechNews | Tuesday, Octoberz, 2012 XC finishes strong in 40th Annual Sean Earl Loyola Lakefront Invitational By Kira Vincent TECHNEWS WRITER The cross country teams stayed in Chicago this weekend to compete in the 40th Annual Sean Earl Lakefront Invitational hosted by Loyola, where the women raced a five kilometer race and the men competed in an eight kilometer race: Both teams competed well on this hot and hilly course: The women’s team had a number of personal records in their top seven, and all the runners ran strong, smart races: Abby Jahn led the way for the ladies, setting apersonal record with a time of 18:39 Jahn was followed closely by teammate Courtney Rouse, who also set apersonal record with a time of 18:49 Jordan Kelch, Kira Vincent, and Anne Crotteau finished out the scoring team close together with times of 20:02, 20:20, and 20:34 respectively Vincent was the third teammate to set a personal record in this race: Claudia Garcia had a strong finish and earned sixth place on the women’s team with a time of21:13: Garcia was followed by teammate Natalie Kruit, who finished out the top seven with a time of 21:21: Amy Zasadzinski, April Wanagas, and Isabelle Romero also had strong performances and finished with times of 22:07, 22:48, and 26:34 respectively This was a tough field with a large number of strong teams and fast runners, but the hard work put forth by the women’s team still earned them 23rd place out of 51 teams and put them in front of both St: Xavier and Trinity Christian, who will be competing in the women’s conference race at the end ofthe season. The men’s team put in a strong effort, but they were faced with diflicult conditions because they raced later in the afternoon, when the temperatures had reached their peak Ethan Montague led the Hawks across the line with a time of 27:19 Zach Gates was the next to finish in a time of 28:08, and was followed closely by teammate Phillip Cano who ranatime of 28:20: Landon Vowels and Andrew Montague finished out the scoringteam intimes of28:51 and 30:00 respectively Derek BurgeeB eckley was the sixth Hawk across the line with a time of 30:31, and was followed by Jeffery Somerfield with a time of 30:33: Colin Mcquone, Manny LeoneMadrigal, John Paowicz, Felipe Prada, and Konrad Sneizek also had strong performances with times of 31:34, 31:38, 32:46, 32:54, and 33:07 respectively The men’s hard work earned them an overall place of 32nd out of 47 teams: The next race for both teams will be in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on Saturday, September 13th: Women's soccer celebrates 2 wins on home turf By Heather Bickerton STAFF W RITE R The Illinois Tech Women’s Soccer Team are currently sitting 271 in the confer, ence with two blazingwins on their home field: Last week, the ladies played the Holy Cross Saint’s for homecoming and produced a stage gering 50 win. Goals came from senior Diana Otero, two from freshman Adrianna Maron, with Veronica Torres and Heather Bickerton completing the scoring for Illinois Tech: All in all, it was a good day for the Hawks, rec, ognising the achievements of seniors Amy Arnhart, Jess Carlson, Diana Otero, Lauren Capuano and Heather Bickerton. The Hawks then travelled to Elgin, Illinois to face the Judson Eagles; however, uni fortunately for the girls, a terrible first twenty minutes cost them the game: Judson man aged to find their way through the Hawks’ defence on numerous occasions and slot, ted the ball home twice within ten minutes, then followed with a longerange goal into the top corner: Despite the Hawks getting the ball down and beginning to find feet, their push for a comeback wasn’t good enough: On Saturday, the Illinois Tech Women’s Soccer team were back to the Hawks Nest where they faced up against the Roof sevelt Laker’s: Despite a lax start, the ladies got the ball down on the ground and began to find their passes: The home side began to ace cumulate plenty of chances in the Laker’s box, and were finally able to break the deadlock when Lauren Capuano dribbled the ball into the box, and placed the ball under the keeper Going into the second half, the Hawks knew they had to raise their level: This produced plenty of chances, which unfortunately were not taken: Tech fie nally added another goal to the tally when a loose ball in the box was poked past the keeper for Capuano’s second of the game: The Scarlet Hawks’ next game is tonight at Stuart Field against Care dinal Stritch University, KIO 7pm: Come out and support your teams! Premier League Review: Liverpool gains first victory By Nathan McMahon STAFF WRITER The weekend of Premier League pro, vided some dramatic results: To the relief of Liverpool supporters and Luis Suarez fantasy owners everywhere, Liverpool got their first victory of the season in a dominant 572 match with Norwich City Suarez scored his second hat trick at Carrow Road in 5 months, while Nuri Sahin and Steven Gerrard added to the tally Norwich got its goals from Steve Moria son and Grant Holt in the loss: Liverpool fie nally left the bottom three with 5 points, while Norwich with 3 points is in the bottom three: The leagueeleaders, Chelsea re, mained in top form with their 21 Victory over Arsenal: Chelsea stayed on top of the table with 16 points, with Arsenal holding their position near the top with 9 points: Nikicia Jelavic propelled Everton to another win in their fantastic start to the seas on when they def feated the struggling Southampton 31 Jelavic has been on a tear with 10 goals in 11 matches for Everton this season and scored twice on Saturday, while the third goal came from Leon Osman; Southampton’s lone goal came from Gaston Ramirez: Everton sits second on the table with 13 points, while Southampton still has 3 and is just barely out of the bottom three: Last year’s league champions, Mane chester City, came from behind to win 271 over Fulham, with goals from Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko: Fulham’s goal came from Mlade en Petric in the 10th minute: City is tied for third with rivals Manchester United with 12 points, while Fulham is 3 points behind: Mane chester United failed to earn points against Tottenham in a 32 loss, where they were constantly fighting an uphill battle: Nani and newly signed Shinji Kagawa scored for United, while Jan Vertonghen, Gareth Bale, and Clint Dempsey scored for Spurs; this was US: star Dempsey’s first goal since transferring to Tote tenham: This was also a big win for Spurs’ manager Andres VillaseBoas, who saw his team break a 23 year losing streak at Old Trafe ford: Tottenham earned three points and now has 11 to their name, just one behind United: Newcastle required some late hero, ics from Demba Ba to scrounge a point against Reading: Jimmy Kebe and Noel Hunt provided goals for Reading, but Ba scored two of his own: The equalizing goal for Ba appeared to be a handball, but the referee did not see it and Newcastle secured the points to bring their tally to 9 Reading continues its struggles af ter being promoted with only 2 points: Two first half goals from Peter Crouch gave Stoke City the 20 win over Swansea: Stoke now has 7 points, bringing them even with Swansea: Sunderland defeated a 10 man Wigan squad in a 10 result: Wigan lost Jordi Gomez early in the second half on a malie cious tackle, and was under pressure the rest of the game: Sunderland now has 7 points while Wigan still sits with 4 points: Darren Bent scored his 150th premier league goal to salvage a point for Aston Villa against West Brom in a 171 draw West Brom’s goal was scored by Shane Long: West Brom re, mains near the top of the table with 11 points while Aston Villa has 5 points on the season. NFL referees agree on 8-year deal after replacement ref fiasco By Ciaran Kohli-Lynch SPORTS EDITOR NFL fans across the nation breathed a collective sigh of relief this Saturday, after referees voted 11275 to approve a new eight, year contract: Most referees were able to get back to work as soon as Sunday afternoon, bring, Chicago Sports Round-up By Gus Alvarez STAFF WRITER This was another eventful week for Chicago sports: The Chicago Bears just secured a great defensive win against the St: Louis Rams with big play from Tim Jennings and Major Wright’s 457yard pick six making up for a quiet Bears offens e: Fantasy owners of that defense are sure to be happy Their running back Matt Forte was out against the Rams with an ankle injury, but new signing from the Raiders Michael Bush filled the spot without any problems with an ing to an end three weeks of controversial officiating by replacement referees from the NFL’s lower leagues: The deal comes in the wake of a number of controversial decisions made by the replacement refs; most notably, a heavily disputed touchdown call that awarded victory to the Seattle Seahawks over the Green Bay early touchdown. The Chicago White Sox (81770) are at the Los Angeles Angels (8369) this week and are still looking strong: However, as of late, the Sox have not had much clutch hitting and have been in a slump with only seven runs in their four, game losing streak Sox manager Robin Ventura is still pleased with his team’s demeanor during this recent rough patch of games: “You learn more about people through adversity," he said: “We are at a point where we just keep playing: It is no time to panic?’ The Cubs lost to the St: Louis Cardinals 574 in 10 innings and are looking to try to get some wins in as the season comes to an end for Packers on Monday night: The match was broadcast nation, ally, and prompted calls from presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for a quick resolve to the labor dispute: The new contract will see a ref, eree pay increase of $56,000 by 2019, to over $200,000, with new referees being awarded significantly improved retirement benefit packages: Roger Goodell, the NFL commise sioner, stated on Saturday evening, “We ape preciate the commitment of the NFL Referees’ Association in working through the issues to reach this important agreement" : Bears are back, Sox lose them: There seems to be a new CardinalseCubs rivalry running, however, which keeps fans on the edges of their seats: The NHL lockout completes its first week and training camps have been postponed in two countries meaning that the Blackhawks have been scattered around on what should be the beginning of their preseason training: The most disappointing aspect for the Blackhawks’ fans is that the popular training camp festivals such as the 5k run outside the United Center or having fans come and watch the first drills of the season have been cancelled or postponed until further notice: The Chicago Fire is sitting 2nd in the Eastern Conference with striker Chris Rolfe feeling confident back from his time in Denmark, tied for team scoring leader with six goals: They beat Montreal last week 371 and are definitely onpace to make a strong playoff run. As for the Chicago Bulls, the team is getting ready for the season with training camp beginning soon: Derrick Rose is ahead of schedule on his rehab and you can follow his recovery by watching a minieseries released by Adidas dubbed “The Return": You may also support him on Twitter with the hashtag #TheReturn: Feel free to follow your favorite TechNews Sports writer on Twitter as well , @ GusAlvarez7: