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HT Basketball returns to Keating, plans for improvement

By Ciaran Kohli-Lynch
SPORTS EDITOR

After a foureyear hiatus, IIT Base
ketball was back in action this week Atheltic
Director Enzley Mitchell has taken over the
head coach role of the team The team re,
turned to action with successive home losses
to Northland International University and

Robert Morris UniversityFSpringfieldI
Sophomores Ian Sisson and Richard
Wade scored 25 points between them in Fri,
day’s 69747 losses to Northland International,
and it was these two players, along with Free
shaman Armando Diaz who registered most
points in the clash against Robert Morris
History would suggest that the
team would face a tough challenge in being
competitive at the college level Before the de
cision was made to scrap the program in 2009

Premeir League Review

By Nathan McMahon
STAFF WRITER

The Premier League saw a number
of dramatic results this weekend Arsenal tied
Fulham 373, earning one point each The goals
for Fulham came from Alexander Kacaniklic
and Dimitar Berbatoy Lukas Podolski and Olie
ver Giroud were the goal getters for Arsenal,
who passed by a golden opportunity to win in
extra time when Mikel Arteta missed a pen,
alty Arsenal and Fulham now both sit with 16
points on the season.

Everton took all three points in a 21
win over Sunderlandi The lone goal for Sun,
derland came from Adam Johnson with Ever,
ton’s goals coming from Marouane Fellani and
Nikica JelavicI Everton now has 20 points and
a place in the top four while Sunderland sit on
9 points near the bottom of the tablet

Reading and Norwich drew 070 in a
very uneventful matchi Reading remains in the
bottom three with 6 points, while Norwich is
not doing much better with 11 points Char,
lie Adam gave Stoke City a 10 Victory over
Queens Park Rangers, who continue to disape
pointI Stoke now has 12 points on the season
while QPR is in last with just 4 points

A goal by Wigan Athletic’s Gary
Caldwell gave West Bromwich what proved to
be the winning goal in a 21 result West Brom
got its goal from Adam Morrison, while Wigan
received its only goal from Arouna Konet West
Brom now has 20 points on the season while
Wigan has just 1L Andres Weimann gained
two goals for Aston Villa but it proved to not
be enough to hold ofi’ the leagueeleaders, Mane
chester United from coming back and winning
3721 Javier Hernandez had two for United,
along with a goal by Ron Vlaari United cone
tinues to lead the league with 27 points while

Villa has just 9 points

Edin Dzeko maintained his exploe
sive form this weekend with another game
winning goal after coming off the bench in a
21 win over Tottenham Hotspur The other
City goal came from Sergio Aguero, with Ste,
ven Caulker scoring Spurs’ only goal City is in
a close second to United with 25 points while
Spurs continue to drop points and has 171

Kevin Nolan gave West Ham United
a 10 Victory over Newcastle as West Ham cone
tinues to impress West Ham now has 18 points
while the Magpies sit with 14 points

Luis Suarez scored his 8th goal of
this Premier League season to bring Liverpool
even with Chelsea in a 171 draw John Terry
scored a brilliant header for Chelsea, but soon
after left the game with what appeared to be a
substantial knee injury Liverpool now has 13
points on the season in one of their best per,
formances yeti Chelsea pulls even with City for
second with 25 points

However, the biggest news this week
in the footballing world has to be Glasgow
Celtic’s 21 Victory over Barcelona in the
Champions League Considered one of the
greatest teams to have ever played the sport,
Barcelona dominated possession in a fiercely
contested battle on Parkhead’s hallowed turf
Goals from Kenyan superstar Victor Wanyama
and subsitute Tony Watt gave the home side a
20 lead on a night when they were celebrating
their 125th anniversary Lionel Messi’s 92nd
minute reply proved only to be consolatory
On an evening when Barcelona manager Tito
brought on world cup winners David Villa and
Cesc Fabregas as substitutes, Celtic’s Neil Len,
non could reply only with an 18 year old strike
er, traded for $70,000 from Airdrie United last
summer It was this young man, Tony Watt,
however that wrote his name into the history
books with a dazzling 83rd minute striker

Swimming, diving's successful meet

By Aimee Dewante
TECHN EWS WRITER

This past weekend, the Scarlet
Hawks had two meets, one on Friday night
at home against North Central College, and
one Saturday afternoon away against UIC and
Butler women. Our men dominated North
Central College with a final score of 149 to
51, while our women lost 107 to 411 The meet
on Saturday was not scored, though UIC and
Butler were very motivating competitors as
they are both Division I teamsi

Friday night was an exciting time
with two new NAIA National Qualifying AF
cuts, both in the 400 IM by seniors Michael
Bodzay and Aimee DewanteI The Hawks
also got ahandful of Becuts by Yoni Pruzansky
in the 50 free, Arya Mohaimani in the 400 IM,
Aimee Dewante in the 100 Fly,

Michael Bodzay in the 100 Back,
Eric Grunden in the 500 Free, and Felipe
Bergh in the 100 Breast after an impressive
time drop of over 3 seconds

Another remarkable accomplish,
ment from IIT on Friday was the amount of
ineseason best times Of the 13 swims that
had a seedtime from this season, 11 were in,
season bestsi Also, while the women lost to
North Central College, the Hawks had 4 first
place finishes with only 3 girls swimming in,
dividual eventsi They did a great job of step,
ping up when one member ofthe team fell ill
and could only do the relay

On Saturday at UIC, the Hawks
picked up one more Aecut by Yoni Pruzansky
in the 200 Free

They also got three more Becuts by
Aimee Dewante and Michael Bodzay in the
200 IM and Yoni Pruzansky in the 500 Free
with an ineseason best time by almost 19 sec,
ondsI

We also saw some impressive time
drops with the added competition. Some
highlights include Nicole Frantz’s 1000 free
with an 11 second drop, as well as her 500 free
with a 9 second dropI Kevin Boldt also had an
exciting 1000 free and dropped over 10 sec,
ondsI

Eric Grunden already had the Becut
in the 200 IM, but just barely missed the Aecut
with a 3 second improvement from his seed,
timer

Maria Behrens continues to sure
prise us all as a new swimmer, and did not
disappoint Saturday with a 3 second drop in
her 100 free and a 2 second drop in her 50 free
split on the relay

Senior diver Ian McNair was dis,
qualified in the 1 meter at UIC, but made up
for it by finishing 6th on the 3 meter with a
score of 2481801

In general, Saturday was very suce
cessful, even though everyone was fairly tired
from racing the night before

This is a great indicator of how the
team will swim next weekend in a 57session
meet over three days at the Phoenix Invitae
tional hosted by the University of Chicago

by exFAthletic Director, Lee Hitchen, the team
had won only 4 CCAC conference matches in
4 years

Enzley Mitchell will be looking for
an improvement on this record, considering
the amount of money he has spent funding
this particular project

The team’s progress will indeed be
closely followed by members of IIT’s other
sports teams who have not seen scholarships
improved to match tuition increases, while

 

Enzley has invested heavily in his own team,
hiring no less than four assistants for the pro,
gram

The excesses of the Athletics Direce
tor should not be held against the team’s play,
ers, however, who have performed admirably
in their opening matches and deserve your
support Come down and cheer on the guys
on Wednesday 14th at 7pm in Keating Sports
Center, when they take on Purdue University
of Calumet“

Congratulations

Liam Barrett

:CCAC Player of the Year:

Men's Soccer prepares for Off-season

By Ciaran Kohli-Lynch
& Liam Barrett
SPORTS EDITOR & STAFF WRITER

IIT’s rollercoaster season came to a
premature and disappointing end in the first
round of playoffs, at the hands of rivals Saint
Xavier last Saturday However, there were still
manypositives to take from this first campaign
under new head coach Marc Colwelli Senior
forward, Liam Barrett, was selected as the
CCAC player of the year for the second time
in his IIT career, having led the team with 17
goals and 6 assists in 18 games

Junior winger, Robert Rixer, was also

recognized at conference level as he secured
a place in the second team after notching 8
goals and 2 assists during regular season play
There were a number of memorable victories
this year for the Scarlet Hawks, especially at
home where they ended up with an imprese
sive season record of 772711 One particularly
entertaining matchup was IIT’s opening day
fixture against Holy Cross, which ended 32
after overtime with central defender Nordine
Amlaiky hitting two unstoppable strikes before
Barrett converted a last gasp penalty

IIT will no doubt have a busy out,
offseason period as they look to build upon
their performances from this season and also
face the task of having to replace seven seniors
from their twentyeman rosterI