TechNews | Tuesday, October 22, 2013

 

Women's soccer undefeated for third straight week

Veronica Torres
TECHNEWS WRITER

The Women’s Soccer team remains
undefeated for three consecutive games after
Tuesday’s tie with Purdue Calumet. The Scarlet
Hawks settled for a 3-3 draw after overtime, in
what proved to be a very physical match. From
the get-go, the Hawks looked strong, creating
combinations and threatening the Calumet
goal. In the 13th minute, leading goal scorer—
Adrianna Maron—added another to her tally
after tucking the ball away off an assist from

 

Anida Phetchanpheng. However, Calumet was
able to respond and the half ended 1-1.

Again, the Scarlet Hawks got to a
quick start off the whistle, getting a go-ahead
goal just minutes into the second half. This
time it was Phetchanpheng who would find the
back of the net with a shot into the upper 90.
A few minutes later, the Peregrines managed
to get behind the Tech backline and equalize.
However, the Hawks responded immediately
with another goal, as freshman Aesha Iackson
sent a ball over the head of the Calumet keeper
from 30 yards out.

The Hawks would hold onto the lead
until five minutes left in the match, when a
Calumet cross hit the post and bounced back
perfectly to the feet of Sandra Lozano to finish.
The remaining minutes of regulation and
overtime proved to be dramatic with several
chances at goal for both teams, but the score
would stay locked at three.

In the previous week, the Scarlet
Hawks came away with two wins to start their
unbeaten streak. The first win came after a
tough battle against University of St. Francis.
The game winner, Whitney Theisen headed

home off a corner kick with just 10 minutes
left in the match. Goalkeeper Roxanne Myers
had another stellar night along with the Hawks
defensive line to maintain the shutout.

Later in the week, the Hawks played
host to the Maranatha Baptist Bible College
Crusaders. Illinois Tech extended their win
streak with a convincing 4-0 win with two
goals coming from Maron, another from
Phetchanpheng, and one from Veronica Torres.

The Scarlet Hawks improve to 4—8-1
as they look to extend their unbeaten streak and
take on 13th ranked Judson University.

Women's volleyball dodges victory, Lady Hawks keep fighting

Roma Mirutenko
STAFF WRITER

The Illinois Tech Women's Volleyball
Team was faced with playing against two solid
opponents, Cardinal Stritch and St. Xavier, last
week. This week was also important because
it was their annual Dig Pink game to raise
awareness for Breast Cancer research. The
Scarlet Hawks were up against Stritch who

proved to be a strong competitor last Tuesday

night.

With the final scores 25-27, 20-25,
and 1 1-25, the Scarlet Hawks fought through the
whole match. Major contributors for the game
were junior Taylor Duman with 9 kills, and
Seniors Kate Kendall and Roma Mirutenko with
8 kills each. Junior Shea Manley finished with
19 assists while Senior Brittany Mead finished
with 14 digs.

For the second game of the week, the
Scarlet Hawks were up against St. Xavier. The
Hawks had just played them the previous week
and were ready to fight. During this nail biter,
the Hawks came close to winning, but fell just
a bit short. While the Hawks were fighting a
lineup, change proved to be for the better. Junior
Shea Manley controlled the team leading them
with 32 assists, and senior Kate Kendall finished
with 13 kills.

By switching up the lineup, they
allowed for some new faces to come in and
contribute to the fight. Freshmen Cassie Hansen
and Irena Grazinis were vital to keeping the
Hawks in the fight. They ended the night with
final scores of 11-25, 25-23, 15-25, 25-21, and
15-17.

Next week, the Scarlet Hawks will
face Robert Morris, and play in the Crossover
tournament in Indiana.

    

World Cup qualifying teams almostfinalized

Nathan McMahon
SPORTS EDITOR

Qualifying for this summer’s World
Cup in Brazil has nearly been completed around
the globe.

To begin in Africa, not a single
nation has yet completed qualification due to
the continents schedule, but with ten countries
left and five available spots for the World Cup it
will be a tight finish. So far the top nations have
been Ivory Coast and Ghana while the Nigerian
Super Eagles are also looking strong.

In the Asian qualifying region there
have been four nations to directly qualify leaving
two teams to earn a spot through a playoff. The
teams that have qualified are Iran, South Korea,
Japan, and Australia. This leaves Uzbekistan and

Jordan left for the playoff.

Meanwhile in the CONCACAF
region the United States has clinched the top
qualifying spot followed by Costa Rica and
Honduras. Mexico was barely able to hold onto
the fourth spot in the group which places them
in a playoff match against New Zealand.

Mexico’s World Cup dreams were
salvaged by two late United States’ goals in a
game against Panama to put Panama beneath
Mexico in the table.

The South American qualifying
group has also completed qualifying matches
with Argentina topping the group followed by
Colombia, Chile, and Ecuador.

Uruguay must win a playoff match
against an Asian qualifying group nation in
order to advance to the World Cup. Brazil as the

FIFA

WORLD CUP

 

host nation has automatically qualified for the
tournament and is looking as good a pick to

win the World Cup for a record sixth time.

The UEFA qualifying group is
dynamic as you will find with the regulars
such as Germany and Spain having qualified
while Bosnia and Herzegovina clinched their
first World Cup appearance as an independent
country Other qualified nations are Belgium,
Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, and England.

This has left many strong nations to
play in playoff matches. The playoff nations
are Croatia, Sweden, Romania, Iceland,
Portugal, Greece, Ukraine, and France. There
is still much drama to come in the World Cup
qualification matches remaining.

Image courtesy of ggarmycom