Bi-Weekly Write-Up, November 25, 2002

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 Last Updated:  Monday November 25th, 2002

 
Men's Basketball                 1-1 Overall      0-0 SCIAC
Pomona-Pitzer kicked off the new season by splitting 2 games at the Lopata Classic in St. Louis, hosted by Washington University.  In the first game of the tournament, the Hens took on MIT and won by the score of 59-46.  Thomas Hollo and Gavin Cree were the only Sagehens in double figures, with 11 and 10, respectively.  Alexander Lloyd pulled down a game high 13 boards in the contest.  In the 2nd and final game, the Hens took on host Washington and fell by the count of 77-44.  Edward Wexler-Beron was the only Hen in double figures with 12 points, while Lloyd and Tyler Velten chipped in with 7 and 5, respectively.  Velten led the squad with 7 rebounds in the game and Lloyd also denied 3 shots.  Pomona-Pitzer had a tough night from the floor, shooting just 26 % in the contest.  Alexander Lloyd was named to the All-Touranment team for his efforts over the weekend.
 
Men's Water Polo               7-21 Overall     5-4 SCIAC
Pomona-Pitzer finished 5th at the SCIAC Tournament, held at Redlands on the 16th and 17th of November.  In the first round of action, the Hens lost a tight 5-4 contest to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.  Glenn Anderson led the Sagehens with 2 goals in that game.  Carlo Diy made 9 saves in that opening game.  With that loss, the Hens could finish no higher than 5th at the tournament, and that is just what they did by beating both Caltech and Occidental.  Against Caltech, 7 different Hen players found the back of the net on the way to a convincing 12-6 win.  Diy made 7 saves in the cage for the Hens.  Against Occidental, the Hens did all of their scoring in the first half and then held on for the 6-5 win.  Ben Speicher had 4 of the Hens' 6 goals, with Glenn Anderson and Chris Prochnow accounting for the other 2 goals.  Anderson and Ian Kusow each had 2 assists for Pomona-Pitzer.  Diy made 8 saves for the Sagehens in the 5th place contest. 
 
Women's Cross Country 5-2 Overall       5-2 SCIAC
Frosh Amy Rapp paced the Pomona-Pitzer women's cross country team to an 8th place team finish out of 15 teams Saturday at the NCAA III West Regional meet at Prado Park, Chino. Rapp finished in 18th place with a time of 23:30 over the 6000m course (3.7 mile), and was quickly followed by Ann Prouty (22nd, 23:39), Nika Strzelecka (39th, 24:27), Susie Roley (48th, 24:51), and Laura Bishop (62nd, 25:20). Whitworth, WA won the meet with 66 points, while Pomona-Pitzer tallied 183 for eighth.
 
Men's Cross Country        6-1 Overall       6-1 SCIAC
Frosh Crosby Freeman scorched the course Saturday the 23rd at the NCAA Division III National Championships to become only the third cross country All American in school history for Pomona-Pitzer. Freeman finished 31st out of 215 runners in 25:46.6 over the 8000m (5 miles) course, and was the second freshman across the line. The national meet was hosted by St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.

Freeman (Piedmont HS, CA, 2002) was second in the SCIAC Championships and fifth at the West Region meet this season for Pomona-Pitzer. He joins Gerry Harnett '79 and Adam Boardman '01 as the only All Americans for Pomona-Pitzer men's cross country.

Pomona College frosh Crosby Freeman finished fifth Saturday at the NCAA III West Region Cross Country meet in Prado Park, Chino to qualify to the NCAA III National Championships this weekend. The first freshman finisher in the race, Freeman clocked 25:41 over the 8000m (5 mile) course to earn the first of five individual spots out of the Region. Freeman will race Saturday in the National meet hosted by St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Freeman has been Pomona-Pitzer's top runner all season, and at Regionals he led Pomona-Pitzer's team to a fifth-place finish out of 13 teams. The Sagehens tallied 143 points to finish behind Willamette, OR (46), Puget Sound, WA (50), Claremont-M-S (54), and Colorado College (100).

Other scoring Hens included: Nate DeFelice (26th, 27:10), Golden Krishna (33rd, 27:26), David Marshall (39th, 27:38), and Braden Boice (47th, 28:02).
Men's Swim/Dive               Overall: 0-1   SCIAC: 0-0

Alex Jakle, Andy Vonasch and Ben Demarchelier led a parade of improved Sagehen swimmers to a fourth place finish at the CMS Winter Invite over the weekend.  Jakle finished 3rd in both Backstroke events,  Vonasch was in the top 5 in both Breaststroke events and the 400 Individual Medley, Demarchelier was third in the 100 free.  Frosh Steve Hooper won the iron man award for his strong finish in 4 tough events –200 free, 500 free, 1650 free and 200 fly.  The next competition for the Hen’s is the Speedo Cup Meet in early December.
Women's Swim/Dive         Overall: 1-0   SCIAC: 0-0
Elana McDermott and Valerie Stout paced a strong Sagehen effort at the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Invitational.  Pomona-Pitzer finished 3rd out of 11 teams in the meet, behind only powerhouses Loyola Marymount and Cal Baptist.  McDermott, a frosh, placed 2nd in the 500 Free, 2nd in the 200 Free, and 2nd in the 1650 Free.  Stout, a sophomore, had a great meet, finishing 2nd in the 200 I.M., 1st in the 100 Breaststroke, and 1st in the 200 Breaststroke.  Other strong individual performances came from Kathleen Foley in the 100 Backstroke (4th), Sarah Ball in the 100 Backstroke (2nd), Also swimming strong races for the Hens were the 400 Medley Relay team (3rd), the 200 Medley Relay team (2nd), and the 400 Free Relay team (5th).    

Pomona-Pitzer dominated Chapman at home on the morning of the 9th, 163-62.  The Hen team got many strong performances, and among those were wins by the 400 Medley Relay team, Lucy Keller in the 1650 Free, Elana McDermott in the 100, 200, and 500 Free, Kathleen Foley in the 50 Free, Valerie Stout in the 200 Individual Medley, Joanne Sheng in the 100 Butterfly, Sara Ball in the 100 Backstroke, and Annie Lindberg in both diving events.

The Sagehen women opened up the season with a 3rd place finish at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational.    The Hens finished behind only Cal Baptist and Redlands.  Elana McDermott swam a 17:50.27 1650 Free to provisionally qualify to the national meet.  Winning races for the Hens were the 200 Medley Relay team, the 800 Free Relay team, Sara Ball in the 100 and 200 Backstroke, Lucia Schmit in the 400 Individual  Medley, Valerie Stout in the 200 Butterfly, and McDermitt in the 1650 Free.