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Tommies Today: Tommie-Johnnie hockey starts weekend
November 20, 2009Welcome to Tommies Today, a look at St. Thomas varsity sports for Nov. 20-21. It’s a busy two-day sports weekend as two fall teams and all six winter teams will compete.
Just one Tommie sports event will be held on campus over the next 4 1-2 months – the Dec. 11 home s
wimming dual meet with Gustavus that closes out the O’Shaughnessy Hall era.
The closest event to campus this weekend is Saturday’s Macalester Invite for men’s and women’s swimming.
A good rivalry game will be tonight’s Tommie-Johnnie men’s hockey game in Mendota Heights, with a Saturday night rematch in St. Cloud. UST women’s hockey competes today and Saturday against St. Ben’s.
Tommie men’s basketball has two games at the Wooster (Ohio) tournament, while the women’s hoops team plays twice in Redlands, Calif.
On Saturday, football has its much-anticipated NCAA playoff game in Monmouth, Ill., and men's cross country runs in the NCAA Championship meet in Ohio.
(Mike Ekern photo)
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Men's Hockey
The Tommie men’s hockey team (3-1-2 overall, 1-0-1 MIAC) plays rival St. John’s (2-3-1, 0-2) in conference weekend series -- 7 p.m. Friday in Mendota Heights and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in St. Cloud’s Municipal Arena.
The teams tied (1-1) 18 days ago in a non-conference game. Thirteen of the last 18 Tommie-Johnnie men's hockey games have been decided in overtime or by one goal.
Click here for live audio link (Friday) and live stats link (Saturday) by St. John’s:
http://www.gojohnnies.com/news/2009/11/19/HOCKEY_1119090704.aspx?path=mhockey
Score updates can also be found Friday on Tommiesports.com
Friday's game will feature a Fanamaniac bus that will give free rides to students from Flynn Hall starting at 6 p.m.
St. Thomas also has a 4-2 win over St. Mary's; a 5-4 win over St. Olaf; an 8-0 loss to UW-Stout; and a 3-0 win and 3-3 tie against Augsburg.
The Johnnies started its conference season last weekend with two losses to Bethel. They also have a 4-0 win over St. Mary’s; a 3-1 win over St. Scholastica; and a 6-3 loss to UW-Superior.
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Women's Hockey
The Tommies (1-2-1 overall, 0-0 MIAC) returns from a 13-day break and opens conference play with a weekend series vs. St. Ben’s (1-2, 0-0) -- 7:30 p.m. Friday in St. Cloud’s Municipal Arena and 2 p.m. Saturday on home ice in Mendota Heights.
UST swept last year’s games 6-0 and 3-1.
Saturday's game will feature a Fanamaniac bus that will give free rides to students from Flynn Hall starting at 1 p.m.
St. Thomas also has a 3-3 tie with UW-Eau Claire, a split in two close games with UW-Stevens Point and a 1-0 loss to UW-River Falls.
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Football
For the first time since 1990, St. Thomas football has advanced to the NCAA Division III playoffs. The 10th-ranked Tommies (9-1) received one of nine at-large berths into the 32-team playoffs and have a first-round road game on Saturday at No. 10-rated Monmouth (Ill.) College (10-0).
Click here for a video and audio webcasts:
D3Football.com also will have a live audio webcast.
Click here for a game preview:
http://www.tommiesports.com/ftbl/news/Notes_11-17.html
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Men’s & Women's Swimming & Diving
The Tommie teams were off last weekend after two busy weekends to start the season. They’ll compete again at Saturday’s Macalester Invite, which begins at 9 a.m. in the Scots’ two-year old pool
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Men’s Cross Country
The 18th-ranked Tommie men's cross country team competes Saturday at the NCAA Championships in Cleveland, Ohio. Their 8,000-meter race in a 32-team field starts at 11 a.m. Minnesota time. This is the 24th team trip to nationals but first since 2002.
Click here for a preview story written earlier this week:
http://www.tommiesports.com/mcc/news/Blog_11-18.html
Click here to view the meet website hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College:
http://www.bw.edu/athletics/09ccnationals/
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Women's Basketball
--Coach Ruth Sinn’s Tommies (1-0), fresh off a 67-61 road win at Wartburg, plays two games in California. The Tommies (19-7 last season) plays Chapman (0-1) tonight at faces Redlands (1-0) on Saturday night.
Chapman has had 20 wins in five of the last six seasons, and Redlands had a school-record 19 victories last winter.
In the Wartburg win, junior transfer Rachel Booth had 20 points, nine rebounds, five steals and three blocks to lead the way. They used a 13-0 run in the second half to break open a close game.
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Men's Basketball
--Coach Steve Fritz’ Tommies, ranked fourth in the Division III preseason poll, star their 2009-2010 season tonight in Wooster, Ohio. UST will play Heidelberg (23-6 two seasons ago, 8-18 last winter).
That winner plays Saturday night against the winner of tonight’s game between No. 9-ranked Wooster (23-7 last season, four starters back) or Carnegie-Mellon (20-7 last season, two starters back).
Wooster’s games will have live stats here:
http://www3.wooster.edu/athletics/MensBasketball/Boxes/2009-10/live/xlive.htm
Eight days ago, the Toms lost 87-76 in an exhibition game at Winona State.
UST has one other game in November – a Tuesday non-conference game at UW-River Falls.
Click here to read an October preview story on the Tommies:
http://www.tommiesports.com/mbb/news/Poll_10-22.html
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On Tommiesports.com:
--A Gene’s Blog posted Thursday laments how quickly time passes.
--Tommie ace Fritz Waldvogel is featured today by MinnPost.com
--UST junior Elliot Amundson made Academic All-America
--UST junior Emily Foster was a repeat All-America pick
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Link of the Day:
Are you thought your tuition hike was large? Read this:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/20/california.tuition.protests/
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Photos
Don't forget, you can view or purchase UST sports action photos at these outlets:
Mike Ekern/Thomas Whisenand photos at the Tommie Photo Store: http://photostore.stthomas.edu/... Note that a new Photostore feature lets you sign up to get alerts when new action photos are available to view and purchase.
Greg Smith action photos: www.gsmithsports.com
Players and parents who would like to order posed individual and team photos of Tommie football and hockey players can order online through the David Bank Studio website.
Football photos:
http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/ThumbPage.aspx?e=5151921&g=1PEM000Z04
Men’s hockey photos:
http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/ThumbPage.aspx?e=5151921&g=1PEM000Z05
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