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SWARTHMORE. Pa. - Swarthmore junior Brandon Washington had a goal and an assist and classmate Michael Bonesteel notched his second goal leading the Garnet men's soccer team to victory over the visiting Fairleigh Dickinson-Florham (FDU) Devils 2-1 on a soggy Clothier Field Wednesday night.

The start of the game was delayed by just over an hour after heavy traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike delayed FDU's arrival.  Heavy rain ended just before the eventual 8:05 start time.

Bonesteel put the Garnet (8-3) got on the board with 1:04 remaining in the first half.  The junior midfielder took a pass from Washington on the right wing near the edge of the box and lofted the ball just over the head of FDU goalkeeper Jared Drucker and into the upper right corner of the net.

Swarthmore held a 5-2 lead in shots at the half and generally was able to keep the ball away from freshman goalkeeper Zach Weimar, who made one save in the period.

Washington was on the finishing end of Swarthmore's second goal, which came just 5:58 into the second period.  Sophomore Stu Leon passed the ball up-field to classmate Ladule Lako lo Sarah, who touched it through to Washington.  The junior broke past the Devil defensive line, ran onto the ball, and shot it just past Drucker (who had come out the net), banking the ball off the post and into the back of the net.  The goal is Washington's first of the season.

FDU (3-9-1) cut the lead to one at 55:15 on an Alex Malcolm header.  The ball came bouncing towards the goal and Malcolm rose high and put the ball just over the outstretched hands of Weimar.

Swarthmore controlled play down the stretch, denying the Devils any hopes of a comeback.  Junior midfielder Andrew Macurdy was active off the bench, hitting four shots and putting two on goal.

Weimar finished the match with two saves while improving to 4-1 on the year.  Drucker made six stops for the visitors.  Swathmore finished the match with a 16-6 shot advantage.

Swarthmore resumes its Centennial Conference schedule this Saturday, Oct. 14, travelling to 11th-ranked Johns Hopkins for a 4:00 p.m. game.

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BRYN MAWR, Pa. - Swarthmore freshman Katie Kanuka scored twice in the final ten minutes to lead the Garnet to a thrilling 4-3 win at Centennial Conference foe Bryn Mawr in women's soccer action on a wet Wednesday afternoon.  Kanuka wound up with her first career hat-trick while classmate Caitlin O'Neil added her first collegiate goal and yet another first-year, Maggie DeLorme, chipped in with two assists.

It is Swarthmore's 11th consecutive victory over the Owls.

The Owls (5-7-1 overall, 0-6 CC) got the jump on the visiting Garnet, scoring two first-half goals - Laura Costanzo banged one in off the post at 30:42 and Jess Nishiguchi added her fourth goal of the season at 33:24.  The Owls maintained the 2-0 advantage into the intermission despite Swarthmore holding a slight shot edge (9-6).

Swarthmore got things rolling offensively in the early in the second half - O'Neil finished off an offering from DeLorme at 52:13, cutting the Bryn Mawr lead to 2-1.  Kanuka followed with her first score 1:15 later, finishing off a rebound created by a shot from DeLorme at 53:18.

Bryn Mawr retook the lead, 3-2 at 56:04 when Wallis Romzek fed Caitlyn Clark for her first score of the season.

The Garnet (8-3-1 overall, 4-3 Centennial) rose to the challenge as the rain intensified.  Kanuka knotted the match at 3-3, finishing off a corner kick from senior forward Natalie Negrey at 81:25. 

The game appeared to be headed for extra time until Kanuka completed her hat-trick with the game-winner at 88:32.  Kanuka got loose on a breakaway and beat the Owls' goalkeeper to the side for her 13th score of the season.

Swarthmore held a 22-11 shot advantage, including an efficient 14 shots on goal.  Garnet goalkeeper Anna de Regt '09 made six saves, while Bryn Mawr's Collette Pullion stopped ten shots.

Kanuka's hat trick is the first by a Garnet woman since Negrey accomplished the feat against Washington (Md.) on Oct. 4, 2003.  Kanuka now has a Centennial-leading 13 goals on the season, just six shy of the school record of 19 set by Kristen Tucker '90 in 1987..

Swarthmore will look to keep rolling on Sat., October 14 when it hosts conference foe McDaniel in a 7:00 p.m. contest.

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SWARTHMORE, Pa. - Ursinus senior Allison Doutt scored early in the second half to give the fifth-ranked Bears (11-2, 7-0 CC) a narrow 1-0 Centennial victory over Swarthmore at Clothier Field Tuesday night.

The game featured the top two defenses in the Centennial; Ursinus came into the evening allowing 1.39 goals against average while the Garnet were right behind with a 1.40 average.

Doutt tallied the lone score of the evening at 40:12 - the senior midfielder accepted a penalty corner push on the left side of the circle and out-raced the Garnet defenders to the front of the cage, unleashing a hard shot the found the back of the net.  

Swarthmore goalie Karen Lorang made a season-high 10 saves in the cage as the Garnet slipped to 8-5 overall and 3-3 in the Centennial.

Swarthmore returns to action this Sat., Oct. 14 when the Garnet travel to McDaniel for a 1:00 p.m.Centennial Conference game. 

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -  Swarthmore senior Eric Zwick was among nine golfers to break 80, leading the Garnet to a sixth place finish at the Muhlenberg Fall Invitational held at Lehigh Country Club Monday afternoon.  It is the first action of the 2006-07 season for Swarthmore.

On a seasonably warm day, Zwick posted a round of 79 (40-39) for to finish in a three-way tie for sixth overall amongst 52 participants.  The Garnet totaled 343 strokes, getting a pair of 87s from senior Zach Moody and sophomore Michael Bernasek, as well as a 90 from junior Armando Russo.

Brian Bergstol from Moravian led the Greyhounds (310 points) to the team title with a Invitational-best score of 73.

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Lancaster, PA - Swarthmore College field hockey senior Summer Spicer (Laurel, DE / Laurel) was named Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Week. 
 
Spicer, an art and psychology major, had two goals and two assists, including game-winning goal with 1:00 left in the first overtime leading the Garnet to a 3-2 upset victory over 19th-ranked Johns Hopkins on Oct. 3.  Spicer's first shot at 1:27 was tipped in by teammate Abigail Fischer and then she handed Swarthmore the lead again just before the half with a blast from the top of the circle off a penalty corner.  Spicer's game-winner in overtime also came off a penalty corner - the senior side-stepped a charging Blue Jay defender and let loose a rocket into the left side of the cage at 89:00.  It was the first game-winner of the season for Spicer (third of her career) and her fourth goal of 2006.  Spicer also added an assist on Swarthmore's first goal in a 3-2 defeat at Washington on Oct. 7.
 
Spicer, an All-Centennial selection in 2005, has four goals and four assists this season.  She is the second Swarthmore field hockey player to receive a weekly honor from the conference - goalie Karen Lorang was named Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 5 and Oct. 4.
 
Swarthmore has an overall record of 8-4 this season, including a 3-2 Centennial mark.

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SOUTH HADLEY, Ma. - Senior outside hitter Erica George and junior opposite Vanessa Wells had 15 kills apiece but Swarthmore's rally fell short as Bryn Mawr defeated the Garnet 3-2 at the 2006 Seven Sisters Volleyball Championship hosted by Mount Holyoke Sunday morning.

The Owls (10-8) won the first two games of the fifth-place match and then prevailed in the fifth and decisive game.  Game scores were 30-27, 30-28, 17-30, 26-30, 15-13.

Swarthmore sophomore Jen Wang led the defense with 21 digs and also got 17 digs from George, while Wells added five blocks at the net.  Freshman setter Kearney Bangs collected a match-high 38 assists and eight aces while adding 16 digs.  Junior middle blocker Katherine Gold contributed 12 kills and four blocks for the Garnet (11-8).

Swarthmore resumes play on Thursday, Oct. 12 when they travel down Rt. 320 to take on Widener University at 7:00 p.m.

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BALTIMORE, Md. - Johns Hopkins senior forward Laurie Baumann came off of the bench to register her second career hat trick, leading  #11 Johns Hopkins (10-2, 5-0 CC) to a 4-1 Centennial win over the visiting Swarthmore women's soccer team Saturday night.

The first half score remained 0-0 until Baumann scored off of a cross from Lisa Irizarry at the 41:39 mark.  Just three minutes into the second half, the Blue Jays struck again with an unassisted goal by Kaitlin Giannetti. 

The Garnet got on the board when freshman midfielder Maggie DeLorme set-up fellow classmate Katie Kanuka for her Centennial Conference-leading tenth goal of the season in the 52nd minute.

Swarthmore sophomore back Cait Mullarkey seemed to be everywhere on the field as she led the Garnet defensive effort.  

Baumann scored her second and third goals of the season to complete the hat trick, sending the Blue Jays to their second consecutive win.  The goals were assisted by Giannetti and Cassandra Vogel.

Swarthmore sophomore goalkeeper Anna de Regt faced 19 shots and made four saves while Kerry Hamilton made two saves for Johns Hopkins. 

The Garnet (7-3-1 overall, 3-3 CC) will continue to fight for a coveted Centennial playoff berth over on the Main Line Wednesday afternoon, taking on Bryn Mawr College (5-5-1, 0-4) at 4:00 p.m.

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SWARTHMORE, Pa. - Swarthmore got second-half goals from sophomore Yoi Tibbetts and junior Michael Bonesteel and three saves from junior goalkeeper Ryan Sutcliffe as the Garnet (7-3-1, 3-2 CC) took care of the Muhlenberg Mules (5-2-2, 2-2-1 CC) 2-0 on a cool Saturday evening at Clothier Stadium.

The first half saw 11 total shots but few good scoring opportunities.  Tibbetts nearly put the Garnet on the board midway through the period but an offsides call nullified the goal.

Swarthmore finally got on the board with 36:20 left in the second half.  The ball came into the box to Garnet forward Stu Leon '09, who was readying a shot when a Mule defender knocked the ball away.  Unfortunately for the Mules, the ball came right out to Tibbetts, who wasted no time in slamming it home."

The intensity mounted after the goal and, as the referees let the teams play, players from both squads complained about some of the no-calls.  Although Sutcliffe was rarely challenged, defender Darren Johnson '08 came on and blocked a shot by Mule midfielder Jonathan Kliewer in which he stood with one foot inside the goal but caught the ball in front of the endline.

Finally, with 3:40 to play, Bonesteel put the Mules away for the good.  The junior played give-and-go with freshman Andres Freire, who made a pretty backwards pass to Bonesteel, who bent the ball just under the crossbar for his first goal of the season.

The Garnet held a 10-9 shot advantage on the evening.  Sutcliffe and Mule netminder Peter Bennett made three saves a piece.

The win gets the Garnet a measure of revenge over the Mules, who defeated Swarthmore twice last season and eliminated them from the Centennial Conference playoffs.

Swarthmore steps out of conference play for Wednesday night's match with FDU-Florham.  Gametime at Clothier Stadium is 7:00 p.m.

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COMPLETE MEN'S RESULTS
COMPLETE WOMEN'S RESULTS

CARLISLE, Pa. - The Swarthmore women's cross country, led by Nyika Corbett '10 and Emma Stanley '09, finished second as a team while the men's side came in fifth place at the Long/Short Course Invitational hosted by Dickinson College Saturday morning.

The Garnet women totaled 13 points to finish second out of 14 teams in the 4K event - just behind champion Dickinson (12 points); it is the best finish for Swarthmore at the event (2002 - 27 points).  Dickinson's Caitlin Bradley won the individual title with a time of 14:14.  Corbett was the second runner to cross the line, finishing in a time of 14:59, and was followed in by Stanley in fourth position (15:15).  Swarthmore freshman Erin Ronhovde made it into the top-10 (seventh - 15:31) while sophomores Kathy Feeney (19th - 16:01) and Faith Pampel (20th - 16:05) sailed into the top-20.

Senior Vernon Chaplin paced the Garnet men to a team-total of 45 points, finishing fifth behind champion Shippensburg (17 points), Carnegie Mellon (20 points), Elizabethtown (27 points), and Haverford (30 points).  Chaplin finished eighth out of 151 runners with a time of 12:37.51 in the 4K run.  Junior Ross Weller was the next Swarthmore runner to finish, completing the course in 18th position (12:49.60), while classmate Jon Shoop was 22nd (12:54.80) and sophomore Erik Saka finished 31st (13:03.65).

The Garnet women will run in the Seven Sisters Championship on Sat., Oct. 14 hosted by Bryn Mawr at Rose Tree Park.  The Swarthmore men head to Center Valley, Pa. on the same day to compete in the DeSales University Invitational.

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CHESTERTOWN, Md. - The Washington College Shorewomen (1-9, 1-4 CC) erased Swarthmore's second-half lead with consecutive goals and went on to defeat the Garnet 3-2.  Senior Lindsay Roth and sophomore Ashley Gunter scored for Swarthmore (8-4, 3-2 CC).

Roth gave the Garnet an early 1-0 lead, taking a pass upfield from midfielder Summer Spicer '07 and beating the goalkeeper with 20:20 left in the first half.  The hosts tied the score eight and a half minutes later when, after a penalty corner, Rachel Miller deflected a Molly Gavin shot past Garnet goalkeeper Karen Lorang '07.  The score remained knotted at one heading into halftime.

Swarthmore retook the lead just 2:31 into the second session when Gunter deflected home a Morrison pass.  But that wrapped up the scoring for the Garnet, as Washington netminder Elena Nicholoff came up big with seven second-half saves (12 in the game).  The hosts tied the game with 17:31 to play on an Amanda Garbart home and got the game-winner from Megan Rainey, who banged a loose ball home with 5:57 remaining.

The Garnet outshot the hosts 18-9 and took 17 penalty corners to Washington's five.  Lorang made four saves on the afternoon.

Gunter's goal ties her with junior Abigail Fischer for the team lead; both are tied for second in the Centennial Conference.

Swarthmore will look to rebound on Wednesday, Oct. 10 when conference foe Ursinus comes to Clothier Field for a 7:00 p.m. contest.  The Bears are undefeated in conference play (6-0) and are ranked #6 in the country in Division III.