Athletics News

Swarthmore used a sweep of the singles matches to propel them to an 8-1 Centennial Conference victory at Washington this afternoon. The Garnet extends its Centennial win streak to 14 in a row.

Elli Suzuki '06, Sara Sargent '07, Waverly Lutz '07, and Erica Lukoski '08 were all double winners for the Garnet.

Suzuki and Sargent teamed up for an 8-2 victory at No. 1 doubles and then went on to post dominate singles wins. Suzuki was a 6-2, 6-1 winner over Blake Leeser at No. 2 and Sargent posted a 6-1, 6-1 win at No. 3 over Beth Foster. Lutz and Lukoski were 8-6 winners at No. 2 doubles over Leeser and Foster. Lutz then posted a 6-2, 6-0 victory at No. 4 and Lukoski was a 6-2, 6-1 victor at No. 6.

Soyna Reynolds '07 posted a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Allison Daciek at No. 1 and Jamie Midyette '08 completed the sweep with a 6-0, 6-2 win at No. 5.

The Garnet improve to 7-5 overall and 5-0 in the Centennial. Swarthmore is back in action on Saturday with a split squad playing at McDaniel at 11:00 and hosting Ursinus at 3:30. Results

Swarthmore (5-4) jumped out to a 5-0 first quarter lead and rolled to a 14-5 victory at Richard Stockton (7-3) in a non-conference game in Pomona, NJ. Chris Harman '08 and Jeff Donlea '05 each scored three goals and Tim Chryssikos '05 added two goals and four assists for a game-high six points.

Chryssikos got the Tide going early, scoring a goal just 8 seconds into the game off a Harman assist, and then made it 2-0 at the 8:35 mark on an unassisted tally.

The Tide closed out the quarter on a high note scoring three goals in the final 2:29. Ryan McKenna '07 scored unassisted at 2:29 and Donlea picked up his first off a Chryssikos assist with 1:19 remaining. McKenna the added a man up goal with 30 second left to give the Garnet a 5-0 advantage.

Stockton countered with two quick goals in the opening minutes of the second quarter to close to 5-2 but that's as close as they would get. The Tide answered with three more goals as Donlea, Harman and Tom Coughlin '05 gave Swarthmore an 8-2 halftime advantage.

Chryssikos set up the next two Garnet goals for Paul Chung '05 and Harman to extend the lead to 10-2 with 9:46 remaining in the third. Ryan McQuilken halted the Garnet scoring string at five goals when he scored a man down goal at 9:15 and then assisted on Anthony Severino's man up goal at 7:42 cutting the lead to 10-4.

Coughlin added his second score of the game and Gavin Nurick '07 hit the back of the net with 1:37 remaining to give the Garnet a 12-4 lead after the third.

Donlea and Harman each notched their hat tricks with fourth quarter goals as the Garnet held a 40-28 shot advantage over the Ospreys. Frank Mazzucco '08 made 10 saves in goal for the Tide.

Swarthmore returns to Centennial action on Saturday with a 1 p.m. trip to Dickinson.

Host Washington College (10-9, 4-5) defeated visiting Swarthmore College, 6-3, in a Centennial Conference baseball game this afternoon at Athey Field. The Garnet Tide fell to 4-15 overall and 2-7 in conference play.

Washington plated the first two runs of the game in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI triple by Eric Guettermann and an RBI double by John Schmidt, Jr. The Garnet Tide got one run across in the third inning, on a Sam Faeder '07 RBI single but the Shoremen plated three runs in the fifth to take a commanding 5-1 lead. Schmidt's second RBI double of the day was sandwiched between RBI singles from Guettermann and Jim Barossi in the three-run fifth. Each team scored a run in the sixth inning and the Garnet Tide scored a run in the ninth to provide the final margin.

Faeder was 3 for 5 on the day and Patrick Christmas '08 was 2 for 5 with an RBI and a run scored. Jared Leiderman '05 pitched a complete game with nine strikeouts, adding to his conference lead with 57 on the season.

The two squads hook up again on Friday at 3:30 on Clothier Field.

Mother nature works on her own schedule during the spring-time months and the rest of us just live in it. Frequent rain again this spring forced a pair of Swarthmore's early season non-conferece games to be postponed. Two Garnet opponents, DeSales University and Immaculata College, have opted to cancel previously postponed double headers (April 17th and April 20th), in order to complete their respective conference schedules on time.

In the meantime, Swarthmore will continue with their own Conference schedule today at 3:00 p.m. The Garnet square off against Muhlenberg (8-11, 2-2 CC), a perennial Centennial playoff participant a pair of games at sunny Clothier Fields.

Marianne Klingaman '07 dazzled the fans at Clothier Fields again, pitching Swarthmore to a 1-0 victory over Muhlenberg College in game two of the Tuesday afternoon Centennial Conference double header.

The Mules (9-12, 3-3 CC) benefited from three Garnet errors in the first game, rapping out seven hits to win 7-0.

Klingaman put Swarthmore on her back in the second game, retiring 11 batters in a row at one point. The sophomore right-hander threw all seven innings, earning her second complete-game victory of the season, and the fourth of her young career. She gave up three hits, maintaining her excellent control with three strikeouts and zero walks. Klingaman has gone a stretch of 74 consecutive batters without permitting a free pass.

The Garnet (8-18, 2-4 CC) put up the only run Klingaman would need in the third inning with a little text-book softball. Designated hitter Danielle Miller '06 laced a lead-off double off Mules pitcher Ally Ogden and was immediately sacrificed to third by left fielder Sam Brody '05. Catcher Christina Procacci '06 battled Ogden through an eight-pitch at bat before lofting a fly to left with enough depth to bring Miller home.

Swarthmore's victory continues their 2005 practice of exorcising past demons. Earlier in the week the Garnet halted a 26-game losing streak to Ursinus, and with their win today, ended a 13-game slide against Muhlenberg. Its been seven seasons since a Swarthmore softball squad took down one from Mules, that win coming via a 4-3 decision in game two off a 1998 doubleheader.

The Garnet look to keep their momentum going on Saturday, April 16th, travelling to Gettysburg College for a 1:00 p.m. Centennial Conference doubleheader.

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Haverford College scored the first seven goals of the game and never looked back, defeating Swarthmore 17-7 in Centennial Conference action at Clothier Field on Tuesday afternoon.

Lindsay Roth '07 led Swarthmore (7-5, 2-4 CC) with her third hat trick in as many games, and midfielder Heidi Feiselmann '06 added a goal and an assist. Megan Speare '05 put the Garnet on the board at the 13:24 mark, scoring her 13th goal of the season.

Megan Sanborn '08 and Ele Forbes '05 added goals while Susannah Blair '08 made 11 saves for Swarthmore.

Jen Weitz made 15 saves in goal for the Fords (7-5, 3-3 CC), with Mary van Ogtrop (4 goals, two assists) and Margaret Sampson (3 goals, 3 assists) providing the majority of the offense.

The Garnet will play at Clothier Field again this Saturday, April 16th when the Bears from Ursinus College travel down the Blue Route for a 1:00 p.m. contest.

Box Score

Swarthmore cruised to a 6-3 Centennial Conference victory over visiting Johns Hopkins on Faulkner Courts. Sonya Reynolds '07 was a double-winner in leading the Garnet to its 13th consecutive conference win.

Hopkins got off to the quick start, posting wins at second and third doubles to take a 2-1 advantage. Sonya Reynolds '07 and Waverly Lutz '07 teamed up for an easy 8-1 victory at No. 1 over Meghan Hausenauer and Jill Seideman to give the Garnet the first point but the Blue Jays took the next two matches. Vandna Jerath and Tonya Gulnick defeated Sara Sargent '07 and Elli Suzuki '06 8-5 and Michelle Liang and Becky Busch knocked off Emily Townsend '06 and Erica Lukoski '08 8-6.

The Garnet improved its streak to 13 in a row as they stepped up to dominate singles play. Reynolds was a 6-1, 6-0 winner over Liang at No. 1 and Suzuki recorded a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Jerath at No. 2. Gulnick defeated Lutz at No. 3, 6-1, 6-2 and Sargent dominated Bush, 6-0, 6-1 at No. 4. Townsend was a 6-1, 6-3 winner over Hausenauer and Sonia Vallabh '06 ended the contest with a 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 victory at No. 6 over Mary Gorshi.

The Garnet return to action on Thursday with a trip to Washington for a 4 p.m. match. Results

Nationally-ranked Johns Hopkins won both ends of a Centennial Conference double header in Baltimore, Md., defeating Swarthmore 12-1 and 25-0 on Sunday afternoon.

An injury-stricken Garnet pitching staff, playing their fifth game in three days, had a tough day against the vaunted Blue Jay lineup, owners of a .333 team batting average at the start of the week. Giving up big-run innings did in Swarthmore (4-14, 2-6 CC), as Johns Hopkins (15-5, 5-3 CC) posted a ten-run inning in game one and followed up with a seven-run second frame in game two.

Swarthmore third baseman, and Baltimore native Andy Bender '08 plated the Garnet run in the first game, lofting a fly ball deep enough to sacrifice home catcher Travis Allen '08 in the seventh.

The Garnet return to action in short time, travelling back to Maryland on Tuesday, April 12th for a 3:30 p.m. ball game at Washington College.

Sara Sargent '07 was a double-winner but the 25th ranked Garnet fell to No. 15 Carnegie Mellon 5-4 in a key regional matchup on Faulkner Courts.

Sargent teamed with Elli Suzuki '06 to post an 8-2 win at No. 2 doubles and Emily Townsend '06 and Waverly Lutz '07 were 8-5 winners at No. 3 to give the Garnet a 2-1 lead after the doubles session. Sonya Reynolds '07 and Marissa Matthews '07 fell to amy Staloch and Mona Iyer 8-5 at No. 1.

Reynolds rebounded to defeat Staloch 6-4, 6-2 at No. 1 singles but Iyer edged Suzuki 6-3, 6-4 at No. 2. Matthews retired with an injury at No. 3 giving the match to Alison Liu. Lui had a 6-3, 2-1 lead at the time Matthews retired. Sargent recorded her second win of the day with a 6-0, 6-4 decision over Kavita Shah at No. 5 and Mai Otsuka was a 6-2, 6-1 winner over Townsend at No. 6.

The match deadlocked at 4-4 came down to the No. 4 singles match of Lutz against Grace Hwang. Hwang prevailed in three sets 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to tilt the match to the Tartans.

The Garnet fall to 5-5 on the season and will return to Centennial Conference play tomorrow when Johns Hopkins visits at noon. Results

Swarthmore right-hander Jared Leiderman '05 (above) tossed a complete game four-hitter in game one and teammate Noah Cooper-Harris '07 went the distance in game two, as the Garnet swept both ends of a Centennial Conference double header, 3-2 and 6-2, at Clothier Fields on Saturday afternoon.

Leiderman pumped up the Swarthmore fans right from the get-go, fanning consecutive Terror batters in the first inning. The Garnet hung on to the momentum, generating some run support for their ace in the bottom of the second. Jody Fisher '05 led off the inning with a walk and moved up to second on freshman Travis Allen's single to left. Sam Faeder '07 flew out to center and Andy Bender '08 went down on strikes, but Fisher and Allen moved up a base on a passed ball by McDaniel catcher Justin Bilohlavek. Cooper-Harris made the Terror pay, stroking a 2-2 pitch into right field, driving in two runs for a 2-0 Garnet lead.

Swarthmore added another run in the third, with second baseman Pat Christmas '08 reaching on a walk, coming around to score when Allen beat the relay throw to first on a potential double-play.

Leiderman cruised along, allowing nary a base runner until the fourth frame. The Terror generated a run in the top of that inning, and threatened to do more damage in the sixth, loading the bases with nobody out. Leiderman got Bilohlavek on strikes for the first out before a ground out by Kevin Salamone brought in a run, making the score 3-2. Tom Wenrich, the next batter, ran the count full before Leiderman struck him out swinging to end the inning.

Leiderman left little doubt who would win in the top of the seventh, the final inning of game one, striking out three straight Terror batters to earn his second win of the year. The senior right-hander tossed seven innings, allowing two runs, one earned, on four hits. His nine strikeouts in the game give Leiderman 51 for the season, tying a career-high, and push his career total to 192, second most in school history and the fifth most in Centennial Conference history. Leiderman continues to inch up the Conference all-time pitching ladder, ranking fifth all-time in innings pitched (233.1), fifth in complete games (18), and tied for fourteenth in appearances (43).

Allen led Swarthmore with a hit, a run, and an RBI with Cooper-Harris contributing a single and two RBIs as the Garnet won their first Centennial Conference game of the season.

Cooper-Harris took the mound in game two, continuing the string of solid Garnet pitching by spreading seven hits over nine innings for his first victory of the season. He blanked the Terror through eight and a third, until McDaniel (4-9, 1-5 CC) scratched out two runs on two hits, a walk, and a Swarthmore error in the top of the ninth.

By that time the Garnet bats provided Cooper-Harris plenty of runs to work with. Swarthmore broke open a scoreless game in the bottom of sixth when centerfielder Scott Dalane '08 walked and scored on a double to right off the bat Pat Christmas '08. Christmas made it 2-0 Swat two batters later, scoring on an error by a McDaniel infielder.

Swarthmore (4-12, 2-4 CC) got two more runs in the seventh and two in the eighth off Terror relievers, building a comfortable 6-0 lead.

Ian Adelstein '08 had two hits and a run, shortstop Sam Faeder '07 stayed hot with a double and two RBIs, while Christmas added a double and an RBI.

It was the first Garnet sweep of a Centennial twinbill since Swarthmore downed the Bullets from Gettysburg College, 5-3 and 3-0, on April 20th, 2002.

The Garnet travel to Baltimore on Sunday afternoon, squaring off with #7 Johns Hopkins in a 12:30 p.m. double header.