Athletics News

Senior forward Ele Forbes scored a career-high five goals and Lindsay Roth '07 added four to lead the Garnet (7-3, 2-2) to a 16-4 Centennial Conference victory at Bryn Mawr (3-7, 0-4) this afternoon.

Zoe Fuller-Young gave the Owls a 1-0 lead 2:06 into the game. The lead lasted just 50 seconds, as Katie Crawford '07 scored the first of two goals and the Garnet scored the next five goals to build a 6-1 lead.

Roth scored unassisted at 25:52 and Crawford hit the back of the net at 24:07 to make it 3-1. Forbes picked up her first goal at 22:44 and Niamh Shortt '07 made it a 5-1 contest with 21:46 remaining in the half. Forbes scored just 1:09 later on a free position shot. Millie Bond stopped the bleeding scoring an unassisted goal at 18:00 to cut the lead to 6-2.

The Garnet added three more goals before the half to run the lead to 9-2 as Megan Sanborn '08, Heidi Fieslemann '06 and Elizabeth Richey '07 each scored. Courtney Black added goal for the Owls with 3:24 left in the half and the Garnet took a commanding 9-3 advantage into intermission.

The Garnet went right back to work in the second half scoring the first seven goals of the period. Forbes and Roth each scored three more times and Fieslemann recorded her second of the game with 10:20 remaining to make it a 16-3 contest. Moriah Scott closed out the scoring for the Owls with 3:36 remaining.

Swarthmore held a 49-18 shot advantage in the game Susannah Blair '08 made seven saves for the Garnet in goal while Sarah Simons made 15 stops for the Owls.

Saturday, Swarthmore travels to Muhlenberg for a 1 p.m. Centennial Conference contest.

Swarthmore College senior Mary Mintel (East Hartford, CT - East Catholic) hit 1.000 on the week, going 6-for-6 with a home run and three RBIs to earn Centennial Conference Player of the Week honors for April 4.

Mintel had a double, two singles, a stolen base, and drove in the game-winning run in the Garnet's 1-0 win over Widener. The centerfielder collected three extra-base hits, scored a run, stole a base and drove in all three runs in Swarthmore's 3-2 victory in the night cap over the Pioneers. Mintel hit a double in the first, a triple in the third, and capped off the afternoon with her fourth home run of the season in the fifth inning.

The senior leads the Garnet in eight offensive categories and ranks in the Centennial Conference top-10 in six. Mintel is 10th in batting average (.386) and 6th in slugging percentage (.702). She ranks second with 22 hits, and four home runs, is third with four doubles and is ninth with 11 RBIs.

The Garnet Tide is currently 6-14 on the season and opens its conference slate at Ursinus tomorrow with a 3:30 doubleheader.

Chris Harman '08 scored a career-high five goals and Tim Chryssikos '05 added four goals and three assists to pace the Garnet (3-3) to a 12-10 non-conference victory at Drew (2-3).

Chryssikos sparked the Garnet to a 3-0 lead scoring the first goal just 1:15 into the game, then assisting on Harman's first just 48 seconds later. Harman then picked up his second goal at 8:42 off a Chryssikos feed.

Drew countered with four consecutive goals to take a 4-3 lead with 11:49 remaining in the half as the Rangers struck for three goals in a span of 2:07.

Harman collected his third goal at 11:03 to tie the contest at 4-4. The squads took turns hitting the back of the net as Gil Arbitsman and David Elam scored for the Rangers and Gavin Nurick and Ryan McKenna scored for the Tide to go into the half deadlocked at 6-6.

Chryssikos opened the third period with an unassisted goal 51 seconds in and harman posted back-to-back tallies one minute apart to give the Garnet a 9-6 advantage at 9:06. Tom Stitt scored just 16 seconds later to cut the lead to two goals. Chryssikos picked up his fourth hat trick of the season at the 1:23 mark to make it 10-7.

In this game of scoring runs Arbitsman posted back-to-back goals, his third and fourth of the game, to cut the Garnet lead to one with 10:09 remaining.

Tom Coughlin '05 scored unassisted just 45 seconds later and Chryssikos picked up his fourth goal of the game at 8:14 to give the Tide some breathing room. Phil Rosenau scored for Drew with 5:02 remaining but Garnet keeper Frank Mazzucco '08 kept the Rangers off the board the rest of the way making eight saves in the fourth quarter. Mazzucco finished the contest with 16 stops while, Ranger keeper Jason Woodford recorded 21 saves.

The Garnet host Ursinus on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. at Clothier Fields.

The 17th-ranked University of the South (11-1) defeated the 25th-ranked Garnet (4-4) 7-2 in a key regional match played at the Charlotte Gurrey Indoor Tennis Courts in Sewanee, Tenn. on Saturday evening.

Sara Sargent '07 was a 6-2, 6-2 winner at No. 5 singles and Marissa Matthews '07 and Sonya Reynolds '07 teamed up for an 8-5 victory at first doubles.

The Garnet return to action on Wednesday with a 3:30 trip to Bryn Mawr. Results

Vernon Chaplin '07 and James Golden '05 ran third and fourth in the 1500 meter race as Swarthmore competed in the annual Danny Curran Invitational hosted by Widener University.

The Garnet had five runnners post times in the top 15, led by Chaplin, who ran the 10th-best 1500 time in school history (4:01.34). Teammate Golden was right behind Chaplin in the first heat, running a time of 4:04.29. Garret Ash '05 ran 4:12.89 in the second heat, with teammates Paul Thibodeau '06 (4:24.28) and Keefe Keely '06 (4:26) overcoming the wet track with strong times.

Tyler Lyson '05 ran the 400 meter race in a stready rain, clocking in at 51.56 while teammate Matt Schiller '07 cracked the top 15 with a time of 53.02.

Duncan Gromko '07 ran a strong 800 meter race, defeating a pair of runners from Villanova University with a time of 2:01.85.

Ross Weller '08 (right) was only three seconds off a top-10 time in the 3000 meter steeplechase, rounding the course in a time of 10:22.48.

The Garnet will compete this Saturday, April 9th, at the Delaware Invite beginning at 10:00 a.m.

Results

Sarah Hobbs '06 missed a meet record by a tenth of a second, while Debbie Farrelly '06 and Laura Fety '06 won their individual heats as Swarthmore ran through the rain drops at the Danny Curran Invitational hosted by Widener University on April 2nd.

Hobbs ran in the first 1500 meter heat, posting a time of 4:57.09. The junior finished third, behind Villanova's Kirsty Smith (4:34.62) and All-American Joanna Simonis from Bryn Mawr (4.52.41), both of whom broke the previous meet record set by Swarthmore's Njideka Akunyili' '04 (4:56.59).

Farrelly (above), running in her first collegiate 1500 meter race, caught Villanova's Christina Rossetti on the final turn and passed her to win the second heat in a time of 5:06.57.

Fety posted the top time in the 5000 meter run out of 14 runners, crossing the finish line in a time of 19:19.17.

Jessica Zagory '05 continued to register quality heights in the high jump, leaping 4'8", good for ninth-best in school history. In other field events, Rebecca Burrow '08 finished second in the long jump with a distance of 15'0" while Sam Graffeo '07 tossed the shot the fifth-farthest in school history (34' 6.25").

Swarthmore will compete next in the April 9th Delaware Invitational, beginning at 10:00 a.m.

Results

Swarthmore saw their three-game winning streak come to an end on Saturday afternoon as Dickinson College handed the Garnet a 14-8 defeat in rainy Carlisle, Pa.

The Red Devils struck early, just sixteen seconds into the game and pulled in front 5-2 with 4:41 remaining in the first half. Swarthmore battled back, cutting the deficit to 5-4 following back-to-back goals from Megan Sanborn '08 and Ele Forbes '05.

Dickinson answered with a pair of goals of their own to push their advantage to 7-4 with 2:31 left in the half. Midfielder Rachel Jordan '08 swung the momentum in Swarthmore's favor, putting home an unassisted goal with 36 seconds remaining before half.

The Garnet carried that momentum into the second half as sophomore Lindsay Roth scored the first goal of the second half to bring Swarthmore within one goal.

Dickinson answered with five straight goals to take control 12-6, and the teams traded goalsl over the final 20 minutes to make the final 14-8.

Susannah Blair '08 had an impressive showing in net, making 23 saves for the Garnet (6-3, 1-2 CC). Dickinson goaltender Gabby Joffie played outstanding in the cage as well,stopping 18 shots on the day as the Red Devils won their seventh consecutive game.

Roth led Swarthmore with two goals and an assist while Sanborn tallied two scores of her own. Heidi Fieselmann '06, Forbes, Jordan, and Katie Crawford '07 all contributed goals for the Garnet.

Swarthmore look to rebound on Tuesday, April 5th when they travel to Bryn Mawr College for a 4:00 p.m. contest.

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Swarthmore pounded out thirteen hits, including a career-best three hits from third baseman Andy Bender '08, in a 9-6 loss to Muhlenberg at Clothier Fields on Friday afternoon in a game shortened by darkness.

The Swarthmore bats came alive early as Patrick Christmas '08 (above) put the Garnet ahead 1-0 in the bottom of the first inning. The freshman stroked an RBI single to right field, scoring Jody Fisher '05 from second.

Right-hander Alex Ryan-Bond held the Mules hitless for the first four innings, using a nifty double play by shortstop Sam Faeder '07 and second baseman Christmas to stifle a Muhlenberg rally in the top of the fourth.

The Mule finally got to Ryan-Bond in the fifth with four hits, combined with pair of Swarthmore errors, to generate five runs for the 5-1 lead.

Swarthmore answered back with a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth. Ian Adelstein '07 led off the inning with one of his two hits on the day. Travis Allen popped out to the Muhlenberg second baseman for the first out of the inning. Christmas, the Garnet team leader with ten RBIs, was the next batter up. The freshman immediately doubled home Adelstein, launching a 1-0 curveball from Mule hurler Jason Bonder to deep right field. Bender followed with a base hit, giving Swarthmore two runners on base. Faeder went down on strikes for out number two, but freshman Scott Dalane came through with a base hit, scoring Christmas to cut the Mules lead to 5-3.

Muhlenberg answered the Garnet flurry with a pair of runs off reliever Noah Cooper-Harris '07 in the top of the seventh, using two hits, a walk, and a pair of passed balls to take a 7-3 lead.

The Garnet continued to rip the ball in the bottom of the seventh when Ben Mendelson '08, Fisher, and Adelstein smacked base hits to load the bags. Designated hitter Travis Allen drove an 0-2 pitch from Mules reliever Eric Wolfer into left field, driving home both Mendelson and Fisher to cut the deficit to 7-5. Muhlenberg escaped without further damage, as Wolfer snared a come-backer off the bat of Christmas and started an inning-ending double play.

Muhlenberg generated more offense in eighth, loading the bases with two outs in the inning. Hart made the Garnet pay once again, lacing a two-run single to left to give the Mules a 9-5 lead.

The Garnet responded with a run in the bottom of the inning as Bender led off with a double. Bender would come around to score on a double play ball off the bat of Dalane. Scott Young '06 got a base hit to right and the Swarthmore bench stirred with hopes of more runs. Muhlenberg reliever Pete Lankarge quickly dispelled those thoughts, getting Young on a force out at second.

The umpires promptly ruled darkness had overtaken the playing field and it was unsafe to continue, ending the game after eight innings of play.

Bonder claimed his third win of the season for the Mules (10-4, 2-0 CC), pitching six innings, allowing three runs of seven hits while striking out nine batters.

Ryan-Bond suffered the loss for Swarthmore (2-10, 0-2 CC) spreading six hits and five runs over six innings.

Bender led the Garnet with two singles, a double, and run scored. Dalane and Christmas each had a pair of hits and two RBIs, while Adelstein contribute two singles and a run scored.

Hart had two hits and three RBIs for Muhlenberg, while Pete Oris and C.J. Kessler added two hits apiece.

Weather-permitting, Swarthmore will travel to 7th-ranked Johns Hopkins on Saturday morning for a 11:30 a.m. twin bill.

Senior center fielder Mary Mintel had a perfect day at the plate, hitting for the the cycle as Swarthmore swept Widener, 1-0 and 3-2, in a Thursday afternoon double header at Clothier Fields.

Mintel was three for three at the plate for the Garnet in the first game, hitting a double and a pair of singles, driving in the eventual game-winning run in the top of the first.

Sophomore right-hander Marianne Klingaman (above) twirled a gem in that first game, throwing a complete game four-hitter, striking out two and walking two for her second win of the season.

Christina Procacci '06 drew a two-out walk and advanced to second on a wild pitch by Pioneer hurler Mallory Meyer. Procacci came home on a single to center by Mintel, giving Klingaman all the support she would need.

Meyer (2-3) suffered the loss for the Pioneers.

Klingaman got into trouble in the top of the second, as Widener loaded the bases on a error and a pair of walks. Klingaman worked got out of the jam with the shut-out intact, inducing third basemen Ashlee Hutchins to fly out to Mintel in deep centerfield.

The second game featured more fireworks from Mintel. The senior drove in the game's first run in the bottom of the first, plating Danielle Miller '06 with a double into the gap. Swarthmore extended their lead to 2-0 in the third when Mintel tripled, driving in Procacci, who reached base via one of her three walks on the day.

Mintel saved her best for last, driving a 1-1 pitch offering from Widener pitcher Mollie Ahern over the left field fence for a 3-0 Garnet lead. It was the fourth home run of the season for Mintel and the sixth of her career.

To recap, Mintel was a perfect six for six with two singles, two doubles, a triple, a home run, four RBIs, scored once, and stole two bases.

Anna DiBiase went the distance for Swarthmore (6-14) in game two, claiming her second win of the season while striking out five Pioneer batters. Jackie Ahern took the loss for Widener (3-12).

The Garnet resume their Centennial Conference schedule on Tuesday, April 5th when they travel north to Ursinus College for a 3:00 p.m. doubleheader.

Game 1 Box
Game 2 Box

The Garnet (6-2, 1-1) used a balanced attack that featured seven different goal scorers in a 10-6 victory over visiting Washington (3-6, 1-2) in Centennial Conference action on Thursday night.

Niamh Shortt '06 paced the attack with two goals and an assist while Heidi Fieselmann '06 and Megan Sanborn '08 each scored twice.

The Garnet took a 5-4 lead into the break in a tightly contested first half. Megan Speare '05 opened the scoring with an unassisted goal at 21:59 and Erin Bollinger countered just three minutes later. Fieselmann then tallied the next two Garnet goals, the first off a Rachel Jordan '08 feed and the second on a free position attempts to make it 3-2. Shortt and Sanborn then scored free position goals 1:44 apart to give Swat a 5-2 lead with 9:09 remaining in the half.

Washington closed to within one on goals by Lindsay Eichner and Megan Block.

Swarthmore broke the game open in the second half scoring four consecutive goals to build a 9-4 lead with 13:07 remaining. Lindsay Roth '07 started the string at 26:21, Sanborn added her second at 20:07, Katie Crawford '07 hit the back of the net on a Shortt feed at 15:10 and Ele Forbes '05 scored on a break away at 13:07 to put the game away.

Bolling lessened the damage with her second goal of the game at 11:08 and Shortt added her second off a Roth assist at 8:58 to end the Garnet scoring. Tarra Boulden picked up her second goal of the night with 4:16 remaining in the game to close out the scoring.

Swarthmore held a 38-16 advantage in shots in the game. Susanna Blair '08 recorded seven saves in goal for the Garnet while Mollie Binotto made 15 stops for the Shorewomen.

The Garnet travel to Dickinson on Saturday for at 3 p.m. Centennial match-up.

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