College Sports

Tigers finish second, as Murtaugh and Kriegshauser perform well in tourney (05/17/08)
WAVERLY, Iowa -- DePauw entered the 2008 NCAA Women's Golf Championships seeded ninth, but posted the program's best four-round total in its seven NCAA appearances and finished second for the second straight year. The Tigers shot a 1,258 which easily topped last year's 1,303 and were second to Methodist, which won with a 1,219. Southwestern was third at 1,263...

Andrade, Smith match highlight of day for DPU (05/17/08)
ST. PETER, Minn. -- The DePauw doubles team of senior Erin Andrade and sophomore Kayla Smith advanced to the NCAA Division III quarterfinals following a 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 win over Paige Sumida and Whitney Waters from the University of Redlands. They'll take on Emory's Tshema Nash and Sabra Rogers who defeated top-seeded Siobhan Finicane and Olivia Muesse of Pomona-Pitzer 6-2, 6-4. Match time is scheduled for 3 p.m. CDT on Saturday...

Soultz, Gill named to All-American team (05/17/08)
DePauw sophomore pitcher Megan Soultz and junior catcher Rachel Gill have been named to the 2008 Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III All-America Team. The official announcement came at the national championship banquet last evening in Salem, Va...

Keith's season ends after droping match in three sets (05/17/08)
LEWISTON, Maine -- DePauw senior Kortney Keith went three sets in his NCAA Division III first round match with Cameron Taylor of Pomona-Pitzer, but suffered a defeat with the third set going to a tiebreaker. After winning the opening set 7-6 (7-5), Keith dropped the second 6-3. Taylor then took the third set by a 7-6 score (8-6 tiebreak)...

Keith bound for NCAAs (05/14/08)
DePauw senior Kortney Keith has been invited to compete in the NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Singles Championship. The 32-player bracket gets underway on Friday, May 16, at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Keith helped the Tigers to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title and to the third round of the NCAA Division III team tournament. He's posted a 16-13 singles record this year including a 13-10 mark in dual matches at number one singles...

Tennis players NCAA-bound (05/14/08)
DePauw women's tennis will be well represented at the NCAA Division III Singles and Doubles Championships as four DePauw student-athletes have been invited to compete. Freshman Janelle Arita and sophomore Kelly Buckley will compete in the 32-player singles bracket, while senior Erin Andrade and sophomore Kayla Smith earned a spot in the 16-team doubles field...

Weatherford earns honor (05/12/08)
Greencastle graduate Andy Weatherford was crowned colligiate champion at the Billy Hayes Invitational Friday. Weatherford ran a personal best 3:47.95 in the 1,500 meter to finish third overall. He has also qualified for the NCAA Mid East Regional for the steeplechase...

Women's golf back in NCAA (05/10/08)
After finishing second at the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships, the ninth-ranked Tigers earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Championships and are making their seventh straight appearance at the national tournament. The four-day tournament takes place at the Centennial Oaks Golf Course in Waverly, Iowa, with Wartburg College serving as hosts...

DePauw softball advances in tourney (05/10/08)
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. -- Top-ranked DePauw softball scored three in the second and two in the fifth and Megan Soultz tossed her 15th shutout of the season in a 5-0 win over Washington University in an NCAA Division III Softball Championship first round game...

DPU women's tennis to host tournament action (04/29/08)
DePauw University has been selected as one of eight sites to host the three opening rounds of the NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Championship. First-round matches at the Blackstock Courts on Friday, May 2, include Kenyon against Manchester and Albion versus Baldwin-Wallace. Saturday's second round features DePauw against the Kenyon-Manchester winner, while Denison faces the Albion-Baldwin-Wallace winner...

DPU men to open tournament in St. Louis (04/29/08)
The DePauw men's tennis team opens NCAA Division III Championship play this weekend, when they face Wheaton (Ill.) College in a second-round contest at Washington University. The complete bracket is available here. Grinnell and Westminster (Mo.) square off in a first-round match with the winner facing Washington-St. Louis in the other second-round contest. The second-round winners meet for the right to compete in the Division III quarterfinals at Bates College...

Hauter returns to DePauw as men's soccer coach (04/28/08)
Brad Hauter, a 1987 DePauw graduate, is returning to his alma mater as the head men's soccer coach in an announcement made by director of athletics Page Cotton. Just the third coach in the 42-year history of the DePauw program, Hauter replaces Cotton, who announced his resignation in September. Cotton compiled a 390-190-33 record in 39 seasons with the Tigers...

DePauw baseball takes series with Austin, 3-2 (04/21/08)
MILINGTON, Tenn. -- Senior pitcher Aaron Meyers tossed a six-hit shutout as 14th-ranked DePauw baseball defeated Austin, 6-0 on Sunday. With the win, the Tigers evened the best-of-three Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Cross-Divisional series with the Kangaroos...

DPU golf teams pick up pair of second-place finishes (04/21/08)
KRIEGHAUSER LEADS WOMEN AT ILLINOIS WESLEYAN SPRING FLING The ninth-ranked DePauw women's golf team shot a 639 and lost to host Illinois Wesleyan by one stroke at the Illinois Wesleyan Spring Fling at Ironwood Golf Course. Kristen Kriegshauser shot a 153 and tied for third, while Ali Murtaugh tied for sixth with a 157. ...

DePauw softball ranked number one (04/17/08)
The 33-1 DePauw softball team has earned the programs' first number one national ranking in this week's National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III Top 25 Poll. The Tigers have been ranked third in each of the last three polls and no lower than eighth all year. This week DePauw picked up 190 points and four of a possible eight first-place votes. Louisiana College was second with 189 points and three first-place vote, while the University of Texas-Tyler was third with 184 points...

DPU men's tennis blanks Wabash (04/17/08)
The 14th-ranked DePauw men's tennis team improved to 15-5 on the season following a 9-0 win over visiting Wabash at the Blackstock Courts. Wabash dropped to 10-12. The Tigers swept the doubles matches and won all six singles flights in straight sets...

DePauw women beat Manchester (04/17/08)
The sixth-ranked DePauw women's tennis team improved to 17-4 on the season following an 8-1 win over visiting Manchester at the Blackstock Courts. The Tigers won all three doubles matches before winning at first through fifth singles and only dropping nine games...

DPU baseball sweeps SCAC weekly honors (04/17/08)
In a week in which they went 4-2 including a split with Rhodes to earn the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Eastern Division's top seed, the 14th-ranked Tigers swept the SCAC's Player of the Week honors. Mike Stout was named the conference's offensive player of the week and John Tschantz was named the pitcher of the week...

Bretscher qualifies for Olympics trials (04/09/08)
Greencastle grad Andrew Bretscher has qualified for the U.S. Olympic Swimming trials held in Omaha, Nebraska June 29-July 6 and the U.S. Open set for July 29-Aug. 2 in Minneapolis, Minn. Bretscher swam a 55.05 in the 100-meter butterfly, coming in .54 seconds under the Olympic standard and .64 under the Open standard...

DePauw women's tennis wins a pair (04/09/08)
The DePauw women's tennis team defeated Rose-Hulman in dominating fashion Tuesday night with an 8-0 victory. All five singles matches came in straight sets, led by No. 1 singles Janelle Arita, who defeated the Engineers' Sam Danesis 6-2, 6-4. No. 4 singles Kayla Smith and No. 6 Tricia Wilkes each dropped just one game, with each player winning 6-1, 6-0...