2008-09 Weekly News and Notes | Feb. 2, 2009

LAST WEEK----------------------------------------------
TUESDAY, JANUARY 27
Wrestling RCTC 39, St. Olaf 19 | Results
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28
Women's Basketball Hamline 52, St. Olaf 48 | Box | Audio | Video
Men's Basketball Hamline 60, St. Olaf 58 | Box | Audio | Video
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30
M Swimming and Diving St. Olaf 94, St. Thomas 46 | Results
W Swimming and Diving St. Thomas 78, St. Olaf 49 | Results
M Track and Field vs. UW-River Falls, SCSU, UST, Carleton | Results
W Track and Field vs. UW-River Falls, SCSU, UST, Carleton | Results
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31
Wrestling @ Grand View College Open | Results
Women's Basketball Augsburg 48, St. Olaf 45 | Box | Audio | Video
Men's Basketball Augsburg 65, St. Olaf 61 | Box | Audio | Video
Women's Hockey St. Olaf 2, Trinity College 0 | Box
Men's Nordic Skiing @ USSA Supertour
Women's Nordic Skiing @ USSA Supertour

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Women's Hockey Trinity 2, St. Olaf 1 | Box
Women's Basketball St. Olaf 52, Carleton 48 | Box
Men's Basketball Carleton 78, St. Olaf 66 | Box

SUNDAY, JANUARY 25
Men's Alpine Skiing @ Spirit USCSA Race | Results
Women's Alpine Skiing @ Spirit USCSA Race | Results
Men's Nordic Skiing @ USSA Supertour
Women's Nordic Skiing @ USSA Supertour

THIS WEEK----------------------------------------------
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Women's Hockey @ Connecticut College, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Men's Basketball vs. Saint John's University, 7:30 p.m.
Women's Basketball @ College of Saint Benedict, 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Men's Hockey vs. Bethel University, 7 p.m.

Women's Hockey @ Bethel University, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Men's Basketball vs. Bethel University, 3 p.m.
Women's Basketball vs. Bethel University, 1 p.m.
Wrestling @ Concordia University, 3 p.m.
Men's Hockey @ Bethel University, 7 p.m.
Women's Hockey vs. Bethel University, 7 p.m.
Men's Swimming and Diving @ Carleton, 11 a.m.
Women's Swimming and Diving @ Carleton, 11 a.m.
Men's Track and Field @ Stout, Border Battle
Women's Track and Field @ Stout, Border Battle
Men's Alpine Skiing @ USCSA Divisionals at Spirit
Women's Alpine Skiing @ USCSA Divisionals at Spirit

NEWS/NOTES-------------------------------------------
Men's Basketball
- St. Olaf (8-11, 5-9 MIAC) has lost four in a row, including three
times this week... The Oles lost a two-point game to Hamline on
Wednesday, a four-point game to Augsburg on Saturday and a 78-66 decision at Carleton on Monday... The losses leaves the team three games behind Saint John's for sixth place for the final playoff spot with six games left... The Oles meet the Johnnies on Wednesday at Skoglund Center.

- The St. Olaf offense has been held in check during the four-game
losing streak... The team has managed only 61.5 points/game after averaging 71.6 in the three-game winning streak that preceded.

- Nate Krosschell had a career-best 20 points in Monday's loss to
Carleton... Krosschell went 3-for-3 from the arc in the loss, after
making 1-of-6 attempts in the team's first 18 games.

Women's Basketball
- St. Olaf (4-15, 2-14 MIAC) stopped a ten-game losing skid with a
52-48 win at Carleton on Monday, sparked by Jamie Erdahl's game-high 16 points... Erdahl had seven points in the final minute hitting a key layup and going 5-for-6 from the line to preserve the victory.

- The win was the team's first since Jan. 3... During the ten-game
skid, St. Olaf dropped six games by six points or less including a
48-45 game to Augsburg on Saturday, a 52-48 game to Hamline on Wednesday and an overtime game to St. Kate's on Jan. 21.

- St. Olaf plays at Saint Benedict on Wednesday before hosting Bethel on Saturday.

Men's Hockey
- The St. Olaf men's hockey team was 15th in the latest United States Collegiate Hockey Organization's Division III weekly rankings, released Monday.

- St. Olaf (12-6-1, 8-1-1 MIAC), alone in first place in the MIAC, was off last weekend and watched contending teams split their series... The Oles are two ahead of Hamline and St. Thomas and three in front of Gustavus in the loss column.

- St. Olaf, which has been led by senior Dylan Mueller (11 g, 14 a)
and sophomore transfer Isak Tranvik (10 g, 14 a), plays Bethel Feb. 6-7 (6-6-0 MIAC), St. Thomas Feb. 12-13 (6-3-1) and Augsburg Feb. 19-20 (4-6-0) in its final three series.

Women's Hockey
- The Ole women's hockey team (6-8-4, 5-5-2 MIAC) split its first two of a three-game non-conference trip to the East Coast, beating Trinity 2-0 on Saturday before falling to the Bantams 2-1 on Monday... The Oles finish the trip on Tuesday with a game with Connecticut College before returning to Minnesota for an MIAC series with Bethel University this weekend.

- The team had great goalie play in the first two games on the trip... Erin McNamara made 33 saves to earn the shutout win on Saturday and Jessica Ptachick made 50 saves in a hard luck 2-1 loss on Monday.

Men's Swimming and Diving
- St. Olaf defeated St. Thomas 94-46 on Friday... The Oles won
13-of-16 events in the meet... The Oles will swim at Carleton College on Saturday before one final tuneup for the MIAC's -- the Northfield Invitational on Feb. 10 at home.

- Senior Nelson Westby and the Oles are preparing for two months of championships... Westby, the two-time defending 200 IM NCAA Division III Champion, will go for three national titles in the 100 Breast, 200 Breast and the 200 IM at this year's championships at the University of Minnesota in March... Westby has the country's top times in each event.

- The MIAC Championships will also run at the University of Minnesota, Feb. 19-21.

Women's Swimming and Diving
- St. Olaf dropped a 78-49 meet at the University of St. Thomas on Friday.

The Oles will carry a 2-2 dual meet record into a pair of local tests
-- including a meet with Carleton on Saturday, Feb. 7 -- before the
MIAC Championships Feb. 19-21.

Men's Track and Field
- The St. Olaf men's track and field team hosted four schools in an
unscored indoor track and field meet on Friday night at the Tostrud
Center... St. Olaf had event winners in the three of the meet's
races... Sophomore Dobuol Ruon won the mile in 4:25.56. In the 800 meter run, senior teammate Cullen O'Neill was first, crossing the line in 2:31.83... David Green won the 800 meter run with a time of 2:01.09, and fellow Ole David Anderson was a close second in 2:01.31.

- The team will compete next on February 7 at the Border Battle in
Menomonie, Wis.

Women's Track and Field
- The St. Olaf women's track and field team hosted UW-River Falls,
Carleton, St. Thomas and Division II St. Cloud State on Friday in an unscored meet at the Tostrud Center... The Oles counted successes in the field events, winning twice... Amie Fillmore pole vaulted 3.55 meters for first place... Teammate Susan Kenzie jumped 10.62 meters to take first in the triple jump.

- On the track for St. Olaf, senior Annie Knutson took second in the mile run with a time of 5:20.40. Knutson also ran the 3000 meter run, finishing in 10:51.22 for third place.

- The Oles will compete next on February 7 at the Border Battle in
Menomonie, Wis.

Wrestling
- Ryan Timmerman (133) led St. Olaf at the Grand View College Invitational, going 4-2 at the event on Saturday... The Oles, 0-8 in duals this winter, wrestle Concordia University-Wisconsin on Saturday in Blair, Wis.