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Top ranked St. Norbert College was upset on Friday night, falling 5-4 to Northland College in Ashland.
The Green Knights (15-2-1, 10-1 NCHA) found itself trailing 3-0 after two periods and 4-0 early in the third.
After St. Norbert cut the gap to 4-2, Northland scored a fifth goal to take a 5-2 lead. The Knights would score two more times but couldn’t get the equalizer.
St. Norbert outshot Northland 49-26 in the loss.
The St. Norbert College women’s basketball team is unable to compete in its next 10 women’s basketball games due to a violation of institutional policy stemming from an on-campus alcohol-related incident involving a number of players.
The decision, as decided by the St. Norbert college student judicial review process, suspends the involved students for 10 games. The suspension is effective immediately and will run through Jan. 24.
“The health and wellness of our student body is of paramount importance,” Rev. Jay Fostner, O. Praem., St. Norbert College Vice President of Mission and Student Affairs said. “We have high expectations of our student-athletes and our students in general.”
Additionally, St. Norbert College is ineligible for the Midwest Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament and regular-season championship because it is unable to play a full conference schedule as result of a situation within an institution’s control.
St. Norbert College will continue with practice and other team functions prior to resuming its season on Jan. 27 at Cornell (Iowa) College.
St. Norbert head hockey coach Tim Coghlin
St. Norbert College hockey coach Tim Coghlin will be inducted into the 2017 class of the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame.
Coghlin is one of two inductees in the Hall of Fame’s 2017 class, joining John Kennedy of Franklin at the enshrinement banquet to be held Saturday, Sept. 9 in Eagle River at Eagle Waters Resort.
Coghlin has built the St. Norbert hockey program in a national powerhouse in his 24 seasons, compiling a record of 529-138-52. St. Norbert has appeared in 17 NCAA Division III Tournaments since 1997, highlighted by its national championships in 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2014. The Green Knights have made 11 Frozen Four appearances, and placed as national runner-up in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2016. Coghlin’s eight national title game appearances as a head coach is the second-most in NCAA Division III history.
As a player, Coghlin captained UW-Stevens Point’s first NCAA Division III championship team in 1989 and was an assistant coach with the Pointers when they won the national title in 1993 and finished runner-up in 1992. [Read more…]
Mason McMahon – Photo Courtesy of Jim Lund and UW-La Crosse Athletics
Mason McMahon scattered five hits in six innings to lead UW-La Crosse to a 5-2 win over top-seed and host UW-Whitewater in the NCAA’s Midwest Regional.
La Crosse (30-17) will face Concordia-Chicago in a winners bracket game at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.
The Warhawks fell to 36-8 and dropped into the losers bracket in the double elimination tournament. They’ll face St. Thomas (27-17) at 10 a.m. Saturday.
St. Norbert eliminated
The St. Norbert College Green Knights struck out 13 times and fell to St. Scholastica 2-0 on Friday morning, becoming the first team to be eliminated from the NCAA Midwest Regional field. [Read more…]
UW-Whitewater and UW-La Crosse both earned opening round wins on Thursday at the NCAA D-3 Midwest Baseball Regional in Whitewater.
The top-seeded and host Warhawks (36-7) held off St. Norbert College 4-2 in their opening round game.
Heath Renz (pictured) allowed one run and struck out five in four innings to improve to 9-0 on the season. Mike Nompleggi earned his 7th save.
Blake Fleischman and Steve Chamberlain both had RBI doubles for the Warhawks, who improved to 36-7.
Whitewater will face La Crosse in a winners bracket matchup at 4:30 p.m. today. In eight meetings this season, the Warhawks are 7-1 against the Eagles.
La Crosse cruises on day 1
Joel Zyhowski drove in three runs for the Eagles as they rolled to a 11-2 win over the Saints of St. Scholastica (32-9) in the first game of the day on Thursday. [Read more…]
Prucha Field – Photo Courtesy of UW-Whitewater Athletics
Second ranked UW-Whitewater will host the Midwest Regional of the 2017 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship starting Thursday at Prucha Field at James B. Miller Stadium.
The Warhawks (35-7 overall) are the number-one seed in the eight-team regional and will host eighth-seeded St. Norbert College on Thursday at 1:15 p.m. The Green Knights won three straight elimination games on Saturday to win the Midwest Conference Tournament.
UW-La Crosse also earned an at-large spot in the field and will be seeded fifth. The Eagles will face St. Scholastica in the first game of the dam on Thursday at 10 a.m. [Read more…]
UW-Whitewater (36-7) will host a four-team, double-elimination regional which opens today. The Warhawks will square off against Hope College (Mich.) (25.13) in its first game. Trine University (Ind.) (32-8) and Greenville College (Ill.) (19-14) are also in the four-team field.
It’s the fifth straight NCAA tournament appearance for Whitewater and 20th overall. The Warhawks have national runner-up finishes in 1987 and 2008.
UW-La Crosse (28-14) will host a four-team, double-elimination regional which starts on Friday. The Eagles will face St. Norbert College (21-14) in their opening game. UW-Oshkosh (30-11) will also take part and face Benedictine University (Ill.) (33-11) in its first game.
River Falls captured the WIAC Tournament Championship, knocking off Oshkosh 60-59. The Falcons captured the automatic bid for the NCAA Division III tournament in the process.
Clay Seifert’s jump shot with 2:35 to play put River Falls (24-3) up 60-58. Oshkosh’s Max Schebel made one free throw with 1:59 left and that closed out the scoring.
The Titans (17-10) had a chance. Ben Boots, who shoots 86.7% from the free-throw line on the season, missed both free throws after he was fouled with 55-seconds left and then missed a three-pointer at the buzzer.
Midwest Conference
Ripon College knocked off Lake Forest 81-72 to capture the men’s Midwest Conference Championship and earn a trip the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time since 2002. [Read more…]
Coach Ryan Kane talks strategy during a timeout with his team. (Photo: Courtesy of Ripon College Athletics)
NCAA scoring leader Ty Sabin poured in 33 points on Wednesday night, leading the Ripon Red Hawks to a 81-55 throttling of 7th-ranked St. Norbert College in Ripon.
The Green Knights saw their NCAA Division III record for longest winning streak against conference opponents snapped at 72. It also dropped St. Norbert College (11-3, 8-1 MWC) into a first place tie with Ripon (12-2, 8-1 MWC) atop the Midwest Conference standings.
Ben Bobinski had 14 points to lead the Green Knights in defeat.
The Green Knights struggled offensively on the road, hitting just 35% from the field, while the Red Hawks were red hot, hitting 55% from the field.
Ripon also converted on 8 of 19 three-pointers (42%), while the Green Knights made just 3 of 22 from distance (13%). Ripon also had the rebound advantage 39-29.
The two teams will meet again, on January 31st, at the Kress Center in Green Bay.
Ken Golomski
Former Ashwaubenon High School coach Ken Golomski will be inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame next March.
Golomski recently completed his ninth season on the St. Norbert football staff, coached 24 years, from 1983 to 2007 at Ashwaubenon.
As head coach of the Jaguars, Golomski won nine Bay Conference championships and qualified for the WIAA Playoffs 14 times. He led Ashwaubenon to WIAA Division 2 State Championships in 1996, 2000, 2001 and 2005, as well as state runner-up finishes in 1993 and 1998.
Golomski finished with a career record of 183-92 and was named Wisconsin Coach of the year in 1996 and 2005. He’s already been inducted into the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association (WFCA) Hall of Fame in 2005.
He’ll be honored at the WFCA Hall of Fame Banquet on March 25 at the Middleton Marriott West.