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NCAA D-3 Tournament pairings announced

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The NCAA Division 3 men’s and women’s basketball pairings were unveiled today.

On the men’s side, WIAC Tournament Champion UW-Platteville (18-10) earned the league’s automatic bid, making their 12th NCAA appearance.  The Pioneers will meet Capital University (Ohio) (20-7) in Rock Island, Illinois.  The Pioneers have won four National Championships in 1991, 1995, 1998 and 1999.

WIAC teams UW-Oshkosh and UW-La Crosse both received at-large bids.  Oshkosh (23-3) is the defending national runner-up but missed a chance to host when the Titans were upset in the WIAC Tournament by UW-Stevens Point.  The Titans will meet Midwest Conference champion Lake Forest College (Ill.) (18-9) in a first round game in Collegeville, Minnesota.  The Titans are making their program-record fourth consecutive NCAA appearance and ninth overall.

UW-La Crosse (17-9) will make its second NCAA appearance will face the University of St. Thomas (Minn.) (22-4) in a first round contest in Lincoln, Nebraska.  The other match-up will feature defending national champion Nebraska Wesleyan University (26-1) and Eureka College (Ill.) (13-14).

In the women’s field, WIAC Champion UW-Oshkosh received an automatic berth into the 64-team field.  The Titans (24-3) will make their fifth NCAA appearance in the last six seasons and 15th overall.  The Titans, won the National Title in 1996 and will host first and second round games.  Oshkosh will meet Pomona-Pitzer College of California (22-5) in its opening game. [Read more…]

Whitewater captures 2018 WIAC Football title

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Fifth ranked UW-Whitewater rolled to a 30-10 win on Saturday to wrap up the WIAC regular season championship and secure the league’s automatic bid into the NCAA Division III playoffs.

The Warhawks (8-0, 5-0) clinched the title after UW-Oshkosh fell to UW-Stevens Point 27-21 on Saturday.  The Pointers pulled off the upset after Sam Shafer took an interception back 42-yards for a score.

Whitewater claimed the school’s 36th WIAC championship.

Division 3 Scoreboard

River Falls 42, Eau Claire 24
La Crosse 35, Platteville 28
St. Norbert 17, Macalester 15
Lawrence 32, Beloit 27
Chicago 35, Ripon 6
Eureka 48, Concordia (Wis.) 45
Aurora 43, Wisconsin Lutheran 0
Lakeland 52, Benedictine 42
Carthage 33, North Park 20
Wheaton 58 Carroll 0

 

Pointers hire new football coach

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UW Stevens Point hired Greg Breitbach as the schools new head football coach this week.  Breitbach returns to UWSP where he was an assistant coach from 2003 to 2006.

 

Breitbach comes to Stevens Point after spending the last five seasons as head coach at Millersville University, a Division II program in Pennsylvania.  In 2017, he led the Marauders to the highest win total in 10 years.

Breitbach spend three seasons at Stevens Point as offensive coordinator for John Miech.   The Pointers went 18-12 during that stretch, reaching a No. 12 national ranking in 2003.

On the field, Breitbach was a quarterback for Montana Western in 1991 and 1992, captaining the team in 1992.  He also played quarterback for two seasons at Dickinson State, leading DSU to back-to-back NDCAC conference championships.

The Pointers will open their season Sept. 1 with a 1:00 p.m. kickoff.

St. Norbert, Stevens Point advance to NCAA D-3 Frozen Four

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Two Wisconsin teams will make up half of the four-team field at this week’s Division 3 NCAA Frozen Four in Lake Placid, New York.

St. Norbert College and UW-Stevens Point both advanced with victories over the weekend.

The Green Knights advanced for a record 12th time following a 5-2 win over Augsburg University in a national quarterfinal game at Cornerstone Community Center in De Pere, Wis.

St. Norbert (25-4-1) will face Colby College (17-10-2) in a national semifinal at 5:30 p.m. CT on Friday at Herb Brooks Arena.  The schools 12th appearance in the NCAA Frozen Four ties Norwich University.

UW-Stevens Point will face Salve Regina University in the other semifinal game.  The Pointers advanced by knocking off Adrian College 5-2 on Saturday in Adrian, Michigan.  Stevens Point improved to 21-5-3 on the season.  Freshman forward Zach Zech tallied a pair of goals in the win.

 

 

Vodenlich reaches 500 wins at Whitewater

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John Vodenlich (Photo Courtesy of UW-Whitewater/Craig Schreiner)

One day after clinching the WIAC regular season baseball title, UW-Whitewater coach John Vodenlich earned his 500th victory at the school in a 23-6 win over UW-Oshkosh.

The Warhawks went on to sweep the double-header, then win two more games at St. Norbert College on Sunday to finish the regular season with a 32-6 record, 17-3 in league play.  It also gives Vodenlich 503 career wins at Whitewater and 532 wins overall, counting his two year stint as head coach at Edgewood College.

Vodenlich, who is in his 14th season at the school, is the fourth coach in WIAC history to reach the 500 win milestone.

Whitewater will host the four-team WIAC Tournament this Friday and Saturday.  The top-seeded Warhawks will host Oshkosh in the second game of the tournament at 1 p.m. Friday afternoon.  Third-seeded Stevens Point faces 2nd-seeded La Crosse in the opener at 10 a.m. on Friday morning.

The WIAC Tournament champion will receive an automatic bid into the NCAA D-3 Tournament at Fox Cities Stadium.

Stevens Point men’s coach suspended

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Bob Semling

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has suspended men’s basketball coach Bob Semling for the rest of the 2016-17 season over four alleged major NCAA rules violations.  Those four allegations follow:

Allegation #1: It is alleged that during the 2011-12 through 2015-16 academic years, the men’s basketball coaching staff impermissibly directed, observed and engaged men’s basketball student-athletes in athletically related activities outside the institution’s declared playing seasons.

Allegation #2: It is alleged that in spring semesters between 2012 and 2015, the men’s basketball coaching staff impermissibly observed approximately 16 men’s basketball prospective student-athletes as they participated with men’s basketball student-athletes in activities detailed in allegation #1. [Read more…]

St. Norbert College & Stevens Point preparing for NCAA D-3 Frozen Four

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St. Norbert Green Knights

St. Norbert Green Knights

Historic Herb Brooks Arena will be the site this weekend for the NCAA Division 3 men’s Frozen Four Ice Hockey Championships.

The semifinals are Friday.  Third-ranked UW-Stevens Point (22-5-2) will face ninth-ranked SUNY Geneseo (20-4-6) at 3 p.m. Friday afternoon.  Second-ranked St. Norbert College (24-3-2) will face eighth-ranked UMass-Boston (23-4-3) at 6:30 p.m.

St. Norbert College is aiming for its fifth title in the last nine years, capturing titles in Lake Placid in 2008 and 2012.  The Green Knights captured the 2011 title in Minneapolis and in 2014 in Lewiston, Maine.  That latest title victory came against Stevens Point.

Stevens Point has also captured four titles, the last of which came in 1993.  UMass-Boston and SUNY Geneseo are both looking for its first national championships.

St. Norbert meets UMass-Boston in men’s ice hockey for the first time.  Head coach Tim Coghlin, in his 23rd season said unfamiliarity is not a bad thing.

AUDIO: Tim Coghlin on not having faced UMass-Boston before :19

Neither Coghlin or Stevens Point coach Chris Brooks wanted to discuss a possible championship matchup.

AUDIO: Chris Brooks says they’re not looking ahead :18 [Read more…]

La Crosse draws closer to WIAC title

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WIAC LogoThe UW-La Crosse Eagles moved closer to a regular season WIAC  title by knocking down UW-River Falls 87-77.

The Eagles (15-7, 9-2), who shot 55% from the field for the game, can wrap up at least a share of the regular season WIAC title with another win.

WIAC Scoreboard

UW-Oshkosh 71, UW-Eau Claire 49
UW-Whitewater 104, UW-Platteville 86
UW-Stevens Point 65, UW-Stout 61

 

UW-La Crosse reaches first ever NCAA D3 World Series

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NCAA Baseball Championship logo

It took a pair of wins Sunday in La Crosse, but the UW-La Crosse Eagles earned their first ever trip to the NCAA Division 3 College Baseball World Series.

The Eagles won Game 1, 5-4, on Ben Morgan’s RBI single in the top of the ninth against Coe College (Iowa).

Needing yet another victory against the Kohawks, UW-L found themselves down 4-2 early after surrendering a couple of home runs. Then the Eagles (33-13) got hot, scoring seven runs in the sixth inning en route to a 15-4 Midwest Region-clinching victory.

The No. 20 Eagles will open the D3 World Series Friday against No. 5 Salisbury (Md.) at 6:45pm at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton.

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NCAA Division 3 baseball regional update

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NCAA Baseball Championship logoIn the NCAA D-3 Central Regional in Waverly, Iowa, top-seeded UW-Stevens Point fell to Wartburg 4-2 on Friday and will face fourth-seeded Anderson in an elimination game at noon Saturday.

Fifth-seeded Carthage bounced back from a first-round loss to eliminate Greenville 10-2.  Carthage (29-14) will face Wartburg in an elimination game at 3:30 Saturday.

In the Midwest Regional in La Crosse, UW-Whitewater earned a 3-0 win over Washington University in an elimination game.  The Warhawks (35-10) play at noon Saturday against sixth-seeded Concordia-Chicago (32-14).  Concordia-Chicago knocked off Ripon College 6-5 to eliminate Ripon.

Second-seeded UW-La Crosse rallied on Friday for an 8-6 win over Washington University in 13 innings.  The Eagles (30-13) then fell to fifth-seeded Coe 11-5.  The Eagles play at 3:30 p.m. Saturday against the winner of the Whitewater and Concordia-Chicago game.