The St. Thomas football team flexed its muscles Saturday, improving to 3-0 on the season with an overwhelming 63-10 victory at Hamline. The 63-point performance was St. Thomas’ highest point total in 20 years.
“You never go into a game expecting you’ll score 63 points but we just played our hearts out,” said freshman defensive end Ayo Idowu. “The best part was the fact that we came in after halftime and kept up the tempo we had the whole game.”
The Tommie men’s golf team will divide its team between two tournaments this weekend, starting 10 a.m., Saturday, at the St. Olaf Invite. The second tournament, the Wis.-Eau Claire Invite, begins Sunday at 11 a.m.
The second and final round of the St. Olaf Invite tees off at 10 a.m., Sunday, and the Wis.-Eau Claire Invite finishes Monday starting at 10 a.m.
The game had no lack of physical play as both teams fought it out in front of the net and in the corners all game long.
The women’s golf team will head to Sartell Saturday for the first of two rounds in the St. Ben’s Fall Classic.
The Tommies have had strong showings in its last two events, finishing fifth last weekend at the Division III Classic and coming in at sixth at the Wartburg Invite the weekend before.
St. Thomas did not compete in the St. Ben’s Classic last season. Tee off is at noon.
In its first “home game” at Concordia’s Gangelhoff Center St. Thomas topped St. Mary’s 3-0. The Tommies ran its conference winning streak to 32 Wednesday, Sept. 23 with set scores of 25-13, 25-12 and 25-20.
The team is fresh off a week of tryouts, returning 13 players to the 24-man roster.
Coming off a win over St. Olaf in the MIAC opener, the Tommie football team looks to improve to 3-0 on the season as St. Thomas travels across town to visit the Hamline Pipers (1-1).
In a change handed all the way down from the NCAA presidential level, the MIAC must now honor the extra year of eligibility granted to students who redshirted when transferring into the conference from Division I and Division II schools.
Redshirting refers to when players are allowed to practice with a team but do not participate in NCAA competition, and therefore maintain that year’s worth of eligibility. All NCAA athletes are allowed four years of eligibility, and until this change was made, student-athletes who transferred into the MIAC after redshirting lost that year’s worth of eligibility.
D3Football.com selected St. Thomas’ offensive line for Division III Team of the Week after an exceptional performance Sept. 19 against St. Olaf. The offensive line helped push the Tommie run game to 201 yards on the ground, including two touchdowns for junior running back Ben Wartman.
St. Thomas men’s and women’s cross country teams are now both ranked in the top four in the region as the men moved up to fourth and the women slid down to third after last weekend’s races.
The women’s soccer team ran its conference unbeaten streak dating back to last season to 15 games with a 5-0 win Wednesday at Hamline. The win is St. Thomas’ fourth in a row, moving the team to 6-2 on the year and 3-0 in MIAC play.
The No. 6-ranked Tommies are 10-2 after two losses last weekend at the Washington Invite in St. Louis.
For many sports fans, the kickoff between the Pittsburg Steelers and Tennessee Titans marked the beginning of their favorite time of the year: football season. At St. Thomas, the real start to the season isn’t the NFL’s first game or even the opening game for the Tommie varsity football team.
The real season started Monday, Sept. 21 with the field goal kicking contest that “kicked off” the annual intramural football league. Freshman Jeff Thompson won the contest with a field goal of 45 yards.
The women’s soccer team will be in action 4 p.m. Tuesday at Hamline. St. Thomas is fresh off a 2-1 victory over Augsburg on Saturday and beat Hamline 2-1 last year in overtime. But the Tommies lost 3-2 to Hamline in 2007, the last time the women played on the Pipers’ home field. Jordan Osterman …
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