2010 MIAC Baseball Playoffs
Dundas/Northfield, Minn. -- St. Thomas rallied back after a first round loss to win four straight games and take the 2010 MIAC Baseball Playoffs. The Tommies topped Augsburg 19-9 in the playoff title game on Sunday afternoon in Dundas, Minn.
St. Thomas earns the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Championships with today's victory.
In Saturday's 1 p.m. elmination game, #2 Concordia rallied back to force the game with #1 St. Thomas into extra innings, but the Tommies pulled out a 7-6 victory in 11 innings. St. Thomas then beat #4 Augsburg, who came into the game undefeated in the playoffs, 17-1.
On Friday, Augsburg upset St. Thomas 3-2 and Concordia held off #3 Saint John's 4-3 in first round contests. In Friday's winners bracket matchup, the Auggies knocked off Concordia 6-1 in Dundas. While in the first elimination game of the tournament, St. Thomas shut out Saint John's 5-0 at Northfield's Sechler Park on Friday night.
2010 MIAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships
WINONA, Minn. (Courtesy of Donny Nadeau, Saint Mary’s Sports Information) -- The University of St. Thomas track and field teams continued their Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) dominance over the weekend, as the Tommies swept the conference’s outdoor championships for the third year in a row, running away with both teams titles at the Saint Mary’s University Track and Field Complex.
The Tommie men collected their third straight MIAC crown - and 24th in the last 28 conference outdoor championships - Saturday afternoon, collecting 178.5 points to easily outdistance runner-up Hamline (155 points). Bethel (109), St. Olaf (87) and Augsburg (77) rounded out the top five.
Not to be outdone by their male counterparts, the UST women also collected outdoor title No. 3 in a row - and 24th in the last 26 conference outdoor championships - picking up 168 points to beat runner-up Gustavus by 25.5 points. Saint Benedict (89), Concordia-Moorhead (88) and Bethel (81) rounded out the top five.
During the two-day event, five NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championship automatic-qualifying marks were recorded, while 45 NCAA provisional standards were hit and four MIAC Outdoor Championship records were broken.
UST freshman Eyo Ekpo earned a pair of conference titles, winning both the long jump and the triple jump, while Bethel’s Marie Borner and Carleton’s Simone Childs-Walker were also double winners - Borner posted NCAA automatic-qualifying marks in sweeping the 800 and 1,500, while Childs-Walker cruised to wins in both the 5,000 and 10,000.
Along with Borner’s two NCAA automatic-qualifying efforts, St. Thomas’ Kyley Crotty (javelin) and Nikki Arola (400), and Bethel’s Taylor Ferda (400 hurdles) also earned automatic berths into the season-ending national championships.
Ferda’s 52.17 in the 400 hurdles, Arola’s 55.98 in the 400, Borner’s 2:07.84 in the 800 and the 10:46.23 posted by St. Catherine’s Greta Sieve in the 3,000 steeplechase were all MIAC Championship records.