2006 News
A solid spring sports season has reaped individual rewards for 30 Wittenberg University athletes who were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) teams over the last two weeks.
A solid spring sports season has reaped individual rewards for 30 Wittenberg University athletes who were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) teams over the last two weeks.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio Wesleyan senior Sarah Downs has been named Player of the Year and Allegheny senior Giannina Coccaro takes Pitcher of the Year honors to highlight the 2006 All-North Coast Athletic Conference softball selections.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Wittenberg Tigers tuned up for the 2006 North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament with a 5-4 win over Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference regular season champion Transylvania on Wednesday.
OBERLIN, Ohio - The Wittenberg Tigers completed an unlikely rally Saturday, sweeping a pair of games from Oberlin College by scores of 7-0 and 12-1 to reach the four-team North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament. Wittenberg, which has won five of its last six games over an eight-day span, finished in a three-way tie for third place in the NCAC regular season standings and will be the No. 4 seed in the tournament by virtue of tiebreaker criteria.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - The Wittenberg Tigers needed a doubleheader sweep on Monday against visiting Wooster. As a vocal, partisan Wittenberg crowd looked on while happily munching on hot dogs that costed just a dime, the Tigers got just that - in most convincing fashion.
HIRAM, Ohio - The Wittenberg Tigers had the upper hand, but they couldn't close the deal on Saturday, settling for a doubleheader split at Hiram. In winning Game 1 by a 3-1 score and losing Game 2 by a matching 3-1 tally, the Tigers are now backed into a corner with one week left in the 2006 regular season.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - The Wittenberg Tigers needed a doubleheader sweep against visiting Kenyon on Wednesday, but they settled for a split after dropping Game 1 by a 2-0 decision and then bouncing back to claim a 3-1 victory in the nightcap.
GRANVILLE, Ohio - The Wittenberg Tigers had won eight of their previous 10 games, but that all came to an end at Denison on Tuesday night. Playing under the lights at the Big Red's newly renovated park, the Tigers had no answers on offense in a pair of shutout losses, 8-0 and 2-0.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - In football, announcers sometimes will say that a game is a "tale of two halves." On Monday against Wilmington, the Wittenberg Tigers swept a doubleheader from the visiting Quakers that was definitely a "tale of two games."
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - They did it the hard way, but when the dust had settled on a cool spring afternoon at Betty Dillahunt Field the Wittenberg Tigers had themselves a doubleheader sweep over visiting Allegheny. The Tigers, needing desperately to bounce back after losing a pair against Ohio Wesleyan to open North Coast Athletic Conference play on Wednesday, captured a pair of one-run victories against the Gators by 5-4 and 3-2 counts.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - The Wittenberg Tigers got their North Coast Athletic Conference season off to a rocky start Wednesday with a doubleheader sweep against one of the top teams in the preseason poll, Ohio Wesleyan. The Battling Bishops banged out an 8-2 victory in the opener and then stunned the Tigers with a three-run rally in the seventh inning to capture a 4-3 win in the nightcap.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Heading into the 2006 North Coast Athletic Conference schedule, the Wittenberg Tigers got just what the doctor ordered - a second consecutive nonconference doubleheader sweep. This one featured solid pitching and defense and timely hitting in 11-3 and 4-3 victories over the visiting Albion Britons.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - The Wittenberg Tigers needed a win in the worst way. They got their money's worth at home Wednesday in a doubleheader sweep of Mount St. Joseph, claiming victories by scores of 2-0 and 3-2. The most encouraging part about the victories is the way the Tigers gained them. Wittenberg is not an offensive juggernaut, meaning the Tigers need to pitch well and play good defense to give an opportunistic offense a chance to win games.
TIFFIN, Ohio - The Wittenberg Tigers suffered the cruelest of fates Saturday afternoon, dropping both ends of a doubleheader by narrow margins in the cold and occasional snow of a typical March day in northern Ohio. After holding early leads in both games, the Tigers lost 4-3 and 6-4 before heading for home.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - The Wittenberg Tigers are struggling against some of the best softball teams in the region, but perhaps that will make them better in the long run. As a team, the Tigers are now batting a paltry .226 as a team on the 2006 season after falling twice to Alma, 7-2 and 3-0. Wittenberg is now 6-8 on the season after losing four straight games in two days upon their return from a Spring Break trip to Kissimmee, Fla.
