April 3, 2001 - Wittenberg made its regular season debut under new coach J.J. Searls on March 29-30 at the Muskingum Invitational and will compete April 7-8 at the Kenyon Invitational. 

The Tigers, coming off a sixth-place finish in the NCAC a year ago, got a good tournament out of its young team, which includes five sophomores and two freshmen. Sophomore Pat Reist (Hamilton, Ohio/Hamilton) topped the team with a tie for sixth place. Just behind Reist's two-day total of 147 was sophomore co-captain Steve Spittle (Dublin, Ohio/Coffman), who posted a 148, which was good for a tie for 11th.