Another banner spring sports season has reaped rich rewards for 43 Wittenberg University athletes who were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams over the last two weeks.
The Wittenberg University men's lacrosse team was brimming with youth and inexperience in 2004, but that didn't keep the Tigers from competing well and putting the building blocks in place for a winning program in the future.
CLEVELAND -- Ohio Wesleyan junior John Schlegel (Chevy Chase, MD/Gonzaga) has been named Player of the Year to highlight the 2004 All-North Coast Athletic Conference men’s lacrosse selections. Schlegel had 26 goals and 17 assists to lead all the Battling Bishops during the regular season (3.58 ppg), helping Ohio Wesleyan earn a share of its 14th NCAC championship.
The Wittenberg men's lacrosse team ended the season with a fourth straight loss, this one coming at the hands of North Coast Athletic Conference tri-champion Wooster on Saturday. The loss dropped the Tigers to 4-12 overall after earlier completing a 2-3 NCAC campaign.
CLEVELAND -- Ohio Wesleyan’s Dave Maguire and Denison’s Peter Royer head an impressive list of past standouts
named to the North Coast Athletic Conference’s 20th Anniversary men’s lacrosse team. Hoffman and Royer are two of
the seven former NCAC Players of the Year represented on the 18-person squad.
The Wittenberg men's lacrosse team is hoping for a strong finish to a sometimes trying season, one that will act as a springboard for a young core of players as they prepare for the 2005 season.
The Wittenberg men's lacrosse team came close again in the last week, but once again the Tigers couldn't find the winning formula in losing road games on Saturday and Sunday at Greensboro and Guilford Colleges in North Carolina and back home on Wednesday against Denison.
The Wittenberg men's lacrosse team is once again competing well with top teams. Now the Tigers are hoping to get over the hump with the bulk of the schedule coming up over the next five weeks.
The Wittenberg men's lacrosse team has plenty of reasons to be optimistic - starting with the return of five all-conference veterans, the addition of one high school All-American and 10 other all-state rookies.
The 2004 edition of Tiger lacrosse is gearing up for another exciting season, and there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic, according to fourth-year Head Coach Vinnie Lang (Oswego State '84).