The Wittenberg University men's and women's soccer teams put together outstanding, almost parallel, 2005 seasons, reaching the four-team tournament field in the extremely competitive North Coast Athletic Conference before falling in the semifinals against the nationally ranked No. 1 seeded team. Not surprisingly, the successes enjoyed during the season resulted in recognition from coaches on the Great Lakes Region selection committee.
Another banner fall sports season has reaped rich rewards for 34 Wittenberg University athletes who were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams over the last two weeks, and a number of those individuals have also claimed regional and national awards.
Another banner fall sports season has reaped rich rewards for 34 Wittenberg University athletes who were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams over the last two weeks, and a number of those individuals have also claimed regional and national awards.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio Wesleyan senior forward Sarah Wall (Columbus, OH/Upper Arlington) and Wittenberg junior defender Jamie McIntyre (Columbus, OH/Grandview) have been named Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year for the second consecutive year to highlight the 2005 All-North Coast Athletic Conference women's soccer selections.
The Wittenberg men’s soccer team put the wraps on an encouraging 2005 season with a 3-0 loss at Ohio Wesleyan in the semifinals of the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament.
The Wittenberg Tigers enjoyed a breakthrough season of sorts. And while the 2005 campaign ended with a disappointing 3-0 loss at North Coast Athletic Conference regular season champion and second-ranked Ohio Wesleyan on Wednesday, the future is bright.
Finishing in a tie may be like "kissing your sister," but Saturday's smooch was one of the finest the Wittenberg Tigers have ever experienced. With a 1-1 tie on Homecoming and Reunion Weekend with visiting Wooster, the Tigers finished in a fourth-place tie in the final regular season North Coast Athletic Conference standings.
Wittenberg is always a busy place during its annual Homecoming and Reunion Weekend, especially in and around the athletic complex. The 2005 Homecoming and Reunion Weekend may well be the topper.
Wittenberg University is always a busy place during its annual Homecoming and Reunion Weekend, especially in and around the athletic complex. The 2005 Homecoming and Reunion Weekend may well be the topper.
Four games and only one goal. It had to happen sometime, and the Wittenberg Tigers chose Wednesday's road trip to Wabash College to explode offensively, garnering a 7-1 win in the process. It was the largest scoring output for the Tigers since Oct. 6, 2001, and an 11-0 shellacking of Oberlin.
It's never easy for the Wittenberg Tigers, but then again no one would expect life in the rugged North Coast Athletic Conference to be simple. After a 3-0 start to the NCAC campaign, the Tigers have gone 0-2-2, with the latest stumble occurring Saturday at Hiram in a 0-0 tie.
The Wittenberg men's soccer team is headed for the final week of the 2005 season with everything on the line. In taking on Hiram, Wabash and Wooster in a span of eight days to close the campaign, the Tigers hope to reach the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament for the first time in its six-year history.
It wasn't the result that the Wittenberg Tigers wanted, but in the end it was better than a loss. After dominating action for most of the game on Wednesday, the Tigers were forced to settle for a 1-1 tie with the visiting Earlham Quakers.
The Wittenberg Tigers were unable to wake up from a bad dream a year ago until it was too late as what had been a promising season turned sour with four straight losses to close the season. As the 2005 season winds to a close, the Tigers can only hope they aren't about to endure a repeat performance as they lost their second straight 1-0 game, this time to Allegheny.
The Wittenberg men's soccer team is coming off a loss to nationally ranked and unbeaten Ohio Wesleyan on Tuesday, but the Tigers remain in control of their own destiny as the 2005 season moves toward its conclusion.
The Wittenberg Tigers always give Ohio Wesleyan, the perennial North Coast Athletic Conference bully, a run for its money, and Tuesday's game on the Battling Bishops' home field was no different. OWU, ranked in the top five nationally and showing all signs of gearing up for another run at a national championship, squeaked past the unheralded Tigers, 1-0.
After spotting the Oberlin Yeomen a first-half goal, the Wittenberg Tigers buttoned things up defensively and got it in gear offensively in the second half to pull out a 2-1 win at Oberlin.
The Wittenberg men’s soccer team is playing as well right now as it has all season, despite a spate of injuries that have forced Head Coach Steve Dawson to get creative with his lineup. The Tigers have captured back-to-back home victories over Kenyon and Denison in the last 10 days to open the North Coast Athletic Conference schedule with a 2-0 record for the second straight year.
In the game of soccer, four goals in one game is a huge output, cause for celebration. If so, then what is four goals in the first half, including three goals in five minutes, cause for?
The Wittenberg Tiger offense will probably never be completely whole in 2005, but the sum of its parts were just enough on Saturday night at Edwards-Maurer Field in a 1-0 win over Kenyon. It was the North Coast Athletic Conference opener for the Tigers, who welcomed back junior Sebastian Missura from injury but lost Mike Conley in the second half after a collision with the Lords' goalkeeper.
The Wittenberg men’s soccer team has had an uneven start to the 2005 season, and injuries are becoming a factor after the Tigers opened up with nine games in 18 days. However, Wittenberg now has just three games over the next 18 days, starting with Saturday’s North Coast Athletic Conference opener against Kenyon, to heal up and prove to the rest of the conference and region that they will be a force to be reckoned with.
For the fourth straight time, the Wittenberg Tigers and Cedarville Yellow Jackets couldn't settle things after regulation while playing on the Yellow Jackets' home pitch. One overtime wouldn't do it. Two overtimes weren't enough either.
The Wittenberg Tigers needed a win, but after two overtime periods a tie was all they could come up with. So for the second time this season, Wittenberg finished a four-team tournament with a 0-1-1 record by virtue of a 1-1 tie with Transylvania in the finale of the Kiwanis Classic at Wilmington College.
It was just another mid-week game in a 2005 season full of them. The Wittenberg men's soccer team headed to Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, for what turned out to be a 2-1 victory for the Tigers.
To become a consistent winner at the collegiate level, young teams, no matter how talented, endure growing pains en route to their ultimate goals. After two straight wins over quality opponents, the Wittenberg Tigers fell flat in the first game of the Kiwanis Classic at Wilmington College, losing 3-0 to Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association powerhouse Hope.
The Wittenberg Tigers are now showing their teeth. For the fourth time in six games in 2005, Wittenberg squared off with an Ohio Athletic Conference opponent, and for the second time the Tigers came out one-goal victors.
A young team is going to have its ups and downs. After playing two excellent games in a one-goal loss and a tie in the season-opening Wittenberg Invitational and then defeating perennial powerhouse Wilmington on Wednesday, the Wittenberg Tigers came up empty Saturday in a 3-1 home loss to Rose-Hulman.
The Wittenberg Tigers continued their annual early season tour of the Ohio Athletic Conference on Wednesday, and for the first time in 2005 they came out on top. After tying Otterbein on Saturday and falling by one goal to John Carroll on Sunday in the Wittenberg Invitational, the Tigers returned to the home pitch on Wednesday and captured a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Wilmington.
The Wittenberg Tigers, many times featuring a lineup with nine freshmen on the field together, rallied in the second half to forge a tie with visiting John Carroll before eventually falling 3-2 in the finale of the season-opening Wittenberg Invitational.