2008-09 News
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Tiger Standout Katherine Hueter Reflects On European Summer Experience
July 17, 2009For Katherine Hueter, class of 2011, the unblemished record she and her USA Athletes International, Inc. (USAAI) teammates compiled while touring the Adriatic Sea Coast of Europe was just part of the story. -
Wittenberg Winter Sports Student-Athletes And Coaches Claim 29 Conference Postseason Awards
March 10, 2009An historic 2008-09 winter sports season wrapped up for the Wittenberg University Tigers over the last two weeks as the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) awarded 29 Wittenberg student-athletes and coaches with postseason honors.
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Stephanie Boardman, Carrie Dyer Earn All-NCAC Honors
March 05, 2009CLEVELAND, Ohio — Denison's Shaina Kaiser has been named Player of the Year to highlight the 2009 All-North Coast Athletic Conference women's basketball squad, announced today after voting by the conference's head coaches. Wittenberg placed two players on the All-NCAC Honor Roll.
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Wittenberg Hosts Pam Evans Smith 5K Memorial Walk/Run To Benefit Scholarship Fund
February 27, 2009Members of the Wittenberg community will come together again to honor the memory of former Women's Basketball Head Coach and Associate Director of Athletics Pam Evans Smith, class of 1982, with the second annual Pam Evans Smith 5K Memorial Walk/Run Saturday, March 28.
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Wittenberg Falls At Ohio Wesleyan In NCAC Tournament Quarterfinals
February 24, 2009The Wittenberg Tigers jumped out to an early lead in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Tournament quarterfinals, but they couldn't hold on as the No. 4 seeded Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops pulled out a 67-61 victory.
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Wittenberg Closes Out Regular Season with Road Rout
February 21, 2009A complete team effort sent the Tiger women's basketball team into the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) postseason on a high note after a 91-50 domination of Oberlin in the regular season finale.
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Tiger Rally Falls Short Against Capital
February 16, 2009Down 19 with less than eight minutes to go, an inspired Wittenberg Tiger team rallied to cut the deficit to six but could not complete the comeback in a 61-53 home finale loss against Capital.
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Inspired Senior Day Performance Lifts Tigers To Win
February 14, 2009The Wittenberg women sent their two senior players out in style with a 69-54 victory over the College of Wooster in the final home conference game of the season.
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Tigers Fall In Key NCAC Game At Ohio Wesleyan
February 11, 2009The Wittenberg women's basketball team has struggled to protect the basketball in recent weeks, and the team's fifth loss in the last six games followed the trend as the Tigers committed a staggering 27 turnovers in a 64-53 loss to North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) rival Ohio Wesleyan.
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Wittenberg Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Hosts Take A Kid To The Game Day Feb. 14
February 07, 2009The Wittenberg University Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) will host its first-ever Take a Kid to the Game Day on Saturday, Feb. 14, part of a daylong celebration of basketball and community in Wittenberg's Pam Evans Smith Arena.
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Wittenberg Picks Up Conference Rout to Snap Skid
February 07, 2009On National Girls and Women in Sports Day, the Tigers turned in one of their most complete performances of the year in a 74-46 rout of North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) foe Hiram.
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Tigers' Skid Continues After Gator Rally
February 06, 2009Another close contest found the Tigers on the short end in a pivotal North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) battle. This time, a nine-plus minute scoring drought midway through the second stanza cost Wittenberg against Allegheny in a 58-52 loss.
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Big Second Half Pushes Kenyon Past Tigers
February 03, 2009The Kenyon Ladies blitzed the Wittenberg Tigers with a hot-shooting second half to pull away for a 71-57 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) victory.
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Tiger Rally Comes Up Short At Wooster
January 31, 2009The Wittenberg Tigers dropped their second straight North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) road game, this time to hot-shooting Wooster, 75-67, to fall into the middle of a crowded conference pack.
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Wittenberg Women's Basketball Hosts Sports Expo For National Girls And Women In Sports Day
January 30, 2009The Wittenberg University women's basketball team will again host a sports expo and a postgame meet and greet/autograph session with its players as part of a celebration of National Girls And Women In Sports Day (NGWSD) on Saturday, Feb. 7.
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Wittenberg Falls At Denison In Key NCAC Game
January 29, 2009Hoping to get back into the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) regular season title chase, the Wittenberg Tigers instead found themselves on the very short end of a 74-51 decision at Denison to fall three games behind the unbeaten Big Red in the standings.
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Late Legendary Mentors Inspire Wittenberg Women's Basketball Team To Activism For Cancer Awareness
January 26, 2009It may have happened more than 19 months ago, but the passing of Wittenberg women's basketball coach Pam Evans Smith is still fresh in the minds of many of the coaches and student-athletes who continue to don the Red & White. For Head Coach Sarah Jurewicz, Wittenberg class of 1998, the memories came flooding back Saturday morning when she learned of the passing of North Carolina State University Head Coach Kay Yow.
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Wittenberg Rallies For Key NCAC Win Over Ohio Wesleyan
January 24, 2009After losing three games by four points or less earlier in the 2008-09 season - despite having multiple opportunities to score clutch baskets in the waning moments in each instance - the Wittenberg Tigers showed some spunk down the stretch as they pulled out a 73-72 victory over visiting Ohio Wesleyan.
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Strong Second Half Rallies Tigers Past Quakers
January 21, 2009The rematch of the Earlham Quakers and Wittenberg Tigers proved to be much different than the meeting the two teams shared a fortnight prior. Earlham battled to an early lead but could not keep the Tigers down in the second half, as Wittenberg rallied to a 73-64 win.
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Tiger Comeback Falls Just Short In One-Point Loss at Kenyon
January 14, 2009The Wittenberg women's basketball team put together a furious rally in the late minutes of their road North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) contest against the Kenyon Ladies, but their late chances to claim the win fell just short in a 45-44 loss.
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Tigers Pull Away From Oberlin For Big NCAC Win
January 11, 2009The Wittenberg women outscored Oberlin 44-19 in the second half as they routed the visitors in a 81-41 win from Pam Evans Smith Arena. The Tigers parlayed another dominating day on the boards, to the tune of a 62-34 margin, into an additional 12 field goal attempts.
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Wittenberg Tops Earlham For Third Straight Win
January 07, 2009The Wittenberg Tigers put together one of their most balanced offensive efforts of the 2008-09 season to pull away from host Earlham for a 78-59 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) victory.
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Tigers End Road Trip With Win At Allegheny
January 03, 2009The Wittenberg Tigers capped a long weekend road trip with a 60-52 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) victory over the Allegheny Gators.
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Wittenberg Claims First Conference Win of Campaign
January 02, 2009A career-high 19 points for senior post Rachel Dixon (West Liberty, Ohio/Salem) sent the Tigers to their first North Coast Athletic Conference victory of the 2008-09 season as they topped the Hiram College Terriers, 63-51, on the road.
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Wisconsin-Oshkosh Hits Big Shots Down The Stretch To Capture Tournament Title With 63-60 Win Over Host Wittenberg
December 30, 2008The Wittenberg Tigers rallied from 11 points down at the intermission to claim a brief lead, but could not hold on as UW-Oshkosh stopped the Tigers' bid for the Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic title.
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Tigers Open Holiday Tournament With 12-Point Win Over Mount St. Joseph
December 29, 2008The Wittenberg Tigers women's basketball team shook off more than three weeks of rust as they picked up a win in the first round of the Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic with by a 67-55 score over the College of Mount St. Joseph.
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Wittenberg University Basketball Teams Host Annual Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic Dec. 29-30
December 23, 2008The Wittenberg University men's and women's basketball teams welcome an outstanding field of eight teams for the 2008 Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic. The competition is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 29, and Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Wittenberg's HPER Center Arena with games on both days scheduled for 12:30, 2:45, 5:30 and 7:45 p.m.
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Wittenberg Rally Comes Up Just Short Against Denison
December 06, 2008In an early season matchup of two of the top teams in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC), the Denison Big Red came to Springfield and sent Wittenberg to its third consecutive defeat.
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Tigers Wrap Up Six-Game Road Trip With Loss at B-W
December 02, 2008The Tiger women dropped their second contest in a row on the road against nationally-ranked Baldwin-Wallace by a 77-57 score.
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Tigers Just Short Of Thanksgiving Tournament Champion Wilmington
November 30, 2008A 13-0 second-half run turned a six-point Wittenberg lead into a seven-point deficit as the Tigers dropped their first game of the 2008-09 season, 82-74, to the host Quakers in the championship game of Wilmington's Fred Raizk Thanksgiving Tournament.
