2003 News

  • Led By Skip Ivery's NCAA Track Title, Tigers Earn Regional, National Honors
    May 26, 2003
    banner sports season was capped off in dramatic fashion as junior Skip Ivery (Columbus, Ohio/Groveport-Madison) won the 110-meter high hurdles at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championship Meet at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, May 22-24.
  • Fifty-One Student-Athletes Earn Spring Sport Postseason Awards
    May 19, 2003
    Another banner spring sports season has reaped rich rewards for 51 Wittenberg University athletes who were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams over the last two weeks.
  • Tigers Take the NCAC Title
    May 04, 2003
    The Tiger softball team came up big over the weekend, winning three straight games to capture the 2003 North Coast Athletic Conference softball championship at Denison. The clincher came Saturday as the Tigers, the No. 2 seed after finishing second in the regular season, upended two-time defending champion and No. 1 seed Denison 2-1 in the championship game.
  • Tigers Have Another Even Week Going Three and Three
    April 27, 2003
    The Tiger softball team had an up-and-down week, sweeping a doubleheader from Kenyon on Wednesday, losing two straight from Denison on Thursday and splitting a doubleheader at Allegheny on Saturday to finish the week 3-3 in six key NCAC games.
  • Tigers Take Two More Wins
    April 15, 2003
    The Tiger softball team won two more games last week to run their recent hot streak to six wins in the last seven games. Wittenberg defeated Thomas More 5-4 and 13-3 in a doubleheader on Tuesday at Betty Dillahunt Field.
  • Tigers Take Yet Another Positive Week Over Strong Opponents
    April 14, 2003
    The Tiger softball team continued to play well last week, splitting a doubleheader with fellow North Coast Athletic Conference title contender Wooster on Tuesday, sweeping conference rival Hiram on Saturday and splitting a doubleheader with Defiance on Sunday. The action brought the Tigers to 16-12 overall, and more importantly 7-1 in the NCAC heading into the stretch run of the 2003 season.
  • Tigers Scores Five Conference Wins to One Conference Loss
    April 08, 2003
    The Tiger softball team may be picking up steam at just the right time. Two North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader sweeps over rivals Ohio Wesleyan and Oberlin last week and a split with one of the preseason favorites, Wooster, on Tuesday put the Tigers atop the standings with a 5-1 record.
  • Tigers Split Three Double Headers in a Row
    April 01, 2003
    If a tie is like kissing your sister, what does that make a doubleheader split? Better than losing and not as good winning, perhaps, but as spring weather finally arrives in Central Ohio, the Tiger softball team will gladly take the three wins and three losses of last week and move on into NCAC action this week.
  • Tigers Come Back From Spring Break With a .500 Record
    March 15, 2003
    Like the baseball team, the Tiger softball squad happily departed for Spring Break in Ft. Myers, Fla. Unlike their baseball brethren, however, the softball team didnt light up the scoreboards and returned home 5-5.
  • Tigers Enter the Season With a Young Team and High Hopes
    March 10, 2003
    After a disappointing sixth-place NCAC finish in 2002, the Tiger softball team returns 11 letterwinners, including eight starters. Head Coach Becky Hall believes the Tigers have what it takes to make it back to the top of the conference again.