2005 News
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Spring Sports Athletes Claim 35 NCAC Postseason Awards
May 13, 2005A solid spring sports season has reaped individual rewards for 35 Wittenberg University athletes who were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams over the last two weeks. -
Wittenberg University Spring Sports Athletes Claim 35 North Coast Athletic Conference Postseason Awards
May 13, 2005A solid spring sports season has reaped individual rewards for 35 Wittenberg University athletes who were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams over the last two weeks.
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Stephanie Zorn Named NCAC Softball Player of the Year
May 10, 2005CLEVELAND, Ohio — Wittenberg sophomore Stephanie Zorn (Grapevine, Texas/Colleyville) has been named Player of the Year and Wooster junior Natalie Barone (Akron, OH/St. Thomas Aquinas) and Ohio Wesleyan sophomore Claire Martin (Jefferson, OH/Jefferson) shared Pitcher of the Year honors to highlight the 2005 All-North Coast Athletic Conference softball selections.
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Round Up: The Tigers End the Season With Two Wins and Two Losses
May 05, 2005The 2005 Wittenberg softball team had a week of mixed blessings to round out the season.
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Wittenberg Ends Season With Doubleheader Loss To Capital
May 03, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers hung tough in their 2005 season finale against Ohio Athletic Conference powerhouse Capital, but in the end a winning combination could not found as they dropped both ends of a home doubleheader, 5-3 and 5-1.
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Wittenberg Sweeps NCAC Doubleheader Against Oberlin
April 30, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers wrapped up the 2005 North Coast Athletic Conference schedule on a positive note Saturday, sweeping a pair of games against Oberlin College on Senior Day in Springfield. The Tigers topped the last-place Yeowomen by scores of 15-0 and 8-2 to finish 7-6 in the NCAC.
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Round Up: Tigers Lose Two in a Double Header
April 29, 2005The 2005 Wittenberg softball team got just one doubleheader in since the last report, and it didn't quite go as planned. The Tigers are now 9-22 overall and 5-6 in the North Coast Athletic Conference after splitting a doubleheader with Hiram on Wednesday. Stephanie Zorn
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Wittenberg Splits Twinbill With Hiram
April 27, 2005In a doubleheader that was postponed three times and moved to a neutral site, the Wittenberg Tigers' North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament fate may have been sealed with a doubleheader split with the Hiram Terriers. The Tigers now stand at 9-22 overall and 5-6 in the NCAC regular season with just two games remaining on Saturday against last-place Oberlin.
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Round Up: Tigers Have Ups and Downs
April 20, 2005The 2005 Wittenberg softball team is hanging in there, but it is now crunch time, starting with todays doubleheader at Kenyon College. The Tigers must sweep their three remaining North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheaders to qualify for the four-team tournament at seasons end, or else they will use the last few weeks of the season to begin building toward the 2006 season.
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Wittenberg Gets Must-Win Against Kenyon
April 20, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers entered a doubleheader against North Coast Athletic Conference rival Kenyon knowing they needed a sweep. Only Mother Nature stopped that from happening as the Tigers won Game 1, 7-4, before lightning and heavy rain ended the day prematurely during Game 2.
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Wittenberg Drops Pair At Wooster
April 16, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers didn't get the results they were seeking on the long trip to Wooster Saturday as they dropped a pair of key North Coast Athletic Conference games, 7-3 and 10-5. The Tigers dropped to 7-21 overall and 3-5 in the NCAC, while Wooster improved to 16-8 overall and 8-0 against league foes.
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Wittenberg Splits With Denison
April 13, 2005For the third straight time to open the 2005 North Coast Athletic Conference season, it could have been better and it could have been worse for the Wittenberg Tigers. In the end, the Tigers remain very much in the hunt for the conference tournament after splitting a pair of home games with previously league-leading Denison.
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Wittenberg Earns Key Split At Allegheny
April 09, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers made the long trip to Allegheny and came away with half of what they wanted. In the opener of a key North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader, the Tigers dropped an 11-8 decision against the preseason favorites, but Wittenberg rebounded for a 9-0 victory in the nightcap to go home with an important split.
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Wittenberg Splits NCAC-Opening Doubleheader At Ohio Wesleyan
April 06, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers knew they were starting into a new season on Wednesday, and for a while they made the most of that fresh start with a 7-4 victory in Game 1 against defending North Coast Athletic Conference regular season co-champion Ohio Wesleyan. But the youthful Tigers were back to their old tricks in the nightcap, a 7-2 loss that left Wittenberg with a 5-17 overall record and a 1-1 mark in the NCAC.
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Fifty Years After Bill Edwards' Homecoming, Tradition Continues
April 05, 2005The watershed moment that changed the Wittenberg athletic landscape forever occurred on April 3, 1955, with the most important hiring in the department's illustrious history.
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Round Up: Tigers Lose Three of Four Games in Michigan
April 05, 2005The 2005 Wittenberg softball team has gotten off to a rocky start to the season, but there is still plenty of time to turn things around, starting with a North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader opener at Ohio Wesleyan on Wednesday.
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Wittenberg Splits With Olivet
April 03, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers ended the weekend with exactly what they needed - a win. A 5-1 victory, in which the Tigers played perhaps their most complete game of the 2005 season, in Sunday's nightcap sent the Tigers home relatively happy after three straight losses on a long weekend road trip to Michigan.
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Wittenberg Defense Yields Sweep Against Alma
April 02, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers have a number of issues on the softball diamond in 2005, but none has cost the team more games than its porous defense. Continuing on its murderous non-conference schedule, the Tigers were dumped twice by Alma, 5-0 and 12-4.
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Wittenberg Is Shut Down By Bluffton
March 30, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers opened the home portion of the 2005 schedule, but someone forgot the bats. In a pair of fast-moving pitchers duels, the Tigers went down to identical 2-0 defeats in a doubleheader against Bluffton at Dillahunt Field.
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Wittenberg Sweeps Road Doubleheader Against Wilmington
March 22, 2005It was just what the doctor ordered. After a brutal early-season schedule that included four nationally ranked opponents, the Wittenberg Tigers traveled to Wilmington on Tuesday and swept a pair of games against the Quakers of the Ohio Athletic Conference, 8-0 and 8-2.
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Wittenberg vs. Muskingum
March 20, 2005The Wittenberg University softball team struggled against another national powerhouse in both games of the doubleheader on Sunday. Muskingum College grabbed a first inning lead in both games and held on tightly to it. The Tigers were unable to respond with any offensive production as they only mustered one hit in each game.
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Tigers Lose Nine of Their First Ten Games
March 18, 2005The 2005 Wittenberg softball team is off to a slow start with nine losses in 10 games, but that doesn't mean the Tigers have failed to be competitive. Four of Wittenberg's losses have been by two runs or less, including two on walk-off hits.
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Wittenberg Swept In Heartbreaking Fashion By Thomas More
March 17, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers came back from a Spring Break trip to California beaten but unbowed - and ready for the next challenge. Unfortunately, despite a change of scenery from the sunshine state to the chilly realities of spring in the Midwest, the Tigers came up on the short end of the stick two more times on Thursday, losing a pair of heartbreakers to the Thomas More Saints.
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Wittenberg Falls By A Run To La Verne
March 11, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers put a bow on their first-ever Spring Break trip to California with a tough 3-2 defeat at the hands of La Verne, the third nationally ranked team on Wittenberg's schedule in the first eight games. The loss dropped the Tigers to 1-7 on the trip with seven straight losses to conclude it.
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Wittenberg Falls To National Power Central
March 11, 2005For the second time in five days in sunny California the Wittenberg Tigers dropped a game against a nationally ranked NCAA Division III opponent. This time, it was Central (Iowa), owner of multiple national championships in the last decade, taking care of business at the Tigers' expense in a 12-4, five-inning decision.
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Wittenberg Loses On Late Rally Against Dominican
March 10, 2005The Wittenberg Tigers found a new way to lose in Game 5 of their eight-game Spring Break trip odyssey to Southern California as Dominican scored five runs in the seventh inning, including four on a heartbreaking grand slam, to rally from a 4-1 deficit and beat Wittenberg 6-5. The loss dropped Wittenberg to 1-4 on the young season.
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Wittenberg Offense Stalls In Loss To Thomas More
March 10, 2005For the second time in as many days, the Wittenberg Tigers dropped a game against Great Lakes Region rival Thomas More in a game played in the Sunwest Tournament at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. This time, the Wittenberg offense was stymied on just three hits in a 5-1 loss.
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Wittenberg Picked To Finish Third In NCAC Softball Preseason Poll
March 09, 2005CLEVELAND, Ohio — 2004 Tournament and regular-season co-champion Allegheny emerged as the preseason favorite in balloting by North Coast Athletic Conference softball coaches in their annual preseason poll.
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Wittenberg Falls To Thomas More
March 08, 2005Four errors did in the Wittenberg Tigers in an 8-1 loss to Thomas More in a game played at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The loss dropped the Tigers to 1-2 overall on the young campaign.
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Nine Errors Spoil Wittenberg's Day In Loss To Haverford
March 08, 2005Records aren't available for such things, and that's probably a good thing for the 2005 Wittenberg Tigers as they committed a stunning nine fielding miscues in an 11-2 loss to Haverford College in a game played at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The loss dropped the youthful Tigers to 1-3 on the young season.
