Duesing leads Bears to win vs. Rhodes
Senior wide receiver Brad Duesing had eight catches for 155 yards to lead the football team to a 15-10 win over Rhodes College Oct. 1.
Duesing now has 240 receptions for 3,610 yards in his career, good for 20th all-time in Division III for receptions and yards.
The Bears took advantage of three pass interference calls against Rhodes to score the first TD of the game. Junior DaRonne Jenkins ended a 17-play, 71-yard drive with a 1-yard run to give Washington U. a 7-0, second-quarter lead.
Forced to start from their own 1 for the second straight possession, Lynx quarterback Chandler Bares was sacked by junior Drew Wethington for a safety.
Duesing snared a 39-yard TD grab late in the third quarter to make it 15-3 and moved him into third place on the all-time WUSTL scoring list with 178 points.
Senior Ben Schaub led the defense with 10 tackles, including two for loss, and 1.5 sacks. Wethington had a career day recording nine tackles, including six for loss, and three sacks. The Bears had a season-high seven sacks.
Preston wins regional singles championship
Freshman Carrie Preston became the second player in program history to win the ITA Regional Singles Championship Oct. 3 at the ITA Central Regionals in Springfield, Ohio.
Preston posted a 6-0 record at the Regional, which was hosted by Wittenberg University.
The No. 9-seeded Preston defeated four seeded players, including the No. 1 seed in the final. She finished the run in the final with a 6-1, 6-4 win against No. 1 seed Amrita Padda of DePauw.
Preston earned a berth in the ITA National Small College Championships, Oct. 13-16 at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Debbie Michelson also won Regionals her senior year during the 1991 fall season.
Volleyball undefeated at Round Robin No. 1
The No. 1 volleyball team went 3-0 at the UAA Round Robin No. 1 in Cleveland on Oct. 1-2.
The Bears opened conference play with a 30-23, 30-13, 30-21 win against Carnegie Mellon University. Junior Whitney Smith and senior Kara Liefer led WUSTL with seven kills apiece, while junior libero Amy Bommarito tallied 17 digs.
The Bears also swept the University of Chicago 30-8, 30-13, 32-30, and Brandeis University 30-17, 30-16, 30-25.
Against Chicago, Smith — who finished with a match-high 16 kills — posted five kills in the first frame to help the Bears to a 30-8 Game 1 win. Sophomore Haleigh Spencer racked up an efficient six kills on just nine swings in the match. WUSTL tallied a team season-high 16 services aces.
WUSTL controlled play against Brandeis for a 30-17, 30-16, 30-25 win. Freshman right side attacker Nikki Morrison took over in the third frame, pounding out nine kills in 11 swings. Liefer dished out 27 assists and notched four kills, three blocks and five digs in just two games.
Men’s soccer team loses to No. 9 Emory
The men’s soccer team dropped a 4-1 decision to No. 9 Emory University in the Bears’ conference opener. With the loss, WUSTL moved to 5-2-3 overall and 0-1-0 in the UAA.
Sophomore Onyi Okoroafor provided a bright spot for the Red and Green, netting his third goal of the season.
Women’s soccer team loses UAA opener
The women’s soccer team opened up University Athletic Association play Oct. 1 with a 1-0 loss at No. 24 Emory.
Emory outshot the Bears 14-3 and had a 6-0 advantage on corner kicks.
Men’s swimmers, divers beat SLU
The men’s swimming and diving team opened the season with a 181-110 victory against Saint Louis University Oct. 1 at Millstone Pool. The women also opened their season Oct. 1, but suffered a 183-117 loss to SLU.
Senior Michael Slavik won three events and was on the winning 200-freestyle relay team (1:28.62).
Slavik captured first place in the 100 freestyle (47.80), 200 freestyle (1:44.44) and the 100 butterfly (52.97).
Freshmen Julian Beattie and Kevin Leckey won two events apiece in their collegiate debuts. Beattie swept the 100 and 200 breaststroke events with times of 1:01.62 and 2:10.42, respectively.
Leckey placed first in the 200 yard IM (1:59.10), squeaking out a victory against senior teammate Eric Triebe by .24 seconds.
Sophomore Meredith Nordbrock paced the women, finishing first in the 100 and 200 backstroke.
Freshman Kim Jenkins won her first collegiate race, the 200 freestyle in 1:56.55.
Men’s tennis doubles run ends in finals
Senior Ari Rosenthal and freshman Chris Hoeland suffered a 5-7, 6-2, 10-7 loss to Kalamazoo’s Julian Seelan and Tim Hubbard in the finals of the ITA Central Region Doubles Championships in Greencastle, Ind.
Rosenthal/Hoeland, the No. 4 seed, won five matches in three days to advance to the finals.
In singles action, Rosenthal advanced to the semifinals before falling to No. 3 Evan Webeler of DePauw, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. Rosenthal, the No. 1 seed, won five straight-set matches in three days before falling to Webeler.