After opening the week April 2 with a 10-9 loss against Edgewood College, the baseball team bounced back for a 5-0 win at Westminster College April 5, giving coach Ric Lessmann his 1,300th career win.
Lessmann, who has a 1,300-509-1 (.719) career record, is just the 14th coach in college baseball history — including NCAA, NAIA and junior colleges — to win at least 1,300 games.
Senior Arden Farhi led off the top of the second inning with a base hit to left-center field, and freshman Remy Midkiff singled Farhi home for a 1-0 Bears lead. Senior Eddy Hoering added an RBI single in the third inning, and Farhi’s sacrifice fly scored sophomore Zander Lehmann for a 3-0 edge in the fifth.
Midkiff, senior Andy Shields and sophomore Dave Working finished with two hits apiece, while Farhi scored twice. Shields’ two hits also moved him into second place on the WUSTL career hits list (178).
Sophomore Brian Williams turned in a dominant complete-game performance on the mound, striking out 10 batters and allowing just three walks and three singles (including two infield hits).
Men’s tennis extends winning streak to five
The No. 10 men’s tennis team extended its winning streak to five matches with victories against Di-vision II University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) and Wheaton College.
Freshman John Watts picked up his team-leading 20th singles victory to lead the Bears to a 7-2 win against Wheaton April 7. Watts, ranked 10th nationally in singles, won his 10th straight match in a 6-3, 6-0 victory against Ian Kirchner at the No. 2 spot.
Watts also teamed with junior Charlie Howard for an 8-2 win at No. 3 doubles.
Watts is 20-4 in singles and 13-5 in doubles for a 33-9 overall mark in his first year with the Red and Green.
The Bears picked up an 8-4 win from sophomores Trevis Bowman and Nirmal Choradia at No. 2 doubles.
On April 4, head coach Roger Follmer picked up his 80th career victory in the 9-0 win over UMSL.
Women’s track wins Select Meet, men 2nd
The men’s and women’s track and field teams turned in many strong performances at the WUSTL Se-lect Meet on the Danforth Campus.
The women won the eight-team meet while the men placed second out of nine teams.
Junior Morgen Leonard-Fleckman provisionally qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the pole vault, clearing 3.50 meters (11-6) for the event title.
Senior Delaina Martin also turned in a winning performance in the shot put (12.62 meters), while sophomore Aubrey Edwards posted a personal-best throw of 39.11 meters in the discus.
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Senior Cameron Williams won the high jump to help lead the men.
He cleared 1.93 meters for first place, while classmate Aaron Mangold took first place in the pole vault (14-0).
Additionally, junior Nick Buckvar paced the field in the 200 meters, finishing in 22.58 seconds.
Women’s tennis 6th at Midwest Invitational
The women’s tennis team split four matches last weekend to take sixth place at the Midwest Invitational in Madison, Wis.
The Bears moved to 6-7 this season with the split. The Red and Green notched a thrilling 5-4 win against No. 29 University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to advance to the fifth-place match.
WUSTL fell behind 2-1 after doubles play. Senior Erin Fleming and sophomore Ania Tchergueiko won 8-5 at No. 1 doubles, but UW-La Crosse won 8-4 and 8-3 at No. 2 and 3. In singles play, Fleming secured a 6-3, 7-5 win at No. 1 singles, while freshmen Allison Dender turned in a 6-4, 6-0 win at No. 2 singles.
In the super tiebreaker, Julie Bowerman cruised to a 10-4 win. Classmate Elise Dorsett delivered the match-clinching point at No. 6. After splitting the first two sets 6-4, Dorsett staved off several match points before posting a 14-12 win in the super tiebreaker.
In the fifth-place match, Washington U. fell to No. 24 University of Chicago, 6-0.
On the first day, WUSTL defeated UW-Eau Claire, 5-3, before falling to Gustavus Adolphus College, 6-0.
Athletics climbs to third in Directors’ Cup
The Department of Athletics moved into third in the 2006-07 U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup Division III winter standings, as announced by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, U.S. Sports Academy and USA Today.
WUSTL, which was seventh after the fall season, returned to the Top Five with 628.5 points. The Bears finished second in women’s basketball, third in men’s basketball, seventh in women’s swimming and diving, 18th in men’s swimming and diving and 28th in women’s indoor track and field.
Williams College, winners of 10 of the last 11 U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cups, held onto its lead with 704.5 points.