Football team wins conference finale
The football team wrapped up league play with a 28-7 win at Carnegie Mellon University on Oct. 22 in Pittsburgh. The Bears improved to 4-4 overall and 2-1 in UAA play.
Senior receiver Brad Duesing had 12 catches for a season-high 190 yards and a career-high three touchdowns. He needs just 120 receiving yards in the final two games to become the second player in NCAA history (Division I, II or III) to record four straight 1,000 yard receiving seasons.
Junior DaRonne Jenkins got the Bears on the scoreboard on WUSTL’s first possession as he scored from 2 yards out. Duesing took the game in his own hands in the second half as he had eight catches for 156 yards and three touchdowns.
The Bears defense held the top scoring offense in the UAA (23.3 points per game) to seven points and 153 yards of total offense. WUSTL also limited UAA leading rusher Travis Sivek to 40 yards on 18 carriers.
Volleyball team moves to 24-0
The No. 1-ranked volleyball team defeated Fontbonne University, 3-1, in a non-conference match Oct. 18.
Junior libero Amy Bommarito highlighted the match for the Bears, recording her 1,000th career dig. Bommarito, who matched a season-high with 24 digs to give her 1,006 for her career, is just the 13th player in program history to achieve the feat.
Fontbonne won the first game, 31-29, after battling back from down 28-22. The teams were tied at 4 early in the second frame when WUSTL scored four straight times, led by two blocks by sophomore outside hitter Haleigh Spencer. The Red and Green extended their lead to 17-10 and held on for a 30-20 win.
Senior middle hitter Megan Houck, the reigning Division III National Player of the Week, posted seven of her 16 kills in the third game. Junior right side attacker Whitney Smith, who paced the Bears with a career-best 17 kills, recorded her fifth kill of the third game to put WUSTL up 20-9 before going on to a 30-21 win.
The Bears finished the match with a 30-13 win in the fourth stanza. Houck notched a career-high eight block assists en route to 10 total blocks to lead WUSTL. Senior setter Kara Liefer contributed 11 kills, six digs and 53 assists, while Spencer matched a career-high with 15 kills and 16 digs.
Men’s soccer beats UW-Platteville, 1-0
The men’s soccer team defeated the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, 1-0, Oct. 21 at Francis Field. The Bears improved to 7-5-3 overall with the win, including 4-2-2 at home.
Sophomore Marshall Plow found the back of the net at the 66:17 mark in the second half for the game-winning tally when sophomore Elie Zenner took a free kick from about 25 yards out, sending the ball to classmate Onyi Okoroafor.
Okoroafor broke toward the ball and one-touched it to Plow, who slipped by UW-Platteville’s defense and beat the keeper to the far post. Plow has a team-best four goals, all of which are game-winners.
Women’s soccer rolls past Fontbonne
Sophomore Marin McCarthy scored the first two goals of the game to lead the women’s soccer team to a 5-0 win over Fontbonne University on Oct. 19 at Francis Field. With the win, Washington University improves to 8-6-1.
McCarthy got the Bears on the board late in the first half as she took a cross from sophomore Abbey Hartmann and one-timed it into the back of the net for her second goal of the season. McCarthy made it 2-0 just 48 seconds later as she got a pass from over the defense from junior Talia Bucci and one-timed it past Fontbonne goalkeeper Claire Ward for her second goal of the game.
Freshman Shirey Lane, sophomore Kim O’Keefe and senior Meg Lag added goals in the second half to push the lead to 5-0.