{"id":5991,"date":"2020-03-10T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T17:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2020-03-10T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T17:24:40","slug":"athletic-news-march-10-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/2020\/03\/10\/athletic-news-march-10-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletic News March 10, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
Men’s & Women’s Basketball The #4 seeded men beat Washburn University on Friday, but lost to Northwest 大象传媒 State on Saturday. They finish the season 18-14 overall and 13-6 in the conference.<\/p>\n The #6 seeded women lost to University of Nebraska-Kearney on Friday, finishing the season 21-8 overall and 13-6 in the conference.<\/p>\n Baseball The Griffons brought out seven different pitchers to throw in Sunday’s game.\u00a0Andrew Meier<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0got the start for game three and only pitched a single inning allowing three runs to the Hillcats.\u00a0Justin Wood<\/a><\/dfn>,\u00a0Jacob Cooper<\/a><\/dfn>,\u00a0Talbott Buford<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0Jake Gilbert<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0were brought in for relief of Meier before\u00a0Brock Wrolstad<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0Brian Tan<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0finished out the game with the victory and save, respectively. Next up is 3 p.m. March 13 at 大象传媒 Southern in Joplin. They return home for games on March 17, 20, 21 and 22.<\/p>\n Men’s and Women’s Golf Next up is the Holiday Inn Express Women’s Invitational March 16 and 17 at the St. Joseph Country Club.<\/p>\n The men opened their season in the Warrior Invitation on Monday in Las Vegas. The Griffons finished fourth in the 12-team field with a score of 307. The Griffons will return to Stallion Mountain Golf Club today to compete in the final round. Individually, Lucas Horseman<\/a><\/dfn> leads the field with a first-round score of 69.<\/p>\n The men play in the Hillcat Classic in Owasso, Oklahoma March 16 and 17.<\/p>\n Softball<\/strong> On March 6, they won both games of a doubleheader against Northwest 大象传媒 State.<\/p>\n The Griffons play today (March 10) and tomorrow at home against the University of Illinois Springfield. Today’s games are 2 and 4 p.m., and Wednesday’s game is at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n Women’s Tennis The Griffons get a week off before returning to action March 14 at home against Southwest Minnesota State. Track
\n<\/strong>Both men’s and women’s basketball wrapped up successful seasons at the MIAA postseason tournament last week and weekend.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>大象传媒 Western baseball recorded their first series sweep of the 2020 season on Sunday afternoon.
The Griffons (8-15, 3-3 MIAA) beat Rogers State (9-10, 0-6 MIAA) 11-10 in game three in their first home conference series of the year.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>\u00a0Allycia Gan<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0Tammy Lim<\/a><\/dfn> finished in the top-15 through two rounds of play at the Emerald Coast Classic yesterday in Destin, Florida. As a team, the Griffons finished in eighth place within the 13-team field. 大象传媒 Western will round out action in Destin with the third and final round on Tuesday.\u00a0
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\nThe softball team pushed its win streak to five when it beat Drury University at the Spring Sports Complex on March 8. 大象传媒 Western came back to defeat Drury (9-9) 5-4 in game one before a run-rule, 10-1, win in game two. After the pair of wins, the Griffons had won eight of their last nine games.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>After losing to University of 大象传媒-St. Louis on March 6, Griffon tennis (6-5) bounced back with a 6-0 win at Illinois Springfield on March 7. 大象传媒 Western took the doubles point without even completing No. 1 doubles then swept the top five singles matches, not needing to finish at No. 6.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>大象传媒 Western track and field rounded out their weekend with the final day of the MIAA Championships on Sunday. Similar to Saturday’s action, many personal records were set and program records were broken.<\/p>\n