The Pointer UW-Stevens Point Student Newspaper
Women’s Golf Takes on Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships
Through two days of action in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Golf Championships, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point women’s golf team sits in seventh place out of seven teams.
Senior Tiffany Boak shot a team-low 90 in the second round for the Pointers and sits in 28th place as the team moves into the third day of action.
Freshman Maddison Williams also had a strong showing on day two as she improved her total from day one by 19 strokes. She is one of three players who were able to improve by double-digits on day two.
UW-Oshkosh leads the championships and has a five-stroke lead over UW-Stout for first place going into day three.
The Pointers are 15 strokes back from sixth place as they enter the final day of play.
Volleyball Goes Down in Closely Contested Match
The UWSP volleyball team came ready to play against a top-20 ranked UW-La Crosse, but could not take the edge as they fell in what would be the deciding fourth set.
Freshman setter Abby Majercik jumps to block the ball at the Alzheimer’s Awareness match against UW-La Crosse on Saturday, Oct. 8 at Berg Gym in Stevens Point. Photo by Kylie Bridenhagen.
With both teams having won a set, the competition became heated when both teams ran up a score above the normal 25 points to win, but the Pointers dropped the tightly contested set 28-26.
The fourth set would prove to be just as thrilling with both teams playing a crisp game. However, UWSP found itself on the losing end again with a final set score of 25-23 for a La Crosse victory.
While the Pointers ran away with the first set of the match, the 11-3 start from La Crosse in the second set proved to be too much for the Pointers to come back from despite its rally attempts.
In the third set, UWSP clawed its way to even out the score at 22 but the Eagles prevailed with a pair of set points to take the match lead at two sets to the Pointers’ one.
The fourth set looked to be going the Pointers’ way as they took an early lead with kills coming from senior Kelly Cefalu and junior Kelly Magliano. Junior Kendra Kundinger later added a pair of late service aces to improve the lead 19-16.
The Eagles, however, were able to prevail from being down 22-18 and scored seven of the final eight points of the set, giving them the victory on the night.
Cefalu again led the Pointers with 17 kills and junior Bella Nelson notched a season-high 11 kills throughout the match.
Next up the Pointers will be traveling to Madison to take on Benedictine and Edgewood at the Edgewood Triangular.
Pointer Football Falls in High Scoring Affair
Junior defensive back A.J. Harris has tight coverage on UW-Platteville receiver Tim Jansen at the Pink Game on Saturday, Oct. 9 at Goerke Park in Stevens Point. Photo by Kylie Bridenhagen.
Despite its best efforts, the UW-Stevens Point football team fell 47-31 to No. 7 UW- Platteville in the Pink Game at Goerke Park.
The Pointers, now 1-1 in conference, surrendered an early 14-0 lead to the Pioneers but were able to regain some ground after a 10 play, 77-yard drive that was capped off with sophomore Evan Dux scoring from two yards out.
Platteville’s defense would not surrender another point to the Pointers the rest of the first half as it came into the third quarter with a commanding 28-7 lead.
While holding the Pioneers scoreless in two drives, the Pointers were able to rack up a touchdown and field goal on separate drives. Senior Brad Birkhauser would later have an interception leading to yet another score that closed the gap 28-24 for the Pointers.
The Pioneers eventually nailed down a double-digit lead again, but only for junior Jerry Williams to blow past with an 84-yard kickoff return touchdown. This put the final score at 47-31 as the Pointers would not score again.
Senior Britton Vernon rushed for 79 yards which led seven Pointers who ran the ball for a total of 246 yards on the day.
The Pointers will play host to UW-Oshkosh for homecoming in its next game.
Strong Performances for Pointers Cross Country
UWSP men’s cross country team was able to place third in the nine-team field while the women’s team finished fifth in its competition.
Senior Calvin VanRyzin and junior Benjamin Jurenec both placed in the top-10 at the Gene Davis Invitational on Saturday with times under 26:25 in the 8k race.
Freshmen Kiersten Williams and Erinn Olmsted were the top finishers for the Pointers in the women’s event with Olmsted placing 16th in the 5k.
UWSP will now travel to Winneconne for the Oshkosh EAA invite on Saturday.
Soccer Can’t Hold On at Home
Women’s soccer fell 2-0 to visiting UW-Stout. UWSP now stands with a record of 4-9 on the year.
UW-Stout notched its first goal coming in the 24th minute even though it was the Pointers who earned five corner kicks in the first half.
Despite Sarah Peplinski, sophomore goalkeeper, knocking away numerous shots on goal and giving the Pointers a chance, the offense struggled to get anything going.
After having many shots on goal, the team just could not get anything to land.
The Pointers’ next matches will come against St. Norbert followed by visiting UW-Platteville.
Austin Krueger
Sports Editor
akrue333@uwsp.edu
