Allegheny College Athletics - Wooster rallies back to defeat Gators, 3-2

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Athletes of the Week

Men's Track and Field

Allegheny's Tony Dipre set a meet record and posted an NCAA automatic-qualifying time while winning the mile at the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships. He was also a member of the winning Distance Medley Relay team for the Gators, who placed third among nine teams at Denison.

Dipre, who was named the NCAC Distance Runner of the Year, claimed his individual win with a time of 4:10.84 and held off Denison's Makorobondo Salukombo (4:12.23). The previous meet record was set in 2009 by the Gators' Jeramie Parker (4:13.89). The Blue and Gold has now won three straight indoor miles at NCACs.

Mike Vlah, Alex Gorski and Chris Marker joined Dipre on the DMR squad, which clocked in at 10:35.79.

Beth Muller

Women's Track and Field

Beth Muller fell one win short of her second straight sprint trifecta, but still won the 55- and 200-yard dashes, to lead the Allegheny women's indoor track and field team to third place out of eight teams at the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships at Denison. She was named Sprinter/Hurdler of the Year for the second straight season.

Muller repeated as the 55 champ with a time of 7.51 seconds and then successfully defended her title in the 200 (:26.37).

As the defending champ in the 400, Muller was beat out by Marissa Clardy of Oberlin. Muller finished the race in 1:00.08 while Clardy came in at :59.39.

Wooster rallies back to defeat Gators, 3-2

10/14/2009 10:39:35 PM

Box Score

WOOSTER, Ohio. – KateLynn Riley collected 23 kills with just one error and Lizzie Beal handed out 50 assists to lead Wooster over Allegheny 3-2 in a North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) women’s volleyball showdown on Wednesday night.

The Fight Scots (15-6) fought back from being down 2-1, winning the final two sets by six and five points, respectively. The Gators (11-12, 5-4 NCAC) took the first set 25-21 and then lost a close battle in the second set, 28-26. Allegheny regained the lead with a 25-20 set-three victory, but Wooster recorded 25-19 and 15-10 wins to pick up the come-from-behind win.

Caitlin Solan was an all-around player with a season-best 26 kills to go along with 10 digs and four blocks. Jordan Leopold was close behind in numbers with 17 kills and 19 digs.

Caileigh Hughes made this a career night with 54 assists and Sarah Sckena added 26 digs. Up at the net was Caitlin Rothman getting five blocks and seven kills.

The Gators will battle in their second NCAC Power Weekend, this time hosted by Earlham on Saturday and Sunday.