Allegheny College Athletics - Gators defeat Grove City in season opener

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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.

Gators defeat Grove City in season opener

Simone registers double-double

11/17/2009 8:32:40 PM

Box Score

MEADVILLE, Pa. – Emilie Simone had a double-double with a team-high 14 points and 10 rebounds to lead three players in double figures and the Allegheny women’s basketball team past Grove City 61-49 in the season opener for both teams on Tuesday night.

Simone scored 12 of her 14 points in the first half, going 7-for-9 from the field for the game and collecting two blocks to go along with three steals. Jill Gregory and Laura Magnelli also scored in double digits for the Gators (1-0), who posted their second straight season-opening victory. Gregory finished with 13 points and Magnelli added 12 points, all tallied in the second half and off the bench.

The Wolverines’ (0-1) Christine Slater led all players with a game-high 17 points and matched Simone’s 10 rebounds.

Allegheny held a slight three-point lead at halftime and used an 11-for-14 showing from the charity stripe in the second stanza to pull away for the victory.

Grove City managed to keep an edge over the Gators for a majority of the first half, posting its largest margin off a jumper by Slater for a 10-5 lead with 12:38 left in the half. Allegheny got within one on four occasions, before taking a 17-16 advantage at the 5:54 mark. Simone hit to buckets in the paint and Heidi Goeller recorded her second field goal of the game to push the lead to 19-16.

After the Wolverines regained the lead off a Laura Miller lay-up, Simone drove in for back-to-back layups and Lauren Donahoe added two points to make it 27-22.

The Gators opened the second half with a 10-2 run to take a double-digit lead at 39-28. Gregory started with a layup and Britni Mohney recorded Allegheny’s first triple of the night. Magnelli scored five straight points on two free throws and a three-pointer and Gregory finished the spurt with another layup for an 11-point lead.

A Magnelli triple gave the Gators their largest lead at 46-32. The closest the Wolverines got down the stretch was eight points with 1:51 remaining in the game.

Mohney handed out a game-high five assists, made four steals and contributed six points. Donahoe registered eight points in the win.

The Gators return to action this weekend when they face Pitt-Greensburg on Friday for the Allegheny Classic. Tip-off is 7 p.m.