Allegheny College Athletics - Salopek earns Player of the Week honors

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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.

Salopek earns Player of the Week honors

11/2/2009 2:35:01 PM

MEADVILLE, Pa. – T. J. Salopek has been named the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Offensive Player of the Week for the game of Oct. 31. It is the second time he has earned the honor this season.

Salopek rushed for two touchdowns, including the game-winning score to rally the Gators (7-1, 4-1 NCAC) back from a 14-point deficit to defeat Wooster, 24-21. With 7:21 left in the fourth quarter, he scored off a two-yard scamper to give Allegheny the lead for good. Salopek finished the day 27-for-43 in passing to break the program record for career completions with 481, topping Bubba Smith’s (2000-03) mark of 478. He also threw for 312 yards, putting him 214 yards away from second place on the all-time passing yards chart and needs three more pass attempts to take over second place in the record books.

On the season, Salopek has amassed 2,070 yards on 180 completions while throwing 12 touchdowns and only being picked off four times. He currently ranks second in the NCAC in passing average per game with 258.8 yards.

Allegheny returns to action on Saturday at Wittenberg. Game time is 1 p.m.