Bring on the Championships

The Trinity Volleyball team will be hosting the 2010 SCAC Championships this weekend in the Bell Center. Our volleyball team finished with an overall record of 21-14 and a conference record of 10-4. Our Tigers are seeded fourth in the upcoming SCAC Championships. There first match of the tournament will be Friday at 2 p.m. here taking on the Kangaroos of Austin College. Moving on the Trinity Tiger tennis legacy wins another national championship as seniors Cory Kowal and Bobby Cocanougher won the doubles national championship.

Next the Men's and Women's Soccer teams' seasons are coming to a close. The Men, who are currently ranked number one in the country have an overall record of 16-2 only losing two nail biter games against Mary-Hardin Baylor (1-0) and Christopher Newport (1-0). They will finish their season this weekend on the road taking on Centre and Depauw. The Women are currently ranked sixth in the country and have an overall record of 15-1 only losing to Hardin-Simmons. The women will also finish there season on the road taking on Centre and Depauw. Both Men's and Women's soccer will most likely be hosting the first and second round of the NCAA regionals. Come out and support all the fall sports as they rap up there seasons and go into playoffs.

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TU Volleyball

Our Trinity women's volleyball team started the season on a tear with a three game winning streak. The ladies luck quickly ran out when they dropped two games to Mass-Boston and Whitworth. In her twenty-sixth year as head coach of the volleyball team, Julie Jenkins is ranked in the top ten in active coaches for most career wins. In her career at Trinity she was one an outstanding fifteen SCAC championships and has made seventeen straight NCAA tournaments. In her tenure at Trinity she has had twenty-seven all americans selected. Although coach has never won a national championship they are training harder then ever to reach the pinnacle of NCAA volleyball, a National Championship. Leading the offensive attack is sophomore outside hitter Madison McMahon, and leading our defensive stand is sophomore libero Meredith Erwin. This coming weekend the Trinity Volleyball will be hosting their third annual Dig Pink event to help raise awareness for Breast Cancer. This event will occur during our Trinity University National Invitational in which we will be hosting Claremont-M-S, NYU, UT-Dallas, & Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Our ladies will be in action this Friday at 3:15 taking on Claremont. Come out and show your support and wear pink to support breast cancer awareness.

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TU Mens Soccer

The mens Trinity Tiger soccer team has been on a tear so far this season. In his 20th season at the head coaching position Paul McGinlay ranks number two in victories among active division three coaches and also is Trinity's winningest coach in mens soccer history. Our men were ranked sixth overall in the country before suffering only their second loss of the season to number one ranked Christopher Newport University. The game was a nail biter and was locked at 0-0 until the fifty-eigth minute when Christopher Newport University scored what would eventually be the game winner. So far this season our men have outscored their opponents thirty-three goals to only eleven goals. Our offensive attack is led by Senior Mid Fielder Tommy Barros who is leading the team with eight goals. Also contributing to the offensive attack is Junior Mid Fielder Zachary Garcia with seven goals. Sophomore goalkeeper Tom Nelin has spent the majority of the time in the goal defending for us. Also Senior keeper Joe Benefield and Junior Jacob Truitt have spent significant time in the goal. The Trinity Men's Soccer team will be in action this Friday at home taking on Colorado College at 8:00 p.m.

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TU Womens Soccer

The women’s soccer team has gotten off to an incredible 4-1 start to the season. With Coach Lance Key at the helm of the program entering his seventh season as the Women’s Tiger Soccer coach, with an outstanding record of 88-13-10 so far in his career our girls will surely have a great season. Currently our girls are ranked 17th in the country and 3rd in the west region. With junior forward Kelly Watts leading the way with seven goals in only five games the Tigers have amassed sixteen goals so far this season. The defense is led by senior all America defender Danika Wright. Also sophomore goalkeeper Katie Garrett has been a wall so far this season only allowing six goals so far. The only loss this season for the Lady Tigers came against Hardin-Simmons in a crushing 4-0 defeat, but our girls bounced back with two straight wins on their road trip to UT-Tyler where they swept the competition. The Lady Tigers hosted their first home game against UC Santa Cruz where they blew away the competition with a 5-0 shutout. The tigers will be traveling to Hendrix for their next game, will not be in action here at Trinity until Monday October 4th at 7:00 pm when they take on the crusaders of Mary-Hardin Baylor. 

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First Week of Tiger Football

 

The Tigers opened their season up last Saturday here at E.M. Stevens Field hosting Howard Payne University. With 2,250 Trinity students and tiger fans in attendance, the Tigers were ready for action. The Tigers struck first with a 30 yard field goal by sophomore kicker Garret Biel.  After falling behind early 8-3 the Tigers answered back with a senior connection, between senior quarterback Robert Davidson and  senior receiver Daniel South.  After halftime the Tigers were trailing by one 17-18, but with strong play in the fourth quarter, they made there way into overtime. After two grueling overtimes Trinity came out on top with a score of 40-34. Robert Davidson led the passing attack with 221 yards passing and 3 touchdowns through the air. The Trinity offense accounted for a total of 421 yards of offense. The Tiger defense was led by Antonio Debouse and Thomas Puskarich, who each accounted for ten tackles. This was the first game since 2003 that Trinity ended regulation with a tie. Entering Coach Steve Mohr's 21st season at the helm of Trinity Football, this was his first double overtime event. The Tigers have this weekend off, but will be in action at E.M. Stevens field next Saturday hosting SCAC rival Rhodes College.

         

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