Athletics News
Spring Sports Highlights
Men’s Lacrosse
The Saints (2-8) ended their inaugural season
as they started—with a win. Siena blanked
Kettering 16-0 to end the season and won its
first match in school history by nipping the
University of Michigan-Dearborn 5-4. Tyler
Condron (far right) led the Saints with 12
goals, with Matt Burgess
adding seven and Ryan
Gumbleton five. Joe Berry
made 177 saves in goal.
In addition, Coach Ed
Maloney (left) was inducted into the Michigan
High School Football Coaches Association
recently. University of Michigan football coach
Rich Rodriguez was the guest speaker at the
banquet. Maloney was one of 13 included
in this year’s class. He spent 39 years on the
side-lines as a high school football coach.
He also was selected for induction into the
Michigan High School Lacrosse Coaches Hall
of Fame. Induction ceremonies were also held
this spring. He began his lacrosse coaching
career in 1991 and has served as both a high
school and college lacrosse coach. He started
four different high school lacrosse programs.
Outdoor Track and Field
Morgan Choszczyk (left)
broke the Siena Heights
school record in the javelin
throw at the NAIA National
Outdoor Championships at
Indiana Wesleyan University. The sophomore from
Webberville, Ohio, recorded a toss of 139 feet,
7 inches, breaking the old school of 129-6 set
in 2000 by Jessica Hawkins. That distance was
good enough to place her eighth overall and
earn her honorable mention All-American
honors. SHU took 10 student-athletes and two
relay teams to this year’s championships. The
women’s participants also included Lyndsay
Payne in the 3,000 meter steeplechase and the
4x400 relay of Cassie Keeping, Carrie Zubke,
Deanna Payne and JoRanda Chapman. The men
were represented by Bryant Siegrist and Erving
Warren in the high jump, Rogers Chambers
and Joel Young in the hammer throw, Jesiah
Rodriguez in the 1500, Marcus Bridget in the
pole vault, Mike Glinski in the 10000, Ryan
Hopson in the long jump and the 4x800 relay
of Kyle Smith, Chase Every, Zachary Phillips
and Rodriguez. The Saints finished second on
the men’s side and third on the women’s side
at the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference
Championships at Houseman Field in Grand
Rapids. Siegrist won the high jump (6-9),
Hopson was first in the long jump (22-5.25)
and triple jump (43-8), with the 4x800 relay of
Chase Every, Chance Lauver, Zach Phillips and
Kyle Smith finishing first in 8:21.31. The other
first came from Jesiah Rodriguez, who won the
1500 (3:55.45). For the women, Chapman was
one of three firsts for SHU, winning the 400 in
58.5 seconds. Lyndsay Payne (11:29.38) took
the 3000 steeplechase, with Haley Mancini
claiming a first in the javelin (118-4). Several
Saints were named Daktronics Scholar-Athletes
by the NAIA. They were Jennifer Belair, Rachel
Ham, Karen Judd and Lyndsay Payne on the
women’s side and Michael Glinski and Marcus
Bridget for the men.
Baseball
honors were Spike Holliday, Jason Kastanis,
Steve Strom, Kenny Sutter and David Wynkoop.
Strom was also chosen as SHU’s Champions of
Character representative. The Saints ended their
season 15-38 overall, 4-16 in the WHAC. The
baseball program will also say goodbye to its
baseball field, which will be the site of the new
outdoor performance stadium, scheduled to
be completed by fall 2011. Ground-breaking
on the site is expected to begin this summer.
A new baseball field will be constructed near
the Siena Heights Fieldhouse.
Softball
Senior Mariah Welke (left)
out-dueled teammate Jess
Singletary for Siena’s career
home run mark. The senior
from Coldwater, Mich., hit
seven on the season—also
a new school record —and
finished with 18 career four-baggers, edging
Singletary by just one. Seniors Dani Bailey,
Singletary and Welke, junior Chelsea Slovinski
and sophomore Tearra Donovan were each
named honorable mention All-WolverineHoosier Athletic Conference. Bailey and Melissa
Hall earned academic all-conference honors,
and Sarah Holroyd was named the Saints’
Champions of Character representative. The
Saints ended the season 17-38 overall and
6-22 in the WHAC.
Tyler Condron (left)
Sophomore Corey Alexander
(left) had a breakout year
on the mound for the Saints,
going 7-3 with six complete
games. The sophomore lefty
from Toledo, Ohio, was one
of four Saints named honorable mention All-Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic
Conference. The others were Dan Abbott, Cory
Lehman and Justin Root. Senior outfielder Mark
Pauwels picked up his third WHAC Gold Glove
award, while earning academic all-conference
Below: The Siena Heights Men’s Indoor Track Team captured their third consecutive Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic
Conference indoor track and field championship at Trine University on February 20, 2010.
Corey Alexander
Mariah Welke
Reflections Summer ’10
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