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07/31/06 Saints unveil new Athletics logo There's a new Saint at St. Scholastica. Athletics Director Tony Barrett announced the unveiling of the new logo Monday afternoon. The logo finally unifies the 18-sport intercollegiate athletics program under one design.

07/30/06 Softball, Baseball win Academic All-Conference Team Awards Not only did the Saints softball and baseball teams get the job done on the field this past spring -- each earned an at-large bid to their respective NCAA Tournament -- but they also took care of matters in the classroom by earning the UMAC Academic All-Conference Award for their sport.

06/19/06 Former Saints All-American wins Bjorklund Half-Marathon Three-time NAIA All-American Desiree Budd (St. Scholastica, '01) demolished the field Saturday morning in the Garry Bjorklund Half-Marathon, taking the 2006 title by more than five minutes over runner-up Gina Morgan.
Local coverage of Budd's win

06/08/06 Student-Athlete forms for Athletic Training requirements now available Saints athletes can now obtain the necessary forms for athletic particpation by proceeding to the Athletic Training page then printing the appropriate documents to be filled out and returned to the Athletic Training office.

06/02/06 Baseball's Olin earns All-American honor Saints third baseman Luke Olin culminated a career-best season with one final honor, earning inclusion on the ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division-III All-American team.

05/25/06 Moriarty, Olin lead Saints onto All-Region Team Senior third baseman Luke Olin and junior pitcher Mark Moriarty were named to the 2006 NCAA Division III All-Midwest Region Baseball Team Wednesday afternoon, leading a parade of five Saints onto the squad.

05/22/06 St. Scholastica wins conference all-sports crown The Saints used nine conference championships to lead them to their first outright Kruse Award title since earning the award after the 1997-1998 competitive year (the Saints tied for the title in 1999-2000 with Northwestern College). St. Scholastica and the Eagles from Northwestern ran away from the field in the title chase this year with the Saints winning the award by 1 point over the runner-up. What makes the victory sweeter for the Saints is the fact they compete in only 13 of the 15 contested sports the UMAC uses in the Kruse standings.
Official Press Release (pdf) | Kruse Award sport-by-sport point totals (pdf)

05/19/06 Saints lead UMAC in Academic All-Conference honorees The UMAC released their spring sports Academic All-Conference list and St. Scholastica led the way with 28 individual honorees. Of the six sports comprising the spring sports list, the Saints were regular season champions in five of them and post-season champions in four.
Official Press Release (pdf) | Listed by institution (pdf) | Listed by sport (pdf)

05/19/06 Pair of Saints earn All-American softball honors NCAA Division-III career strikeout record holder Laura Heise picked up yet another honor this post-season as she was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association's (NFCA) First Team All-American squad. | NFCA Release ... D-III All-American Teams
Video coverage from KBJR-TV news

05/19/06 St. Scholastica highlights conference post-season baseball awards list Saints baseball placed eight players on the UMAC's All-Conference team and swept the individual awards including Player of the Year Keith Ritsche and Pitcher of the Year Mark Moriarty.
Official Press Release (pdf)

05/19/06 Trio of Saints land on UMAC All-Conference Women's Tennis squad Player of the Year Steph Sparby headlined the UMAC's post-season awards in women's tennis, leading a threesome of Saints onto the 2006 squad. Sparby is the third consecutive St. Scholastica women's tennis player to earn Player of the Year honors. Official Press Release

05/19/06 Saints quartet earn UMAC All-Conference honors in Men's Tennis The UMAC has released their post-season awards list in men's tennis and four Saints picked up All-Conference honors including Ryan Antony and Will Ruckel, the All-UMAC squad's only repeat honorees. Official Press Release (pdf)

05/19/06 Tommies avenge early season losses to Saints St. Scholastica got the best of St. Thomas to start the season, but the Tommies had the final say at the end of the year with a 13-3 win in an elimination game on Thursday at the NCAA Division III regional tournament in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.
Video coverage from KBJR-TV6
St. Thomas win ends Saints season

05/18/06 Ripon advances past Saints in NCAA Regional Ripon jumped out to an early lead and then used three two-run homers over the final five innings to put away St. Scholastica 14-8 in Wednesday's final game at the NCAA Division III regional in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.

05/17/06 Saints trip up Pointers for second staight year For the second consecutive year, St. Scholastica defeated UW-Stevens Point in the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament as the Saints defeated the Pointers 4-3 Wednesday morning in Wisconsin Rapids. Video coverage of the game

05/17/06
Pitching depth primes Saints for postseason
by Jon Nowacki, News Tribune Staff Writer
St. Scholastica takes pride in program focus
by Jon Nowacki, News Tribune Staff Writer

05/16/05 Saints prep for NCAA Region
Tom Hanson reports on the Saints
Tyler Jacobson reports on the Saints

05/16/06 Tennis season ends with national tournament berth The CSS women's tennis team concluded their 2006 season with a first-round loss in the NAIA national tournament, falling 8-1 to the tournament host University of Mobile (Ala). The Saints ended with a record of 25-6 while Mobile (18-4) advanced to the second round match with Southern Nazarene (Okla.).

05/15/06 Saints baseball earns NCAA Regional bid The No. 5 ranked Saints learned early Monday morning that they have earned a second consecutive bid to the NCAA Division-III National Tournament with their berth in the double-elimination Midwest Regional at Witter Park in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, May 17-21.

05/14/06 Saints baseball in the news...
KBJR-TV6 news story on the Saints
SportsZone interview of Coach Baggs

05/13/06 Softball falls at Regional in heartbreaker Every season has to come to an end. Seniors will eventually play their last game. For the Saints and their graduating seniors, this one, though, might hurt the most.
KBJR-TV6 video coverage

05/13/06 Saints win 10th UMAC Baseball Tournament Rain washed away the final day of the 2006 UMAC baseball tournament - twice - giving St. Scholastica, the only undefeated team within the tournament, its tenth consecutive post-season conference crown.

05/12/06 St. Thomas topples Saints at NCAA Regional The Saints fell out of the winner's bracket of the NCAA Midwest Regional with today's 5-2 loss to top-seed and No. 1 in the country St. Thomas in action at the Indianola, Iowa bracket.

05/12/06 Saints slug way into UMAC Tournament finale St. Scholastica pounded out 15 hits in a 17-1 defeat of Northland College on a rainy Thursday night at Wade Stadium in the final game of day one at the 2006 UMAC post-season baseball tournament. KBJR-TV6/3 & WDIO-TV10/13 video coverage

05/12/06 Softball wins NCAA Regional opener St. Scholastica picked up the only runs they'd need with a first inning two-run homer from senior pitcher Laura Heise as the Saints beat Washington (Mo.) University 2-0 in the opening round of the NCAA Midwest Regional in Indianola, Iowa.

05/11/06 Saints continue dominance over Cougars with Tournament win St. Scholastica exploded for 12 runs over the last five in­nings to defeat Minnesota-Morris 15-4 in the opening game for both teams today in the 2006 UMAC baseball tournament at Wade Stadium.

05/11/06 Erica Bond leads Saints into Midwest egional St. Scholastica softball coach Jen Walter got an e-mail from coach Tim Berry of Mountain State University in Beckley, W.Va., in the spring of 2005...

05/11/06 WDIO-TV10/13 coverage of Saints as they head into the NCAA Regional

05/10/06 UMAC Baseball Tournament Preview

05/09/06 Saints place three on All-Region softball team The 23rd-ranked Saints placed three players on the All-Midwest Region squad announced today by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA).

05/09/06 Saints earn conference track honors The UMAC has released their post-season track and field conference honors and several Saints earned recognition. Eight of the 11 Saints on the list are repeat winners. UMAC release (pdf)

05/09/06 Softball racks up post-season UMAC awards For the fourth time in as many years, Saints senior Laura Heise was named the UMAC Conference Player of the Year.
UMAC release ... Click for more coverage at

05/08/06 SOFTBALL EARNS NCAA REGIONAL BID! For the first time in the history of the Saints softball program, the team has earned a bid to the NCAA Division-III National Tournament with a Region bid that places them in the Indianola, Iowa bracket where they will first face off against a Washington (Mo.) University team they beat three times earlier this season.

05/07/06 Saints sweep through UMAC softball tournament The Saints are champs once again ... actually, for the tenth time.

05/07/06 Saints advance to NAIA Tennis Championships The #1 ranked St. Scholastica women's tennis team defeated #2 Nebraska Wesleyan squad 5-2 in Saturday's NAIA Region III Women's Tennis Championship, earning the right to advance to the NAIA Championships. Meanwhile, the #3 CSS men's tennis team was not as fortunate, falling to #2 Sioux Falls in the semifinals 5-2.

05/07/06 Tommies sneak past Saints in regular season final This afternoon at Wade Stadium, the Saints baseball team closed out their regular season with a 6-4 loss to the University of St. Thomas. KBJR-TV and WDIO-TV video coverage

05/06/06 Saints pound Cougars for series sweep in baseball St. Scholastica pounded out 26 hits over two games to sweep today's doubleheader against UM-Morris at Wade Stadium today, winning game one 11-0 followed by a 17-2 route in the nightcap. KBJR-TV and WDIO-TV video coverage
UMAC release -- Saints decade of domination

05/05/06 Saints name former national level coach to Nordic position St. Scholastica hired its first Nordic ski coach today and got themselves a big fish. Eight year U.S. National Biathlon Team member and former U.S. Junior Development Biathlon Coach Chad Salmela will step into the role of head coach for the men's and women's Nordic programs which will begin competing next year. CSS press release (pdf)

05/05/06 Softball pounds way into tournament final The Saints beat UM-Morris 8-0 today in the UMAC Tournament's opening game in New Ulm, Minnesota, then shut out Northland 9-0 to bang their way into Saturday's Championship bracket.

05/05/06 Baseball jumps on Cougars early in win St. Scholastica jumped on Minnesota-Morris for two runs in each of the first two innings then cruised to an 11-2 win in today's conference match-up at Wade Stadium.

05/02/06 Saints baseball remains fifth in national poll For the fourth consecutive American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) national poll, the Saints find themselves rated the No. 5 team in the nation.

05/01/06 Men's, Women's Tennis each earn NAIA Region Championship bid The UMAC champion Saints both earned another honor with today's announcement of the Region-III Championship bids. The women enter the Region tournament as the top seed of four invited teams, the men go in as the No. 3 seed. Official CSS release

05/01/06 Softball pair pick up Player of the Week awards Laura Heise and Erica Bond earned Pitcher and Player of the Week Awards in a conference announcement today. It is Heise's fifth weekly Pitcher award this eason while Bond earns her first weekly honor. It is also the fourth time this season the Saints swept the two awards. UMAC release

04/29/06 Women win conference crown at UMAC Championship On a blustery, cold and damp day, the women from St. Scholastica's track and field program brought home the conference title, out pointing second place Principia College, 205 to 193.5. The men improved their 2005 finish with today's third place showing, behind only team champion Northwestern College and second place Martin Luther College. ... Women's Results ... Men's Results ... CSS (only) M/W Results

04/29/06 Men's Tennis still perfect in UMAC after win over Knights The Saints easily handled Martin Luther College for the second time this season, defeating the Knights 8-1 at the CSS Wellness Center Saturday afternoon.

04/29/06 Win streak reaches 12 for women's tennis In their second to last match of the regular season, the Saints extended their win streak to 12 consecutive matches with a 7-2 victory over Martin Luther College today in the CSS Wellness Center.

04/29/06 Saints pull of sweep of Vikings St. Scholastica completed a weekend sweep of Bethany Lutheran College Saturday afternoon, taking a doubleheader at Wade Stadium by scores of 5-0 and 3-2.

04/28/06 Softball opens Crossover weekend with easy wins The Saints had little trouble on the opening day of the UMAC Crossover weekend in Ashland, Wisconsin, first beating Bethany Lutheran 9-1 in five innings then later crushing Martin Luther 30-0 in five painful innings.

04/28/06 Baseball rallies in bottom on ninth for win St. Scholastica scored four runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning in a 4-3 come-from-behind victory over Bethany Lutheran College today at Wade Stadium.

04/27/06 Seniors celebrate wins at Kenwood Field for final time Seven Saints seniors played their final games on the grass at Kenwood Field today as St. Scholastica swept the Blue Devils from UW-Stout 4-1 and 10-0 to conclude a second consecutive season of undefeated action at home.

04/27/06 Saints softball in the Duluth News Tribune
Pitcher Perfect: St. Scholastica pitcher Laura Heise ...
Seniors to put cap on stellar careers...