2008 Woodie Awards
View this section's front page!On Tuesday, the Rock blew past Salem International on the road and set a single-season wins record. "They were good wins," Rock Head Coach Vashion Johnson said. "We used a lot of the second string and they played well." The Rock set in stone a school record for single-season victories when it captured wins by scores of 6-0, 9-0 in a doubleheader.
No one would have blamed the Rock baseball team if it had overlooked its Tuesday doubleheader with West Liberty State (W.Va.) College. But it didn't. Everyone would have been able to understand if the hardballers were more focused on their four-game showdown with Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division-leading Shippensburg University this weekend.
Whenever a football team at any level - high school, college or professional - loses its last game of the season by a missed field goal that could have sent them to the playoffs, the team is anxiously waiting for next year. After 14 spring practices in the cold, snowy and rainy Slippery Rock weather, the Rock football team will end its spring practice schedule with the annual Green & White game today at N.
Freshman centerfielder Courtney Vincent may only be in her first year at the Rock, but she is already turning heads by breaking a record. She just recently broke the stolen bases record for the Rock. The old record was set in 2004 by Shannon Tagliaferri with a record of 16 swipes on 21 attempts.
School records continue to fall as the outdoor track team broke another record on its way to a combined six first-place finishes between two meets. The Rock competed at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania meet and the West Virginia Invitational this past weekend.
The Rock women's tennis team finished in third place at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championships last weekend after defeating Millersville in a 5-0 match-up. The victory was the 22nd on the year moving the 2006-07 team to the top of the school's single-season wins record list.
The SRU women's water polo team placed fourth in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Western Division Tournament held at the University of Michigan this weekend, finishing its season with a 7-15 record. During the first round on Saturday, SRU defeated Mercyhurst by the score of 9-7.
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