THE JUSTICE
CROSS COUNTRY
Selig thrives at meet ■ Grayce Selig ’11 placed
seventh out of 322 runners in the Open New England Championships. By JACOB LURIE JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
At the Open New England Championships last Saturday, the women’s cross country team’s efforts were spearheaded by Grayce Selig ’11, who placed seventh out of 322 runners with a time of 17 minutes, 4 7 seconds. This finish was only 53 seconds behind the first-place runner, University of Maine junior Corey Connor, who had a time of 16:54. Coach John Evans admired Selig’s efforts at the meet. “[Selig] had a phenomenal run,” Evans said. “She was running with the top [Division I] girls in New England. … She ran a minute faster than she did at this time last year, and that puts her up there to be one of the best [Division III] runners in the nation right now.” Overall, the women’s cross country squad placed 22nd at the event out of 47 Division I, II and III squads last Saturday, while the men’s cross country team placed 20th out of 47. At the meet, the men ran 8 kilometers while the women completed a 5-
kilometer race. Kate Warwick ’12 finished 70th overall and had a time of 18:58. Erin Bisceglia ’12 placed 177th overall with a time of 20:05, while Amelia Lundkvist ’14 finished 1 second after Bisceglia and placed 178th overall with a time of 20:06. Ali Kirsch ’14 finished the race 220th overall with a time of 20:43. At last year’s event, the women finished 20th overall. Evans was optimistic in looking toward the future and onto more meaningful meets for the team. Brandeis sent seven male runners to the race, led by Chris Brown ’12 who finished with a time of 25 minutes, 49 seconds and placed 62nd out of 318 competitors. In a tight race, the 15 runners who finished immediately before Brown all crossed the finish line within 10 seconds of each other. Notably absent from the Brandeis squad were Paul Norton ’11 and Marc Boutin ’12, who coach John Evans said were “training” and unable to race. Although the Brandeis men’s team came in 20th this past weekend, Evans said that if Norton and Boutin participated, the team “probably would have won.” Brown was still disappointed by the team’s performance despite the team missing two of its best runners. “We were without two of our top runners, so we knew it wasn’t going to
be our best performance,” Brown said. “But we still expected to do a little bit better team-wise than we did.” Evans said that Norton will return and compete next weekend, but Boutin’s status is still undetermined. The other Brandeis runners at the meet were Kerwin Vega ’11 who ran his way to 70th overall with a time of 25:54; Taylor Dundas ’14, who finished 118th overall with a time of 26:18; and Dan Anastos ’11, who placed 122nd with a time of 26:21. Alex Kramer ’13 finished 135th overall with a time of 26:25 and was followed by Devon Holgate ’11, who placed 162nd with a time of 26:43. Ed Colvin ’14 finished 169th overall with a time of 26:47. Last year at the Open New England Championships, Brandeis finished third among Division III schools and 11th out of 47 schools. Norton finished the race sixth out of 320 runners with a time of 24:26. At that meet, Brown finished 43rd with a time of 25:39, while Boutin finished a mere 4 seconds later to place 50th overall. “Our goal is always to get ready for University Athletic Association Championships and Regionals,” Evans said. “We’re on track, ... and we’ll be ready.” The cross country teams have their next meet this Saturday at the University of Albany Invitational at 9:30 a.m.
GOING FOR THE KILL
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MSOCCER: Team beats Rochester in away match CONTINUED FROM 16 midfielder Evan Ersing ’12 played a long ball upfield to Teece’s feet. Teece controlled the ball, ran past Rochester’s defensive markersand turned toward the goal. Rochester sophomore goalkeeper Scott Garfing made an attempt to close down Teece’s angle for a shot, but Teece fired a low drive into the lower right corner of the net for his sixth goal of the season. Teece’s tally ties him for second in the UAA in goals with seven and third for points with 16. “[Teece has] been on fire: He’s been playing very well and very aggressively,” said Coven. “He’s been winning the ball and taking it one on one. He beats his guy, and he’s been scoring goals.” Though Brandeis was outshot, the team nearly found the goal just 2 minutes later as midfielder Steve Keuchkarian ’11 fired a shot toward the Rochester goal that Garfing saved for his first of two saves on the game. In the second half, the Yellowjackets had a slew of chances to score an equalizer. In the 50th minute, Rochester senior midfielder Jimmy Parinello shot
from long range and hit the post. On the ensuing play, junior forward Josh Richards fired a shot back into play that Bracken stopped. Midfielder Joe Eisenbies ’13 kept the Judges in front late on in the match as he provided a clearance off the goal line in the 89th minute. Rochester junior defender Scott Zorn beat his defender and powered a free header toward the goal that Eisenbies cleared away. Rochester had a chance to put in the rebound, but Bracken made another save to keep the Judges ahead. In the 90th minute, Yellowjackets junior defender Alex Osuch fired a ball toward the net, but Bracken stopped the chance for his final save of the day. The Judges, who have a threegame homestand next from Friday to Oct. 20, have seven games left on the calendar. The team’s next game is Friday against Carnegie Mellon University at 6:30 p.m. “If the whole team plays the way they did defensively on Saturday, I say we have a good chance in the games we have coming up,” Coven said.
WSOCCER: Squad loses for the first time since Sept 1 CONTINUED FROM 16
JOSHUA LINTON/Justice File Photo
IN THE AIR: Defensive specialist Susan Sun ’13 leaps for the ball in the volleyball team’s 3-1 win over Gordon College on Sept. 10.
VBALL: Judges win all three matches CONTINUED FROM 16 Blasco also had 29 assists, while setter Yael Einhorn ’14 had 12 digs. Kim said that not having to face Emerson senior middle hitter and captain Lauren Zaniboni made the matchup easier for the Judges. “Emerson was missing their goto player [in Zaniboni] and I think it
really affected how they played as a team; it definitely made them weaker.” Regardless, Kim was satisfied that the Judges were able to capitalize and sweep the match against Emerson. The Judges return to conference play this week, when they will host the second University Athletic
Association round-robin of the season. On Saturday, they begin play with early-morning matches against Case Western Reserve University and New York University. They follow that action with another set of matches on Sunday versus Emory University and Carnegie Mellon University.
head, but Kofinas was able to dive back for the save before the ball went over the goal line. Theodore has been pleased with Kofina’s play over the year. “I think [Kofinas] has done great,” midfielder Mimi Theodore ’12 said. “She’s on a bad ankle right now. She did some great things. She’s very composed. [Assistant coach Amanda Webb, a former goalie at Dartmouth College] has done a great job working with her, building her confidence. All around, her whole effort has been that much better. She is doing a great job with corners, moving off to the ball, making great distributions, and I think a lot of that has to do with her confidence. However, in the second half, it was Rochester that had multiple chances to score, as the Yellowjackets outshot Brandeis 11-3 in the half. Rochester’s best chance to pad the lead came in the 75th minute, when Ross’ shot went off the post. Despite being outshot in the period, the Judges had one final chance to tie the game in the 86th minute when Theodore fed the ball to midfielder Alanna Torre ’12 on a breakaway. Torre’s shot went wide of the net by a few yards. Theodore noted that the Judges decided to change up their offensive formation for this game, but Rochester’s defense adjusted accordingly. “We normally play a four-fourtwo, and then [Saturday] we came out in a four-four-three, and then we kind of played eventually with four in the back and then five in the midfield and one up top,” Theodore said. “Their
defense did a good job of covering up that one person up top. It was hard for the defenders and midfielders to find that lone striker to get anything going.” This was just the second time all season the Judges had been shut out, and the first time since Sept. 5. Brandeis had scored 20 goals in its last five games before facing Rochester, including a sixgoal game and two five-goal games, but they were unable to score against the Yellowjacket defense. “I think we were maybe hoping that they would think we were coming out in a four-four-two and maybe kind of throw off their game a little bit by coming out in a different formation,” Theodore said. “I thought we thought maybe we’d be able to control the midfield a little bit more and almost shut down their midfield from finding their strikers. I think we were just seeing how they would react to the [new] formation, but they reacted pretty well.” The Judges were also playing without two players who started the season for the team. Defender Allisom Maresca ’12 missed her second game with an ankle injury, and midfielder Ellie Einhorn ’11 missed the game because she was taking the LSAT. Brandeis’ scheduled home game against Tufts University on Oct 6 was canceled because of rain, and a make-up date could not be scheduled. The Judges are next in action this afternoon at Clark University at 6 p.m. before returning home for a UAA doubleheader against Carnegie Mellon University Friday at 4 p.m. and No. 13 Emory University Sunday at 11 a.m.