You can go ahead and call Rachel Booth “Scrooge.”
Hamline entered the game needing a win to get into the postseason, but after 35 points from the St. Thomas junior in a 77-69 Tommie win, the Pipers’ season was ended.
Swim teams could make history at MIAC championships
After one day of racing, the men’s and women’s swim teams are both poised to make historic runs at the MIAC Swimming and Diving Championships. The men’s team is in second place and the women’s team is in third place after Thursday’s races, positioning both for a potential championship bid on Saturday. The men are …
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With every winter sport competing, don’t miss St. Thomas in the playoffs
It’s getting to be that time of year. Concession stands are loading up, statisticians are warming up their fingers and St. Thomas equipment manager Willy McCoy is laying out game jerseys in numerical order.
Senior basketball guard discusses life as varsity athlete
The men’s basketball team recently locked up its fifth-straight MIAC conference title and is poised to make a serious run yet again in the postseason. With a 20-2 record, 16-1 in conference, St. Thomas has dominated its competition all season.
Sun-drenched football programs rake in top recruits
Having spent J-Term at the University of Hawaii-Manoa for philosophy class over break, I was able to witness what life at a tropical university is like.
Carleton’s missed free throws give men’s bball playoff berth
Carleton missed five free throws in the final 15.9 seconds to allow host St. Thomas to sneak away with a 58-55 win Saturday.
Carleton outplayed St. Thomas for much of the game but shot nine for 24 from the free-throw line. Jeremy Sutherland led the Knights with 16 points, while the Tommies were led by 13 points from Alex Healy to come back from a six-point halftime deficit.
News in :90 – Feb. 5, 2010
[slidepress gallery=’nin2510-2′] This is News in :90 for Friday, Feb. 5, 2010.
Baseball coach Dennis Denning retires
Baseball coach Dennis Denning will retire Feb. 1, 2010 after coaching St. Thomas for 15 seasons.
Denning announced his retirement Tuesday afternoon at a press conference at St. Thomas’ St. Paul campus.
“I can’t remember one bad thing while coaching here, not one,” Denning said.
Football enjoyed best season in school history
On Monday night, a group of about 40 parents, coaches and fans gathered at Plum’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar on Snelling Avenue to look at film of the St. Thomas football team’s 31-20 loss to Linfield.
Caruso says Linfield loss is ‘extremely frustrating’
McMINNVILLE, Ore. – Costly St. Thomas mistakes and Linfield’s efficient offense added up to a 31-20 defeat for the Tommies in the NCAA Division III football quarterfinals.
The loss ended a stellar season in which St. Thomas posted an 11-2 record and advanced further in the playoffs than any time before.
Football team getting acclimated to Oregon
The football team arrived in Oregon this morning and promptly set to work preparing for Saturday’s quarterfinal playoff game against Linfield College.
With an early flight and two hours gained by traveling west, the team had a full day to get settled into a foreign atmosphere and turn their thoughts toward kickoff.
“It was a pretty long day with the time difference and everything,” junior Brady Ervin said. “Overall, it was pretty good.”
Football team eerily similar to St. Thomas’ last playoff squad
Although two decades separate them, the connections between the last Tommie football team to reach the playoffs and the 2009 squad run deep.
Sports Information Director Gene McGivern remembers the 1990 Tommies and knows that, although it’s difficult to compare teams of different eras, the two teams have striking similarities.
Men’s bball wins MIAC opener, cruise past Cobbers
The No. 3-ranked St. Thomas men’s basketball team jumped out to an early lead and never gave it up on the way to a 73-55 win Wednesday night over Concordia-Moorhead at the Gangelhoff Center at Concordia-St. Paul.
Who is Linfield and why is St. Thomas traveling to Oregon?
The St. Thomas football team earned its way to the quarterfinals of the Division III national championship playoffs with Saturday’s win. Now the Tommies travel to Oregon, where St. Thomas will take on the No. 5-ranked Linfield College Wildcats.
Coe’s QB leads Kohawks, has tossed just one pick all year
After upsetting Monmouth College in the first round of the NCAA playoffs, No. 10-ranked St. Thomas will flip to the role of the favorite when the Tommies battle Coe College Saturday, in O’Shaughnessy Stadium.
Before St. Thomas takes the field against Coe, there are plenty of questions to be answered about what kind of team the Tommies will be facing.