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The men’s cross country team rode the performance of four top-eight finishers to take second place at the Blugold Invite Friday. St. Thomas finished just behind host Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

The Tommies had three runners place in the top five. Sophomore Ben Sathre came in second place and senior Mike Connell placed third. Senior Brian Sames took fifth place and sophomore Tyler Iverson finished in eighth.

With the Oct. 5 Monday Night Football match up between the Vikings and Packers, emotions are running high on the St. Thomas campus as Brett Favre prepares to square off against his former team. Opinions varied, from anger to indifference, as Favre fans and Favre haters get ready for Monday’s game.

After a convincing 63-10 win at Hamline Sept. 26, the Tommies (3-0) look to remain perfect this Saturday when St. Thomas plays at home versus Gustavus (1-2). 

The Mall of America is coming to the Metrodome. The mall and the Minnesota Vikings say they’ve reached a three-year agreement on naming rights to the football field. The field will now be referred to as Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome until the team’s lease expires in 2012. Neither party would …

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Three first half goals from sophomore Mike Hutton helped men’s soccer bounce back from Saturday’s loss at Bethel as St. Thomas trounced visiting Buena Vista 7-0 at home Tuesday.

Elliot Amundson, Jeff Frank, Sean Kennedy, and Kris O’Toole all had goals for the Tommies. As for the defensive effort, Carlos Castelan and Alex Benson split a shutout in net for St. Thomas.

The volleyball team will take on Bethel University at home Wednesday. The match will be played at 7:30 p.m. at St. Thomas’ “home site” for the season, Concordia’s Gangelhoff Center.

The Tommies enter the match 12-2 and undefeated through four games of conference play. St. Thomas has won 33-straight conference matches in a streak dating back to 2007.

St. Thomas women’s soccer will play the College of St. Benedict at home 4 p.m. Wednesday. The Tommies are currently 4-0 in the MIAC and 7-2 overall, while St. Ben’s sits at 2-1 in the MIAC and 4-3-1 overall.

St. Thomas beat St. Ben’s 3-0 the last time the two played in 2008.

No. 6-ranked volleyball team beat a tough conference opponent in No. 17-ranked Concordia 3-1 in Moorhead Saturday. Senior Kyley Crotty’s 14 kills and junior Emily Foster’s 42 assists helped lead the Tommies to its 33rd consecutive conference win.

Junior Tori Jones added 11 kills as St. Thomas moved to 12-2 overall and 3-0 in MIAC play. Juniors Jill Osborne and Katie Bonine each added eight kills and freshman Kaitlin Wachter had 24 digs.

Senior Amy Anderson led the women’s golf team to a second place finish on Sunday at the St. Ben’s Invite. Anderson shot a 159 for the two-day tournament to record her second medalist finish in the last three weeks.

St. Cloud State took first place in the six team field. St. Ben’s came in third and Carleton took fourth place behind the Tommies.

Monday/Wednesday league’s top 10

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3. Chopped

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5. Team Bro’s

The No. 14-ranked women’s cross country team finished seventh out of 27 teams Saturday at the University of Minnesota Roy Griak Invite. Senior Kelly Russ led the Tommies with her 27th place finish out of a field of 500 runners. St. Thomas had four other runners in the top 45 to take third behind Bethel …

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The men’s and women’s soccer teams split their Saturday afternoon ticket at Bethel. The women posted a 2-1 win while the men lost 2-1.

The women fell behind 1-0, but two unanswered goals in five minutes was enough to give the Tommies the victory and run its win streak to five games. Junior Lexie Fisher tied the game with a goal assisted by senior Erin Sprangers and St. Thomas got the eventual game-winner from freshman Anna Strehlow, the first of her college career.