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Baseball improves to 16-4; Cowley wins 4th
The baseball team stayed hot as the Bears went 4-2 to run its season record to 16-4. Washington U. kicked things off with a doubleheader sweep of Eureka College on March 22, winning game one 14-3 and then climbing out of a 5-0 hole to post a 10-8 win in the nightcap. The Bears then split doubleheaders on March 22 and 23 against No. 10 Illinois Wesleyan and Simpson (Iowa). The Bears used a nine-run sixth inning to blow past Eureka in game one as Ramos Mays and Kirk Heischmidt picked up three hits each and Mark Glover added three RBIs. Eureka jumped on top 5-0 in game two, but a Reggie Crume grand slam in the fourth jump-started the Bears. Junior lefthander Adam Cowley improved to 4-0 on the year and lowered his ERA to 0.98 with a complete-game victory over Illinois Wesleyan. He struck out seven in pitching his third complete game of the season. Other sports updates The women's tennis team continued to roll as the Bears pushed their record to 12-1 by going 2-1 last week. They rolled past Stephens College on March 20, 9-0, before having their season opening 11-match winning streak stopped with a 5-3 loss at No. 12 Rhodes on March 23. The Bears rebounded with a 9-0 win over Hendrix College, also on March 23. Junior Ryan Braun became the first member of the men's diving team to earn All-America honors in school history after he placed 14th on the three-meter board and 16th on the one-meter board at the 2002 NCAA Division III Men's Swimming & Diving Championships at The College of Wooster at Miami (Ohio) University on March 22-23. The men's tennis team captured its first team title of the 2002 season as the Bears won the 2002 Kerry Seward Invitational at Wabash College in Indiana. The softball team dropped to 10-8 on the season as it went 1-3 March 23-24 when it hosted the 2002 Marriott West Invitational. The Bears began the weekend with a 7-6 comeback victory over Cornell College (Iowa) on March 23. The Bears dropped the nightcap as Saint Mary-of-the-Wood defeated WU 3-2. The Bears could not get the bats going March 24 as Washington U. dropped a 3-0 decision to Augustana College (Ill.) and lost the final game of the tournament 3-2 to No. 2 ranked St. Mary's (Minn.). The outdoor track and field team began its 2002
season by hosting the Washington U. Mini Meet on March
22 at Francis Field. Mindy Kuhl led the way for the Bears
as she placed first in the 800 (2:19.02) and the 1,500
(4:48.44). Sarah Springer also earned first place honors
as she tied for first in the pole vault with a top mark
of 3.04m (9-11 3/4). On the men's side, Darius Viet took
home top honors in the 3,000 steeplechase (9:54.92) and
Conrad Warmbold tied for first in the pole vault with
a top mark of 4.42m (14-6).
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