Swimmers shatter records, win invite

The men's and women's swimming and diving team set 10 school records en route to claiming the DePauw University Invitational Dec. 7-8 in Greencastle, Ind. The men's team placed first of eight teams with 1,067 points, while the women's team squeaked by second place DePauw with 949.50 points. Freshman Tracey Hendrickson was part of six school records and five meet records. She earned an automatic NCAA-qualifying time and set a school record, meet record and pool record in the 200 butterfly (2:08.17). She also set school records in the 500 freestyle (5:04.31), 1,650 freestyle (17.39.84) and the 200 freestyle (1:55.62). Hendrickson also was on the 800 freestyle relay (7:54.02) and 400 freestyle relay (3:34.69) teams that set school, pool and meet records. On the men's side, freshman Eric Triebe set five school records. He set school, pool and meet records in the 200 individual medley (1:55.40) and also set a school record in the 100 breaststroke (58.52). In addition, Triebe was on the school-record setting 800 freestyle relay (6:58.93) and 400-medley relay teams (3:07.92).

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The No. 1 women's basketball team (7-0) stretched its regular-season home winning streak to 68 with two victories at the Division III Shootout Dec. 6-7. The Bears defeated Illinois College 83-58 in the first round Dec. 6. WUSTL opened the game on a 16-2 run and led 45-20 with just over a minute left in the first half. Freshman Kelly Manning scored a game-high 19 points. The Bears then defeated No. 8 DePauw University 73-56 Dec. 7 in the championship game. Sophomore Leslie Berger led a balanced attack for the Bears with 12 points.

The No. 1 men's basketball team moved within one victory of tying the best start in team history as the Bears picked up a pair of big road wins Dec. 6 and 8. Washington U. (7-0) rallied for a 95-85 win at Coe College Dec. 6, then posted an 88-75 victory over No. 14 Illinois Wesleyan University Dec. 8. Jarriot Rook tallied 16 points, 13 boards and four blocks, and Matt Tabash and Dustin Tylka each scored 10. Chris Jeffries led the way, averaging 33 points and 10 rebounds in the games while hitting an astounding 77 percent of his shots.