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| | | February 27, 2004 > Sports Sports  Men's hoops wins 7th straight; now 19-5  The No. 25 men's basketball team posted two key University Athletic Association wins at home to improve to 19-5 overall. After opening up a 20-point lead in the first half, WUSTL posted a 75-65 win Feb. 20 against Brandeis University.
The Bears then knocked off New York University, 69-55, Feb. 22. The win, WUSTL's seventh straight and 18th in the past 20 games, came on Senior Day and upped the Bears' conference record to 11-2. Sophomore Mike Grunst scored seven points to spark a 15-4 run to give the Bears a 55-43 lead with less than nine minutes remaining in the game. Rob Keller led all scorers with 19 points on 5-of-9 shooting from three-point range. Bryant tallied 16 points, six assists and five rebounds in his final game at the Field House. Sports shorts The streak is over. The No. 5 women's basketball team had won the previous six UAA crowns outright, but a loss to New York University Feb. 22 ended any hopes of a six-peat, although the Bears could still earn a tie for the conference title. The Bears and Violets combined for 189 points, but NYU emerged a 100-89 victor and gained the automatic bid to the NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament. Sophomore Kelly Manning led the Bears with a career-high 24 points in the loss. Two days earlier, the Bears picked up a 64-51 win over No. 22 Brandeis. Senior Lesley Hawley paced the Bears with 20 points. The men's and women's track and field teams had another strong showing Feb. 20-21. The Bears sent a small group of men to the University of Iowa Open in Iowa City, Iowa. Sophomore David Skiba clocked an 8.37 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles, breaking the five-year old school record of 8.51. The next day, the Bears headed to the University of Northern Iowa Dome Open in Cedar Falls. Though no team scores were kept, WUSTL still featured numerous individual efforts worth noting. Senior Kammie Holt set another season-best in the long jump with a leap of 5.59 meters, good for a provisional qualification for the NCAA Championships. The women's tennis team opened the 2004 spring season with a 7-2 win at Luther College. After dropping two of three matches in doubles play, WUSTL reeled off wins at all six singles spots to take control of the match. Kacie Cook picked up a 6-3, 6-3 win at No. 1 singles over Luther's Miriam Skrade. Lauren Zwick put together a strong match at No. 3 singles, prevailing 6-1, 6-1 over Lindsay Hagen of Luther. Laura Greenberg and Erin Fleming, who each posted singles wins, garnered the Bears' lone win in doubles play. The No. 7 men's tennis team had four singles champions and two doubles champions as the Bears competed in the Principia College Invitational in Elsah, Ill. Freshman Marko Boskovski (No. 1), sophomore William McMahan (No. 2), sophomore Zack Fayne (No. 3) and junior David Weingeist No. 6) each posted a 3-0 record to win their flights. | | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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