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Hanover College Athletics
Selm, Jump lead Hanover to championship match
Hanover College's women's soccer team advanced to the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference championship with a 2-1 victory against the College of Mount St. Joseph (Ohio). The tournament semifinal was played Wednesday, Nov. 4, at the L.S. Ayres Athletic Complex.
Junior forward Lindsey Jump (Columbus, Ohio) scored the eventual game-winner and sophomore forward Olivia Selm (Zionsville, Ind.) had a goal and an assist to propel Hanover its berth in the Heartland Conference's title bout.
The Panthers, now 13-4-1 on the season, will host Transylvania University (Ky.) in the HCAC championship. The match will be played at 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Ayres Complex.
Transylvania (12-6-1) advanced to the league's finale with a 1-0 win against the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in a semifinal battle in Terre Haute, Ind.
Jump snapped a 1-1 tie in the 60th minute with her eighth goal of the season. She scored off a free kick from Selm, who delivered the ball into a crowd just outside the six-yard box in front of the net.
Selm scored an unassisted goal to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead in the 28th minute. She booted a shot from 10 yards out into the upper corner of the net for her sixth goal of the season.
Mount St. Joseph tied the match five minutes into the second period. The Lions' sophomore forward Andrea Caldwell punched the ball into the net from 12 yards out off a corner kick from junior midfielder Jessica Smith.
Hanover outshot Mount St. Joseph 16-8, but had just a 4-2 edge in shots on goal.
The victory was Hanover's 10th in its last 11 outings. The stretch includes a 4-1 win against Transylvania when the squads met Oct. 7 at Ayres Field.
Hanover vs. Mount St. Joseph (Ohio) statistics
Hanover upsets Rose-Hulman to earn title shot
The Hanover College men's soccer team upset the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1-0, in the semifinals of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference's post-season tournament. The match was played Tuesday, Nov. 3, in Terre Haute, Ind.
Sophomore forward Jake Stawick (Indianapolis, Ind.) scored in the 23rd minute to lift Hanover to the team's fourth win in its last five outings. Stawick's goal was assisted by a centering pass into the box by senior midfielder Miles Kroner (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Hanover (7-10) was outshot 17-3 by Rose-Hulman, which also had a 7-1 advantage in shots on goal. Senior goaltender Michael Hansford (Liberty Township, Ohio) had seven saves for the Panthers.
The loss was the first of the season against a Heartland Conference opponent for Rose-Hulman. The Engineers (12-6-1) earned the top seed in the tournament after capturing the league's regular-season title with an 8-0 record.
Rose-Hulman defeated Hanover 2-0 when the squads played Oct. 17 at L.S. Ayres Field.
Hanover will square off against Transylvania University (Ky.) in the championship at 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 7, in Lexington, Ky. The Pioneers, now 13-3-1 on the season, advanced to the title match with a 5-0 victory against Anderson University.
The winner of the HCAC finale earns the league's automatic berth in the NCAA national tournament.
Hanover vs. Rose-Hulman (HCAC Semifinal) statistics
Stewart ties school interception mark
Senior defensive back Corry Stewart (Nashville, Tenn.) has tied Hanover College's single-season record for interceptions.
Stewart notched a pair of interceptions in Hanover's 30-27 victory against Defiance College (Ohio) in a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tilt Oct. 31. The effort pushed his season total to seven, matching the mark held by former standouts Stuart Bartsch (1984), Joel Benedetti (1989) and Eric Kluft (2002).
In the win against Defiance, Stewart returned his first interception 29 yards for a touchdown just 19 seconds into the game. His second interception of the outing came in the endzone to halt a potential Defiance scoring opportunity in the third quarter.
Stewart, a former wide receiver for the Panthers, ranks fourth on Hanover's defensive unit with 48 tackles this season. In addition to his HCAC-leading seven interceptions, which he has returned for a total of 105 yards, he also has five pass deflections.
Along with his defensive duties, he also averages 37.2 yards per kick as the Panthers' punter.
Hall of famer Lichtfuss to lead lacrosse program
National lacrosse hall of famer and former all-American athlete Skip Lichtfuss has been hired as the first head coach of Hanover College's men's lacrosse program. Lichtfuss, who was inducted into the U.S. Lacrosse National Hall of Fame in 1993, has been involved at every level of lacrosse in the U.S. for nearly 40 years.
Lichtfuss was an all-American player at Washington & Lee University (Va.) in the early 1970s. He also competed with the U.S. national team in the late 1970s, played in the United State Club Lacrosse Association (USCLA) until the mid-1980s and later played in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL).
He was a three-time all-American and four-time all-South Atlantic Conference selection at Washington & Lee from 1971-74. He played in the USCLA from 1975-84, earning all-league honors five times while leading the Mount Washington (Md.) Lacrosse Club to three championships.
He played on the U.S. national team at the World Championships in Manchester, England, in 1978. He later came out of retirement to play for the MILL's Pittsburgh Bulls in 1990.
Lichtfuss has served as a coach at every level of play – from youth leagues to the national team. He served as a member of the U.S. national team's coaching staff for the World Championships in 1994. He guided Mount Washington for nearly 20 years, leading the squad to three USCLA titles as a coach while producing 11 national team players. He also served two seasons as general manager of the MILL's Pittsburgh Bulls and coached six all-pro players while leading the Baltimore Thunder for three seasons.
He served as a member of the U.S. Lacrosse Board of Directors from 2000-08 and has been a member of the organization's hall of fame selection committee since 1999. He is the only coach to be a member of the selection committee for every U.S. national team since 1986.
Lichtfuss is also a member of the Virginia Lacrosse Hall of Fame, Greater Baltimore Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame and the Washington & Lee Athletic Hall of Fame.
He will recruit Hanover's first lacrosse squad during the current academic year. The Panthers are slated to begin intercollegiate competition during the spring season in 2011.
Hanover will join Trine University as only NCAA III colleges in Indiana to sponsor the sport. Hanover will be the second school in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference with lacrosse, joining the College of Mount St. Joseph (Ohio).
Hanover currently offers eight men's and eight women's varsity sports. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis and track & field. Women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field and volleyball.
More than 40 percent of Hanover's student body participates in the intercollegiate athletics program.
The last intercollegiate sport added at Hanover was women's soccer, which appeared at the varsity level for the 1995 season.
HCAC accepts Earlham College as member
The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference has announced that Earlham College will join the membership beginning in the 2010-11 academic year. Earlham, located in Richmond, Ind., will join the conference after spending the past 20 years affiliated with the North Coast Athletic Conference.
"We are very pleased to have Earlham join the Heartland Conference as our 10th member as they have a rich tradition of strong academic and intercollegiate athletic programs," said Christopher Ragsdale, commissioner of the HCAC. "Many of our conference members have already been competing in non-league contests with Earlham. They are centrally located to our other conference schools which make them a natural fit."
Earlham is one of the nation's strongest academic liberal arts colleges and is an independent, four-year, coeducational, residential institution founded in 1847 by the Religious Society of Friends. The Quakers provide 16 varsity athletic programs for their enrollment of more than 1,100 students.
The addition of Earlham marks the first change in membership for the HCAC since Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology joined the league in 2006. The conference also includes Anderson University, Bluffton University, Defiance College, Franklin College, Hanover College, Manchester College, the College of Mount St. Joseph, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and Transylvania University.
"I am extremely excited that Earlham has been invited to join the Heartland Conference," says Douglas C. Bennett, Earlham's president. "In joining the Heartland, we are rejoining a number of colleges and universities that have been institutions with which Earlham has competed for many decades. We are delighted to now be in a conference with them."
The HCAC currently sponsors 16 championships in men's and women's athletics. Beginning in the 2010-11 academic year, Earlham will be competing in 13 of 16 sports in the HCAC, excluding men's and women's golf and softball.
"Games against HCAC members permeate throughout Earlham's athletic history, with rivalries that began years before formal conference affiliations," stated Frank Carr, Earlham's athletic director. "We believe that renewing this relationship will be a winning situation for all involved."
"When it comes to intercollegiate athletics, Earlham shares a similar vision with current HCAC members who value the intercollegiate experience as an integral part of the overall educational experience for their student-athletes," added Ragsdale.
Courtesy Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference