The basketball teams held their annual Black and Gold scrimmage on Oct. 28. Nearly 2,000 spectators watched the men’s and women’s teams compete in two split-squad scrimmages. The men’s team will face North Greenville in a home exhibition on Thursday, while the Lady Owls will host Columbus State on Tuesday.
On Oct. 27-28, the women’s golf team competed at the 31st Annual FIU Pat Bradley Invitational in Fort Meyers, Fla. KSU finished ninth overall. Laura Lindsay led the squad with a three-round total of 229, which was good enough for a 15th-place finish overall. The finish was the senior’s best of the year. The team has completed its fall season and will begin practicing for the spring season, which will begin on Feb. 22 in Kiawah Island, S.C.
SENIOR NIGHT SUCCESS
The soccer team won its fourth straight game last Wednesday, defeating Mercer 2-1. The win capped off an emotional Senior Night performance by KSU. Freshman Katie Schwartz scored her first career goal in the 81st minute to put the Lady Owls up 2-1. KSU scored its other goal on an own-goal by Mercer in the 57th minute. The Lady Owls improved to 11-4-4 overall and 6-2-2 in Atlantic Sun play. The win clinched second place in the standings and the team will receive a bye in the conference tournament, which starts next weekend.
The women’s volleyball team lost two games last week but was able to rebound on Saturday to defeat Stetson. On Oct. 28, home-standing Georgia State defeated KSU by a score of 3-0. The Lady Owls then dropped a conference game to Florida Gulf Coast on Friday night in Fort Meyers, 3-0. The team closed out the week sweeping Stetson in Deland, Fla., 3-0, as freshman Rachael Albright had a double-double. Fellow freshman Callie Churchwell contributed nine kills and four blocks in the victory while Selina O’Leary set a school record for a three-set match with 21 digs. The Lady Owls (6-19, 5-11) will host Jacksonville on Friday night and North Florida on Saturday.
ON THE RUN
The cross country teams competed in the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships in Macon last Saturday. Mackenzie Howe paced the women’s team with a second-place finish. Siobhan Wolcott finished in fifth place while Kristen Gibson came in seventh. Howe, Wolcott and Gibson each made the All-Conference First Team. The Lady Owls finished third as a team, behind Belmont and Jacksonville. … The men’s team also finished third overall behind a strong performance from Scott Burley, who came in eighth place individually. The Owls finished behind East Tennessee State and Belmont. Burley was named to the All-Conference Team while Travis Holmes was named Freshman of the Year. The cross country squads will be out of action until Jan. 9, when they will compete at the Clemson Invitational.
Black can be reached at sblack@scoreatl.com.
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