March 27, 2008
THOMASVILLE, N.C. — Barton College's Jonathan Burke has been selected as the NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas men's golf Player of the Month for the month of March in the 2007-08 season. Jonathon also was awarded the honor in October & February this season.
Barton College junior Jonathan Burke continued his fine play for the Bulldogs in March, when he averaged 72.5 over four rounds and led Barton to its second tournament title of the season. The Bulldogs won the 2Targets-Barton Intercollegiate behind a torrid 69-70–139 (-5) by Burke, who tied the University of North Carolina's Chase McFarland for medalist honors, then lost in a playoff. The 5-under scores by the two young men were the best two-day scores ever recorded in the 33 years of the annual event.
The previous week, Burke fired 77-74–151 for Barton in the Richard Rendleman Invitational. For the year, Burke has been among the top four regional performers in six of seven tournaments and has posted four top-10 overall finishes, including a runner-up and tying for first twice. He is averaging 73.63 over 16 rounds, with seven of those rounds at par or better.
Posted by admin under Golf, Uncategorized | Comments (0)
March 26, 2008
SALISBURY, NC — Freshman Weston Church (Salisbury, NC/W. Rowan HS) tossed six strong innings and 28th-ranked Catawba erupted for 11 runs over its final four at bats to defeat visiting Barton 11-2 in baseball action on Wednesday afternoon at Newman Park. The Catawba Indians improve to 24-12, while the Bulldogs fall to 19-21,
Church, who was making his first start, allowed just two runs off four hits as he pitched into the seventh inning. He walked none and struck out three. The Bulldogs took the lead with a run in the second. Jimmy Metzinger (Louisburg, NC) reached on a wild pitch after striking out and would score on a two-out single by Aaron Watkins (Newport News, VA).
The Indians would strike for three runs in the fifth to take the lead. Bubba Morris (Spencer, NC/N. Rowan HS) tripled home the tying run and scored on a single by Chris Ahearn (Charlotte, NC/Providence HS) to give Catawba the lead. David Thomas (Winston-Salem, NC/Ledford HS) hit a three-run homer to cap a four-run sixth that gave Catawba a 7-1 edge.
Barton got a run in the seventh and had the bases loaded with one out, but Nathan Furr (Albemarle, NC/W. Stanly HS) got a strike out and ground out to end the inning. He tossed an inning and two-thirds of perfect relief with three strikeouts. Jerry Sands (Clayton, NC/Smithfield-Selma HS) capped the scoring in the eighth with a three-run homer.
Thomas enjoyed a 4-for-4 afternoon with four RBI and three runs scored. He singled twice, doubled and homered. Ahearn had three this, while Sands and Craige Lyerly (Salisbury, NC/E. Rowan HS) each had two hits. Catawba out-hit Barton 14-5.
Posted by admin under Baseball, Uncategorized | Comments (0)
March 26, 2008
THOMASVILLE, N.C. — Barton College's Scott Reddick (3-7 overall, 1-2 conf.) has been selected as the NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas men's tennis Player of the Week during week number six in the 2008 season.
Reddick, a senior from Oakville, Ontario, Canada, enjoyed a sensational spring break trip with the Bulldogs this past week, posting a 7-1 overall record as the Bulldogs played nationally ranked foes from Lander (#16) and Augusta State (#21), then finished off the week with wins at North Greenville and Conference Carolinas foe Erskine. Reddick played in the No. 2 singles spot and lost 6-3, 6-4 at Lander, then won 6-2, 6-1 at Augusta State, 6-3, 6-0 at North Greenville and 6-2, 6-2 at Erskine.
He also teamed with Cesar Grobel at No. 1 doubles for a perfect 4-0 week, winning 8-6 at Lander, 8-5 at Augusta State, 8-0 at North Greenville and 8-1 at Erskine. For the year, Reddick is 9-3 in singles, including 3-1 in conference action.
Posted by admin under Men's Tennis, Uncategorized | Comments (0)
March 20, 2008
Wingate, N.C.—-The Barton College Bulldogs defeated the Wingate University Bulldogs 8-2 Thursday afternoon in NCAA Division II baseball action at Ron Christopher Stadium and Plyler Athletic Field. Barton racked up 15 hits, while junior right-hander Brandon Brinson (Beaulaville, N.C.) didn't allow a Wingate run until the ninth inning. Barton improves to 17-17 overall, while Wingate falls to 13-22 overall.Barton sophomore infielder Jimmy Metzinger (Louisburg, N.C.) drove in three runs, while freshman outfielder Sam Pepper (Tabernacle, N.J.) was three-for-four with an RBI and a run to lead the visiting Bulldogs. Wingate junior shortstop Alex Chapman (Morganton, N.C.) had two RBI for host Bulldogs.
The first four innings were scoreless, with Brinson and Wingate junior righty Garret Kloots (Canton, Ohio) shutting down the offenses. Barton got on the board in the fifth, starting with an RBI single from senior outfielder Travis Holloman (Clayton, N.C.).
Metzinger then drove in a pair of runs with a single through the left side, making it 3-0. Senior outfielder Michael Parker (Rocky Mount, N.C.) followed with another RBI single. Pepper capped the fifth-inning scoring with an RBI double to right, making it 5-0 Barton.
The Barton Bulldogs added to their lead in the seventh on an RBI single from Metzinger, making it a six-run game. The guests added some insurance in the ninth, plating two runs on a Wingate error.
Wingate got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the ninth, when they loaded the bases for Chapman. The Morganton Freedom High School graduate delivered with a two-run single to right field, plating junior catcher Dustin Hurdle (Burlington, N.C.) and freshman right fielder Cale Rogers (Snow Camp, N.C.).
Brinson went the distance for Barton, allowing one earned run on four hits while striking out eight. Barton turned a pair of double plays, while the Wingate Bulldogs left nine runners on base. Kloots took the loss, allowing five runs on nine hits. Kloots struck out two Barton batters. Wingate turned three double plays, while the Barton Bulldogs left 10 runners on base.
Wingate returns to action on Good Friday, when they host Mars Hill College for a 7 p.m. South Atlantic Conference match-up. The Bulldogs and the MHC Lions meet again Saturday for a twin bill, with the first game starting at 1 p.m. Barton is back in action Friday as well, hosting Erskine College for two games at 12 noon.
(Wingate University assistant sports information director Hugh Patton wrote this article. Patton is a 2006 Wingate graduate with a B.A. degree in Communication Studies.)
Posted by admin under Baseball, Uncategorized | Comments (0)
March 20, 2008
The Brittany Willis Memorial Soccer Showcase will have a free youth soccer clinic conducted on Sunday March 30 in conjunction with the games to be played on March 28 and 29. The clinic is open to male and females ages four-years and up and will run from 2:00-3:30 p.m. on Field #2 at the J. Burt Gillette Park. The clinic will be directed by Matt Akins, Head Men's Soccer Coach at Barton, Michael Michalakis, Head Women's Soccer Coach at Barton, and Ike Onyeador, Assistant Men's and Women's Soccer Coach at Barton. Players on the men's and women's soccer teams at Barton will serve as instructors for the clinics. Participants are strongly urged to bring their own soccer ball, marked for identification, to the clinic. Feel free to contact Matt Akins at 399-6609 with any questions about this event.
Posted by admin under Men's Soccer, Uncategorized, Women's Soccer | Comments (0)
March 16, 2008
MOUNT OLIVE, NC — Top-ranked Mount Olive College turned a game-ending, bases-loaded double play Sunday afternoon to escape Scarborough Field with a 10-8 conquest of visiting archrival Barton College in Conference Carolinas baseball action.
The Trojans, No. 1 in NCAA D-II, rose to 28-2 overall and 12-0 in the league. Barton fell to 14-17 and 4-8 in conference games. Barton entertains Pace University at noon Tuesday in doubleheader action, then returns to league play with two games against Erskine at Nixon Field on Friday and a single game Saturday.
Barton led until the bottom of the fifth inning, when MOC rallied from a 6-5 deficit with four runs. Catcher Jason Sherrer homered to deep center, chasing Barton reliever Brandon Spence. Rich Racobaldo and Dylan Holton followed with singles and another run scored on a sacrifice fly by Anthony Williams. Kramer Sneed relieved John Anderson (1-1). After a wild pitch and a walk, Jesse Lancaster singled in a run and Alex Vertcnik hit another sacrifice fly for a 9-6 cushion.
After a Racobaldo homer in the seventh made it 10-6, the Bulldogs pulled within 10-8 in the eighth. Jeremy Tucker, in his first game back after suffering a severe thumb injury, was hit by a pitch. Aaron Watkins sacrificed pinch runner Derek Thomas to second and he trotted to third on a wild pitch. Travis Holloman doubled in a run, then Ryan McCleney brought him home with a single.
Nick Nigito, the final of five Barton pitchers, retired the Trojans in order in the eighth. Closer Patrick Ball came in for MOC and quickly registered a strikeout, but then issued walks to Michael Parker and Brandon Sneed. Alan Corbett then reached safely on a fielder's choice when the second baseman dropped the ball on a possible force play, leaving the bases loaded. Watkins was at the plate to finish the game, but his grounder up the middle was fielded cleanly by shortstop David Cooper, who flipped to Williams to start the double play.
Both teams logged 12 hits. Barton made two errors and MOC was charged with three. Kyle Jones (2-0), the second of five Mount Olive pitchers, picked up his second win in 3 2/3 innings of action. He scattered three hits, allowed one run and fanned two.
Racobaldo and Holton had three hits apiece for the Trojans. Sherrer and Lancaster added two apiece. Sherrer and Racobaldo homered and Lancaster, Sherrer and Erik Lovett doubled. Holloman, McCleney, Jimmy Metzinger and Watkins rapped two hits apiece for the Bulldogs. Metzinger homered on a 3RBI day, Holloman doubled twice and Sam Pepper and Tucker each doubled once.
Posted by admin under Baseball, Uncategorized | Comments (0)
March 15, 2008
MOUNT OLIVE, NC — The Mount Olive College baseball team looked every bit like the No. 1-ranked team in NCAA D-II baseball on Saturday afternoon as it routed visiting Barton College 16-1 and 10-1 in a Conference Carolinas doubleheader at Scarborough Field.
The Trojans (27-2, 11-0 in Conference Carolinas), had won 23 straight before losing 5-4 to Bryant College on Thursday, so they were on the warpath. They outhit the Bulldogs 28-12 and benefited from six errors and 10 hit batsmen in the two games. Barton (14-16, 4-7) visits Mount Olive for a 1 p.m. tilt Sunday to finish the three-game series.
Mount Olive got a sterling pitching performance from senior right-hander Casey Hodges in the opener. He raised his record to 4-0 by scattering six hits, striking out seven and walking just one in eight full innings. He allowed one unearned run. Thomas Newsome finished on the mound. Brandon Brinson (2-2) was the first of four Barton pitchers and took the loss in three innings of action. He allowed six runs (five earned) on seven hits, walked two and fanned one. Matt Healy, Robert Malkmus and Patrick Sherrill also pitched for Barton, which issued seven walks and hit five batters.
Cleanup hitter Erik Lovett and centerfielder Josh Harrison did the plate damage for the Trojans. Lovett batted 4-for-6 with 5RBI. He launched a two-run homer in the sixth and doubled. Harrison finished 2-for-4 with 5RBI. He doubled home two runs in the Trojans' three-run first inning and hit a three-run homer in the fourth. Dylan Holton and Anthony Williams each rapped three hits. Holton homered and Williams, who made some brilliant defensive plays at second base (MOC turned four double plays), notched two doubles.
Barton, which got its lone run in the fourth to close within 6-1, got two hits apiece from Ryan McCleney and John Anderson.
In the second game, senior right-hander Ryan Schlecht (7-0) was in command throughout. He allowed just two hits in the first six innings, and both of them came in the fourth inning. He struck out six and walked one in pitching a complete-game, five-hitter. Barton freshman Hunter Meekins (3-3) allowed four runs in the first inning, then settled in for a couple of innings before yielding four more runs in the fourth as MOC amassed a 9-0 lead. Justin Bye and Brent Godwin pitched in relief for the Bulldogs.
Trojan leadoff hitter David Cooper, who was 0-5 in the opener, found his groove in the second game to the tune of 3-for-4 with a triple, double and 2RBI. MOC's 13-hit attack featured two hits apiece by Jesse Lancaster, Harrison and Holton, each of whom doubled. Barton, which had three of its five hits in the final inning, got two hits from Jimmy Metzinger, who suited up for the first time this season on Saturday and batted 3-for-6.
Posted by admin under Baseball, Uncategorized | Comments (0)
March 13, 2008
THOMASVILLE, NC — Three hundred Conference Carolinas athletes, including a record 24 from Barton College, have earned Academic All-Conference Carolinas status. Member institutions stress the role of "Academics and Athletics Working Together," and the success of this goal is reflected by each of these students. The 2008 Conference Carolinas All-Conference Academic Awards have been awarded to the following junior and senior student-athletes with a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 or higher at the member institution.
Barton College
John Anderson, Men's Soccer
Jayme Beacham, Softball
Courtney Bunch, Softball
David Bunn, Baseball
Megan Bynum, Women's Soccer
Kristia Cedeno, Women's Tennis
Summer Chase, Women's Tennis
Sara Fleming, Women's Basketball
Quinn Fuller, Baseball
Chelsea Hiesh, Women's Tennis
Jenna Iacutone, Women's Soccer
David King, Men's Basketball and Baseball
Meaghan Lynch, Women's Tennis
Barrett Martin, Baseball
Jimmy Metzinger, Baseball
John Miller, Baseball
Nicolas Moreau, Men's Golf
Michael Parker, Baseball
Kyle Petty, Women's Volleyball
Stephanie Salvatore, Women's Soccer
Harris Smith, Men's Soccer
Brandon Sneed, Baseball
Jeremy Tucker, Baseball
Michelle Walker, Women's Volleyball
Posted by admin under Uncategorized | Comments (0)
March 12, 2008
WILSON, NC — Host Barton College outhit visiting University of South Carolina-Aiken on Wednesday, but couldn't convert its opportunities into enough runs in suffering a 13-11 baseball loss to the nation's 10th-ranked team.
Barton, which had a 14-11 edge in hits, slipped to 14-14 overall while Aiken improved to 20-5 with its fifth win of the year over the Bulldogs. Barton visits No. 1-ranked Mount Olive, its Conference Carolinas archrival, for a three-game series on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday's action begins at noon.
The Bulldogs led 5-3 after three innings, but the Pacers plated four runs in the top of the fourth on two hits, two errors, three hit batters and a triple by Gary Owens. Barton evened the score at 7-7 in the bottom of the fifth on Jonathan Nichols homer, a double by Brandon Sneed and an RBI single by Bobby Dorman. Aiken added two runs in the top of the sixth on an RBI groundout and cleanup hitter Chad Jacobsen's second homer of the game (he hit a two-run bomb in the third). The Pacers made it 11-7 in the top of the seventh on a two-run single by Ryne Salmon.
Barton closed within 11-10 with three runs in the seventh. One run scored on a wild pitch and Aaron Watkins singled in two runs. Aiken clawed its way back to a 13-10 cushion with two runs in the top of the ninth on an RBI groundout by David Vitko and a bases-loaded walk by Nick Aranas.
In the bottom of the ninth, Barton got one run on an RBI single by Watkins and had runners at second and third with the winning run at the plate before a strikeout ended the uprising.
Jacobsen, the Peach Belt Conference Player of the Week this week, batted 3-for-5 with 3RBI. He was intentionally walked to load the bases in the top of the ninth. He now has 14 home runs this season. Aranas and Owens also notched two hits each.
For Barton, Sam Pepper was 3-for-6 and Watkins, Nichols, Sneed and Dorman collected two hits apiece. Watkins drove in three runs and Sneed hit a solo homer in the second inning.
Aiken utilized five pitchers. The third moundsman, Mark Yarbrough (2-0), got the win in 2 2/3 innings of action. Barton had four players toe the mound. Brent Godwin started and went 3 2/3 innings. Nick Nigito (0-2) was tagged with the loss in 2 1/3 innings of relief.
Posted by admin under Baseball, Uncategorized | Comments (0)
March 11, 2008
WILSON, NC - Host Barton College fired a 3-over par 291 on Tuesday to win the 2 Targets/Barton College Intercollegiate Golf Tournament at the Wilson Country Club.
The Bulldogs' 295-291-586 beat runner-up and defending champion Cape Fear Community College (300-296–596) by 10 shots. Mount Olive College (300-307-607) was third, followed by Pfeiffer at 300-308-608 and Queens University of Charlotte (304-306-610). The field included 11 teams and 23 players competing as individuals.
Atlantic Coast Conference schools Duke, North Carolina and N.C. State were represented in the field by 13 players. UNC junior Chase McFarland (71-68) and Barton junior Jonathan Burke (69-70) finished tied for first place at 5-under 139, but McFarland won the medalist plaque with a birdie on the first playoff hole. He sank a 12-foot putt, then Burke's birdie attempt on the par-4, No. 1 layout from nine feet ran over the edge of the cup. Burke and McFarland set the all-time 36-hole scoring record in the 33-year-old tournament. Only four players had broken par for two days in the previous history of the event. Five players broke par this year under ideal playing conditions (60 degrees and lift, clean and place because of wet grounds.)
Cape Fear CC's Matt Lawson fired 73-69-142 to tie for third place with Duke's Chance Pipitone (69-73–142). Duke's Justin Hare shot 69-74-143 to round out the top five. In winning its second tournament title this season, Barton placed four players in the top 20. Freshman Daniel Castleberry was T10 at 74-72-146, sophomore Stephen Harrison tied for 16th at 76-74-150 and senior Neal Jones was T19 at 77-75-152. Barton's lineup was rounded out by senior Joe Elwell, who shot 76-88-164.
The Bulldogs, ranked 25th nationally in the latest Nike/Golf World D-II Coaches Poll, have won two tournament titles this season. They also prevailed in the Tot Hill Farm/Pfeiffer Invitational in the fall. The Bulldogs will next compete in East Carolina's Tournament at Ironwood Country Club on April 3-4-5 (18 holes each day).
Posted by admin under Golf, Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Subscribe to Feed