Friday, February 19, 2010

Stretch drive...

Coming into the stretch drive for winter sports and an exciting couple of weeks in store. Snapshots of where we sit heading into the final few weeks of the winter campaigns:

Women's Basketball: Team is ranked #4 in the nation, No. 2 in the Midwest Region heading into Saturday's regular season finale at Northern Kentucky. UIndy (24-2) will host a Great Lakes Valley Conference tournament first round and quarterfinal round game. Missouri St. Louis and Saint Joseph's will play Saturday, Feb. 27 at Nicoson Hall with the winner playing UIndy the following day at 1:00 p.m. in the GLVC quarterfinals. Winner heads to Springfield, Ill. for the semifinal/final rounds.

Men's Basketball: Can clinch GLVC East No. 3 seed with a win in the regular season finale at Northern Kentucky. The No. 3 seed travels to the top seed in the GLVC North, which will be either Quincy or Saint Joseph's and will play Missouri S&T in the first round. The East's No. 4 seed has to travel to Drury and will battle Lewis in the opening round game.

Swimming and Diving: Nine athletes are currently qualified to head to the NCAA Division II Championships in Canton, Ohio in March. Andrew Loshnowsky, Austin Biefnes, Guy Kogel, Justin Klopp, Meghan Donahue, Jaclyn Luscomb, Erica Smith, Maura Donahue and Alex Norris are the Greyhounds that have already punched their ticket to the national meet.

Wrestling: The Greyhounds head to Central Missouri to compete in the NCAA Super Regionals. There, they will wrestle for the right to advance to the NCAA Division II Championships set for Mar. 12-13 in Omaha, Neb. Two UIndy wrestlers are currently nationally-ranked in their respective weight class: Lynn Panko (285) and Alex Johns (125).

Track and Field: The track teams are gearing up for the Great Lakes Valley Conference Indoor Championships set for Frank Petretti Fieldhouse on the campus of Wisconsin-Parkside Feb. 26-27. The Greyhound women are the defending champions while the men finished second in the indoor meet in 2009.


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