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Palmer receives Gateway honor

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — For the second time in three weeks, junior placekicker Brian Palmer was named the Gateway Football Conference’s Special Teams Player of the Week, the league announced on Sunday.

Palmer set a single-season school record by making 10 consecutive field goals after converting two attempts in the 40-7 win over Indiana State on Saturday.

Palmer is currently tied with Jeff Wilkins for the longest streak in school history at 10. Wilkins converted that number during the end of the 1992 campaign and start of the 1993 season.

This year, Palmer has made 13-of-14 field-goal tries and 30-of-32 extra points for a team-leading 69 points. In his career, Palmer has made 32 field goals and 119 point-after conversions for 215 points.

He was previously named Special Teams Player of the Week following the Penguins’ contest against Illinois State.

UNI senior quarterback Eric Sanders was selected as the Gateway’s Offensive Player of the Week while Southern Illinois’ James Cloud was chosen as the Defensive Player of the Week.

The Penguins play host to Western Illinois Saturday at 1 p.m.

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Titans receive bids

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — The Westminster College women’s soccer and volleyball teams received postseason bids to the NCAA Div. III tournaments.

The Titan women’s soccer team (14-4-3) will play host to Manhattanville (7-11-3) on Wednesday at 1 p.m. with the winner advancing to play at No. 2 Messiah (19-0) on Saturday. The Titans received an automatic berth in the field of 60 teams as champions of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference.

This is the Westminster women’s soccer team’s fifth appearance in the NCAA Tournament in the last six years. The Titans’ previous appearance was in 2005 when they defeated Notre Dame (Md.) at home, 5-1, before losing at New Jersey, 5-0.

The Titan volleyball team (23-11) will play No. 19 Hiram (27-5) at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, with the winner advancing to play the winner of No. 11 Ohio Northern (27-6) and Webster (25-9) on Friday.

The Titans, who enter the tournament winning 17 straight matches including 20 of their last 21, received an automatic berth in the field of 61 teams as champions of the PAC.

Volleyball club
offers tryouts

The Thunder volleyball club is offering tryouts to players ages 10-18. For details call (330) 717-6721 or visit thundervbc@zoominternet.net.

Rock booters advance

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. — The Slippery Rock Univ. soccer team received a berth in the NCAA Division II national playoffs.

The Rock earned the No. 3 seed in the Northeast Regional and will take a 16-4-1 record into Friday’s first-round game against sixth-seeded Adelpi (12-5) in West Chester. Game time will be announced today.

West Chester (16-2-2) parlayed a 2-0 win over SRU in last Sunday’s Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship game into the No. 2 seed in the Northeast Region. The defending regional champion Golden Rams will meet the SRU-Adelphi winner in second-round action Sunday.

C.W. Post (16-1-2), the East Coast Conference champion, earned the region’s No. 1 seed and will be the host site for the other Northeast Region first- and second-round games.

Bridgeport (14-6) will take on Dowling (15-6) in first-round action to determine C.W. Post’s opponent in second-round action.

The winners of Sunday’s games will meet head-on Nov. 16 in third-round action to determine the Northeeast Regional championship and earn a berth in the Nov. 18 quarterfinals.

The Rock will be making their second straight trip to NCAA postseason competition and the fourth in the last eight campaigns.

Bethany soccer team
earns tourney bid

BETHANY, W.Va. — For the second consecutive season, the Bethany College men’s soccer team has earned a bid to the postseason. The Bison will play in the ECAC South Region Tournament, beginning Wednesday.

The Bison, who lost to eventual PAC champion Washington & Jefferson 1-0 in overtime in the conference tournament semifinals, recorded an 8-8-3 overall record during the season.

They will they travel to New Wilmington, Pa., to face PAC rival Westminster, who finished first in the conference regular season standings and posted a 10-6-3 record on the year.

The contest will be played at Wilmington High School at 7:30 p.m. due to the Titans’ women’s soccer team playing an NCAA first round match at their home field at 1 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.

Vindicator staff/wire reports