Milestones: Jan Hutchinson, field hockey coach at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, won her 1,500th career collegiate victory October 15 (combining softball and field hockey) when her Huskies defeated top-rated Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 3-1, October 15. The win moved Hutchinson alongside Gordie Gillespie, former baseball coach at Ripon College; Augie Garrido, baseball coach at the University of Texas at Austin; and Wichita State University baseball coach Gene Stephenson as the only coaches with more than 1,500 career victories ... Sandy Hoffman of Bentley College became the first women's volleyball coach in New England history to win at least 600 games with a three-game sweep of the College of Saint Rose. After the victory, Hoffman's record stood at 600-154, including 18-5 this season. Hoffman, in her 24th year at Bentley, is the seventh active Division II coach to reach 600 wins ... Florida Southern College women's volleyball coach Jill Stephens won the 100th match of her career with a three-game road win over Saint Leo October 5. Stephens, a former all-American at Florida Southern, is in her fifth season as the Moccasins' head coach ... Pittsburg State University women's volleyball coach Ibraheem Suberu won his 100th match September 28 with a four-game victory over Northwest Missouri State University. ... Pittsburg State also won its 600th football game October 22 with a 66-14 victory over Truman State University. The 600 wins, achieved over 98 seasons of play, is the most of any Division II program.

Miscellaneous: Rick Rose, a basketball player at the University of Minnesota Morris, died October 22 after he was injured in a postgame celebration in which students were attempting to take down a football goalpost. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that fans tried to remove the goalpost after their team's 34-28 victory over Crown College in double overtime. It was the final game at Cougar Field, the school's football stadium for the last 35 years. Chancellor Sam Schuman said that students had never previously attempted to remove the goalposts and that the incident "seemed to be a spontaneous act of youthful exuberance that had tragic consequences."

-- Compiled by David Pickle