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Division III Notes
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By Jack Copeland
The NCAA News
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Conferences: Alvernia College is joining the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Corporation Freedom Conference in 2008-09, making the move along with another current Pennsylania Athletic Conference member, College Misericordia (as reported in the March 26 issue of The NCAA News). Alvernia, which has claimed 20 PAC team titles during the past 14 years, brings a 16-sport program to its new conference after competing since 1992 as a charter member of the PAC. “Alvernia is but a year away from celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2008, while the MAC approaches its centennial celebration a few years later,” said Alvernia President Tom Flynn. “Now, we look forward to sharing these milestones together; strengthening the partnership among our schools; enjoying all the triumphs, disappointments, and our fair share of championships; celebrating the grit and the glory, the passion, and the character formation that typify NCAA Division III athletics.” The MAC was founded in 1912 ... Morrisville State College and State University College at Brockport will compete as affiliate football members of the New Jersey Athletic Conference, beginning with the 2008 season. Morrisville State, which is completing its first year of provisional Division III membership, reinstated its football program in 1997 after a 40-year hiatus, while Brockport State is joining two other State University of New York Athletic Conference institutions (State University College at Cortland and State University College at Buffalo) as NJAC affiliates after competing since 2004 in the Atlantic Central Football Conference. The additions will boost the NJAC to 10 football-playing members, including five affiliated members (Western Connecticut State also competes as an affiliate). “Our conference has benefited greatly from the additions of Cortland, Western Connecticut and Buffalo State as affiliate members in football,” said Terry Small, NJAC commissioner. “By adding two more outstanding programs, we will be able to align many of the Division III public university programs in the Northeast while helping to ease the burden of scheduling many of our institutions have experienced throughout the years.” Morrisville State Athletics Director Greg Carroll said the move enables his school to compete in one of the finest conferences in Division III. “The new alignment should not only strengthen college football in New York state, but also create exciting rivalries between our New Jersey and New York campuses,” he said. “While Morrisville is still in its NCAA infancy, football has a strong tradition and heritage on our campus. This is just the beginning of yet another chapter in that long history.” Brockport State Athletics Director Lin Case called the NJAC one of the elite football conferences in Division III. “We look forward to competing in the same conference with many of the schools already on our schedule, and we are also pleased to be joining our sister SUNY schools in the same conference,” Case said. Each NJAC football-playing member will play a nine-game league schedule, with the conference champion receiving automatic qualification to the Division III Football Championship ... Dominican University has decided not to join the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (as reported in the March 26 issue of the News). The school will continue to offer men’s volleyball as a club sport. Two Division III member institutions — Carthage College and Milwaukee School of Enginering — remain members of the 10-member MIVA.
Milestones: Jeff Albies collected his 850th coaching victory in baseball March 24 with William Paterson College’s victory over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During 33 seasons at the school, Albies has led the Pioneers to two Division III championships, seven championship-series appearances and 18 NCAA tournament invitations, as well as 11 New Jersey Athletic Conference titles. Albies ranks fourth among active Division III coaches and eighth all-time in victories ... Just before leading DePauw University to this year’s Division III Women’s Basketball Championship title, Kris Huffman collected her 300th coaching victory March 3 when her team beat Denison University in the championship’s second round. Huffman capped her 15th season at the school with DePauw’s first national title in the sport.
Miscellaneous: Video highlights of events at the recent Division III Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships now are available online from the meet’s host, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Highlights from 16 track and 12 field events in QuickTime Version 7.0 format are accessible from the championships, where Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) claimed the men’s team title and Williams College won the women’s team crown. The highlights are available at www.rose-hulman.edu/sports/ncaatrack/pages/video.htm ... Jennifer Martinez of St. Joseph’s College (Long Island) matched her own Division III record (and the all-divisions record she shares with the University of California, Berkeley’s, Michelle Granger) when she struck out 21 Shawnee State University batters through nine innings in her team’s softball season opener March 19. Martinez also hurled a no-hitter through regulation play plus two extra innings — the first of two no-hitters she hurled during the Golden Eagles’ spring trip to South Carolina. The biology/secondary education major, who set a Division III season mark last year with her 15.17 strikeouts per seven innings, also rang up 21 strikeouts during an April 10, 2006, seven-inning game against Mount Saint Mary College (New York). In five games during the South Carolina trip, Martinez fanned 90 batters through 34 innings in compiling a 4-1 record — without yielding an earned run.
Milestones: Jeff Albies collected his 850th coaching victory in baseball March 24 with William Paterson College’s victory over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During 33 seasons at the school, Albies has led the Pioneers to two Division III championships, seven championship-series appearances and 18 NCAA tournament invitations, as well as 11 New Jersey Athletic Conference titles. Albies ranks fourth among active Division III coaches and eighth all-time in victories ... Just before leading DePauw University to this year’s Division III Women’s Basketball Championship title, Kris Huffman collected her 300th coaching victory March 3 when her team beat Denison University in the championship’s second round. Huffman capped her 15th season at the school with DePauw’s first national title in the sport.Miscellaneous: Video highlights of events at the recent Division III Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships now are available online from the meet’s host, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Highlights from 16 track and 12 field events in QuickTime Version 7.0 format are accessible from the championships, where Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) claimed the men’s team title and Williams College won the women’s team crown. The highlights are available at www.rose-hulman.edu/sports/ncaatrack/pages/video.htm ... Jennifer Martinez of St. Joseph’s College (Long Island) matched her own Division III record (and the all-divisions record she shares with the University of California, Berkeley’s, Michelle Granger) when she struck out 21 Shawnee State University batters through nine innings in her team’s softball season opener March 19. Martinez also hurled a no-hitter through regulation play plus two extra innings — the first of two no-hitters she hurled during the Golden Eagles’ spring trip to South Carolina. The biology/secondary education major, who set a Division III season mark last year with her 15.17 strikeouts per seven innings, also rang up 21 strikeouts during an April 10, 2006, seven-inning game against Mount Saint Mary College (New York). In five games during the South Carolina trip, Martinez fanned 90 batters through 34 innings in compiling a 4-1 record — without yielding an earned run.© 2010 The National Collegiate Athletic Association
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