Facilities: Wesley College honored its departing president, Scott D. Miller, by renaming Wolverine Stadium in his honor as he leaves to assume the presidency at Bethany College (West Virginia). The rededication of the stadium honors Miller’s “unstinting devotion to supporting scholar-athletes and enhancing all intercollegiate sports and recreational programs and facilities at the college,” said Charles “Chip” R. Dashiell Jr. chair of the college’s board of trustees. Wesley added seven varsity athletics teams during Scott’s tenure, and the school’s football team is among several Wolverine athletics teams enjoying success, having qualified three straight years for the Division III Football Championship and advancing the past two years to the semifinals. The college moved this year to the Capital Athletic Conference. The stadium, which serves as home for men’s and women’s lacrosse and soccer as well as football and is part of a complex that also includes a baseball field, was enlarged and refurbished in 2004. The baseball facility, Reed Field, also was enhanced with new seating and other features. “Athletics have always been a big part of my life and that of my family,” Miller said. “Wesley’s strong intercollegiate sports tradition and its scholar-athletes are a very important part of the institution, and they will continue to be so. I am greatly moved at this honor, and it is immensely satisfying to know a place where my family, colleagues and I have spent so many pleasurable moments now bears my name. It’s something that’s going to take some getting used to.”

Sports sponsorship: Wilkes University is reinstating men’s and women’s cross country, 13 years after the programs were discontinued due to lack of participants. “Bringing back both men’s and women’s cross country is the first step to expand sports offerings at Wilkes,” said Addy Malatesta, the school’s director of athletics. “This will be the first expansion since the addition of women’s lacrosse in 2003.” The teams will begin competition in the Middle Atlantic Conference in fall 2008.
Miscellaneous: Hartwick Col­lege and Utica College combined to put 142 points on the scoreboard during their November 10 football game in Utica, breaking an all-divisions record that had been set just two weeks earlier in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision. Hartwick finally prevailed in the four-overtime game, 72-70, when it stopped a Utica two-point conversion attempt. A pair of current Division III members, North Park University and North Central College (Illinois), held the record of 136 points for nearly 40 years, but Weber State University beat Portland State University, 73-68, October 27 to briefly reset the record at 141 points.