Sports News: Spring 2004

Monday, March 1, 2004

FIVE GREYHOUNDS NAMED MORAVIAN COLLEGE STUDENT-ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

BETHLEHEM, PA--- Junior Jen Behagg (Hamburg, NJ/Pope John XXIII HS) from the Women’s basketball team, junior Kirsten Rotzell (Bangor, PA/Bangor HS) and freshman Suzanne Tamlyn (Wappingers Falls, NY/Wallkill HS) of the women’s indoor track and field team and freshman Matt Bailey (Reading, PA/Reading HS) and senior Joe Moore (Andover, NJ/Newton HS) from the men’s indoor track and field team have been named the Moravian College Student-Athletes of the Week for their performances last week.

Behagg, a guard, helped the Greyhounds to a 1-1 mark last week, including a 57-52 victory in the Commonwealth Semifinals against Lebanon Valley College sending them into the Commonwealth Championship for the second year in a year. Behagg had 11 points, four rebounds, four assists, three steals and one block in the victory. Behagg led the team with five assists when Moravian’s three-game winning streak was snapped in the Commonwealth Conference Championship game, letting a 40-25 halftime lead slip away in the final minute of a 71-68 loss to fourth seeded Widener University. Behagg also had 12 points, three rebounds, three steals and two blocks for the Greyhounds. For the week, she shot eight of 16 (50 percent) from the floor, was perfect on the charity strip making six of six foul shots, and was one of four behind the three point line. Moravian, which is 18-9 overall, has received its second straight bid to the ECAC South Championships, and the Greyhounds, seeded fourth, will host fifth-seed Catholic University on Wednesday, March 3rd in a semifinal game at 7:00 p.m. in Johnston Hall.

Rotzell captured the long jump at the Middle Atlantic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship with an NCAA Division III provisional qualifying leap of 5.49 meters (18 feet, 1/4 inch), and she took home the title in the triple jump with a distance of 11.27 meters (36 feet, 11 3/4 inches), which also provisionally qualifies for the NCAA Division III Championships in two weeks to lead Moravian to its ninth straight MAC title. Rotzell was also second in the 55-meter hurdles in a time of 8.46 seconds, which bettered the previous MAC record and provisionally qualified her in the event for the NCAA Championships. She was also fifth in the 55-meter dash in a time of 7.52 after qualifying in 7.42 seconds. Rotzell also placed seventh in the 200-meter dash in 27.25 seconds. Rotzell will compete at the 2004 NCAA Division III Indoor National Championships on March 12th and 13th at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater.

Tamlyn earned MAC Rookie of the Year honors and won her first collegiate gold medal in the 200-meter dash with an MAC record time of 26.38 seconds. She was also part of the 4x200-meter relay team, which took third place with a time of 1:49.15.

Bailey won the 55-meter hurdles in a time of 7.83 seconds to win one of the Greyhound’s two championships at the MAC Indoor Track and Field Championships. Moravian finished fifth as a team at the MAC meet. Bailey was also part of the 4x400-meter relay team which had a time of 3:35.47 to place fifth. Moore defended his MAC crown in the long jump with an NCAA Division III provisional qualifying distance of 7.23 meters (23 feet, 8 3/4 inches) capturing the other Greyhound Championship. Moore will compete at the 2004 NCAA Division III Indoor National Championships on March 12th and 13th at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater.