Swimming and Diving
According to a release from the league office on March 23,three Billikens were recognized as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference swimming and diving All-Academic teams.
Seniors Anna Larson and Sal Cruz were joined by junior Michael Dahle on the teams. Larson, a psychology major, won the A-10 three-meter title for the third time in four years this past February. Larson finished her Saint Louis University career as one of the program’s top divers of all time. The senior holds the top seven one-meter performances and the top 10 three-meter performances in school history.
Cruz, an aerospace engineering major, gave SLU its top 200-IM performance this season at the A-10 Championships with a time of 1:57.51.
Dahle is a biomedical engineering major and registered a team-high 20 individual wins this season. He collected three individual first-place finishes at five separate meets in 2009-10. He broke the school record for the 400-IM with a time of 4:01.17 during this year’s A-10 Championships.
Baseball
Danny Brock, SLU’s senior first baseman, was named to a pair of national Teams of the Week for his efforts during a week that saw the Billikens win three games, including two over No. 19 Kansas University.
CollegeBaseball360.com named Brock the CB360 Primetime Player of the Week, while CollegeBaseballInsider.com named him its Northeast Region Player of the Week. Brock was also dubbed the Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Player of the Week.
As of March 23, Brock is third in the nation with 36 RBIs and fourth with 10 home runs. His numbers for slugging percentage (.892), walks (17) and runs scored (24) are all good enough for first place in the A-10. He is currently third in the league with 30 hits and fourth with .525 on-base percentage.
The Billikens open conference play against Xavier University in a three-game series begins on March 26 at home.
Softball
Freshman Laura Bohning came through in the clutch for the second time in three games for the Billiken softball team. Her two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth on March 23 lifted the Bills to a 5-4 victory over Memphis. Bohning’s other late-game heroism was a single in the bottom of the eighth to plate the Bills’ lone run in a 1-0 victory over Western Michigan on March 20.
The Billikens dropped the game between these two victories, 1-0, to Memphis. Memphis starter Carly Hummel put on a stifling performance, striking out 13 Billikens during her complete-game, one-hit shutout.
Softball begins conference season on the road this weekend with a two-game series against Temple that starts on March 26. The team will stay in Philadelphia for a double-header against Saint Joseph’s on March 28.
