Skully, Sankal Named Academic All-District

Kim Skully, photographed here earlier this year against John Carroll, became the first in Wooster softball history to earn academic all-district honors .

College of Wooster softball player Kim Skully (Brooklyn Hts., Ohio / Cuyahoga Heights) and baseball player Jake Sankal (Mentor, Ohio / Mentor) were selected to their respective sport’s ESPN The Magainze Academic All-District Team, it was announced Thursday by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Skully earned first-team honors and is now eligible for Academic All-American® consideration, while Sankal received second-team recognition.

Skully, a junior outfielder majoring in biology, was Wooster’s top offensive player again, compiling a .389 batting average (42-for-108), which ranked seventh-best in the North Coast Athletic Conference, with eight doubles, three home runs, and 21 RBI. She led the team in all of those categories, as well as in on-base (.455) and slugging percentage (.546). Skully, already a two-time all-NCAC player (second-team as a freshman, honorable mention as a sophomore), also scored 21 runs and swiped seven stolen bases, while helping the Fighting Scots to a 17-21 record.

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Baseball

Dan Skulina WOOSTER, Ohio – The College of Wooster banged out five home runs on Sunday, but it was not enough as Ohio Wesleyan University won a pair of games, 6-3 and 14-6, to take the teams’ best-of-three semifinal series during North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament action at Art Murray Field. Wooster had prevailed 14-7 in the lone game played Saturday.

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Golf

Pat Lynch The College of Wooster golf team completed the 2007-08 season, finishing in fifth-place with a total of 953 strokes over the 54-hole North Coast Athletic Conference Championships on Saturday and Sunday. The two-day event was hosted by Denison University at the par-71, 6,559-yard Granville Golf Course.

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Men's Lacrosse

The College of Wooster utilized two big quarters Saturday afternoon at a rainy McBride Field in Gambier, Ohio, outscoring host Kenyon College by a combined 7-2 count during the second and fourth quarters. With the 9-7 come-from-behind victory, Wooster moved to 11-3 overall and 2-3 in the North Coast Athletic Conference, while Kenyon falls to 10-3 overall and 3-2 in the conference.

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Women's Lacrosse

Jamie Dannenberg The College of Wooster’s bid for a second-straight North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament championship came to an end Saturday afternoon in heartbreaking fashion, as Ohio Wesleyan University’s Alexa Deaton scored 2:37 into the third overtime, helping the hosts upend the Scots 14-13 at Roy Rike Field.

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Track & Field

Tristan Jordan and Jon Mathis won the triple jump and high jump, respectively, at the 24th annual North Coast Athletic Conference Track & Field Championships, held Thursday and Friday in Delaware, Ohio, as they led The College of Wooster’s men’s team to a fifth-place finish out of 10, and the Fighting Scot women used a well-balanced effort for fourth-place among a field of nine squads.