SUWANEE, Ga. - Millsaps College defeated Oglethorpe and Sewanee this past weekend picking up a pair of conference wins in the same weekend for the first time since 1996. The Majors, who have not won four conference games in the same season since 1998 have a chance in the final weekend of conference play to match the school's record for conference wins in a season set in 1996 at five.

Austin College split its final two home matches of the season, topping Hendrix College 2-0 on Friday before falling 5-3 in a wild game against Rhodes College on Sunday. On Friday the ’Roos got a goal and an assist from both Garrett Evans and Chris Stein, with Evans tallying what would prove to be the game winning goal in the 26th minute. Grant Gosselin stopped five shots in the shutout victory. On Sunday the ’Roos fell behind early but knotted things at 1-1 on a goal by Jason Replogle. However, Rhodes scored the next two and managed to maintain their lead despite second half goals from Evans and Luis Castillo. Grant Gibson, Miles Vaughn and Alex Dawson each had assists for the ’Roos, who head into the final weekend of the season with a 6-9-1 overall record and a 2-6 mark in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play. The ’Roos will be traveling to Atlanta to face Oglethorpe on Friday and then heading to Tennessee to take on Sewanee on Sunday.

Birmingham-Southern split their matches over the weekend, taking a 4-0 win over Sewanee on Friday before dropping their last home game of the season 1-0 to Oglethorpe on Sunday. Freshman striker, Daniel Jackson had the night of his young career on Friday. He got the hat-trick against Sewanee, scoring three of the Panthers’ four goals on the night. His first came in the third minute unassisted, the second in the 22nd, and his third at the end of the match off a penalty kick in the 89th-minute. Unfortunately for BSC, they seemed to use all their offense on Halloween and had nothing on Sunday. The Oglethorpe defense held the Panthers scoreless in their final home game of the 2008 season. BSC will wrap-up the season in Memphis on Friday and in Conway on Sunday. They take on the Lynx at 2:00 p.m. at Rhodes and at noon from Hendrix College on Sunday afternoon.

Centre won its second straight game on Sunday by shutting out visiting Maryville College 1-0. The Colonels outshot the Scots 14-2 and had 5 corner kicks to Maryville’s 7. With the win, the Colonels improve to 14-4 on the year and remain 6-2 in the SCAC. Centre closes out its regular season this upcoming weekend with home games against SCAC rivals Trinity and Southwestern.

Colorado College picked up two big conference wins over the weekend and moved into second place in the SCAC with only one weekend of regular season games remaining. Jordan Reese is 2 for 2 on penalty kicks after converting on Friday against Rhodes College. It was his first game-winning goal of the season and fourth of his career. With the assist on Logan Boccard’s game-winning goal against Hendrix College, junior forward Trevor Cobb has now been involved in eight of CC’s game winners, scoring four and setting up four. Junior goalkeeper Brian Engle made four saves against Rhodes and posted his sixth shutout of the season and fourth in conference play. He improved his record to 9-1-0 overall and lowered his goals-against average to 0.40. Colorado College posted its 10 shutout of the season and fifth in conference play with Sunday’s 1-0 victory over Hendrix College. The Tigers have not allowed a goal in an SCAC game since Oct. 17 against DePauw, a span of 454:01. With the victories over Rhodes College and Hendrix College, CC wrapped up the home portion of its schedule with a 9-2-1 record. CC is 2-0-1 overtime games and a 4-3-0 record in games decided by one goal. The Tigers have allowed more than one goal in a game just twice this season, both times in the second of back-to-back games when CC’s opponent did not play the day before. Colorado College will close out the regular season with games at Sewanee and Oglethorpe on Friday and Sunday, respectively.

In the Tigers' lone game of the week, DePauw battled to a scoreless tie at Rose-Hulman. The Engineers outshot the Tigers 10-3 and held an 8-1 edge in corners. DePauw's Ted Jacobi totaled five saves in posting his ninth shutout of the season.

Hendrix dropped a pair of SCAC contests over the weekend. The Warriors traveled to Austin College for a 2-0 loss on Friday night, before closing out their road trip with a 1-0 overtime loss to Colorado College on Sunday afternoon. Hendrix falls to 4-11 overall and 1-8 in league play. The Warriors missed on five chances at the goal and narrowly missed the upset on Sunday as the stalemate lasted 96 minutes when Tigers senior Logan Boccard put the ball past the keeper for the game winner. First year midfielder Colin Thompson paced Hendrix on Sunday with two shots, while eight other Warriors tallied one shot in the affair. Junior goalkeeper Jon Moore denied seven shots in the affair.

Millsaps swept a conference weekend at home, knocking off Oglethorpe 2-0 on Friday and Sewanee 4-3 on Sunday in a double-overtime thriller. The wins improved the Majors to 8-10 overall and 4-4 in league play, the most overall and SCAC wins since the 1998 season. Junior Corey Beaumont had a pair of goals on the weekend, including the game-winner over OU, while fellow junior Colin Thompson netted the equalizer in the 83rd minute and game-winner in the 106th minute against Sewanee on Sunday. Senior GK Domenick DiPaolo improved to 5-5 between the posts with a pair of wins, picking up six total saves and a shutout. Brandon Mong, who was just recently named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VI First Team, also scored his team-leading seventh goal of the year in addition to a Drew Dews goal. Millsaps will wrap up the 2008 season this weekend on the road at Hendrix and Rhodes, needing one win to tie a school record of nine wins in a season (1996, 1998) and two to set a new record of 10 wins.

Oglethorpe split two conference contests this past week, falling to Millsaps 2-0 and topping Birmingham-Southern 1-0. Senior Amel Komic scored the Petrels only goal of the weekend and the team made it stand for the victory over the Panthers on Sunday. With the decisions, Oglethorpe is now 5-9-3 for the weekend and will prepare for their final two contests versus Austin and Colorado College this weekend. The Petrels will be celebrating senior day on Sunday to say goodbye to Michael Muller, Amel Komic, Brett Wooten, Scott Devault, Daniel brown and Carlos Morochz.

Rhodes traveled west this past weekend to Face Colorado College and Austin College. The Lynx would split their final road trip of the 2008 season. The Lynx lost to Colorado College 2-0 and defeated Austin College 5-3. Senior Alex Margolin would save 15 of 18 shots on goal that he faced against Colorado College. Against Austin College Junior Logan Ebelry would score two goals , Senior Patrick Deveau would finish with a goal and 2 assists, Junior Zac Berry had a goal and an assist, and Sophomore Eric Stradley scored a goal. The Lynx look to finish the 2008 season at home against Birmingham southern College and Millsaps College.

Sewanee dropped a pair of matches this weekend on the road. The Tigers fell 4-0 to Birmingham-Southern Friday night before falling 4-3 in a double overtime heartbreaker to Millsaps on Sunday. The Tigers are now 4-11-1 on the year and are 1-6-1 in the SCAC.
Sewanee will host Colorado College and Austin College to wrap up the season next weekend.

Southwestern dropped a heartbreaker to #1 Trinity on Saturday, shutting out the Tigers for the first time in conference play in three years but knocking in a disastrous own goal in the second half of play to give them a 1-0 victory. The Pirates led Trinity in both shots (20-14) and corner kicks (6-3), but were unable to convert several runs on the Tiger goal to score.

No. 1 Trinity edged Southwestern University 1-0 on the road on Saturday, which was the team’s only game last week. The Tigers scored on a Southwestern own-goal late in the game, which was a matchup of the top two teams in the SCAC standings. Trinity can clinch the SCAC Championship with a win at Centre College on Friday. Trinity will face both Centre and DePauw University next weekend, finishing off the regular season. Last year, the Tigers shut out both Centre and DePauw in San Antonio. Trinity won 3-0 over DePauw, then won 2-0 against Centre on October 19 and 21, respectively.

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