| Vol XXXV No. 53 |
Friday, November 16, 2001 |
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Staying close to home
South Bend's Batteast to start at forward for Irish
By NOAH AMSTADTER
Sports Editor
 Having lived his whole life in South Bend, Wayne Batteast naturally grew to become a Notre Dame fan. He attended football games during the fall at the nearby University and basketball games during the winter. But Wayne and his wife Margaret ... [more]
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Staying close to home
Marian star Emily Creachbaum brings Belles size, skill
By KATIE McVOY
Associate Sports Editor
It's a situation where everybody wins. A basketball team gets a promising new star, a player finds the best of both worlds in her new college and her parents can still have the pleasure of her company at Sunday dinner. When ... [more]
ND WOMEN'S SOCCER: Irish host NCAA tourney game tonight
By JOE LICANDRO
Sports Writer
The Notre Dame women soccer team's season can be divided into three phases: the regular season, the Big East tournament and the NCAA tournament. So far the Irish have completed the first two phases in impressive fashion by winning both ... [more]
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Irish open season without senior Humphrey
By KERRY SMITH
Sports Writer
After two dominating exhibition outings led by forward Ryan Humphrey, the Irish are readjusting their game plan for tonight's season opener against the University of New Hampshire Wildcats. With Humphrey sidelined for two games due to an infraction of an NCAA ... [more]
FOOTBALL: Irish ready to sink Midshipmen
By MIKE CONNOLLY
Sports Writer
The Irish are bigger than Navy. They are stronger and they are faster. But that doesn't mean they will win. "Athlet-ically we are going to be more talented than they are but they have a great scheme and they play hard," ... [more]
MEN'S SWIMMING: Irish top Ontario University, 136-64
By NELLIE WILLIAMS
Sports Writer
Continuing traditions does not always have to be extremely competitive. The Notre Dame men's swim team proved that keeping traditions with Western Ontario University is always a guaranteed good time. Swimming Western Ontario for the 40th year in a row, Notre ... [more]
ND WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: McGraw inks pair for class of 2006
By KATIE McVOY
Associate Sports Editor
Two high school seniors have signed national letters of intent to play basketball at Notre Dame for the 2002-2003 season, head coach Muffet McGraw announced on Thursday. Point guard Megan Duffy and forward Courtney LaVere committed to the Irish women's basketball ... [more]
SMC SWIMMING: Petcoff happy with team's performance
By NELLIE WILLIAMS
Sports Writer
Swimming record-breaking wins and season best times, the Belles lost a close race against Western Ontario University, 114 to 88. "Everybody had a great meet. [The past week] we had gone into a rest period so we could see these results," ... [more]
HOCKEY: Irish finally play up to potential
By MATT ORENCHUK
Sports Writer
It has been a long battle, but the Notre Dame hockey team is finally playing good hockey. The season started with chaos with the Irish going 0-4-2 in their first six games. They played well, and took leads into the third ... [more]
MEN'S SOCCER: Irish gear up for Big East tournament
By CHRIS FEDERICO
Sports Writer
The Notre Dame men's soccer team prepares today for what could be one of the most important games in the program's history. The Irish take on the St. John's Red Storm tonight in a semifinal match of the Big East ... [more]
SMC BASKETBALL: Belles open season at Hanover Tip-Off
By JOE LINDSLEY
Sports Writer
Despite an 8-17 record, last season was one of the most successful the Belles basketball team has seen in almost a decade. And the team, under second-year coach Suzanne Smith, is hoping to improve on that and reach at least.500 this ... [more]
MEN'S INTERHALL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP: Championship clash features new teams
By PHIL KOESTERER
Sports Writer
A new champion will be crowned Sunday in Notre Dame Stadium, and it may signal the dawn of a new era in men's interhall football. This championship game will be the first in Siegfried's history, and Dillon hasn't been in the ... [more]
MEN'S INERHALL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP: Title games nothing new for Dillon QB
By JOE HETTLER
Sports Writer
Playing a championship game inside a huge stadium with a perfect season on the line is nothing new for Dillon's senior quarterback Tayt Odom. In fact, he may even be getting used to it. When No. 1 Dillon faces No. 2 ... [more]
WOMEN'S INTERHALL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP: Lewis, Welsh have different approaches
By MATT LOZAR
Sports Writer
Nobody enjoys it. Musicians, athletes and actors all would prefer to skip it. That's right, the dreaded "p" word. Practice. This year's women's interhall football championship game features No. 1 Welsh and No. 2 Lewis. These two teams exhibit unique practice ... [more]
WOMEN'S INTERHALL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP: Schlosser follows in sister's footsteps
By DAVE COOK
Sports Writer
Katie Schlosser put it simply: "I always follow in my sister's footsteps." Whether it was playing sports, choosing a college, or studying abroad, Meg Schlosser has always been the strongest example for her younger sister, Katie. Five years ago, Meg played ... [more]
COLUMN: Walk-ons play football for the sake of playing
Andrew Soukup
Associate Sports Editor
A couple days ago at practice, Bob Davie looked toward the guys playing opposite the first string. The scout team. The walk-ons. The guys who never play in a game. The guys who get the snot kicked out of them in ... [more]
MATT SARB: The power of three words
Sarb followed family legacy and earned starting spot on kickoff coverage team
By ANDREW SOUKUP
Associate Sports Editor
Three words transformed a dream into a reality. Three words silenced doubters and caused jubilant family celebrations. Three words proved Matt Sarb right. While 10 players on Notre Dame's kickoff coverage prepared to take the field just seconds after Julius ... [more]
TIMMY O'NEILL: Message from the heart
Inspired by letter from Tim Brown, O'Neill's hard
By KERRY SMITH
Sports Writer
When 14-year old Jonathan Heart needed inspiration, he turned to someone he had never met. Looking for guidance, he sent a letter to senior walk-on Timmy O'Neill, writing about the death of his grandmother, his recent frustrations and desire to quit ... [more]
BERNARD AKATU: Nigerian crosses ocean to play football
By JOE LICANDRO
Sports Writer
Although he spent a majority of his youth growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, Bernard Akatu dreamed one day that he would strap on the famous gold helmet and play football for the Irish. When Akatu was seven years old, his family ... [more]
RYAN KRUEGER: Mishawaka product a player of many roles
By NOAH AMSTADTER
Sports Editor
Ryan Krueger is an actor always taking on a new role. One week the senior walk-on on the Irish football team may play the part of a Boston College wideout. The next week, he may act as a tailback in the ... [more]
JEFFREY CAMPBELL: Transfer balances football and ROTC
By KATIE McVOY
Associate Sports Editor
God, Country, Notre Dame. It may sound clichéd, but for a man of strong faith who is a cadet first class in the Air Force and spends his afternoons setting up play after play against the Irish first-string offense, there seems ... [more]
JOHN CROWTHER: It's a snap
Crowther moves from
By CHRIS FEDERICO
Sports Writer
Think back to the first semester at college. Better yet, think back to the first week there. Remember attending all the meetings, adjusting to classes, going to those crazy parties and dealing with a terrifying roommate. For the average freshman, surviving ... [more]
ERIC NELSON: Baseball bat can't stop Nelson's persistence
By MIKE CONNOLLY
Sports Writer
Eric Nelson's chances of playing football at Notre Dame almost ended before they started. Two weeks before he started his sophomore year, Nelson asked some men at a party not to smoke in his friend's house. Rather than extinguishing their cigarettes, ... [more]
ADAM TIBBLE: Focused forward
By ANDREW SOUKUP
Associate Sports Editor
People seem know Adam Tibble for only two reasons. Last year, in Notre Dame's final home game of the season against Boston College, he made a pitch to Nicholas Setta on a fake field goal that resulted in a touchdown. This ... [more]
MIKE KLOCKNER: Silent Klockner lets actions speak for him
By JASON McFARLEY
Sports Writer
If only Mike Klockner had let his voice, and not his play, do the talking for the past two seasons, then his teammate and friend Matt Sarb might have concentrated his attention elsewhere. "My main focus working with him is trying ... [more]
DWAYNE FRANCIS: Humble player modest about earning scholarship
By JEFF BALTRUZAK
Assistant Sports Editor
Dwayne Francis has many reasons to be proud. He is the only senior walk-on that has earned a scholarship while at Notre Dame. He is graduating a semester early. He runs the 40 in 4.43 seconds, making him one of the ... [more]
CHAD DeBOLT: Greatness personified
Special teams
By MIKE CONNOLLY
Sports Writer
Chuck Lennon told Chad DeBolt not to come to Notre Dame. Only under one condition could DeBolt enroll at the University, the director of the Alumni Association told him. "He said `Chad, if you want to come to Notre Dame to ... [more]
CHRIS MAHONEY: Career begins with 3 football roommates
By JOE LICANDRO
Sports Writer
Sometimes life takes an unexpected series of twists and turns for the better. When Chris Mahoney arrived on the Notre Dame campus as a sophomore transfer from the University of Holy Cross in Worscester, Mass., he never thought he would be ... [more]
BRIAN DIERCKMAN: Biochemistry major balances school, football
By KATIE HUGHES
Sports Writer
One has to wonder about the getting-to-know-you conversations Brian Dierckman has experienced and the utter astonishment his responses must have produced in the last four years. After all, he's both a football walk-on and a biochemistry major. "It was definitely difficult," ... [more]
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