__________________________________________________________________________ Nov. 4, 2007 Ohio Wesleyan senior Jamison Dague (Columbus, OHG/Bexley) stopped six shots to help the Battling Bishops' to a 0-0 double overtime tie with Wittenberg in the semifinal round of the NCAC Men's Soccer Tounament. Ohio Wesleyan advanced to the championship game, edging the TIgers, 5-3, in penalty kicks. Dague had one save in the 1-0 championship game victory over Allegheny, helping OWU to its league-record sixth tournament title. __________________________________________________________________________ October 28, 2007 Ohio Wesleyan freshman midfielder Chad Baker (Dublin, OH/Jerome) scored an insurance goal in a 3-1 win over Hiram and assisted on both goals in a 2-0 win over Wittenberg. The two games clinched the Battling Bishops the second seed in th upcoming NCAC Tournament. __________________________________________________________________________ October 21, 2007 Denison senior forward Ryan Linn (Zanesville, OH/West Muskingum) scored three first-half goals to lead the Big Red to a 3-0 shutout over Wooster and a 1-1 week. Linn’s first career hat trick, which included an impressive goal off a rare bicycle kick, catapulted him to the top of the Denison scoring list this fall as he now has seven goals. He has 19 goals in his Big Red career. He also leads the Big Red with 16 points (7 goals, 2 assists). __________________________________________________________________________ October 14, 2007 Oberlin junior John Lindner (Hanover Park, IL/Blenbard North) found the back of the net at the 83-minute mark to break a 1-1 tie and hand Oberlin a 2-1 upset of 14th-ranked Wittenberg. The win snapped a four-game winless streak for the Yeomen. __________________________________________________________________________ October 7, 2007 Earlham freshman Bannett Asingura (Mbarara, Uganda/United World College) recorded a pair of goals to lead the Quakers past Oberlin, 2-1 in overtime, to win the Freedom Trophy for the first time since the trophy was established three years ago by the 1954 Quaker team inducted into the Earlham athletics hall of fame in 2005. Asingura gave the Quakers a 1-0 lead midway through the first half then scored the game-winner 6:26 into the extra session. __________________________________________________________________________ October 2, 2007 Kenyon freshman forward Tom Nolan (New Hope, PA/Germantown Academy) led all NCAC scorers last week with four goals. He notched a pair in Kenyon’s 7-3 win over Earlham and a pair in the Lords’ 3-0 win over Hiram. He helped Kenyon to a 3-0 week, a nine-game winning streak - the program’s best in a decade - and the team’s best start since the 1997 squad finished 15-3-0. His four goals boosted his season-long production to six, which is second best amongst Lords’ scorers. __________________________________________________________________________ September 23, 2007 Ohio Wesleyan senior midfielder Nick Skoczen (Chagrin Falls, OH/Kenston) scored twice and added two assists as the Battling Bishops rolled to a 3-0 week. He helped OWU kick off its NCAC title defense when he put away the game-winner in a 2-1 win over Wabash with less than seven minutes left in regulation. He then collected a goal and two assists in a 5-0 defeat of Otterbein. __________________________________________________________________________ September 16, 2007 Kenyon freshman Felix Hoffman (Bergheim, Germany/Trinity-Pawling) had a goal in each game last week as the Lords claimed the Knox County Cup with a 6-1 win over Muskingum and a 2-0 win over Mt. Vernon Nazarene. Hoffman leads Kenyon with nine goals in six games played. __________________________________________________________________________ September 9, 2007 Against DePauw, Wittenberg senior goalkeeper Ben McAnnis-Entenman (Portland, OR/Cleveland) left the net to travel up field for a corner kick and tied the game after connecting on a header with 1:50 left in regulation. The game was then called early in the overtime period due to lightning and the teams settled for a 1-1 tie. McAnnis-Entenman ended the game with seven saves, and the goal. He saved one shot in the Tigers’ 3-0 win over Wilmington, his second shutout in four games. __________________________________________________________________________ September 4, 2007 Wittenberg junior midfielder Matt Borland (Kettering, OH/Alter) earned MVP status after leading the Tigers to their first Wittenberg Invitational title since 1993. Borland notched two goals, including the game-winner, in a 3-1 win over Tri-State and directed the offense to a 2-0 win over Otterbein, which had won four of the last five WIT Invitational crowns. __________________________________________________________________________