Mireles named Buckeye Charters Athlete of Distinction for September

Dayton, OH -€“ The Athletic Department is pleased to announce that Sophomore Melissa Mireles has received the Buckeye Charters Student-Athlete of Distinction Award for the month of September.

Each month the Athletic Department in conjunction with Buckeye Charters, will select a Student-Athlete that has been a leader in all three categories; Community Service, Classroom and Competition,€“ also known as the 3 C’€™s.

This month we would like to honor Sophomore Melissa Mireles of the Volleyball team.  Melissa has been active with the team this fall in the community and continues to lead the way in the Classroom.  She was Academic All-Conference last season and was a member of the 2014-15 Sinclair Volleyball team that earned a prestigious team honor of NJCAA All-Academic Team for an overall team GPA of over 3.0 for the year. Melissa has also been a leader on the court helping the Pride to a 14-9 record to date.

Special thanks go out to Buckeye Charters for helping establish this monthly award that honors those student-athletes that are great in the three C’€™s.  Buckeye Charters have been providing quality and reliable transportation for student-athletes around the region as well as many other groups for over 22 years.  They have proven over the many years of partnership with the athletic department that they also value the commitment to high standards, and this is why we are pleased to name this monthly award: The Buckeye Charters Student-Athlete of Distinction

HANOVER, Ind. – The Earlham College volleyball team fell to Hanover College 3-0 (25-17, 25-11, 25-14) on the road in Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) action on Wednesday.

Freshman setter Abigail Sheehan dished out 16 assists in the loss. Sophomore Kayla Morris finished with seven kills and three digs while freshman Ashleigh Burton tallied five kills, two service aces, and one block.

Freshman Megan Hedinger turned in the most efficient offensive performance, finishing with six kills and two errors on 13 swings for a .308 attack percentage. Freshmen Jessica Dammeyer and Denisa Mataia tallied eight digs apiece.

The Quakers return home for two HCAC contests this weekend – Anderson on Friday at 7 p.m. and Rose-Hulman on Sunday at 1 p.m.

October 14, 2015

Sinclair Volleyball falls to Cincinnati State Community College in Five

Dayton, OH – The Sinclair (14-9/5-5) Volleyball team dropped a heartbreaker to visiting OCCAC rival Cincinnati State Surge (19-9/7-3) tonight in five games.

The Pride kept up with Cincinnati State’s powerful offensive and defense ends at the net resulting in a win for the Pride in the first match. Cincinnati State went on to win the second match closely (22-25). The second match went back and forth between both teams but the Surge was able to dominate (22-25). Sinclair struggled offensively in match three until they came back to tie the game 24-24. The ending results was Cincinnati State coming away with the victory (27-29). Sinclair gave the Surge a tough game in match four resulting in a win for Sinclair. The last match of the night was hard fought but the Pride weren’t able to defend Cincinnati State’s offensive and aggressive hits at the net. The Surge went on to win the match and the game (6-15).

Meg Rieneke (FR-Outside Hitter/New Knoxville H.S.) tallied for 19 kills in tonight’s game and Alexandra Petri (SO-Outside Hitter/Springboro H.S.) also had 16 kills to help the Tartans offense. Melissa Mireles (SO-Setter/Germantown, OH) contributed with 42 assist for the Tartans in tonight’s game.

Cincinnati State (19-9/7-3)        22    25    29   23   15

Sinclair     (14-9/5-5)                25    22     27   25   6

 

Sophomore Melissa Mireles (SO-Setter/Germantown, OH) from Sinclair has 669 assists for the season while averaging 8.36 assists per game. Meg Rieneke (FR-Outside Hitter/New Knoxville H.S.) is also leading the team with 369 kills for the season and averaging 5.03 digs per game.

Sinclair will be travel to Lorain County Community College on Saturday October 17th at 11:00 am. The Tartans will be back on their home court against Lakeland Community College on Friday October 23rd at 6:00pm.

All home games are played in Building 8 on the downtown Dayton campus.

You can also get results and stats at : www.SinclairAthletics.com

RICHMOND, Ind. – Senior Jacob Ebbs and junior Bret Marshall both found the back of the net as the Earlham College men’s soccer team earned a key 2-0 victory over Transylvania in Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) play on Wednesday.

Sophomore Vojislav Tatarevic sent a cross to the top of the 18-yard box in the 38th minute. Ebbs calmly took one dribble and fired a shot near post beating Pioneers’ goalkeeper Cody Waltrip. The goal was Ebbs’ fifth of the season.

The Quakers took a 1-0 lead into halftime, and continued to enjoy the majority of the possession in the second half.

Earlham’s leading goal scorer, sophomore Nicholas Dey, broke loose down the far sideline in the 72nd minute. Dey sent a cross to the far post which found the head of Marshall. The Cincinnati, Ohio, native simply redirected the cross into the net to give the Quakers a 2-0 lead.

Earlham held a 14-10 advantage in shots, though both teams fired just five shots on net. The Quakers also earned five corner kicks while the Pioneers took three. With the win, Earlham remains unbeaten at home.

Freshman goalkeeper Nicola Manni earned the shutout victory making five saves in the contest.

The Quakers improve to 6-5 on the season and 3-1 in HCAC play. Earlham, who now sits in second place in the conference, travels to Mount St. Joseph for a 3:30 p.m. contest on Saturday.