Chapman Passes Tough Tests

Chapman’s softball team hasn’t been tested much this season, because the Panthers overwhelm most NCAA Division III opponents.

But Chapman’s last four games have presented more of a challenge, one that the Panthers have met by winning three. Tuesday against Wisconsin Stevens Point, a team Chapman beat in the national tournament in 1996, the Panthers won, 2-1 and 7-6.

In the first game, Laurel Bailey drove in the winning run with a pinch-hit single in the bottom of the seventh, her first at-bat in 2 1/2 weeks because of a shoulder injury. In the second game, Stephanie Carew had a three-run homer in a five-run fifth that gave Chapman a 7-1 lead.

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More softball: Michelle Murie, a sophomore catcher at Southern California College, was named the Golden State Athletic Conference player of the week. Murie batted .333 with five runs batted in. She drove in three runs with a triple and scored the winning run in a victory over Point Loma Nazarene.

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Honors: Concordia women’s basketball player Angela Sather was named third-team NAIA All-American after leading the Eagles to the national tournament. Sather, a senior from Tucson, Ariz., scored 706 points this season, breaking the single-season school record of 694.

Adam Dzierzynski, a junior guard from SCC, and Greg O’Hagan, a senior forward from Concordia, both were honorable-mention selections on the NAIA All-American men’s basketball team.