Nov 5, 2018 3 min read

W&J field hockey starts playoffs

The No. 18-ranked Washington & Jefferson College field hockey team will host its first home NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship Tournament game on Wednesday against Rhodes (Tenn.).

The first-round matchup is at Cameron Stadium and starts at 4 p.m. Ticket prices are $8 for adults and $4 for students.

W&J is in the midst of one of its most successful seasons in school history, as it enters Wednesday’s game with a program-record 17 wins. On the year, the Presidents are 17-1 overall after earning their third Empire 8 Championship Saturday with a 1-0 victory over St. John Fisher.

The winner of Wednesday’s showdown will then head to Salisbury, Md., for a second-round game against No. 7 Salisbury on Saturday.

Neely grabs

PAC weekly honor

Washington & Jefferson’s Hunter Neely, a Bentworth High School graduate, was named the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Wrestler of the Week in the first week of the season.

At Saturday’s season-opening Ned McGinley Invitational, Neely went 5-0 to win the 157-pound bracket.

Neely outlasted seventh-ranked Tyler Gazaway of Roger Williams in the semifinals by a 3-2 decision, before topping No. 9 Eric Hutchinson of York, 8-5, in the finals.

His performance helped the Presidents secure a ninth-place finish out of 16 teams at the event.

Waynesburg wrestling grabs top spot in poll

The Waynesburg University wrestling team picked up several team and individual honors at the conference and national levels over the weekend.

After winning its second-straight Presidents’ Athletic Conference title this past winter, the Yellow Jackets were picked to repeat as champions during the conference’s annual preseason poll. The Yellow Jackets grabbed four of seven first-place votes and totaled 18 points in the poll.

Waynesburg junior Ken Burrs and senior Jake Evans appeared in the top 10 of two prominent national polls. Evans, the defending national heavyweight champion, was selected No. 1 by Intermat and D3Wrestle.com. Burrs was slotted fifth at 197 pounds in both polls.

Presidents earn spot in ECAC Tournament

Washington & Jefferson women’s soccer team was selected to compete at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Women’s Soccer Championship.

The Presidents will head to Westminster, Md., for a 2 p.m. first-round matchup against Pfeiffer (N.C.) on Saturday. W&J’s game will be played on the campus of McDaniel, as the Green Terror are the top seed in the Presidents’ opening-round pod.

W&J (9-8-2) got the second-seed in the PAC Tournament with a 6-2 mark in conference. Today’s selection is the first into the ECAC Tournament since 2005.

The winner of Saturday’s match will play the winner of the other pod’s opening match between McDaniel and Brevard Sunday.

In the NBA

Evan Fournier hit a long jumper at the final horn and the Orlando Magic came back from a five-point deficit in the last 24 seconds to beat the struggling Cleveland Cavaliers 102-100.

• James Harden made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 34.8 seconds left and then closed out Houston’s 98-94 victory at Indiana by making four straight free throw.

In the NHL

Joel Armia scored in the fifth round of the shootout to lift the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-3 win over the New York Islanders.