Nine conference games down, nine to go.
The University of Illinois Springfield men’s basketball team hit the halfway mark of Great Lakes Valley Conference play in a road contest against Maryville at 7:30 Thursday night in St. Louis.
The Prairie Stars (5-12 overall, 3-6 in the GLVC) are tied with Quincy for fifth place in the GLVC West Division. Maryville (16-5, 6-3) is second in the division standings.
UIS has four losses in five games and want to get back on the winning side of things.
“We have to be consistent,” UIS coach Ben Wierzba said. “Not only from game to game, but during the game for 40 minutes. It has been too up and down and too much of a roller coaster. That’s from half to half to half or media timeout to media timeout.”
The team was featured by the State Journal-Register on January 31, 2013.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
UIS softball picked 2nd in division
The University of Illinois Springfield softball team has been voted to finish second in the Great Lakes Valley Conference West Division in a preseason coaches poll after a history-making 2012 season.
The Prairie Stars received six first-place polls and earned 101 points. Drury leads with way with 10 first-place votes and 115 points.
UIS and Drury shared the GLVC West divisional title last spring. The Stars compiled a 36-22 record and finished second in the GLVC tournament title contest and reached the championship round of the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional.
Drury and UIS are followed in the poll by Missouri St. Louis (83), Quincy (73), William Jewell (73), Missouri S&T (51), Rockhurst (45), Maryville (28).
The rankings were featured by the State Journal-Register on January 31, 2013.
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The Prairie Stars received six first-place polls and earned 101 points. Drury leads with way with 10 first-place votes and 115 points.
UIS and Drury shared the GLVC West divisional title last spring. The Stars compiled a 36-22 record and finished second in the GLVC tournament title contest and reached the championship round of the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional.
Drury and UIS are followed in the poll by Missouri St. Louis (83), Quincy (73), William Jewell (73), Missouri S&T (51), Rockhurst (45), Maryville (28).
The rankings were featured by the State Journal-Register on January 31, 2013.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
UIS women halt losing streak at seven
The University of Illinois Springfield women’s basketball team got the start it was looking for Saturday.
The finish the Prairie Stars could have done without, but UIS held on for a 57-52 victory over Rockhurst to snap a seven-game losing streak.
UIS scored sparingly after the midway point of the second half in the Great Lakes Valley Conference game at The Recreation and Athletic Center. Still, the Prairie Stars (5-12 overall, 2-7 in the GLVC) put a “W” in the win column for the first time since Jan. 3 against McKendree.
“We’ve been talking about it all week how we need to start off games right,” said UIS junior forward Mallory Beck, who scored a team-high 15 points. “In the last game, we didn’t come out so strong. We’ve been pounding it in our heads all week that we wanted to come out stronger than the other team, and we did that.”
The win was featured by the State Journal-Register on January 27, 2013.
Read the article online
The finish the Prairie Stars could have done without, but UIS held on for a 57-52 victory over Rockhurst to snap a seven-game losing streak.
UIS scored sparingly after the midway point of the second half in the Great Lakes Valley Conference game at The Recreation and Athletic Center. Still, the Prairie Stars (5-12 overall, 2-7 in the GLVC) put a “W” in the win column for the first time since Jan. 3 against McKendree.
“We’ve been talking about it all week how we need to start off games right,” said UIS junior forward Mallory Beck, who scored a team-high 15 points. “In the last game, we didn’t come out so strong. We’ve been pounding it in our heads all week that we wanted to come out stronger than the other team, and we did that.”
The win was featured by the State Journal-Register on January 27, 2013.
Read the article online
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