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Jake Peterson scored three touchdowns in the Mustangs' 45-17 win against Briar Cliff to raise his season's total to a school-record 23 TDs |
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Palmer Sparks Mustang Rally As Men's Basketball Team Climbs To 2-0
Carlson Wins Three Events At Swim Triangular
Second Half Midland Lutheran Rally Ends Mustangs' Soccer Season
Cold Shooting Dooms Mustangs
Mustang Men Stun No. 12 Bellevue In Opener
Mustang Women Roll Past Mount Mercy
Noteboom Named To Pre-Season All-America Baseball Team
Kildow Named To Academic All-District First-Team
Mustangs Stay At No. 12 In Cross Country Rankings
Mustangs Ranked 24th In NAIA Volleyball Poll
Whithorn Named GPAC Men's Soccer Defensive Player Of The Week
Morningside Football Team Ranked 4th In The Nation
Richard Receives Weekly GPAC Football Honor
Kildow A Finalist For William V. Campbell Trophy
Morningside Ranked No. 1 In Pre-Season Women's Basketball Poll
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Match 1- #8 Sioux Falls 3, #9 Midland Lutheran 2
Match 2- #5 Dordt 3, #12 Mount Marty 0
Match 3- #7 Dana 3, #10 Concordia 1
Match 4- #6 Briar Cliff 3, #11 Dakota Wesleyan 1
Match 5- #1 Northwestern 3, Sioux Falls 1
Match 6- Dordt 3, #4 Hastings 1
Match 7- #2 Morningside 3, Dana 0
Match 8- #3 Doane 3, Briar Cliff 0
Dordt (26-11) at Northwestern (31-2), 7:30 p.m.
Doane (27-6) at Morningside (31-6), 7:30 p.m.
Semifinal winners at highest seed, 7:30 p.m.
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Erin Keitges |
Kara Nelson |
Morningside’s women’s cross country team qualified for the 2009 NAIA Cross Country National Championships to be held Nov. 21 in Vancouver, Wash., with a third place finish at Saturday’s Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Championships in Fremont, Neb.
The Mustang women, ranked 12th nationally in the latest NAIA ranking, qualified as a team for the NAIA National Championships for the first time in school history.
Defending GPAC champion Nebraska Wesleyan University scored 29 points to hold on to its league title. Concordia University was second with 64 points and Morningside finished third with 81 tallies. All 13 schools in the GPAC competed in the event.
Erin Keitges, a senior from Allen, Nebraska, had the Mustangs’ top individual finish with a fourth place time of 18:34.32 over the 5k course and teammate Kara Nelson, a junior from Cherokee, Iowa, was right behind with the fifth place time of 18:36.60.
The other runners who figured in the Mustangs’ team score were Lydia Ford, a sophomore from Vermillion, S.D., with the 17th place time of 19:15.59; Tabitha Shepherd, a freshman from Corning, Iowa, with the 20th place time of 19:22.71; and Nicole Seier, a freshman from Lincoln, Neb., with the 35th place time of 19:52.12.
Morningside finished in seventh place in the men’s team standings. The Mustangs’ top finisher was Brian Gesink, a junior from Sioux Center, Iowa, who finished 31st with a time of 26:57.50 over the 8k course.
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Jake Peterson |
Brett Nickolite |
Morningside’s fourth-ranked football team tuned up for next Saturday’s GPAC showdown with No. 1 Sioux Falls with a 45-17 romp over city rival Briar Cliff on Saturday at Memorial Field.
The Mustangs improved to 9-0 to stay undefeated for next Saturday’s highly anticipated matchup with 10-0 Sioux Falls at Elwood Olsen Stadium.
Jake Peterson rushed for 140 yards and three touchdowns against Briar Cliff with scoring runs of three, two, and one yards. Peterson ran for over 100 yards for the seventh time this season and raised his season’s touchdown tally to 23 to break the former Morningside single-season record of 22 touchdowns by Trae Johnson in 2005. Peterson also raised his season’s rushing total to a school-record 1,391 yards to break the former Morningside single-season standard of 1,325 yards rushing set by Dave Bigler in 1971.
Peterson has scored 34 touchdowns during his Morningside career to put him right behind school-record holder Beau Kildow, who scored the 35th touchdown of his Morningside career in the third quarter when he caught a 35-yard pass from Tim Richard. Kildow finished the day with 11 receptions for 154 yards.
Mustang quarterback Tim Richard passed for 208 yards and a touchdown and the Joe Don Hunter rushed for 45 yards and a pair of two-yard touchdown runs.
The Mustangs scored their other nine points off the foot of C.J. Gradoville, who went six-for-six on extra points and kicked a 27-yard field goal in the third quarter for the 31st field goal of his Morningside career to tie a record first set by Chris Hogzett from 1992-95.
Brett Nickolite led the Mustangs’ defensive effort with nine tackles, including four stops behind the line of scrimmage for losses of 17 yards, 2.5 quarterback sacks, and a blocked punt that set up Morningside’s second touchdown of the game.
Marshall Barney also had a quarterback sack and Marshall Tuttle had an interception.
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Jessica Vander Kooi |
Lindsay Hansen |
Morningside made quick work of Dana in Saturday’s GPAC Volleyball Tournament Quarterfinals with a 25-10, 25-5, 25-11 sweep in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Center.
It took the Mustangs only 56 minutes to dispose of the Vikings and move on to the GPAC Semifinals, where they will host 20th-ranked Doane College on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 7:30. Morningside, ranked 24th in the nation, will take a 31-6 record into the match.
The Mustangs romped to three lopsided victories in Saturday’s sweep of the Vikings and were especially impressive in their 25-5 second game triumph in a contest where Jessica Tjaden served 13 consecutive points to serve out the game.
Jamie Vander Kooi slammed 13 kills to lead the Mustangs’ attack. The Mustangs’ other leaders were Lindsay Hansen with 10 digs, Tjaden with 16 assists, Monica Iverson with a career-high four ace serves, and Emily Christen with one solo block and three block assists.
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Adam Palmer |
Mitch Carstens |
Morningside’s men’s basketball team scored the last seven points of the game to defeat Friends University 74-69 on Saturday in the Doane College Tiger Classic in Crete, Neb., to climb to 2-0 on the young season.
The Mustangs trailed 69-67 with 2:53 left in the game before they went on their pivotal 7-0 run. Morningside took the lead for good on an Adam Palmer layup with 1:45 left to go up 70-69. Palmer scored the first five points in the 7-0 run and finished with a team-high 17 points. Palmer also led the Mustangs with a career-high 22 points when they upset 12th-ranked Bellevue University on Friday.
Morningside had four players score in double figures against Friends. Palmer led the way with his 17 tallies, followed by Mitch Carstens and Jake Hamburger, each with 15, and Ryan Gass with 10.
Palmer grabbed a game-high seven rebounds to lead the Mustangs to a 36-29 advantage on the boards.
Morningside will entertain Peru State College in its home opener on Friday, Nov. 13.
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Krystal Carlson |
Cora Kugler |
Krystal Carlson, a freshman from Richfield, Minn., won three events when the Mustangs’ women’s swimming team competed in a triangular meet against the University of Minnesota-Morris and Northern State University on Saturday in Morris, Minn.
Carlson swam a winning time of 18:52.13 to lead a Morningside one-two finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle and teammate Sydney Brisco, a sophomore from Scottsbluff, Neb., was the runner-up in 20:02.28.
Carlson also triumphed in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 59.65 seconds and in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:34.15.
The Mustangs’ Cora Kugler, a freshman from Watertown, Minn., won the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:15.11 and was the runner-up in the 50-yard freestyle and the 400-yard individual medley with times of 27.56 and 5:18.70, respectively.
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Quin Kilgore |
Rick Kievits |
Midland Lutheran overcame a 2-0 halftime deficit to defeat Morningside 3-2 in the GPAC Tournament semifinals on Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium to end the Mustangs’ season.
The Mustangs, who had a seven-match winning streak against GPAC opponents snapped, closed out the season with a record of 12-7-1. Morningside defeated the Warriors 3-1 when they met during the regular season.
Morningside appeared to be on its way to another victory when it took a 2-0 lead just eight minutes into the contest. Quin Kilgore opened the scoring with a goal just six minutes into the contest, and two minutes later Rick Kievits scored on a penalty kick to make it 2-0. Kilgore’s goal was set up by assists from Hogan Cemper and Jake Adams.
The Mustangs took a 2-0 lead into the intermission, but were outshot 7-2 in the second half. Two goals by Johnny Chavez tied the score at 2-2 before the Warriors scored the game-winner with eight minutes left on Paul Cox’s first goal of the season.
Midland Lutheran goal keeper Eric Vrba had four saves, all in the first half, while Daniel Whithorn had three saves defending the Mustangs’ goal.
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Chelsie Trask |
Cold shooting doomed the Morningside’s No. 1-ranked women’s basketball team when the Mustangs lost 78-64 against Davenport in a matchup of the No. 1 and No. 3-ranked teams in the nation in Saturday’s final game of the Morningside Classic.
The Mustangs trailed 34-26 at the intermission after a dismal first half shooting display where they made only four of 25 floor shots for 16.0 percent. The Mustangs warmed up to 44.0 percent in the second half, but still finished the night with a team figure of only 30.0 percent.
Jeannie Closson scored 15 points to lead Davenport to a wire-to-wire victory. Kallie Benike and Kristi Boehm joined her in double figures with 13 and 12 points, respectively.
Chelsie Trask scored 15 points for Morningside, which fell to 2-3 on the season and had an 18-game homecourt winning streak snapped. Leslie Foral joined her in double figures with 14 points. Katie Sponder was next with nine points.
Foral, Brittany Williamson, and Roni Miller each had seven rebounds to match Boehm for game honors. Davenport enjoyed a slight 41-39 edge in the team count.
Benike had a game-high six steals for Davenport, while Foral had five thefts for the Mustangs.
Morningside will travel to Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday, Nov. 13, for a game against Grand View University.
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Adam Palmer |
Eddie Marrs |
After blowing an 18-point lead against Bellevue last season, the Mustangs’ men’s basketball team may have felt like they owed the Bruins one.
Morningside got that revenge on Friday when it opened the men’s basketball season with a come-from-behind 89-85 triumph over the 12th-ranked Bruins at the Doane College Tiger Classic in Crete, Neb.
The Mustangs trailed by 16 points at one point in the first half and still found themselves down by 11 points, 69-58, going into the last 10 minutes of the game. Morningside went on a 17-6 run to tie the score at 75-75 and went ahead to stay with 58 seconds left in the game when an Eddie Marrs jump shot put them in front 85-83.
Adam Palmer played the game of his Morningside career to lead the way. Palmer scored a career-high 22 points behind a seven-for-11 shooting performance from the field. Marrs was next with 18 points and Mitch Carstens joined them in double figures with 16 tallies. Jake Hamburger and Cory Gatson each came off the bench to provide nine points.
Garth Hamilton grabbed a career-high nine rebounds to lead the Mustangs to a 43-32 rebounding advantage. Marrs and Palmer shared Mustang honors with three assists, while Joel Haveman led all performers with three steals.
The Mustangs will face Friends University on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
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Tanaeya Worden |
Brittany Williamson |
Morningside’s women’s basketball team made its most impressive showing of the young season with a convincing 84-53 romp past Mount Mercy in Friday’s final game on the opening day of action at the Morningside Classic.
The Mustangs’ 31-point victory came after a pair of thrillers earlier in the day when Hastings and Briar Cliff each won their games by two points. Morningside, the defending NAIA Division II National Champion, leveled its record at 2-2 after an opening weekend where it lost two games on the road in North Dakota.
Morningside led from wire-to-wire and led by 13 points, 18-5, less than seven minutes into the game. Mount Mercy closed within 30-26 with 1:35 left in the first half before the Mustangs outscored their opponent 54-27 the rest of the way.
Tanaeya Worden scored a game-high 16 points and has been the Mustangs’ leading scorer in each of their first four games. She was joined in double figures by Brittany Williamson with 12 points and Chelsie Trask with 11, followed by Roni Miller, Brittany Alfredson, and Shelby Beaudette all with seven.
Williamson grabbed a game-high seven rebounds to lead the Mustangs to a 44-40 advantage on the boards. Leslie Foral dealt a game-high four assists and Katie Sponder led all performers with four steals.
Morningside shot just 28.1 percent from the field before heating up after the intermission to finish at 38.0 percent. Mount Mercy’s shooters struggled all evening and finished at 30.6 percent, a figure that was compounded by 32 turnovers.
The No. 1-ranked Mustangs will face third-ranked Davenport at 3 p.m. on Saturday in the tournament’s marquee matchup. The Panthers lost 74-72 against fourth-ranked Hastings in Friday’s top pairing.
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 Jared Noteboom, a senior second baseman from South Sioux City, Neb., has been named to the 17-player 2010 NAIA Pre-Season All-America baseball team.
Noteboom earned honorable mention NAIA All-America honors last season when he hit .366 with 22 doubles, one triple, 12 home runs, and 60 RBIs. His 22 doubles was a Morningside single-season record.
The Mustangs posted a 31-25 record in the 2009 season.
 Beau Kildow, a 5-10, 170 lb. senior wide receiver from Omaha, Neb., has been named to the 2009 ESPN The Magazine College Division Academic All-District VII Football First-Team as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
As a first-team all-district selection, Kildow will go on the ballot for the ESPN The Magazine College Division Academic All-America Team.
Kildow has a 4.00 cumulative grade point average (GPA) and is majoring in chemistry and biology. He is one of 16 national finalists for the William V. Campbell Trophy, presented to the best football scholar-athlete in the nation.
Kildow is the Mustangs’ leading pass receiver with 49 receptions for 959 yards and 11 touchdowns for an average of 19.6 yards per catch. He is also averaging 27.7 yards on kickoff returns and 9.8 yards on punt returns.
He is Morningside’s all-time leader with 33 career touchdown pass receptions and 34 career touchdowns and ranks third in the Morningside record book with 181 career receptions for 2,853 yards.
Student-athletes must be of at least sophomore athletic and academic status, be a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletic credentials, and have a minimum GPA of 3.30 in order to be eligible for ESPN The Magazine Academic honors.
 Morningside College is ranked 12th nationally in the latest NAIA Women’s Cross Country poll.
The Mustangs are ranked 12th for the second week in a row.
Morningside is one of two teams from the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) ranked in this week’s NAIA Top 25. Concordia University is ranked ninth.
Morningside and Concordia, along with defending GPAC champion Nebraska Wesleyan University, are expected to compete for top honors at this Saturday’s GPAC Cross Country Championships in Fremont, Neb. The top two teams, with the exception of NCAA Division III Nebraska Wesleyan, will advance to the 2009 NAIA National Cross Country Championships to be held Nov. 21 in Vancouver, Wash. The top seven individual finishes outside of those two teams will also advance, provided they place 20th or better in the meet.
Click here for the complete NAIA Women's Top 25.
 Morningside College is ranked 24th nationally in the NAIA volleyball poll released on Nov. 3.
The Mustangs, who were ranked 18th in the previous poll, went 1-1 last week with a 3-0 victory against Nebraska Wesleyan University and a 3-2 setback against No. 25 Doane College.
Morningside finished the regular season with a 30-6 record and is the No. 2 seed for the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Post-Season Tournament. The Mustangs will host either Concordia University or Dana College in a quarterfinal round match this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Center.
Morningside is one of three teams from the GPAC ranked in the NAIA Top 25. Northwestern College is ranked second and Doane is ranked 20th.
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 Daniel Whithorn, a sophomore goal keeper from Omaha, Neb., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Men’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 26 to Nov. 1.
Whithorn allowed only one goal in Morningside’s two matches last week as the Mustangs defeated Dordt College 3-1 and upset 19th-ranked Hastings College 1-0 to finish the regular season with an 11-6-1 record and a six-match winning streak against GPAC opponents.
He had five saves in the Mustangs’ win at Hastings to hand the GPAC regular season champions their only league loss of the season. Whithorn had two saves in the Mustangs’ win against Dordt.
Whithorn has five shutouts, 71 saves, and a goals against average of 1.06 goals per game this season.
 Morningside College is ranked fourth nationally in the NAIA football poll released on Nov. 2.
The Mustangs, who were also ranked fourth in last week’s poll, raised their record to 8-0 with a 78-14 victory against Doane College last Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium. The 78 points was Morningside’s highest point total since a 79-0 triumph against Western Union College during the 1933 season.
Morningside is the second highest scoring team in the nation with a team scoring average of 53.8 points per game. The Mustangs also rank second nationally in team scoring defense with an average of 10.4 points per game.
Morningside is one of four teams from the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) ranked in this week’s NAIA Top 25. The University of Sioux Falls is ranked No. 1, Hastings College is ranked 17th, and Northwestern College is ranked 18th.
Morningside will face city rival Briar Cliff University this Saturday at 1 p.m. at Memorial Field.
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 Tim Richard, a 6-2, 220 lb. senior quarterback from Underwood, Iowa, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Offensive Player of the Week for his performance in the Mustangs’ 78-14 victory against Doane College last Saturday.
Richard had one of the greatest passing displays in Morningside history by completing 21 of 22 pass attempts for 339 yards and a career-high six touchdowns to finish one TD shy of a school record. Richard completed his first 15 pass attempts of the game and finished with a completion percentage of 95.5 percent to shatter his own Morningside single-game record. Richard set the Mustangs’ previous single-game completion percentage record earlier this season when he completed 16 of 19 attempts for 84.2 percent in a 56-21 victory against Dakota Wesleyan University in the season’s opener.
He threw touchdown passes of 24, 25, and 17 yards to Chad Buchholz, 17 yards to Beau Kildow, 14 yards to Bradley Norwood, and 10 yards to Jake Peterson in the win against Doane.
Richard is the NAIA national leader with a passing efficiency rating of 222.8. He has passed for 1,962 yards and 25 touchdowns and is on pace to break the Mustangs’ single-season completion percentage record of 67.6 percent set by Ian Gilworth last season. Richard has completed 115 of 159 attempts for 72.3 percent and has thrown only four interceptions.
Morningside will take an 8-0 record and a No. 4 national ranking into a 1 p.m. game against city rival Briar Cliff University this Saturday at Memorial Field.
 Beau Kildow, a 5-10, 170 lb. senior wide receiver from Omaha, Neb., is one of 16 college football players named to the 2009 National Football Foundation (NFF) National Scholar-Athlete class announced by the NFF and College Hall of Fame.
The 16 players are the finalists for the 20th anniversary William V. Campbell Trophy, endowed by HealthSouth. They were selected from a nationwide pool of 154 semifinalists among all NCAA divisions and the NAIA.
The Campbell Trophy, formerly known as the Draddy Trophy, recognizes an individual as the absolute best scholar-athlete in the nation. The award was renamed this fall in honor of Bill Campbell, the chairman of Intuit, and former player and head coach at Columbia University.
Each finalist will receive an $18,000 post-graduate scholarship. The recipient of the Campbell Trophy will receive a 25 lb. bronze trophy and a $25,000 post-graduate scholarship. The 16 National Scholar-Athlete Award recipients will be honored at the 2009 NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 8 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, where the winner of the 2009 Campbell Trophy will be announced.
Aside from Kildow, the other 2009 National Scholar-Athletes are: Jon Asamoah of the University of Illinois, Matt Bauman of Brigham Young University, Eric Decker of the University of Minnesota, Moses Harris of Fresno State, Tim Hiller of Western Michigan University, Paul Jasinowski of Brown University, Josh Mahoney of the University of Northern Iowa, Colt McCoy of the University of Texas, Jarrell Smith of Tusculum College, Joe Pawelek of Baylor University, Todd Reesing of the University of Kansas, ZaVious Robbins of Hardin-Simmons University, Tim Tebow of the University of Florida, Blaine Westemeyer of Augustana College (Ill.), and Reed Williams of West Virginia University.
Kildow has a 4.00 cumulative grade point average and is majoring in chemistry and biology. He has twice been named a Daktronics-NAIA Football Scholar-Athlete, is a two-time ESPN The Magazine All-District selection, and has made Morningside’s Dean’s Honor List after each of his first six semesters.
He was a first-team College Fanz Sports Network All-American last season when he caught 64 passes for 977 yards and 14 touchdowns. Kildow tied a Morningside single-game record earlier this season when he had 287 pass reception yards in a 56-21 win against Dakota Wesleyan University and is Morningside’s all-time leader with 32 career touchdown receptions. He ranks third in Morningside history with 174 career receptions and 2,755 career reception yards.
Kildow traveled to Louisiana as part of a mission trip to help in the restoration efforts in New Orleans and surrounding areas following the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. He participated in “Build a House for Blake,” a volunteer project for a person who had been recently paralyzed, and is a Goodwill Thanksgiving volunteer.
The NFF’s National Scholar-Athlete program, launched in 1959, is the first initiative in history to award scholar-athletes post-graduate scholarships for their combined athletic, academic, and leadership abilities.
Candidates must be a senior or graduate student in their final year of eligibility, have a grade point average of at least a 3.2 on a 4.0 scale, have outstanding football ability, and have demonstrated strong leadership and citizenship. Past winners of the Campbell Trophy have included actor Mark Harmon, NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, former Dateline NBC anchor Stone Phillips, chairman of Augusta National Golf Club Billy Payne, former NFL quarterback Steve Young, current NFL standout Derrick Brooks, and Heisman Trophy winners Terry Baker, Gary Beban, Doug Flutie, and DannyWuerffel.
 Morningside College is ranked No. 1 in the nation in the NAIA Division II pre-season women’s basketball poll released on October 26.
The Mustangs are the reigning NAIA Division II National Champions after they posted a 38-0 record last season to become only the second team in history to win the NAIA II crown with an undefeated record. Morningside returns three starters – Leslie Foral, Laura Nelson, and Brittany Williamson – from last year’s championship team.
Morningside defeated Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) rival Hastings College 68-63 in last year’s national title game. Hastings is ranked fourth in the NAIA II pre-season poll, while the GPAC’s Northwestern College is ranked second. The University of Sioux Falls is ranked 15th and Concordia University is ranked 22nd to give the GPAC five schools in the NAIA pre-season Top 25.
Morningside will open the season this weekend with games at Minot State University on Friday and 10th-ranked Dickinson State University on Saturday. The Mustangs will go into the season riding a 55-game winning streak in regular season contests.
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