Highlights

Campus News

Wildcat Weekly Minute for Nov. 17, 2011

A look at what's happening on campus this week.

Faith

Cleansed through the Cross

Dr. Quarles speaks on the efficacy of Christ's sacrifice at weekly chapel

Sports

LC hoops teams wrap up homestand with pair of wins

Off to Ozarks, UT-Dallas next

Organizations

LC media student give to Toys for Tots

More than 100 toys will help local charity

Campus Life

February is Heart Health Awareness Month

Stay healthy and 'God Red'

Culture

All the Shakespeare you could laugh at… and more!

tlc's adaptation of 'Shakespeare Abridged' pulls out all the stops

Special Coverage

LC brings another successful ‘Follow the Star’

'Christmas on the Hill' and 'Gala' add to festive weekend

Lady Wildcats sit at #1, wait for Tourney bid

by LC Sports Information

NCAA pairings come out Monday

The LC Softball team is ranked number one in the country. Now, whether that will earn the Lady Wildcats the chance to host the NCAA Division III Regional, no one knows for sure, although they will on Monday.

By all reports, the NCAA will release this year's field sometime early Monday morning. The conventional thinking is that the Regional will either be hosted by LC or Texas-Tyler, the team LC swept to win the ASC Conference Tournament last week.

In the meantime, the Lady Wildcats have made news again as reported by SID, Will Tubbs:

PINEVILLE - Louisiana College junior Rene' Schwartzenburg has been named the Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III Player of the Week for the week ending May 2, the association has announced.
Schwartzenburg led LC back to the No. 1 spot in the nation in the NFCA Division III Top 25 Poll after losing that position for the first time in almost two months a week ago. Last week, her counterpart for former No. 1 and American Southwest Conference rival Texas-Tyler, junior pitcher Stacy Shepherd, was named Player of the week after leading her team to two victories over LC. Schwartzenburg receives these honors after repeating the feat in the ASC tournament, including a two-hitter in the deciding championship game.

The Marksville, La., native was named ASC tournament MVP after a 4-0 weekend. The tournament started out Thursday night with Schwartzenburg pitching 11 innings and striking out 15 in a 3-2 win over Hardin-Simmons. Then, with LC facing five straight must wins after a loss to Mary Hardin-Baylor (a game in which she did not play), she shutout Concordia Texas, Mary Hardin-Baylor and Texas-Tyler with back-to-back-to-back two-hitters in starts.

The highlight of that stretch was a 10-0 win over Texas-Tyler in the winner-take-all ASC title game. Schwartzenburg also pitched the last inning of an 8-3 win over UTT to force the deciding championship game in the double-elimination tournament.

For the week, Schwartzenburg went 4-0 with three shutouts in 33 innings of work. She gave up 16 hits with eight walks and 28 K's, and her ERA was 0.42.

It was a big week for the Lady Wildcats at the NFCA as LC, which had fallen out of first place the week earlier, regained its spot as the No. 1 team in the nation in the NFCA's latest top 25 poll, the seventh time in the last eight weeks that LC has been ranked No. 1.

The complete NFCA Top 25 was as follows:

1 Louisiana College
2 Texas-Tyler
3 Salisbury
4 Ohio Northern
5 Luther
6 College of New Jersey
7 Cortland State
8 Linfield
9 Messiah
10 East Texas Baptist
11 Christopher Newport
11 Eastern Connecticut
13 DePauw
14 Simpson
15 Central
16 Carthage
17 Brandeis
18 Washington-St. Louis
19 Rowan
20 Wisconsin-LaCrosse
21 North Central
22 Alma
23 Lebanon Valley
24 St. Thomas
25 Alfred

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