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Soccer Teams Drop Openers At William Jewell
Morningside Spikers Go 1-3 At Red Raider Classic
Mustangs Finish Fourth At Women's Golf Tourney
Mustang Women's Cross Country Team Ranked 19th
Mustangs Ranked 18th In NAIA Pre-Season Volleyball Poll
KWSL Radio To Broadcast Mustang Football And Basketball Games
Mustangs Ranked 5th Nationally In NAIA Pre-Season Football Poll
 Morningside football games and the majority of the Mustangs’ men’s and women’s basketball games are broadcast on Clear Channel Radio/KWSL 1470 AM.
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Morningside home football and men's and women's basketball games are broadcast live by the college's campus radio station KMSC 92.9 FM. In addition, a live video stream is available for Morningside home football and home men's and women's basketball games.
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Morningside will host a Mini-Cheer Camp for youth in grades K-5 on Saturday, Sept. 18.
The mini-camp will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Center/Allee Gymnasium, 3415 Peters Avenue. Participants will learn several cheers and chants at the mini-camp and use them at that afternoon’s football game between Morningside and Briar Cliff at Elwood Olsen Stadium, 3201 Peters Avenue.
The mini-camp participants will be admitted to the game for free. Discounted tickets for the prices of $3 for adults and $1 for siblings will be sold in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Center from 8:30 to 9 a.m. and from 11 to 11:30 a.m.
Cost for the mini-camp is $25 and includes a camp t-shirt to be worn at the football game. Registration deadline is Friday, Sept. 10.
To register or for additional information, contact Lindsey Huber, Morningside cheer and dance head coach, at (712) 274-5350 or by e-mail at huberl@morningside.edu.
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Brian Gesink |
Morningside's men's and women's cross country teams will make their season debuts this Saturday at the Concordia University Invitational in Seward, Neb.
The Mustang women enter the season ranked 19th nationally in the NAIA Pre-Season Poll. Morningside qualified for the NAIA Women’s Cross Country National Championships as a team for the first time in school history last year, and five of the seven runners who competed for the Mustangs at the national meet are back.
The Mustangs return their top runner in Kara Nelson, a senior from Cherokee, Iowa, who finished 30th at last year’s NAIA National Championships to earn NAIA All-America honors. Nelson is a three-time NAIA national qualifier.
Lydia Ford, a junior from Vermillion, S.D.; Tabitha Shepherd, a sophomore from Corning, Iowa; Nicole Seier, a sophomore from Lincoln, Neb.; and Jenna Kral, a sophomore from Crete, Neb., all return from last year’s national meet lineup. The Mustangs also bring back Jessica Hudelson, a junior from Elk Point, S.D., who hopes to build off a highly successful 2010 track & field season where she emerged as one of the premier middle distance runners in the GPAC.
The Mustangs’ newcomers include Courtney Ruff, a freshman from Council Bluffs, Iowa, who was a state qualifier as a prep senior at Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson High School; Cecily Waddell, a freshman from West Platte, Mo., who placed third at last year’s Missouri Class 1 state meet for West Platte High School; and Tressa Miller, a junior from Corning, Iowa, who was a two-time national qualifier for Southwestern Community College.
With a good mix of returning veterans and newcomers, the Mustang men hope to be an up and coming team in the GPAC. Their top returning runner is Brian Gesink, a senior from Sioux Center, Iowa, who was a NAIA national qualifier as a sophomore. Morningside also brings back four of its other top seven runners from last season in Grant Aden, a sophomore from Syracuse, Neb.; Monte Larsen, a sophomore from Neola, Iowa; Todd Wolf, a junior from Corning, Iowa; and Joel Dorsett, a sophomore from Sioux City.
The Mustangs’ top freshman recruit is Garret Ehlers of Ida Grove, Iowa, who prepped at Odebolt-Arthur-Battle Creek-Ida Grove High School and was Iowa’s 2009 Class 2A state champion. Morningside also hopes for big things from Taylor Kube, a freshman from Crofton, Neb., who placed fifth at last year’s Nebraska Class D state meet for Crofton High School.
The Mustangs added a pair of experienced runners via the transfer route with the additions of Derik Simenson, a sophomore from Sioux City who helped lead William Woods University to a second place finish at the 2009 Midwest Conference Cross Country Championships; and Jescy Rodriguez, a sophomore from North Arlington, N.J., who previously attended Kean University.
Morningside will open the 2010 football season this Saturday with a 7 p.m. home game against Doane College.
The Mustangs, ranked fifth nationally in the NAIA Pre-Season Poll, are coming off a banner 2009 season where they finished 10-2 and reached the quarterfinals of the NAIA Championship Series. The Mustangs have a 58-14 record for a .806 winning percentage over the last six seasons.
Morningside returns eight starters on defense from a stingy unit that surrendered an average of only 17.0 points per game last year to rank seventh nationally.
Doane posted a 4-7 record last season and finished seventh in the GPAC standings with a 4-6 league mark.
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Morningside’s men’s and women’s soccer teams were both shut out in their season’s debuts against William Jewell College on Sunday in Liberty, Mo.
The Mustangs suffered a 5-0 setback in the women’s contest and an 8-0 defeat in the men’s match.
Morningside was outshot 32-1 in the women’s contest, but trailed only 1-0 at the intermission on a Sali Stout goal at the 33-minute mark. William Jewell scored three times in the first 12 minutes of the second half to break the game open.
Sarah Franklin was the offensive standout for William Jewell with two goals and an assist.
The Mustangs were outshot 18-5 in the men’s contest.
Troy Green scored William Jewell’s first two goals to spark the hosts to a 5-0 lead at the intermission. Justin Beck had two goals and a pair of assists for William Jewell.
The Mustangs hope to rebound on Saturday, Sept. 4, when they host Kansas Wesleyan University in their home openers.
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Morningside went 1-3 at the Northwestern Red Raider Classic volleyball tournament held Friday and Saturday in Orange City, Iowa.
The Mustangs, ranked 18th nationally in the NAIA pre-season poll, went 1-1 during Friday’s action with a 25-13, 23-25, 25-11, 25-15 loss against No. 10 Taylor University and a 27-25, 25-13, 25-21 triumph against Valley City State. Morningside suffered a 25-22, 25-23, 25-13 setback against Oklahoma Baptist University and a 23-25, 25-18, 25-20, 25-18 loss against Indiana Wesleyan University on Saturday. The Mustangs led 21-18 in the opener and 21-16 in the second set in their loss against Oklahoma Baptist.
Kaeli Austin and Riley Callan each had nine kills to pace the Mustangs’ attack in Friday’s win against Valley City State. The Mustangs’ other leaders were Monica Iverson with 34 assists, Darcy Christensen with 22 digs, and Liz Sutherland with two solo blocks and two block assists. Iverson added 10 digs and Leslie Foral had one solo block and two block assists.
Austin was also the Mustangs’ co-leader in kills in the match against Taylor when she had 10 terminations to share team honors with Erin Downing.
Christensen came up with another big defensive effort with 24 digs and was joined in double figures by Callan with 12. Callan also had five ace serves, while Iverson had 39 assists.
Christensen had 20 digs against Oklahoma Baptist to give her at least 20 digs in four of the Mustangs’ first five contests of the season. Ashley McConnell also had a big effort with 15 digs.
Austin led the Mustangs’ attack with eight kills, followed by Downing with seven. Iverson had 26 assists.
Austin, who led the Mustangs in kills in all four of their Red Raider Classic contests, pounded 11 kills in the tourney finale against Indiana Wesleyan. McConnell was right behind with 10 kills for the first double figure performance of her collegiate career. Leslie Foral was next with seven kills.
McConnell added 12 digs to her 10 kills for her first collegiate double-double. Christensen led the Mustangs with 17 digs. Callan joined them in double figures with 11.
Iverson dealt 38 assists and Sutherland led the Mustangs’ defensive effort at the net with one solo block and three block assists.
Morningside will take a 3-3 record into next weekend’s Bellevue University Classic in Bellevue, Neb.
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Danielle Kuchar |
Morningside opened the women’s golf season with a fourth place finish at the Northwestern Lady Raider Invite held Friday in Orange City, Iowa.
The Mustangs carded a team score of 381. Danielle Kuchar led the Mustangs with a 91 to put her 12th in the individual standings. Kelsey Nelson was next with a 94. The Mustangs also counted a 97 from Cameron Oakley and a 99 from Lindsay Determan.
The Mustangs will host the Morningside Invitational on Tuesday, Sept. 7.
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 Morningside is ranked 19th nationally in the NAIA women’s cross country pre-season poll.
Morningside returns five of their seven runners who competed at last year’s NAIA Women’s Cross Country National Championships when the Mustangs qualified for the national meet as a team for the first time in school history.
The Mustangs’ top returning runner is Kara Nelson, a senior from Cherokee, Iowa, who finished 30th at last year’s national meet to earn NAIA All-America honors.
Morningside is one of two teams from the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) ranked in the NAIA Pre-Season Top 25. The other GPAC team is Concordia, which is ranked 12th.
The Mustangs will open the 2010 season on Saturday, Sept. 4, at the Concordia Invitational in Seward, Neb.
Click here for the complete NAIA Pre-Season Top 25.
 Morningside College is ranked 18th nationally in the 2010 NAIA Pre-Season Volleyball Poll.
The Mustangs are coming off a 2009 season where they finished 32-9 and made their second consecutive appearance in the NAIA Volleyball National Championships. Morningside will open the season this Saturday with matches against Valley City State University and Waldorf College in a triangular at Forest City, Iowa.
Morningside is one of three teams from the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) ranked in the NAIA Top 25. Northwestern College is ranked fifth and Doane College is ranked 20th.
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 Morningside College and Clear Channel Radio/KWSL 1470 AM have announced that Mustang football and basketball games will be broadcast on the Sioux City radio station during the 2010-2011 season.
All 10 Morningside regular-season football games, starting with the September 4 home game with Doane College, will be carried on KWSL. The station also will broadcast 41 selected men’s and women’s basketball games.
“It’s exciting that Mustang fans within the KWSL broadcast area will have the opportunity to tune into our football and basketball games,” said Jerry Schmutte, athletic director at Morningside. “And fans anywhere can hear the games streamed live online at www.1470kwsl.com.”
Kelli Erickson, vice president and marketing manager for Clear Channel Radio, said, “This partnership with Morningside College enhances the range of programming available to sports fans on Clear Channel’s Sioux City radio stations.”
Curtis Anderson with “Your Sports Show” will coordinate play-by-play coverage of the Morningside games on KWSL.
 Morningside College is ranked fifth nationally in the 2010 NAIA pre-season football poll released on Aug. 9.
The Mustangs are coming off a banner 2009 season where they posted a 10-2 record for the second highest victory total in school history.
Morningside is one of four teams from the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) ranked in the NAIA Pre-Season Top 25. Aside from Morningside, the University of Sioux Falls is ranked No. 1, Hastings College is ranked 13th, and Northwestern College is ranked 23rd.
Morningside will open the 2010 season on Saturday, Sept. 4, with a 7 p.m. game against Doane College at Elwood Olsen Stadium.
The Mustangs have a 58-14 record for a .806 winning percentage since the start of the 2004 season. Morningside has made six consecutive appearances in the NAIA Championship Series and has advanced to at least the quarterfinal round each of the past five seasons.
Click here for the complete NAIA Pre-Season Top 25.
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