SEALS AND HOWARD NAMED TO THE GCAC ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM        

Mary Seals, accounting senior, Sarah Howard, marketing senior, and Gina Gill, psychology freshman, were named to the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference All-Conference Team.

Seals has received this award  all four years with the Wolfpack. She finished with the second highest average of kills per game with 3.7. She was named conference Hitter of the Week eight times and Player of the Week four times.

Howard was named GCAC All-Conference four years. She was also named GCAC Setter of the Week. She led the conference with 830 assists and was named Setter of the Week and won Setter of the Week six times this season.

Gill was named All-Conference and GCAC Freshman of the Year. She led the conference with 3.8 kills per game.
-Eduardo Gonzalez

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RANKED #24 IN THE NAIA PRESEASON POLLS

The Loyola women’s basketball team begins the 2008-2009 regular season ranked 24 in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics preseason polls. They opened their season in the Jackson Rotary Basketball Classic.

The lady Wolfpack will look to bounce back from the exhibition loss to LSU, and they will host the NAIA top-ranked Union University on Nov.20. On Nov. 21, Loyola will play number nine ranked Lambuth and conclude the Basketball Classic with number 3 Freed-Hardeman. All games are scheduled for a 5 p.m. tip off.

Loyola, will return to Tennessee on Thanksgiving weekend. They will play two games in the Nationwide Classic, with the first on Friday at 5 p.m. against Lambuth. They will also have another rematch when they face Freed-Hardeman on Saturday at 5 p.m.
-J.J. Hernandez

WOLFPACK BEATS PHILANDER SMITH BY ONE-POINT NOV. 18

Nick Tuszynski, general business junior, made a clutch a lay-up with 31 seconds left while also being fouled. He sunk the free throw that followed and pushed the Wolfpack to a one-point lead over Philander Smith Panthers Tuesday night at The Den. The victory was monumental. It’s the first time the Wolfpack have been 4-0 in over 50 years.

Neither team got it going offensively until Corey Gray hit a 3-pointer with 10:30 in the first half. It began a 22-11 run.

The Panthers scored seven of the first nine points in the second half. They cut it down to a one-point lead two and a half minutes into the second half. Loyola led 41-40. The Wolfpack rallied and scored eight of the next nine points.

The Panthers went on a 22-10 run that gave them their first lead since the first half. Stephen Murdock pushed their lead to four by hitting a three pointer that gave the Panthers a 63-59 lead with 8:30 left in the game.

Tuszynski concluded the three-point play with free throw which pushed the Wolfpack up by one. The Wolfpack will host the Millsaps College Majors Saturday at 7 p.m.
-J.J. Hernandez