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Issued: September 18, 2007

FIVE UW-EAU CLAIRE ATHLETES RECEIVE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK HONORS

UW-Eau Claire football player Cory Sartorelli (So.-Appleton, WI/North), women’s golfer Meghan Sobotta (Sr.-Arcadia, WI), soccer player Amy Smith (Jr.-Bloomington, MN/Thomas Jefferson) and women’s tennis players Gina Dahl (So.-Fort Atkinson, Wis.) and Sarah Riordan (Sr.-Appleton, WI/North) have been named the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference players of the week, conference spokesman Matt Stanek has announced.

Sartorelli led the football team to a 30-14 victory over Alma College (Mich.) in the Blugolds’ home opener on Sept. 15. He totaled 209 rushing yards on 40 carries and three touchdowns in the contest. Sartorelli had touchdown runs of 18 and two yards in the third quarter and added another two-yard plunge in the fourth. Only 11 other times in Blugold history has there been another 209+ yard performance in a game.

Sobotta finished second out of 124 participants at the Illinois Wesleyan Fall Classic on Sept. 14-15. She shot a 75 on the first day of competition and followed that performance with a 73 for a 36-hole total of 148. Sobotta finished only one stroke behind Katie Tewell of Franklin University (Ind.), who was last year’s NCAA Division III Ping/NGCA Player of the Year.

In two games this weekend, the Blugold soccer team stayed unbeaten (5-0-1) with a tie and a win. In Saturday’s contest against the University of Chicago (Ill.), it only took Smith less than a minute into the second half to shoot one off the crossbar, which came directly back to a teammate for the game’s first goal. Unfortunately, Chicago tied the score with only 15 seconds remaining in the match and the Blugolds would have to settle for a 1-1 tie. In the second game of the weekend, Smith found the net for the Blugolds’ first score of the match against St. Olaf College (Minn.) in a 2-0 triumph.

Competing at No. 1 doubles, Riordan and Dahl went 3-0 during the week. On Friday at UW-Stevens Point, they won 8-1, and in Saturday’s meet at UW-Oshkosh they claimed an 8-2 victory. Later in the day on Saturday, they upended opponents from NCAA Division I UW-Green Bay by an 8-6 mark.

- KM -

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