TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology will play a total of 24 home basketball games between
its men's and women's squads during the upcoming 2008-09
campaign, according to schedules released today.
The Engineers will host 12 men's and 12 women's
home contests this season, including full slates of eight
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference games.
In addition, the home schedules feature one
traditional rivalry game for each squad. The women's team will
host St. Mary-of-the-Woods College in the annual Clabber Girl
Trophy Game on Wed. January 21 at 7:30 p.m., while the men
welcome in-state rival Wabash College on Sat., Dec. 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Other non-conference men's home games include
matchups with Millikin (Nov. 30), Fontbonne (Dec. 18) and Robert
Morris-Springfield (Jan. 20). On the women's side, the
Engineers host Robert Morris (Dec. 16), Marian (Dec. 18) and
Illinois Tech (Feb. 17).
The schedule includes three home HCAC
doubleheaders on Saturday afternoons. Matchups include
Bluffton on Dec. 6, Mount St. Joseph on Jan. 31 and Transylvania
on Feb. 7. Each doubleheader consists of a women's game at
1 p.m. and a men's contest at 3 p.m. for a single admission
charge.
Both the men's and women's squads qualified for
the HCAC Tournament last season. The men finished 12-14
overall and defeated regular season champion Defiance College on
the last day of the regular season to earn a bid into the
six-team event. The women's squad compiled an 11-15 mark
to claim the No. 6 tournament seed.
The men's squad features two returning starters
in sophomores Michael Kelly (Fort Myers, Fla.) and
Daniel Lowers (Gosport/Edgewood), along with part-time
starter Lorenzo Rice (Grandview, Mo.). Lowers
ranked second on the team in scoring (10.2 ppg) and averaged 5.1
rebounds per game as a freshman, while Kelly (7.0 ppg) and Rice
(5.0 ppg) provide scoring options in the post.
The remaining three starters, Ron George, Jared
Moore and Phil Sundling, each graduated last spring after
starting all 26 games for the Fightin' Engineers a season ago.
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Donna Marsh paced Rose-Hulman at 9.7 points per game. |
On the women's side, the lone returning starter is sophomore
Donna Marsh (Mobile, Ala./Baker), who led the team in scoring (9.7 ppg),
rebounding (7.4 rpg) and blocked shots (a school record 58). The remaining
four starters capped their playing careers by earning spots in the lineup as
seniors, headed by 1,000-point scorer Jill Floyd.
Senior Liz Ridgway (Grosse Pointe, Mich./Northwestern University) pitched
in with an average of 9.1 points per game, while junior Shayna Banet (Canton,
Ga./Woodstock) scored 4.7 points per game last season.
Rose-Hulman begins the 2008-09 men's season at Blackburn College, followed by a
trip to the unique All-Engineer Classic featuring Rensselaer Polytechnic, MIT
and host Milwaukee School of Engineering. The women's squad opens play at
the Emory University tournament in Atlanta.
