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Men’s and women’s rugby kicks off season

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The men’s club rugby team, coming off a Division II National Championship appearance, opened thier season 18-7 win over West Chester last Saturday at Edgely Field.

Senior outside center Patrick Cooley and junior eighth-man Chase Haberstroh each scored a try and senior Patrick Sortak had three field goals to have the Owls start the season 1-0.

The women’s club rugby team also returned to action last Saturday with a scrimmage against the College of New Jersey that resulted in a 17-17 tie. In a game that featured mostly younger players, senior center Kris Jones scored two tries, freshman lock Elizabeth Metkus also had a try and Racheal Bandura made two extra point kicks.

Both teams will be back in action this weekend. The men’s team will have friendly matches against Rutgers and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County on Sept. 18 in New Brunswick, N.J. and on Sept. 19 will face TCNJ in Ewing N.J.

The women’s team will face Bryn-Mawr at Edgely Field on Sept. 18.

Craig Williams undergoes surgery

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Senior forward Craig Williams of the men’s basketball team has undergone surgery on his right foot according to a press release from the team. The 6-foot-9-inch forward fractured the fifth metatarsal of his foot over the summer while in his native Virgin Islands. Williams will need around three months to recover from the surgery and is expected to miss the first month of the season.

Williams, who appeared in 29 games last year while averaging 3.8 points and 1.8 rebounds per game, was expected to be Temple’s first post player off the bench for the upcoming season.  Without him, the Owls will need to rely on freshman forward Anthony Lee when junior center Michael Eric or junior forward Lavoy Allen are not on the floor. Additionally, instead of replacing Allen or Eric with Lee or another big man, Temple coach Fran Dunphy could choose to utilize a four-guard set more often.

Regardless of Dunphy’s strategy, Williams’ injury, along with the departure of sophomore forwards Carmel Bouchman and Chris Clarke, leaves the Temple bench significantly smaller.

The Owls open the season on Nov. 12 when Seton Hall visits the Liacouras Center.

Football team adds 410 new bone marrow donors

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The football team registered an estimated 410 new bone marrow donors for the Be the Match Registry, the new name for the  National Marrow Donor Registry, Wednesday.

In its three years running the bone marrow drive, the Owls have registered an estimated 1,270 new bone marrow donors.

The bone marrow drive is coordinated locally by Villanova football coach Andy Talley, and he received commitments from 30 college football programs for this year’s effort.

Though 20 million people worldwide are registered donors, only about 250 matches are found each year. Each day, about 6,000 people with diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma are searching for one.

Read this Owlsports.com article for comments from Temple football coach Al Golden and a few players on this year’s effort.

Bone marrow drive today, Rm. 200 of the Student Center South

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Temple Football team manager Michel’Le Daughtry/Paul Klein TTN

Temple Athletics’ football team is holding a bone marrow drive today, Apr. 14, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in room 200 of the Student Center South. Below is an excerpt from “Football team directly touched by bone marrow drive,” explaining how you can help and what the screening process is. Click here to read the entire article, which profiles the football team’s team manager, Michel’Le Daughtry, who is battling acute myeloid leukemia for the second time.

Temple football began hosting its annual bone marrow drive in Spring 2008. That year, the team screened a collegiate record 630 potential donors for the National Marrow Donor Program. Last year, the number of people screened dropped to 218 individuals. Ryan McNamee, the director of player development, said the team hopes to screen 800 potential donors this year. The bone marrow drive will be held in Room 200 of the Student Center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow. The process takes about 20 minutes to complete. Potential donors, who must be between 18 and 60, fill out forms first and then get the four corners of their cheeks swabbed.

-Jennifer Reardon

Men’s gymnastics clarification

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As reported in The Temple News in the April 6 issue, the men’s gymnastics team was the 12th and final team to qualify for the team competition at the NCAA Championships April 16 and 17 in West Point, N.Y.

When the Owls qualified as a team, every member of the team also qualified for the individual competitions at the NCAA Championships.

If Temple had missed the cut (as was expected after the second-place finish in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships last weekend in Williamsburg, Va.), then only certain individuals would be selected.

*Ryan Rosengrant contributed to this post.

Men’s basketball defeats Western Michigan

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The men’s basketball team beat Western Michigan tonight, 76-70.

Four players – senior guard Ryan Brooks, junior forwards Lavoy Allen and Craig Williams and sophomore point guard Juan Fernandez – scored in double figures for the Owls (5-2). Brooks led the way with a double-double of 17 points and 10 rebounds. Williams connected on 4-of-7 3-point attempts.

“Craig williams stepped up and hit some big shots down the stretch,” Brooks said.

The Broncos (2-3) were led by senior guard David Kool, who scored 30 points on 10-of-19 shooting from the field and hit all seven of his free throws.

“He is a tremendous shooter,” Brooks said. “You can’t take him for granted.  He was ready to play, and I just did not do a good job on him early in the game.”

Temple trailed 38-37 at the half after allowing Western Michigan to shoot 51.9 percent.

“I like to think we are a pretty good defensive basketball team, but I do not think you would have said that if you watched us in the first half,” coach Fran Dunphy said. “We did come around in the second half. In the second half we defended better. We found Kool a little bit more, and we did not foul him as much…and then our offense just came around.  We started making shots.”

The Owls shot 44.1 percent in the second half and 40.8 percent overall, a definite improvement from the St. John’s game Saturday.

Temple returns to the Liacouras Center Saturday at 4 p.m. to face National Invitational Tournament champion Penn State.

Former Temple Basketball Player Dionte Christmas Arrested in Philly

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Last night, former A-10 three time scoring champ Dionte Christmas was arrested on Nedro Avenue near Broad Street after being spotted driving erratically in a car with heavily tinted windows, according to Philly Confidential, an online blog for the Philadelphia Daily News. After officers stopped him, officers found that Christmas was driving without a license and spotted a loaded semiautomatic handgun under the driver’s seat.  It was later determined that the car Christmas was driving and the gun belonged to Philadelphia 76ers forward/center Marreese Speights. Christmas also had a passenger with him, but was not charged with any wrong doing.

Following his career at Temple last year, Christmas went undrafted in the NBA and on Wednesday was waived by the Sixers after playing four preseason games with the team.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dncrime/65702982.html

For Phillies, World Series in sight-again

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The Phillies rallied for a dramatic 5-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies in Game 4 of the National League Division Series tonight. The victory ensures Phillies’ return to the divisional championship and puts the team just four wins away from a return to the World Series.

Down to the final out of the game, Ryan Howard and Jayson Werth came through in the clutch. While facing the Rockies closer, Huston Street, Howard hit a deep double into right field driving in the two runs to tie the game. Werth then hit the go-ahead single to drive in the series winning run.

The Phillies will now head to the National League Championship Series where they will face a familiar foe, the Los Angeles Dodgers. The final stretch series open on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.

Clarke expected to join Owls

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OwlScoop.com reported last Monday that Temple basketball coach Fran Dunphy has added 6-foot-8, 220-pound forward Chris Clarke, and that he is expected to be eligible to play this season. (And no, he is not related to former guard Chris Clark, though the name is sure to cause some confusion.)

Clarke, who played with Pensacola Junior College, suited up for St. Mary’s Prep in Orchard Lake, Mich., in high school. There, he led his team to a Class A regional championship his junior year. As a senior, Clarke was a preseason all-state selection.