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College of Saint Benedict

10/22/2025 | 7 p.m.

Oct. 22 (Wed) / 7 p.m.

 College of Saint Benedict

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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — The Augsburg University volleyball team fell in a pair of matches against University of Wisconsin schools on Saturday at UW-Eau Claire, dropping a four-set match to UW-Stevens Point and a three-set match to No. 7-ranked UW-Eau Claire.

THE BASICSÂ
FINAL SCORES: UW-Stevens Point def. Augsburg 3-1 (25-12, 25-23, 22-25, 25-20); UW-Eau Claire def. Augsburg 3-0 (25-11, 25-12, 25-19)
LOCATION: Sonnentag Event Center, Eau Claire, Wis.
RECORD: Augsburg 8-13 overall

UW-STEVENS POINT 3, AUGSBURG 1
• Augsburg fell victim to a .106 hitting afternoon, with 48 kills and 31 errors on 160 attack attempts, while UW-Stevens Point hit .214. The Pointers also had seven service aces to the Auggies’ one.
• Setter Jovial King (SO, Caledonia, Minn./Caledonia HS) recorded her ninth assist-dig double-double of the season and 14th of her career, with 38 assists and 14 digs, to go along iwth two block assists and three kills.
• Taliah Triggs (SO, Moorhead, Minn./Moorhead HS) had a season-high 16 kills, to go along with eight digs.
• Marley Mitchell (SO, Nevis, Minn./Nevis HS) had nine kills and five digs, and Gwynn Gorter (SO, Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Simley HS) had eight kills and a block assist.
• Ameerah Rogers (FY, Bloomington, Minn./Jefferson HS) had four blocks (one solo) to go along with five kills, and Taylor Hoehns (SR, Cedar Falls, Iowa/Dike-New Hartford HS) had six kills and two block assists.
• Maggie Lile (JR, Spring Grove, Minn./Spring Grove HS) and Lola Pilon (JR, Farmington, Minn./Mounds Park Academy HS) had 14 digs each.

UW-EAU CLAIRE 3, AUGSBURG 0
• The Blugolds, ranked No. 7 in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association Division III national poll, hit .362 as a team, with 43 kills against just nine erorrs in 94 swings, while Augsburg hit. 167. The Blugolds also had nine service aces and seven team blocks, compared to one ace and four team blocks for the Auggies.
• Gorter led the Auggie hitters with seven kills, hitting .353, adding two block assists.
• Grace Hamilton (JR, Eagan, Minn./School of Environmental Studies) had five kills, and Triggs, Hoehns and Sierra Washington (SR, Prior lake, Minn./Prior Lake HS) had four kills each.
• King collected 24 assists with five digs and two blocks (one solo).

FOR THE FOES
• Samantha Kempinger had 14 kills, 15 digs and three blocks (one solo) for UW-Stevens Point against the Auggies.
• Bailey Leeke paced UW-Eau Claire against Augsburg with 14 kills and seven digs.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg hosts the College of Saint Benedict in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match on Wednesday (10/22) at 7 p.m. at Si Melby Hall.

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The Sixers moved a step closer to meaningful basketball Friday night.

They also stayed winless in the preseason, falling to a 128-98 loss to the Magic in their first exhibition game at Xfinity Mobile Arena.

VJ Edgecombe sat because of left hip soreness. He took part in the Sixers†morning shootaround and is considered day-to-day, according to a team official.Â

Other absences included Joel Embiid (left knee), Paul George (left knee), Trendon Watford (right hamstring) and Jared McCain (right thumb). Quentin Grimes was inactive two days after his first practice of the season.

The Sixers will hold their annual Blue-White scrimmage Sunday and finish their four-game preseason next Friday vs. the Timberwolves. Here are observations on the team’s loss to Orlando:

Maxey, Barlow shineÂin 1st quarter

Tyrese Maxey and Dominick Barlow were early standouts.

The Sixers†first basket came on a Maxey transition three-pointer. To no oneâ€s surprise, Maxey came out aggressively. He fired up nine shots in under seven minutes and played with tons of speed and confidence. Maxey poured in 17 first-quarter points and watched the rest of the game.

Barlow scored the Sixers†next bucket on a put-back layup. He did strong work on the offensive boards in his third straight start and had 12 points and nine rebounds over 29 minutes. Barlow has a 7-foot-3 wingspan and good athletic tools, and heâ€s rebounded the way those on-paper traits would suggest.Â

Notably, the Sixers plan to be a guard-heavy team and know they must improve their rebounding. Barlowâ€s boosted his case for minutes with his preseason showing on the glass. Well done for a 22-year-old on a two-way contract.

Pros and cons for Bona

Not for the first time, Adem Bona had a rough start on the foul front. He committed two personals in under two minutes, including on a Wendell Carter Jr. and-one jumper.

Of course, the other side of Bonaâ€s ball-hungry defensive style is that heâ€s often rewarded with rejections. His bounce and rim-protecting instincts popped as usual. Bona swatted Desmond Bane, Paolo Banchero and Anthony Black layup attempts in the first half.

Andre Drummond continued to play behind Bona. The highlights of Drummond’s night were a pair of corner three-pointers. Drummond made three long-range jumpers and missed 17 last season. Heâ€s 18 for 140 (12.9 percent) in his career.Â

Challenges for rookies off the bench

Hunter Sallis received first-quarter minutes and got an and-one runner to drop against fellow rookie guard Jace Richardson. The Wake Forest product tallied seven points and three assists in 34 minutes.

The Sixers used a five-man bench in the first half of Sallis, Drummond, Kennedy Chandler, Jabari Walker and Johni Broome. Emoni Bates and Malcolm Hill checked in after halftime.

Broome (six points, three steals) played at both power forward and center. He had some tough moments defensively against players like Banchero and Carter. Banchero tried to drive baseline past Broome and throw down a powerful slam. Broome stopped him with a clear-cut foul.Â

The 23-year-old lefty’s physicality and shot blocking were strengths in college. Itâ€s an open question how heâ€ll adapt to NBA-level size, quickness and leaping.

Chandler was the Sixers’ lead ball handler for much of the game and had a 16-point, five assist, four-steal night. Sixers head coach Nick Nurse has given him significant minutes in all three of the team’s preseason contests.

“Heâ€s played very well,â€Â Nurse said following the Sixers’ practice Thursday. “Heâ€s got pretty good feel for running and organizing the team. Heâ€s also got some juice to get by people and get to the basket. And heâ€s also a very good shooter.

“He didnâ€t shoot as much from three in those games as heâ€s been doing in practice. Heâ€s a legit threat from three. … Iâ€ve been impressed with his knowledge of the game, the way heâ€s picked things up and the way heâ€s transferred that to keeping the team fairly organized.â€Â

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  Alden GonzalezOct 9, 2025, 02:34 AM ET

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  ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016.

LOS ANGELES — Tanner Scott was absent for what was later described as a personal matter, two other left-handed relievers had already been used, and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts didn’t want to use his three best relievers — two of them converted starting pitchers — in a deficit.

And so, in the eighth inning of a two-run game Wednesday night, Clayton Kershaw spilled back onto the field hoping to keep a score manageable by providing his team with three additional outs — and that’s when Game 3 of the National League Division Series unraveled.

J.T. Realmuto led off with a home run, six other batters reached base, and by the end of it, the Philadelphia Phillies had tacked on five additional runs, cruising to the 8-2 victory that saved their season.

Kershaw, the future Hall of Fame left-hander who will retire at season’s end, was making his first postseason relief appearance since the decisive Game 5 of the 2019 NLDS, when he came back out for a second inning and surrendered back-to-back, score-tying home runs to Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto. His latest relief outing could have finished in a flourish, after recording the final out in a scoreless top of the seventh. Instead, it ended in despair.

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“Just didn’t make enough good pitches,” said Kershaw, his team still leading this best-of-five series 2-1. “I was battling command. It’s hard when you’re trying to throw strikes as opposed to getting people out. Just wasn’t a fun thing.”

A sold-out crowd of 53,689 roared when the left-field-bullpen gates swung open, Kershaw’s entrance song blared and No. 22 himself jogged to the mound. He was tasked with taking down the top of the Phillies’ order, immediately after fellow lefties Anthony Banda and Jack Dreyer pitched scoreless innings to maintain the Dodgers’ two-run deficit.

Kershaw allowed the first two batters to reach, then benefited from some good fortune. Dodgers right fielder Teoscar Hernandez made a diving catch to steal a hit from Bryce Harper. Kyle Schwarber then got caught in between on a pitch in the dirt and was picked off first base. Two batters later, Brandon Marsh hit a 108 mph line drive directly into Hernandez’s glove. The crowd roared again, basking in another opportunity to celebrate one of the greatest players in franchise history — just before watching him absorb another nightmare inning in October.

Realmuto’s homer was followed by a Max Kepler walk, which was followed by an error on an in-between hop by Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy. After a sacrifice bunt moved both runners over, Trea Turner dumped a two-run single into a vacant portion of the outfield. Schwarber then provided the dagger with a sky-scraping two-run homer that bounced off the top of the right-field wall — four innings after his 455-foot home run nearly cleared the Dodger Stadium roof.

Clayton Kershaw reacts after giving up Kyle Schwarber’s two-run home run in the eighth inning. Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images

Had Enrique Hernandez not thrown Harper out trying to score from second on a single, and had Justin Dean not leapt against the fence to rob Marsh of extra bases, at least two additional runs would have scored.

“It was hard to watch,” Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts said. “But we can’t use two innings to — he’s going to have a statue out in front of Dodger Stadium. Kind of keep that in mind and understand that, in the grand scheme of things, Kershaw is a first-ballot Hall of Famer, one of the best to ever do it. So if you let two innings kind of ruin that, you don’t know baseball.”

That Kershaw was even placed in that position speaks volumes about the state of the Dodgers’ bullpen.

Dodgers relievers finished the regular season ranked 21st in the majors in ERA and didn’t inspire much additional confidence during the stretch run of the season. The Dodgers’ hope was to use the depth of their starting rotation to make up for the deficiencies in their bullpen during the postseason, but that has proved to have its limits.

Emmet Sheehan and Roki Sasaki, now used to hold leads late, have come with restrictions, particularly as it relates to being used on back-to-back nights. Using Sheehan or Sasaki in Game 3 means they would have probably been unavailable in Game 4. Tyler Glasnow was used to bridge the gap in Game 1, but he’s the scheduled starter for Game 4 on Thursday. Scott, whose absence was not known until Roberts revealed it postgame, was not an option at all.

That left Blake Treinen, who wound up pitching the ninth inning of what had basically become a blowout, and Alex Vesia, another high-leverage reliever Roberts prefers to save for leads. Instead, Kershaw was asked to take on more than he should have and struggled because of it, a circumstance that has come to define his October career.

Kershaw faced nine batters in the eighth inning. Three of them put the first pitch in play. Against each of the other six, he fell behind in the count. Roberts said Kershaw “didn’t have a great slider tonight” and his overall command was shoddy, which was probably to be expected. The only time Kershaw had ever come out of the bullpen over these past six years was two weeks ago, on Sept. 24, in preparation for a role like this.

This time, Kershaw said, he did everything he could to ready himself while venturing outside of his typical pre-start routine, including throwing off flat ground before getting onto the bullpen mound.

It didn’t work, and when it became clear that it wouldn’t, nobody was there to save him.

“You don’t really think about that,” Kershaw said of being left out in the eighth inning. “You just try to make the next pitch. It’s not really for us to do. You just try to get people out. I wasn’t throwing strikes, and it’s hard to pitch behind in the count.”

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NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Jovial King (SO, Caledonia, Minn./Caledonia HS) recorded her second 20-20 performance of the season, with 29 kills and a career-high 24 digs, leading the Augsburg University volleyball team in a four-set Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference loss at Carleton College on Wednesday evening.

THE BASICSÂ
FINAL SCORE: Carleton def. Augsburg 3-1 (20-25, 26-24, 25-16, 25-18)
LOCATION: West Gym, Northfield, Minn.
RECORDS: Augsburg 6-11 overall (1-1 MIAC), Carleton 3-15 overall (1-4 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• King claimed her 12th career assist-dig double-double, and seventh of this season, with her 29-assist, 24-dig performance, adding four kills and four block assists.
• Taliah Triggs (SO, Moorhead, Minn./Moorhead HS) led the Auggie hitters with her first double-double of the season, collecting 11 kills and 10 digs.
• Taylor Hoehns (SR, Cedar Falls, Iowa/Dike-New Hartford HS) recorded six kills and six digs, and Elizabeth Oster (JR, Bemidji, Minn./Bemidji HS) had five kills and four block assists.
• Sierra Washington (SR, Prior Lake, Minn./Prior Lake HS) had two block assists with four kills, and Marley Mitchell (SO, Nevis, Minn./Nevis HS) had two block assists with three kills.
• Libero Maggie Lile (JR, Spring Grove, Minn./Spring Grove HS) had 16 digs.

FOR THE FOES
• Sylvia Dixon led Carleton with 19 kills, adding five digs. Rachel Bingham had nine kills, five service aces, 13 digs and two blocks (one solo).
• Megan Smith had 34 assists, 13 digs, four kills and two blocks (one solo).

UP NEXT
• Augsburg travels to face Gustavus Adolphus College in an MIAC match on Saturday (11/11) at 5 p.m. in St. Peter, Minn.

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at Carleton College

10/8/2025 | 7 p.m.

Oct. 08 (Wed) / 7 p.m.

at Carleton College

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STEVENS POINT Wis. – Returning to the lineup after missing the last three matches due to injury, Ava Carlson (SO, Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet HS) had 27 kills with 10 digs, as her Augsburg University volleyball team dropped a pair of matches to nationally ranked teams on Friday at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Papa John’s Invitational.

THE BASICSÂ
FINAL SCORES: Carthage (Wis.) def. Augsburg 3-0 (25-15, 25-20, 25-17); Washington-St. Louis (Mo.) def. Augsburg 3-0 (25-18, 25-21, 25-23)
LOCATION: Quandt Fieldhouse, Stevens Point, Wis.
RECORD: Augsburg 6-10 overall

CARTHAGE 3, AUGSBURG 0
• Playing Carthage College for the second time in a week, the Auggies hit just .074 (31 kills, 24 errors, 95 attacks), while Carthage, receiving votes in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association Division III national poll, hit .333 (41 kills, nine errors, 96 attacks). The Auggies also fell victim to 13 Carthage team blocks in the match.
• Carlson recorded nine kills and six digs, adding a service ace, while Taliah Triggs (SO, Moorhead, Minn./Moorhead HS) had nine kills and a block assist.
• Taylor Hoehns (SR, Cedar Falls, Iowa/Dike-New Hartford HS) and Gwynn Gorter (SO, Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Simley HS) had four kills each.
• Jovial King (SO, Caledonia, Minn./Caledonia HS) had 21 assists and eight digs, and Maggie Lile (JR, Spring Grove, Minn./Spring Grove HS) had nine digs and six assists.

WASHINGTON-ST. LOUIS 3, AUGSBURG 0
• Washington University-St. Louis, ranked No. 10 in the latest AVCA national poll, hit .278 (36 kills, 14 errors, 79 attacks), compared to Augsburg’s 153 (38 kills, 23 errors, 98 attacks). The Bears also had eight team blocks to Augsburg’s four.
• Carlson recorded her 11th double-digit kill effort of the season, with 18 kills to go along with four digs and two service aces.
• Triggs had seven kills and a solo block, and Hoehns had five kills.
• Sierra Washington (SR, Prior Lake, Minn./Prior Lake HS) had three solo blocks with two kills.
• King had 29 assists and six digs.

FOR THE FOES
• Kristina Manojlovic had 14 kills and three block assists for Carthage against the Auggies.
• Leah Oyewole had nine kills and two block assists for Washington-St. Louis.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg returns to Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play on Wednesday (10/8) at 7 p.m., with a match at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn.

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Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran took responsibility for the team’s Game 2 loss to the New York Yankees in the American League Wild Card Series.

“I know the game is 100 percent on me,” Duran told reporters after Wednesday’s defeat (0:35 mark). “If I make that play, Trevor hits the homer, we take the lead. But I messed it up, gave them momentum and things just happened from there. That one’s on me, I’m gonna have to wear that one.”

With two outs and a runner on second base in the bottom of the fifth inning, Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit a fly ball to Duran in left field. While Duran came charging in and dove for the ball, he couldn’t make the catch and New York scored a go-ahead run.

The play gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead and they eventually held on for a 4-3 victory.

After New York pulled ahead in the fifth, Boston tied the game once again with a solo home run by Trevor Story in the top of the sixth inning.

New York jumped back in front in the bottom of the eighth, as Jazz Chisholm Jr. scored from first base on a two-out single from Austin Wells.

Duran finished 1-for-3 with a strikeout.

The Red Sox entered Wednesday’s action with a 1-0 series lead after emerging victorious on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium, but New York was able to force a decisive Game 3 partly due to Duran’s drop.

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The Winnipeg Jets lose both legs of their home-and-home with the Edmonton Oilers on Friday.

The Winnipeg Jets dropped their third straight preseason contest Friday night, falling 4-0 to the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place. It was a tough outing for the Jets, who were shut out by a mixed Oilers lineup led by several NHL regulars and a few top prospects.

Goaltender Domenic Divincentiis, who had impressed earlier in the preseason, including a 38-save performance in the Jets†prospect showcase win over the Canadiens, struggled in this one. He allowed four goals on 20 shots, finishing the night with 16 saves.

Edmonton opened the scoring midway through the first period when defenseman Darnell Nurse blasted a slapshot past Divincentiis at 9:12 to make it 1-0. The Oilers doubled their lead late in the period, as Josh Samanski fired a snap shot home at 18:37, assisted by David Tomasek.

The Oilers kept pressing in the second, with Noah Philp adding to the lead early in the frame at 2:26 with a snap shot of his own, set up by Troy Stecher and Nurse. In the third, Kasperi Kapanen capped off the scoring at 4-0 with a goal at 2:44, assisted by Andrew Mangiapane and Brett Kulak.

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Winnipeg iced a lineup featuring several forward regulars including Nino Niederreiter, Vladislav Namestnikov, and Alex Iafallo but the trio was held off the scoresheet and each finished with a -2 rating. Rising prospects Danny Zhilkin (-2) and Colby Barlow (-1) also struggled to make an impact.

The Jets†blue line lacked NHL regulars aside from Logan Stanley, who was heavily involved, particularly in the third period, where he racked up multiple roughing minors and a misconduct during a physical stretch against Kapanen.

The game featured plenty of penalties, especially in the final frame. Both sides exchanged roughing calls in a chippy third period, with Kapanen and Stanley each receiving game misconducts after a heated altercation.

For the Oilers, Calvin Pickard earned a 21-save shutout, backstopping a lineup that included NHLers like Mattias Janmark, Adam Henrique, and Mangiapane. Notably, top prospects Matthew Savoie and Isaac Howard dressed but were held without points

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WEST POINT, N.Y. – Lehigh volleyball played the first leg of a road back-to-back on Friday evening from Gillis Field House against the Army West Point Black Knights. The Mountain Hawks took set two from the Black Knights but ultimately fell in four sets.

Lehigh (6-6, 0-3 PL) and Army (8-4, 2-1 PL) were engaged in a competitive first set. The Black Knights managed to take control of the set in the early going with a 13-7 lead, but the Mountain Hawks managed to keep it close after the fact. With Army leading 22-18, Lehigh went on a 5-0 run to take a 23-22 lead and put themselves two points away from the set win. The two teams traded points past the 25th, eventually culminating in a narrow 27-25 win for Army.

Following the tight loss in set one, Lehigh dominated in set two. The Mountain Hawks bested the Black Knights 25-17 in the frame while hitting a match-best .263. Lehigh also held Army to a match-low .049 in the second set.

The Black Knights avenged their set two loss with a strong showing in set three, soundly defeating the Mountain Hawks 25-15. Lehigh was held to .000 hitting percentage while Army hit their match-best .290 in the period. The Mountain Hawks kept pace with the Black Knights to open the fourth, but a stronger hitting percentage helped propel Army past Lehigh 25-18 in set four to clinch the victory.

Sophomore Sophia Bond was outstanding defensively for Lehigh, posting a match-best 24 digs. Three Mountain Hawks reached double-digit kills, those being senior Natalie Lusomb (12), first-year Mary Massias (11) and junior Ufuoma Omene (10). Junior Abby Felkai led Lehigh and the match with 30 assists, reaching a new career-high.

Mackenzie Lynch and Chloe Murakami led the Black Knights offensively, posting 18 and 15 kills respectively.

The Mountain Hawks head north to take on Holy Cross on Saturday, September 27 at 5 p.m. in Worcester.

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