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Sports, Top Stories February 3, 2011

Softball coach looks ahead to another winning season

By Jaycob Ammerman | gargoyle@flagler.edu

After having their first winning season in team history last year, the Flagler College softball team is determined to keep improving.

Last season, the team finished with a record of 28-24, resulting in a three-way tie for fourth place in the Peach Belt Conference. This season Flagler is picked to finish fifth in the Peach Belt Conference, but head coach Kristen Overton has better expectations for her team.

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Sports January 30, 2011

Batter Up: Baseball planning to build on last year’s momentum as season opens

By Mari Pothier | gargoyle@flagler.edu

After being picked to finish sixth in the Peach Belt Conference, head Coach David Barnett of the men’s baseball team was flattered but knows it’s the results at the end of the season that really count.

Last season, Barnett said the Saints were chosen to finish 10th in the Peach Belt and ended up rounding out the season in sixth place. They finished 29-23 overall and 14-10 against Peach Belt teams.

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Sports, Top Stories January 19, 2011

Women’s basketball looking to finish strong

By Mari Pothier | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery of the women’s basketball team said the team is striving to make the Peach Belt conference tournament through every game.

The Saints have gone 2-2 in their last four games beating Augusta State and Palm Beach Atlantic. Their overall record is 4-9 and have gone 1-4 against Peach Belt conference teams.

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Sports, Top Stories January 15, 2011

Team chemistry helping men’s basketball team succeed

For Senior John Pietkiewicz the main reason for the men’s basketball team’s success this season is team chemistry.

Pietkiewicz said there is no attitude among the players on the team which is not commonly found in a college basketball program. Most teams he said have players who are unhappy about minutes and shots.

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Sports December 3, 2010

Senior women soccer players look back on experiences

By Nick Cardoso| gargoyle@flagler.edu

When playing with a group of people for so long, there is a time when a sports teams stops being a team and becomes a family. Senior women’s soccer midfielders Erin Buning and Caleigh Hodgkins can both relate.

Hodgkins has played on the women’s soccer team since she was a freshman but said that she was familiar with the team even before she began attending Flagler.

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Sports December 1, 2010

Basketball player’s hard work pays off

By Jaycob Ammerman | gargoyle@flagler.edu

After high school, Jared Hammock never thought the opportunity would arise to play college basketball.

Hammock, originally from Melbourne, Fla., played high school basketball at Covenant Christian. As a senior, he led the county in several statistical categories.

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Sports November 30, 2010

Athletics broadcaster in pursuit of dream job

By Angela Daidone | gargoyle@flagler.edu

From a C.I.A. agent to a play-by-play commentator, Clayton Coffman, Flagler College Sports Information Intern/Athletics Broadcaster, has always aspired to pursue what he loves most.

The good-humored 23-year-old admits his childhood love for James Bond is what made him believe one day he’d become a C.I.A. agent. His job aspiration shifted while in middle school to a movie critic and shifted again as a college sophomore to a sports journalist.