Team Rankings

2008 Collegiate National Handball Tournament Team Standings

NCAA Division I:

1. Missouri State University

2. Lake Forest College

3. Texas A&M University

4. Dublin Institute of Technology (IRE)

5. National University of Ireland--Galway (IRE)

6. University of Minnesota

7. Pacific University

8. Pima Community College

9. Southwestern

10. University of Texas--Austin

11. University of Limerick (IRE)

12. University College--Dublin (IRE)

13. Western Washington University

14. Miami University Ohio

15. Cork College (IRE)

16. University of Ulster--Jordanstown (IRE)

17. University of Nebraska

18. Bemidji State 

19. Iowa State

20. UC Davis

21. National College of Art and Design (IRE)

21. Southwestern CC Iowa

21. York University

24. Cardinal Stritch

25. Inver Hills CC

25. University of Texas--Permian

27. Howard College

27. Logan College of Chiropractic

NCAA Division II:

1. University of Florida

2. Dublin City University (IRE)

3. UC Berkeley

4. Pittsburgh State

5. Minnesota State Mankato

6. Fort Scott Community College

7. Colorado School of Mines

8. San Jose State University

9. University of Iowa

10. Hardin-Simmons

11. SLIGO (IRE)

12. Texas State University

13. Monroe Community College

14. Rochester University

Results

Pacific University Handball National Tournament Results

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Women

Kira Hamer (92) v. Jackie Selestow (Lake Forest, 85) – L (-6, 7, 3)

Jenny Novak (86) v. Christina Cartenuto (Missouri St., 91) – L (12, -13, 9)

Men

Reese Moriyama (187) v. Eamon Briggs (Southwestern, 166 – W (14, 3)

Lee Moyers (188) v. Chris English (Hardin-Simmons, 170) – W (7, 3)

Jared Komo v. Neal Oliver (Cal-Berkeley, 195) – W (10, 4)

Conor Casey/Patrick Dedrick (12) v. Cormac Smyth/Richie Walsh (Dublin Tech, 5) – L (6, 5)

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Women

Hali Hutchinson (77) v. Deborah Cullingham (Cal-Berkeley, 68) – L (1, 8)

Hutchinson v. Jessica Budjac (Minnesota) – W (4, 7)

Kanoe Bartels (64) v. Brittany Hinchliff (Cal-Berekley, 49) – L (1, 9)

Sara Matsumoto (41) v. Emily McMahill (Missouri St., 40) – L (2, 19)

Sara Allender (49) v. Emily Rund (Minnesota, 37) – L (20, 18)

Lindsey Costley (39) v. Asley Moler (Iowa, 42) – L (1, 4)

Kahaili Barrows (46) v. Kayla Ashland (Minnesota St.-Makato, 35) – L (2, 0)

Hamer v. Kathleen Heng (Cal-Berekley) – W (8, 3)

Novak v. Orla Gaffney (Dublin Tech) – W (4, 0)

Men

Aaron Garner (7) v. Will Lemp (Missouri St., 26) – W (5, 4)

Conor Casey (29) v. Armando Ortiz (Missouri St., 4) – L (3, 5)

Casey v. Victor Perez (Lake Forest) – L ( 4, 7)

Patrick Dedrick (95) v. Shane Hayes (NUIG, 66) – L (-18, 7, 9)

Dedrick v. Ivan Alvarado (Minnesota) – W (-18, 7, 9)

Billy Gates (110) v. Michael Deal (Colorado School of Mines, 115) – L (-15, 10, 7)

Gates v. Kevin Lamml (Minnesota) – L (20, -10, 10)

Jon Oania (123) v. Nathan McCurtin (NUIG, 102) W (20, 18)

Oania v. Ciaran O’Sullivan (Dublin City U.) – L (3, 4)

Casey Merscher (124) v. Clifford Yip (NUIG, 101) – W (4, 2)

Merscher v. Luis Ramirez (Pima CC) – L (-17, 17, 10)

Lee Moyers (183) v. Steve Bremer (Texas A&M) – W (12, -14, 5)

Moriyama v. Paul Demby (Florida) – W (13, 5)

Komo v. Spencer Stern (Pittsburg St.) – Win by forfeit

Komo v. Jose Jimenez (Southwestern) – L (14, 9)

Friday, February 22, 2008

Women’s Contenders Division

Hamer v. Cartenuto – W (13, -17, 0)

Hamer v. Jessica Johnson (Florida) – L (?, ?)

Novak v. Casey Grier – W (-20, 9, 4)

Women’s Challengers Division

Hutchinson v. ____________ -- W (13, 12)

Hutchinson v. Susan Copp (Minnesota) – L (?, ?)

Women’s Intermediate Division

Bartels v. Lizzie Little (Fort Scott CC) – W (-8, 19, 3)

Bartels v. Lindsey Woenker (Florida) – L (0, 8)

Barrows v. Stephanie Miller (Florida) – L (11, 11)

Barrows v. Cullingham – L (8, 8)

Allender v. Trisha Riggs (Missouri St.) – L (2, 8)

Allender v. Amanda Baechle (Missouri St.) – L (-14, 17, 9)

Matsumoto v. Hanna Michael (Lake Forest) – L (3, 2)

Matsumoto v. Nicole Moser (Lake Forest) – L (-15, 10, 0)

Costley v. Sarah Brusig (Lake Forest) – L (8, -20, 2)

Costley v. Sabra Abernathy (Minnesota) – W (11, -16, 0)

Men’s Open Division

Garner v. Marshall Lowy (Texas A&M) – W (5, 6)

Men’s B Division

Casey v. Dan Pry (Texas) – W (2, 9)

Casey v. Daniel Perez (Pima) – L (?, ?)

Men’s C Division

Dedrick v. Cathal Walsh (Dublin City) – L (-16, 4, 4)

Men’s Intermediate Division

Oania v. Yip – W (15, 14)

Oania v. Mike Carpenter (Lake Forest) – L (7, 2)

Merscher v. Nevan McCartin (NUIG) – L (18, 12)

Men’s Challengers Division

Gates v. Logan Smith (Pittsburg St.) – L (-18, 6, 7)

Moyers v. Mike Cain (Miami OH) – L (15, 6)

Moriyama v. Josh Sarkis (Monroe) – W (2, 20)

Moriyama v. Stephen Wood (Texas A&M) – L (11, 19)

Men’s Novice Division

Komo v. Andy Luehring (Miami OH) – W (?, ?)

Komo v. Evan Townsend (Fort Scott) – W (8, 6)

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Women’s Intermediate Division

Costley v. Woenker – L (10, 16)

Women’s Novice Division

Novak v. Bianca Greene (Lake Forest) – L (3, 17)

Men’s Open Division

Garner v. Brian Carroll (Dublin Tech) – L (9, 18)

Men’s Novice Division

Komo v. Jeff VanBooren (Missouri St.) – W (?, ?)

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Men’s Novice Division

Komo v. Joey Urbani (Lake Forest) – W (11, 3)

Komo wins Men’s Novice Division National Championship

Notes:

Lindsey Costley wins $1,000 John Sabo Sr. Scholarship

Total team scores: Men’s-- 748…Women’s-- 444…Combined--1,192

Day Four

Congratulations to Women's Contender Semifinalist Jenny Novak and Men's Novice Finalist Jared Komo. Jared plays early tomorrow morning for the national championship in his division and then we will begin the long drive back to Kansas City, fly to Houston, and back to Portland. We will arrive in Forest Grove in the wee hours of Monday morning, so the blog may not be updated tomorrow unless I find some time (and internet access). 

And as much as I don't want to seem like I'm praising myself, I know coach would be upset if I didn't mention this: congratulations to Lindsey Costley, recipient of the 2008 John Sabo Sr. Handball Scholarship. 

Tonight's banquet dinner may have been the longest of the banquet dinners, but at least they served the food first this year. The food was not as bad as it usually is either; we had even made more substantial dinner plans after the banquet, which have since been cancelled due to the better quality of food. And Billy Gates won a camouflaged hat during the door prizes. 

So the tournament ends tomorrow, I will make more detailed/photo posts either tomorrow or sometime early this week, but for now I'll go for the sentimental stuff. We may not have had our best tournament, but we still had a great time together. To our seniors-- Jon Oania, Billy Gates, Patrick Dedrick, Kahaili Barrows, and Hali Hutchinson-- I've enjoyed my tournaments with you. We've had some really great times, some we'd like to forget, and some we hope we never forget. I am really happy that I got to chill with all of you and get to know you. Best of luck to you all in your futures and hope to see you in the courts whenever you're around. 

Day Three

My results list is currently being typed up by Billy... so this will be a less detailed post, but I will post more details from today later. 

Aside from seeing a lot of excellent handball today, we saw three amazing things:

1. a player whose boxer shorts were longer than his court shorts

2. a girl in knee-length pistachio spandex

3. a grown man wearing Heely's

Though everyone played hard today as we powered through several matches (probably more today than the 24 from yesterday, but I will know for sure later), only four Boxers are moving on tomorrow: Aaron, Lindsey, Jenny, and Jared. Jenny and Jared are semifinalists in their divisions, so congratulate them when you see them back on campus! Aaron and Lindsey are quarterfinalists in their divisions. We all hope to have these four playing again on Sunday for the championships. Some schools have already been eliminated from the tournament, it is usually our goal to have half of the Boxers playing on Saturday, but we will take whatever we can get; our odds are better than several other teams at the moment.

At the end of the tournament I will post a detailed breakdown of all the games and scores. I should also have more pictures to add sometime tomorrow, whenever we have a break. 

And finally, happy birthday, Jon and Lee! 

Go Boxers!

A Little Bit of Handball History

So I have been asked to provide a brief history of handball at Pacific...

Pacific University would not have handball if it weren't for Coach Mike Steele (also the president of the United States Handball Association). He started this program and he is the reason we have such a strong reputation throughout the handball community-- among many things, Pacific is known for having the best referees of any school around. This year's collegiate tournament consists of roughly 300 players (including 60 from Ireland) from 50 schools. Pacific usually finishes in the top 4 teams in NCAA Division I. Boxers have attended the tournament since 1980, producing 18 national champions and 2 All-Americans since 1985. There are over 240 alumni who have played handball at Pacific. 

It's kind of a legacy. So come play handball... 

Day Two

The weather in Missouri is quite different than Oregon. We arrived to temperatures of three degrees Fahrenheit, below zero with the wind chill. Since then it has been warmer, but icy. There was a lovely ice storm that coated all of our rental vans with a thick layer. The wonderful people at Budget did not provide us with ice scrapers even though it's winter and ice is common in Missouri. Hooray, for scraping ice off of twelve-passenger vans with credit cards/I.D's. 

The dining hall a few blocks from the Handball facility is magnificent. The food is mediocre, but the dining hall itself is something to see. So that's one really positive thing about Missouri. 

Boxers played 24 matches today; of those 24, Boxers won 10 which is really good for a small team. The day began with a series of losses, some of which were the same scores on the same court-- we decided court 1 is cursed. Boxer winners for today (marked W/Games, due to multiple games by some players):  Kira (1/1), Jenny (1/1), Aaron (1/1),  Jon (1/2), Casey (1/2), Lee (1/1), Reese (1/1), Jared (1/2), Hali (1/2), Patrick (1/2). Most of the men played two matches today so a big chunk of our women will play two tomorrow. We are finishing pool play and will work into our brackets tomorrow, for those who aren't there already. I will post our brackets and standings once we have them... most likely tomorrow night.

It was a great day of handball and it's only going to get better. 

Go Boxers!

Day One

After a very long day of traveling, we made it to Springfield without any major setbacks (which is highly unusual for any handball trip). For the past two years, it has been my goal to take a picture of Coach Mike wearing his sleeping mask on the plane. I am proud to say I was seated in the same row as Coach Mike and... well, the photo is posted. 

Some folks played today, but everyone will play tomorrow; the results for day one are:

Kira and Jenny fought it out like champs, but each lost in the tie-breakers. 

Lee, Reese, and Jared dominated their opponents.

Our lone doubles team (Conor and Patrick) lost to DIT (Ireland), who will probably win the tournament (if it were a tournament for the shortest shorts).