Sport Season Ends At Wesleyan

Friday was  the last sport still alive at North Carolina Wesleyan was tennis that won the USA South crown way back in the middle of April when the entire spring conference tournaments were here in Rocky Mount.

The Battling Bishops earned their way into the NCAA Div III playoffs and finally this weekend took part as the Battling Bishops met Washington and Lee on Friday and And the playoffs hopes of the Battling Bishops are over losing to W&L 5-4

Last sports season was the first time that I had ever been on the PA at any Wesleyan Sporting event and I will begin my second season starting with football on September 10th.  Boy, do they have a doozy to start off with.  Mount Union Ohio will be coming to Bishop Stadium,  Those that are familiar with Division III football knows that Mount Union is for DIII what Alabama is to DI.  They are the Giant of the division.  They are the defending National champion and have won 12 DIII titles in football.

Mount Union is the mother lode of DIII football.  There will be no reason that this game will not sell out of tickets in advance.  The Battling Bishops will go to Alliance Oh  for the return match  in 2017.
This is the home opener for the Bishops but will be their second game of the season as they open Labor Day weekend with a Trip to Stevenson University.

The 2015-2016 athletic year for Battling Bishop athletes was a very good year.  The men won the President's Cup as having the best overall sports record in the conference.  They were the men's tennis champions garnering 13 points. They collected another 11in basketball for a grand total of 51 points beating out Methodist at 49.5.  They won despite not having a cross country team.

The women finished seventh of the twelve teams in the USA South,  Women's tennis grabbed 11 points and softball 10.5 to lead the way in NCW's 39 points.  Piedmont was the women's division winner collecting 68 point during the school year.

The overall President's Cup standing adding both the men and women together the Battling Bishops finished 5th with 90 points.  They trailed the overall winner Methodist 103.5, Piedmont 99, Maryville 95 Covenant 90 which ties the Bishops.

Today in Burlington the doubles team from Rocky Mount Tyler Brice and George Shannon were beaten in the round of 16 by a team Marvin Ridge by a score of 6-2 a 7-5.