Carthage's No. 1 men's tennis doubles team of Jeff Lotz Jr. (Jr., Racine, Wis./Horlick) and Daneric Hazelman (Sr., Lautoka, Fiji Islands) lost its quarterfinal match in the NCAA Division III ...
There is a nice, easy calm on campus.
No need to hustle. No reason for bustle. Final exams for all and graduation for some are in the rear-view mirror. The calendar shows it is May 21. ...
Carthage's Jeff Lotz Jr. (Jr., Racine, Wis./Horlick, 27-10) was named 2012 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin “Men's Tennis Player of the Year.” Lotz is Carthage's seventh ...
The Carthage College men's tennis team (20-8, 4-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) defeated Augustana College (Ill., 16-11), 6-3, in the Saturday, May 5 third-place match at the CCIW ...
The Carthage College men's tennis team (19-8, 4-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) bowed to Elmhurst College (15-8), 5-4, on Friday, May 4 in the semifinals of CCIW Men's Tennis ...
4.27.12 | Men's Tennis
The Carthage College men's tennis team (19-7, 4-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) closed out its regular-season conference schedule on Friday, April 27 with a 6-3 win over North Central College (3-13, 0-4 CCIW) at the North Central Courts in Naperville, Ill.
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4.26.12 | Men's Tennis
The Carthage College men's tennis team (18-7, 3-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) defeated CCIW-opponent Illinois Wesleyan University (5-9, 0-4 CCIW, 8-1, on Thursday, April 26 at the Smeds Tennis Center in Kenosha, Wis.
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4.25.12 | Men's Tennis
Carthage College's Jeff Lotz Jr. (Jr., Racine, Wis./Horlick) was named the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin "Tennis Player of the Week" on April 25 for the second time this season.
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4.21.12 | Men's Tennis
The Carthage College men's tennis team (17-7, 2-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) won both ends of a Saturday double-dual match at Augustana College (Ill.) in Rock Island, Ill. Carthage nipped CCIW-opponent Augustana (Ill., 14-7, 2-1 CCIW), 5-4, before defeating non-conference opponent the University of Dubuque (13-6) by a 7-2 margin.
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4.18.12 | Men's Tennis
The Carthage College men's tennis team (15-7, 1-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) nipped CCIW-opponent Elmhurst College (Ill., 10-7, 2-2 CCIW), 5-4, on Wednesday, April 18 at the Smeds Tennis Center in Kenosha, Wis.
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4.14.12 | Men's Tennis
The Carthage College men's tennis team (14-7, 0-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) lost both ends of a Saturday, April 14 double-dual match at the Smeds Tennis Center in Kenosha, Wis. Carthage fell to CCIW-opponent Wheaton College (Ill., 11-5, 3-0 CCIW) and Monmouth College (13-9) by identical, 5-4 scores.
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4.7.12 | Men's Tennis
The Carthage College men's tennis team (14-5, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) concluded a three-match trip to downstate-Illinois on Saturday, April 7 with a 7-2 win over Principia College (9-3) at the Hexberg Tennis Center in Elsah, Ill.
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4.7.12 | Men's Tennis
The Carthage College men's tennis team (13-5, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) won a pair of matches on Friday, April 6 at Lindenwood University-Belleville in Belleville, Ill. Carthage defeated Westminster College (Mo., 8-9), 6-3, before blanking Lindenwood-Belleville (4-6) by a 9-0 margin.
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4.4.12 | Men's Tennis
Carthage College's Daneric Hazelman (Sr., Lautoka, Fiji Islands) was named the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin "Tennis Player of the Week" on April 4 for the second time this season. Hazelman, who also earned "player of the week" honors on Feb. 22, won the No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles flights at the March 31-April 1 Wabash College "Kerry Seward Invitational." He defeated Coe College's Daken Starkenburg, 6-1, 6-4; the University of Dubuque's Paul Roberts, 6-2, 6-2; and Ohio Northern University's Michael Kathary, 7-6(8-0), 6-2. He then partnered with Jeff Lotz Jr. to win the No. 1 doubles title, defeating Hanover, 8-2; Wabash, 8-3; and Ohio Northern, 9-7.
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4.2.12 | Men's Tennis
The Carthage College men's tennis team (11-5, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) won the Saturday-Sunday, March 31-April 1 Wabash College "Kerry Seward Invitational" in Crawfordsville, Ind.
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3.28.12 | Men's Tennis
Carthage College's Matt Whiteside (Sr., Sacramento, Calif./Natomas Pacific Pathway Prep, 11-5) was named the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin "Tennis Player of the Week" on March 28 for the second time this season.
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3.24.12 | Men's Tennis
The Carthage College men's tennis team (11-5, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) closed a four-match spring trip to Orlando, Fla., on Friday, March 23 with wins over Colorado College (4-6), 6-3, and Hope College (4-6), 5-4.
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5.24 | Men's Tennis
Cary, N.C. - Cary Tennis Center
Red Men
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NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Doubles Championship
Carthage Men's Tennis at the 2011 CCIW Championship View Video
Did You Know...
L.J. Marx Reaches 100 Wins
Carthage men's volleyball coach L.J. Marx won his 100th career match on April 9, 2010 with a 3-0 win over Fontbonne University in the semfinals of the M-III Volleyball Conference Tournamrnt in Kenosha, Wis.
Carthage Baseball in the NCAAs
The Carthage baseball team made its 18th NCAA regional appearance in 2011.
First NFL Playoff Game
John “Popeye” Wager, ‘31, was a lineman for the 1932 NFL Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans, who played the Chicago Bears in the first-ever NFL post-season game. The Spartans finished the regular season in a first-place tie with the Bears, whose owner, George Halas, had a playoff game scheduled and moved from Wrigley Field to an indoor contest at the Chicago Stadium.
Coach Tim Rucks Hits 100
Carthage football coach Tim Rucks won his 100th career game with a 40-23 decision at Millikin University on Oct. 8, 2011.
Rob Lytle
Former University of Michigan football tailback Rob Lytle, who died on Nov. 20, 2010, played for the Denver Broncos Super Bowl XII team that lost to the Dallas Cowboys in 1978. Denver’s head coach that year was Robert “Red” Miller, who assisted Carthage head coach Art Keller from 1955 to 1957.
Carthage's 24th Varsity Sports Began in 2009-10
Carthage launched its 24th varsity sport in 2009-10, as the women's lacrosse team began varsity play.
Coach Brady Lindsley
Carthage women's tennis coach Brady Lindsley won his 200th career match in the fall of 2009. Lindsley, with a 219-93 record heading into the fall 2011 portion of the season, has been named CCIW "Women's Tennis Coach of the Year" three times.
Emily Goetz
Former Carthage graduate assistant women's lacrosse coach Emily Goetz is now the head women's lacrosse coach at Loras College.
Coach Leanne Ulmer
Head women's volleyball coach Leanne Ulmer enters the 2011 season with a .782 winning percentage over 10 seasons, which was raned ninth among active NCAA Division III coaches thru 2009. Ulmer has won six CCIW titles in nine years at Carthage, including a shared title in 2004 and outright titles in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Greg Dirkse
Greg Dirkse, who lettered on the 1995-97 Carthage soccer teams, was elected to the school board in his hometown of Oostburg, Wis., in April 2012.
Carthage's "Mr. Touchdown"
The last living member of Carthage's first football team, the 1895 squad, was William Simmons, "02. Simmons was honored at a 1958 Carthage game for scoring the Red Men's first-ever home touchdown in an 18-0 win over Quincy University on Nov. 28, 1895 in Carthage, Ill. Simmons scored on a 75-yard fumble recovery.
Leanne Ulmer's 300th win
Carthage women's volleyball coach Leanne Ulmer won her 300th career match with a 3-0 decision over Southwestern (Texas) on Sept. 16, 2011.
Amanda Croix Named Army Assistant Coach
Former Carthage swimmer Amanda Croix was named an assistant swimming and diving coach at United State Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., in July 2011.
Brady Lindsley Wins No. 250
Carthage men's tennis coach Brady Lindsley won his 250th match on April 23, 2011 with a 9-0 win at Principia College.
Kent Dernbach
Former Carthage basketball player Kent Dernbach (2002-03) was named an assistant men's basketball coach at Wisconsin-Stevens Point in October 2011. Dernbach had been the Northern Illinois University Director of Men’s Basketball Operations. He held the same post at George Mason University from 2007 to 2009.
Little All-Americans
The Associated Press has named 17 Carthage football players "Little All-Americans" since 1938, including punter Tyler Funk, a 2010 honoree.
Bosko Djurickovic
Carthage men's basketball coach Bosko Djurickovic’s CCIW winning percentage entering the 2011-12 season (.669, 245-121) is the sixth-best in the 65-year history of the league, and his 245 wins placed him first among active conference coaches.
Brotherly Love
Sixteen sets of brothers have played soccer for Carthage men's coach Steve Domin since 1995.
Paul Smith
Paul Smith, a member of Carthage’s inaugural men’s soccer team in 1981, was inducted into the Wisconsin Soccer Association Hall of Fame in 2010. A native of Racine, Wis., Smith set a Carthage game record that season by collecting four assists against Milton College on Oct. 21. Smith is currently the outdoors editor of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
George Demos
George Demos, who lettered on the 2002 and 2003 Carthage soccer teams, is the director of special events for Reggie Jackson's Mr. October Foundation for Kids.
Ryan Baumgartner
Former Carthage men's volleyball player Ryan Baumgartner, who lettered on the 2005-07 Red Men teams and was named American Volleyball Coaches Association second-team All-America in both 2006 and 2007, was named head women's volleyball coach at Dominican University (Ill.) prior to the 2011 season,
Red Men's 1,000th Basketball Win
With an 85-60 win over Concordia University (Wis.) on Nov. 28, 2009, Carthage won its 1,000th men's basketball game. The program began in 1907.
Carthage's First Hole-in-One
Carthage men's golfer Don Huff scored the Red Men's first-ever hole-in-one on Oct. 10, 1981 against Lawrence University at Rainbow Springs in Mukwonago, Wis. Huff aced the third hole with a seven-iron.
Doubling Up
With a school-record 12 doubles in the May 5, 2011 Lakeland game, the Carthage baseball team tied an NCAA III game record first set by Bridgewater State University versus the Massachusetts Maritime Academy on March 29, 1997.
Carthage Turns on the Lights
Carthage added lights to its baseball facility in April 2010. Assistant coach Cory Everts flipped the switch in the bottom of the eighth inning of an April 24 game versus Augustana College (Ill.), marking the first-ever use of the bulbs in a game situation.
Brooke Mix Scores Her Second Career Hole-in-0ne
Carthage College women's golfer Brooke Mix (Sr., Westfield, Ind.) scored a hole-in-one on Sept. 23, 2011 on the first day of the Wisconsin-Whitewater "Fall Fling." Mix' ace came on the 130-yard 15th hole at the Riverside Golf Course in Janesville, Wis. It was the second collegiate hole-in-one for Mix, with the other coming on Sept. 4, 2009 on the 11th hole of the Foss Park Golf Course at the Robert Morris “Fall Classic.”
Augie Schmidt IV Reaches 700 Wins
With a victory over Ohio Wesleyan University on March 6, 2010, Carthage College baseball coach Augie Schmidt IV will became only the 17th coach in NCAA Division III history to reach the 700-victory plateau.
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