The Carthage College men's golf team (60-16) finished 16th at the Sunday-Tuesday, Oct. 9-11 Golfweek Division III Fall Invitational at Raven Golf Club in Miramar Beach, Fla.
The Carthage College men's golf team (58-1) won the Sunday-Monday, Oct. 2-3 Milwaukee School of Engineering Fall Invitational at the Grand Geneva Golf Course in Lake Geneva, Wis.
The Carthage College men's golf team (50-1) won the Thursday, Sept. 29 Concordia University (Wis.) “Elite Eight Invitational” at the North Shore Country Club in Mequon, Wis.
The Carthage College men's golf team (46-1) won the Sunday-Monday, Sept. 25-26 Wisconsin Lutheran College Fall Invitational at the Washington County Golf Course in Hartford, Wis.
The Carthage College men's golf team (35-1) won the Sunday, Sept. 18 Benedictine University (Ill.) Fall Invitational at the St. Andrews Golf and Country Club in West Chicago, Ill.
9.14.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (18-1) won the Tuesday, Sept. 13 University of St. Francis (Ill.) "Fall Classic" at the Wedgewood Golf Course in Joliet , Ill. Carthage won the 19-team event with a 289 team score, two strokes ahead of second-place St. Francis (Ill.) at 291.
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9.12.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (7-1) opened the fall portion of its 2011-12 by finishing second at the Monday, Sept. 12 Carthage Fall Invitational at The Club at Strawberry Creek in Kenosha, Wis.
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5.11.11 | Men's Golf
Carthage College men's golfer Donnie Langland (So., Algonquin, Ill./Jacobs. team-leading 74.0 season average) was named Golf Coaches Association of America/PING NCAA Division III All-Central Region on May 11.
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4.29.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (116-21) finished fourth at the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Men's Golf Championship. The first two rounds of the four-round event were played on Friday-Saturday, April 15-16 at the Cress Creek Country Club in Naperville, Ill., with the final two rounds being played on Friday-Saturday, April 29-30 at Harborside International Golf in Chicago.
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4.25.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (112-18) finished second at the Monday, April 25 Wisconsin-Parkside “American Family Classic” at the Meadowbrook Country Club in Racine, Wis. The host-Rangers won the five-team event with a 295 team score, three strokes ahead of second-place Carthage at 298. The Milwaukee School of Engineering was third at 302, followed by Madison College fourth at 328 and Concordia University (Wis.) fifth with a 363 mark.
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4.21.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (110-17) finished fourth at the Thursday, April 21 Carthage Spring Invitational at the Kenosha Country Club in Somers, Wis.
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4.17.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (109-14) won the Sunday, April 17 Carroll University (Wis.) Spring Invitational at the Ironwood Golf Course in Sussex, Wis.
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4.15.11 | Men's Golf
Carthage was in second place after day two of the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Men's Golf Championship. The first two rounds of the four-round event were played on Friday-Saturday, April 15-16 at the Cress Creek Country Club in Naperville, Ill., with the final two rounds to be played on Friday-Saturday, April 29-30 at Harborside International Golf in Chicago.
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4.13.11 | Men's Golf
Carthage College's Donnie Langland (So., Algonquin, Ill./Jacobs) was named CCIW “Men's Golfer of the Week” on April 20 for the second-straight week. Langland finished second at the April 17 Carroll University (Wis.) Spring Invitational at the Ironwood Country Club in Sussex, Wis., shooting a 75. He is also the leader, after the first two rounds, at the 2011 CCIW Men's Golf Championship (77-78-155).
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4.9.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (104-14) won the Saturday-Sunday, April 9-10 Ripon College Spring Invitational at the Lawsonia Golf Links Course in Green Lake, Wis.
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4.1.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (93-14) finished fourth at the Friday-Saturday, April 1-2 Illinois Wesleyan University Spring Invitational at Ironwood Golf Course in Normal, Ill.
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3.17.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (77-11) opened the spring portion of its 2010-11 season on Wednesday, March 16 by finishing third at the Central College “Dutch Desert Shootout” at the Southern Dunes Golf Club in Maricopa, Ariz.
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Did You Know...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Little All-Americans
The Associated Press has named 17 Carthage football players "Little All-Americans" since 1938, including punter Tyler Funk, a 2010 honoree.
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.
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.
Emily Goetz
Former Carthage graduate assistant women's lacrosse coach Emily Goetz is now the head women's lacrosse coach at Loras College.
Brotherly Love
Sixteen sets of brothers have played soccer for Carthage men's coach Steve Domin since 1995.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Carthage Baseball in the NCAAs
The Carthage baseball team made its 18th NCAA regional appearance in 2011.
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.
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.
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