Davidson College Sports Information
In her collegiate debut, freshman Julia Singley (Morganton, N.C.) knocked in two of the Wildcats’ six second-half goals on her way to a hat trick, and Davidson rolled to a season-opening 8-1 win over UNC Asheville in women’s soccer action on Saturday night in front of a crowd of 1,072 at Alumni Stadium. Read the full story

CORNELIUS - Hough High School scored 21 points in a fourth-quarter comeback, but it wasn’t enough as the Huskies fell 38-33 to Independence High School in the 2011 football season opener Friday night in Cornelius.

The Huskies’ trailed 17-2 at halftime, but scored 31 points in the second half to get within five points of the Patriots. The second half spurt included two touchdown runs by Jackson Campbell, and three touchdown passes by quarterback Josh Stilley.

In other action Friday night, Olympic High edged North Mecklenburg High, 44-42, in Huntersville.

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Playing in their second year, and their first with seniors, the Hough High Huskies football team on Friday will open the season with a home game against Independence High at 7 p.m.

The Huskies, coached by Bobby Collins, finished last season 2-8, including victories over Rocky River and Waddell. Read the full story

Davidson College’s men’s and women’s soccer teams are starting up their 2011 seasons, and both host home games on Saturday. The men play an exhibition Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. against N.C. State University. The women open their season with a 7 p.m. game against UNC Asheville. Both games are at Alumni Stadium. Read the full story

By CHRIS HUNT
DavidsonNews.net

The National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) will hold the first-ever International Tournament of Champions in the Lake Norman area this week, Wednesday to Saturday, Aug. 10-13. More than 250 of the world’s elite wheelchair basketball players arrived last weekend and began training in high and middle school gyms from Huntersville to Mooresville.

Seven men’s and five women’s international squads are here, including the top four finishers from the men’s and women’s 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. Tournament director Dick Bryant, a Charlotte resident who also serves as president of the NWBA, said the International Tournament of Champions allows the best of the best to fine tune their skills on the hardwood in preparation for next summer’s 2012 Paralympic Games in London. Read the full story

Davidson College’s women’s basketball team will face Atlantic Coast Conference teams Clemson and Wake Forest as well as Winthrop and Princeton during the 2011-12 season. The team, in its second year under head coach Michele Savage, released its schedule on Monday.

The Wildcats will play non-conference games at ACC-foes Clemson and Wake Forest as well as four Big South opponents, including Winthrop. They’ll travel to Princeton and also play a 20-game Southern Conference slate.

Coming off a 14-17 record a year ago, the ‘Cats return nine letter winners, including four of five starters. Davidson has two of the top players in the league back in All-SoCon First Team member Sophia Aleksandravicius, who averaged 16.5 points and nine rebounds, and SoCon Freshman of the Year Laura Murray (11.6 ppg), who led all freshmen in scoring, made three-pointers (42), free-throw percentage and assists (74- second-best on the team). Read the full story

Davidson Athletics is hosting its annual Meet the Wildcats Fan Day Saturday, Aug. 13, from 1-3 p.m., on the Davidson Village Green. Fans can meet Davidson coaches and athletes from five fall sports: football, men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey and volleyball. Read the full story

Davidson College’s men’s basketball team will play four opponents that finished last season with top-30 ratings in NCAA Division I, and two of those games will be at home in Belk Arena. Those are among the highlights of the Wildcats’ 2011-12 schedule unveiled Thursday by coach Bob McKillop.

Big games lie ahead against Duke, Vanderbilt, Richmond, Kansas, UMass and Penn. Other big in-state opponents will include UNC-Wilmington and Charlotte. Davidson also will play an yet-to-be-determined ESPN Brackbuster game in February.
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Former Davidson Wildcat guard Brendan McKillop has signed a contract to play professional basketball for the Bakken Bears in Aarhus, Denmark. The Bears won the Danish League Championship last season and posted a 24-3 mark in the regular season.

Arhus is Denmark’s second largest city, after Copenhagen.

McKillop was scheduled to travel to Denmark Tuesday and will join the team immediately to train for the season opener at the end of the month. He will be the only American citizen on the team. Fans may recognize his teammate, 7-foot-2 center Chris Christoffersen who helped Oregon to the Elite Eight in 2002.

“It’s been a dream of mine my whole life to one day be a professional basketball player, and I thank my family, my coaches, my teammates and all members of the Davidson family for helping to make this dream come true,” McKillop said in a press release Tuesday.

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