After gutting out a pair of heart-stopping 1-0 triumphs last week, the Carleton College men’s soccer team made things more comfortable on the coaching staff on Monday afternoon, as the Knights jumped out to an early lead and cruised to a 4-0 victory at College of St. Scholastica.

Lauren Pak averaged 12.0 assists per set, tops in the MIAC last week, in helping the Carleton College volleyball team to a pair of victories. In recognition of that performance, she was selected as the MIAC’s Volleyball Athlete-of-the-Week for Oct. 9-15. It is her first career conference weekly award.

With little margin of error, Brandon Hilliard came up with several huge saves to allow the Carleton College men’s soccer team to post a pair of 1-0 victories last week. His stellar play earned the Knights’ goalkeeper his first career MIAC Athlete-of-the-Week award.

The Carleton College women’s soccer team traveled to Augsburg University and fell 2-0 to the MIAC co-leaders. In addition to the tough competition, both teams had to deal with steady rain throughout the game and a lightning delay which ensured that the contest did not wrap up until close to 10:30 p.m.

For the second time this season, Alvin Bierley delivered a late-game goal to lift the Carleton College men’s soccer team to a 1-0 victory. This time, it was his 23-yard rocket in the 88th minute that accounted for all the scoring in a triumph at Augsburg University.

The regionally-ranked Carleton College men’s cross country team spent the beginning of mid-term break competing in a pair of meets on Saturday. The top racers on the squad were in Estacada, Ore. for the Lewis & Clark Invitational where the Knights finished in second place behind the No. 1-ranked NAIA program in the country. Another contingent of Carleton runners headed to the St. Bonifacious Invitational where the Knights took second place as well.