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In a repeat of last year, Messiah College is once again making its mark as three teams advance in conference play! The field hockey is searching for its first national title while men’s and women’s soccer hope to defend their 2008 championships.

Messiah hosted a weekend of outstanding competition.

Field hockey: defeated Lebanon Valley College, 3-2
Men’s soccer: defeated The College at Brockport, 3-1
Women’s soccer: defeated Endicott, 1-0

Read more about these games and the teams.

The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics ranks college programs by assigning point values based on the successes of each team’s season. This year Messiah earned a school record of 696.75 points and finished 14th among Division III colleges.

CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA will air at 2 p.m. on July 4 and include footage from the softball team’s recent national championship. The one-hour special will also include video highlights from baseball, golf, rowing, tennis, and track and field.

Softball coach Amy Weaver and her team of assistants earned the National Fastpitch Coaches Association 2009 Division III Coaching Staff of the Year award after coaching the Falcons to a national championship and 43-4 season record.

The U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association has ranked the Messiah College women ninth in the nation among DIII schools. The recognition is based on the teams’ finishes in the cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field seasons.

Junior Kristen Bates posted an impressive second place finish in the 100-meter hurdles while teammate Patrick Roach, senior, finished second in the 800-meter run.

Read more about Messiah’s performance at the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships.

The Falcons clinched their first national championship with a 2-0 victory over Coe College.

For the first time in the program’s history, the Messiah College softball team (42-4) will play for the NCAA Division III national championship today.

Read more about the Falcons’ season.

Kai Kasiguran, an outstanding midfielder who helped lead the Falcons to three national championships between 2004 and 2006, will return to central Pennsylvania to play for the Harrisburg City Islanders professional soccer team.

In 2008, Kasiguran was drafted in the first round of the supplemental draft to play for the Major League soccer team, Chicago Fire.

Brad McCarty, Messiah’s top assistant for the past eight years, is appointed the new men’s soccer coach, becoming the seventh coach in the program’s 42-year history.