Men’s Basketball
(10-15, 9-12 NE-10) Drops One and Picks Up Crucial Win to Stay in Play-off Hunt
The Saint Michael’s College men’s
basketball team went 1-1 last week in Northeast-10 Conference action, with the
win helping it stay in the postseason hunt. The Purple Knights fell at
Merrimack College on Tuesday, 56-48, and then defeated Saint Anselm College, 66-65,
at home on Saturday.
Mike
Holton Jr. '14 (Portland, Ore./The Winchendon School) led the Purple
Knights with 13 points, four assists and four rebounds at Merrimack., while Corey Crawford '15 (Dover, Del./The Phelps
School) notched 11 points. Tyler
Schilling '12 (Excelsior, Minn./Minnetonka) provided 10 points and four
boards, while James Cambronne '15 (De
Bary, Fla./The Winchendon School) contributed nine points and eight
rebounds.
Against Saint Anselm, Crawford totaled
16 points, six rebounds and three assists, while Holton had 11 points,
including the go-ahead three-pointer with 2:34 remaining. Travis Warech '13 (Pine Brook, N.J./Montville) added 10 points and
is two points shy of becoming the 13th Purple Knight junior to notch 1,000
career points. Schilling scored nine points and added nine rebounds, becoming
the first Saint Michael's player in 37 years to reach the 870-board plateau.
With 878, he is two shy of matching Rich Tarrant '65 for fifth in
program history. Derek Knutty '13 (Rocklin, Calif./Whitney) added seven
points, and Cambronne blocked
three shots, bringing his total to 42 this season, the most by a Purple Knight
first-year since Michel Bonebo '90 had 71 in 1986-87.
Women’s
Basketball (11-14, 8-13 NE-10) Remains in Play-off Contention with Win Versus
Saint Anselm
The Saint Michael’s College women’s
basketball team went 1-1 last week in Northeast-10 Conference play, including a
victory over Saint Anselm College to remain in the play-off picture. The Purple
Knights fell at Merrimack College, 69-49, on Tuesday before hosting the Hawks
on Saturday and picking up a 52-41 victory.
Nicole
Adach '13 (Schenectady, N.Y./Mohonasen) totaled 15 points and eight rebounds
against Merrimack, while Alexa Long '14
(Waterford, Conn./Waterford) had 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting to go along
with eight boards. Megan Olsen '13
(Glenmont, N.Y./Bethlehem Central) added four assists and three steals, and
Coreen Hennessy '12 (Chatham, N.H./Fryeburg
Academy) notched seven points and six rebounds, including five on the
offensive glass.
Against Saint Anselm, the Purple Knights
held its school-record 16th opponent to 60 points or fewer. Adach and Olsen
each netted 11 points, while Caitlin
Quinn '12 (Oakdale, Conn./Montville) had nine points. Hennessy notched
seven points, while Samantha Steinmetz '12 (Washington, Conn./Shepaug
Valley) had eight rebounds in her second career start. In four minutes off
the bench, Morgan Jenkins '15 (Revere, Mass./Revere) notched five boards
and four points.
Men’s Ice Hockey
(6-17-2, 3-14-1 ECAC East, 2-2-1 NE-10) Drops Three Contests, Finishes Regular Season
The Saint Michael’s College men’s ice
hockey team went 0-3 last week, slipping twice in Eastern College Athletic
Conference (ECAC) East home contests and once in a Northeast-10 Conference
match-up. The Purple Knights fell to Stonehill College, 7-3, at home on Tuesday
and then hosted a pair of ECAC East games during the weekend, dropping a 4-1
decision to Babson College on Friday and then falling 5-1 to the University of
Massachusetts at Boston on Saturday.
Against Stonehill, Tim McAuliffe '13 (North Reading, Mass./Vermont Academy) led the
Purple Knights with two goals and an assist, while Brady Earle '12 (Columbia, Md./The Gunnery) tallied a marker in his
100th career game. Mike Dizgun '13 (Kirkland, Quebec/OCN Blizzard) stopped
15 shots, while classmate Eric McGuirk
'13 (Rehoboth, Mass./Bridgewater Bandits) made seven saves in relief. Saint
Michael's clinched the fourth seed in the upcoming four-team NE-10 Tournament,
which begins with semifinals on Saturday. The Purple Knights will head to an
opponent to be determined at a time that has yet to be determined.
During the weekend, Michael Jangro '13 (Reading, Mass./Valley Jr. Warriors) tallied for
the hosts against Babson, while Josh
Geary '13 (Wellesley, Mass./Phillips Andover Academy) netted the lone goal
for the Purple Knights against UMass Boston. McGuirk stopped a combined 55
shots in both games, with 26 coming against the Beavers and 29 versus the
Beacons.
Women’s Ice
Hockey (3-20-1, 2-15-1 ECAC East) Falls Twice in ECAC East Action
The Saint Michel’s College women’s ice
hockey team went 0-2 last week in Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC)
East home contests to end its regular season. The Purple Knights dropped a 4-0
decision on Friday to second-place College of the Holy Cross and then fell 6-1
to Salve Regina University on Saturday.
Erin
Stevens '13 (Watertown, Conn./Connecticut Polar Bears) finished with
32 saves against Holy Cross, including 14 in the third period, when the hosts
trailed just 2-0 until the final 11 minutes. Against Salve Regina, Ellia Héroux '15 (Thunder Bay
Ontario/Thunder Bay Queens) tallied the lone goal for the Purple Knights,
while Stevens finished with 34 stops. Midway through the second period, Stevens
surpassed the 800-save mark on the season, eventually extending her own school
record to 807. Meaghan Leong '14
(Cohasset, Mass./Notre Dame Academy) finished with five saves.
Skiing Takes
10th at Williams Carnival, Sandell Posts Pair of Top-10 Finishes
The Saint Michael's College skiing teams
finished the two-day Williams College Carnival on Saturday by taking 10th place
out of 16 teams, as Fredrik Sandell '15
(Oslo, Norway/Donski Alpine) highlighted the weekend with a pair of top-10
Alpine finishes. Friday's Nordic races were canceled.
Sandell took ninth among 73 varsity
collegiate skiers in the men's slalom on Friday, due in part to the second-best
second-run time in the competition (45.03), which was just 0.08 seconds behind
the leader. On Saturday, Sandell took second out of 73 in the giant slalom, finishing
0.26 seconds short of the winner. Carl-Oscar
Bredengen '14 (Reistad, Norway/Donski Alpine) scored both days, finishing
27th in the slalom and 26th in the giant slalom.
Kerstin Middleton '14 (Greenland,
N.H./Proctor Academy) paced the Purple Knights in the women's slalom on
Friday, while Gabbi Hall '13 (San Anselmo, Calif./Forest Charter School) posted
a 17th-place finish among 64 competitors in the women's giant slalom on
Saturday, and classmate Christina Billotti '13 (Massapequa, N.Y./Green
Mountain Valley School) finished 19th behind the fifth-best opening run. Ashley
Langlands '12 (Shelburne, N.H./Gorham) scored both days.
Junior Colin
Delaney '13 (Lake Placid, N.Y./National Sports Academy) paced the Nordic
men's team in the 10k classic on Saturday, when finishes accounted for double
points due to Friday's cancelation. Delaney and Robert Sitzer '12 (Lenox,
Mass./Lenox Memorial) were less than a minute outside of the top 30 during
the 73-racer event. Chloe Boutelle '15 (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Saratoga
Springs) topped Saint Michel's for the women in the 10k classic, while Gabrielle
Naranja '14 (Fort Kent, Maine/Fort Kent Community) took second.
Men's (2-8) and
Women's (5-4) Swimming & Diving Teams Finish Sixth at NEISDA Championship
The Saint Michael's College men's and
women's swimming & diving teams both finished sixth when the New England
Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association (NEISDA) Championship came to
an end on Sunday, as the teams combined to break 18 of the programs' 46
swimming records. The women competed among 22 institutions, and the men were in
a 13-school field, with their high standings coming despite not sending
competitors to the previous weekend's diving portion of the meet.
Eileen Mullowney '12 (Burlington,
Vt./Burlington) was named Women's Swimmer of the Meet after winning
the 50- (24.14), 100- (52.70) and 200-yard (1:53.60) freestyle events, reaching
provisional qualification for the NCAA Championship in each while breaking the school
records in all three. She played a role in seven school records over the
weekend while falling 0.57 seconds short of the 19-year-old meet mark in the
200. Mullowney finished with five career victories at NEISDA meets, having also
won twice as a freshman.
Mullowney helped
four relays set school records, joining sister Julie Mullowney '14
(Burlington, Vt./Burlington) and Kaytlyn Kelley '12 (Jefferson,
Mass./Wachusett Regional) for each mark. The trio joined Sammy Sweeney
'12 (Waterbury, Vt./Harwood Union/Franklin & Marshall) for third-place
showings in the 200- (1:51.37) and 400-yard (4:05.49) medleys. The trio swam
legs with Steph Nadow '15 (Charlton, Mass./Saint Peter-Marian) on the
third-place 200 free relay (1:40.72) and Corine McAllister '13 (South
Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury) for the fifth-place 400 free relay
(3:42.34).
Julie
Mullowney set school records in the 50- (31.53), 100- (1:08.73) and 200-yard
(2:32.80) breaststroke events, including breaking Shauna McMahon's '97 18-year-old
school mark in the 100. She was third in the 50 and fourth in the 100. Kelley
placed second in the 50-yard backstroke (27.83), breaking Cassie Littlefield's
'04 11-year-old record and coming within 0.02 seconds of the winning
swimmer. Nadow was fifth. Kelley also placed fifth in the 100 back, coming
within 0.21 seconds of another 11-year-old Littlefield mark. Sweeney broke the
200-yard butterfly (2:16.14) record during trials before taking eighth in the
finals. In all, Julie Mullowney had a role in seven school records, Kelley had
a hand in five and Sweeney put her name on three.
Dan Healy '12 (South Burlington,
Vt./South Burlington) had a hand
in four school records, while Nathan
Paluso '15 (Windham, Maine/Windham) aided three. Healy set a mark in the
100 back (54.27) - taking fourth - and the 200 back record in trials (1:59.73)
before finishing the finals in sixth. Healy also notched a record showing of
48.90 in a 100 free time trial. He and Paluso joined Michael Sprague '12
(Sharon, Mass./Sharon) and Aidan Meehan '15 (Levittown, N.Y./Island
Trees) to capture fifth place in the 800 free relay in 7:26.99.
Paluso
was seventh in the 200-yard individual medley (2:02.93) and set a mark in the 200
breast (2:18.16) during trials before taking eighth in the finals. Sprague was
seventh in the 1,000 free, Kyle Esposito
'13 (Endicott, N.Y./Union-Endicott) was eighth in both the 1,000 and 1,650
free races, and Andrew Marshall '13
(Kittery, Maine/Saint Thomas Aquinas/Saint Joseph's [ME]) was ninth in the
1,650. All three approached school records. Meehan took eighth in the 200 free,
while he, Healy, Paluso and Nicholas
Lamana '14 (Purcellville, Va./Loudoun Valley) combined for a seventh-place
finish in the 400 medley relay.
Eileen Mullowney will now await word on
whether she becomes the first swimming & diving student-athlete in Saint
Michael's history to qualify for the NCAA Championship, as the entry lists will
be revealed on Feb. 29. Based on national results entering the weekend, her
performances at NEISDAs would have had her tied for 43rd in Division II in the
50 free and alone in 49th and 34th in the 100 and 200, respectively. At the
2011 NCAA Championship, 56 swimmers qualified for the 50 free, 58 for the 100
free, and 50 for the 200 free.
Women's Tennis (6-1, 6-0 NE-10) Returns from
Four-Month Layoff with Win at AIC
The
Saint Michael's College women's tennis team returned to action for the first
time since Oct. 16 on Saturday, picking up a 9-0 victory at American
International College during Northeast-10 Conference play. The Purple Knights
are alone in first place in the NE-10.
The visitors won all six of their singles matches by
6-0, 6-0 counts. Emily Magee '13 (Queensbury, N.Y./Queensbury), Caroline
Martin '15 (Scituate, Mass./Scituate), Alex Dalton '13 (South Easton,
Mass./Oliver Ames), Hannah Benoit '15 (Mystic, Conn./Saint Bernard
School), Emily
Ogilvy '12 (Bedford, N.H./Trinity) and Caroline Toutoungi '15 (Weston,
Conn./Weston) won in the first through sixth positions, respectively. Each of the three doubles tandems posted 8-0 triumphs, with
the duos of Magee/Dalton, Ogilvy/Toutoungi and Kayla Dowd '15 (Longmeadow, Mass./Longmeadow) and Michelle Moreau '15 (Stratham, N.H./Exeter)
all victorious.
Upcoming
Schedule:
Tuesday, Feb. 21
Women's
Basketball vs. Southern New Hampshire, 5:30 p.m.*
Men's
Basketball vs. Southern New Hampshire, 7:30 p.m.*
Friday, Feb. 24
Skiing @ EISA Championship, 9 a.m.
Men's Basketball - NE10 Tournament First Round @
TBA, TBA
Women's Basketball - NE-10 Tournament First Round @
TBA, TBA
Saturday, Feb. 25
Skiing @ EISA Championship, 9 a.m.
Women's
Tennis vs. Merrimack, 11 a.m.*
Men's
Tennis vs. Merrimack, 3 p.m.*
Men's Ice Hockey - NE-10 Tournament Semifinals @
TBA, TBA
Women's Ice Hockey - ECAC Open Tournament @ Saint
Anselm, TBA
Sunday, Feb. 26
Men's Basketball - NE-10 Tournament Quarterfinals @
TBA, TBA
Women's Basketball - NE-10 Tournament Quarterfinals
@ TBA, TBA
Women's Ice Hockey - ECAC Open Tournament @ Saint
Anselm, TBA
* Northeast-10 Conference Game
