Weekend Athletic Events

Hello Brockport Fans!

The Golden Eagles will be busy in Tuttle North this weekend as there are several events going on. I hope to see you all wearing your green and gold and cheering on Brockport.

Today at 4pm the swimming and diving teams are hosting SUNY Oneonta. It is also senior day, so be sure to stop by and give the seniors and extra hand for their dedication over the years.

At 6pm, the women's basketball team will host SUNY Cortland. Senior Whitney Smith passed the 1,000 point career milestone earlier in the week and currently leads the team with 16.8 points per game. Cortland leads the conference standings with an 8-1 record and is on an eight game winning streak.

At 8pm, the men's basketball team will host the Red Dragons. Brockport leads the SUNYAC standings with an 8-1 record and are on a four game winning streak. They lost to Cortland earlier in the season 65-63. The Golden Eagles are forcing average of 22 turnovers per game and are led by Jermaine Johnson who is averaging 13.3 points per contest.

On Saturday, the men's and women's basketball teams will be back in action at 2 and 4pm against SUNY Oswego. The women lost to the Lakers in the final few minutes back on Dec. 4, while the men came out on top 53-49.

On Sunday, the gymnastics team, who is ranked No. 1 in the Nation among division III teams as calculated by computer scoring and posted at www.troester.com, will be hosting the Brockport Invite. The Golden Eagles will compete against MIT, Southern Connecticut, West Chester and Wilson.

And as a heads up Tuesday February 2nd is Pink Zone! The basketball teams will wear pink warm-up tops and other pink apparel for its game against SUNY Fredonia, at 6 pm, in the Tuttle North Gymnasium. Fans also are encouraged to wear pink and all donations will go to the Kay Yow Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Cancer Fund.

Go Brockport!

~Ellsworth

Funday Monday

Welcome back Brockport Students! I bet you are all excited to be back on campus with your friends after a very long intersession break. Good luck with the start of classes.

To get Monday started here are the Athletes of the week!
For the men: Senior Nick Mieney (Byron, NY/Byron-Bergen) earned the honor as he took top honors in the pole vault. Mieney cleared 15’ 5” in the pole vault competition to earn a provisional spot for the NCAA Division III Championships later this year as he led The College at Brockport Men’s and Women’s Track & Field squads to third-place finishes Saturday at the St. Lawrence University Invitational.




For the women: Junior Maria Quagliana (Horseheads, NY/Horseheads) is this week’s female of the week after winning three of her four diving events in two dual meets. Against Monroe Community College Quagliana posted two wins as the Golden Eagles won by a score of 153-139. She won the one-meter with a score of 231.65 and in the three-meter event she posted a 223.55. Her 11-dive score of 407.80 in the one-meter qualified her provisionally for Nationals. Against Gannon University she won the three-meter board with a score of 258.50 and finished second in the one-meter with a score of 244.90, just off the first-place score of 244.95.

Men's basketball had an impressive week as they won all three games to improve to 11-4 on the season and 7-1 in the SUNYAC. The Golden Eagles lead conference by two wins over Cortland and Oneonta (5-3). On Friday night the team played a marathon of a game winning in double overtime 100-96 against Plattsburgh. Josh Zenkel hit a three pointer at the end of the regulation with the clock hitting 00:00 to force the overtime.

The gymnastics squad earned another win on the season to remain unbeaten at 3-0 as they defeated Springfield. Brockport won each individual event and took the top two spots in the all-around.

Indoor Track and Field competed for the first time in over a month and had four individual first place finishes as Male Athlete of the Week, Mieney, took top honors in the pole vault. Junior Ryan Gilmore won the 5K race with a time of 15:40.77 and fellow junior Ray Lund was the top collegiate finisher in the weight throw with a toss of 57’5½”. Junior Brittany Dodd won the 55-meter hurdles race with a winning time of 9.00 seconds to lead the Brockport women’s team.

Senior James Forsyth wrestled back for three victories in the consolation bracket in the 165-pound weight class to finish fourth, leading The College at Brockport Wrestling team to an eighth-place finish at the New York State Championships Sunday at Cornell University in Ithaca.

The hockey team posted a 4-2 come from behind victory over Potsdam Friday night before falling to Nationall-ranked No. 3 SUNY Plattsburgh on Saturday. The Golden Eagles currently rank fourth in the conference standings with a 4-6 record, tied with Cortland and Geneseo.

Despite losing by three points to Potsdam, Brockport had some highlights in the game. Lacey Grove finished with a career-high16 points while Rachel Csakany recorded her fourth consecutive double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds. Sophomore Bobbi Jean Bryden added a career-high 10 points.

Dan Brigano set new pool records in the one-meter and three-meter against MCC in 11-dives.

Well before this turns into a thesis, I better wrap things up.... Mark your calendars for Swimming senior day on Friday Jan. 29 against Oneonta at 4pm and Gymnastic senior day on Sunday Jan. 31 at 12pm.

Go Brockport!

~Ellsworth

Top 10 Golden Eagle Facts

Hello Golden Eagle Fans!

It's been a while since I last checked in. So to get everyone back up to speed I'm going to do a top ten list of Golden Eagle Athletics from the past week.

10.) The men's basketball team set a new Wendy's College Classic Tournament record for most three-pointers attempted in the three game series with 93. The old record was 84 set by RIT in 2006.

9.) The #8 seeded Brockport women's basketball team upset the #1 seed Nazareth College in the Wendy's College Classic, 58-54. It was the largest upset in tournament history.

8.) The men's basketball team drained 15 three-pointers en route to a 83-69 win over SUNY Geneseo.

7.) Freshman Elizabeth Levy finished second on both the balance beam and floor exercise and scored a meet-high 37.225 to win the all-around competition in a 183.775-177.175 victory over Ithaca College.

6.) Gymnast Lauren Gildemeyer won all three events she competed in. She posted a 9.6 on the floor, a 9.250 on the beam and a 9.675 on the vault.

5.) Maria Quagliana won each of her two diving events against MCC and provisionally qualified for Nationals with an 11-dive score of 407.80 in the one-meter.

4.) Sophomore Ian Finnerty was named the Male Athlete and SUNYAC Player of the Week after he scored four goals, including the game-winner for The College at Brockport Hockey team in a 6-3 victory over Lebanon Valley.

3.) Dan Brigano won each of his diving events against MCC, setting new pool records with NCAA provisional qualifying scores.

2.) The men's basketball team gained sole possesion of first place in the SUNYAC standings with a 53-48 victory over Fredonia.

1.) Head Coach Brian Dickinson earned his 100th career victory at Brockport with a 4-0 shutout over Assumption College.

Now that you are caught up, I hope to see you all out supporting the Golden Eagles this weekend. The men's and women's basketball teams will be hosting Plattsburgh on Friday night at 6-8 and take on Potsdam on Saturday at 2 and 4. The Ice Hockey team will host Potsdam on Friday and Plattsburgh on Saturday will both games starting at 7pm.

~Ellsworth

Wendy's College Classic Update

The men's and women's basketball teams are currently competing in the Wendy's College Classic Tournament this week throughout the Rochester area.

On Tuesday night the women pulled off the biggest upset in the 17-year history of the women's tournament, as the Golden Eagles knocked off top-seeded Nazareth College 58-54 at Roberts Wesleyan. Senior Whitney Smith (Webster, NY/Webster Thomas) scored 18 points, including 11 in the second half. The Golden Eagles advance to play Roberts Wesleyan (9-6) at 6:15 pm tonight at the University of Rochester.

Last night the men lost to Roberts Wesleyan College as the Raiders scored 10 of the final 13 points of the game for the 70-63 final. Brockport will play SUNY Geneseo at 1:30 pm Friday at the University of Rochester in the consolation bracket of the tournament. Sophomore Gerald Williams (Rochester, NY/Charlotte) led Brockport with 14 points and freshman Derek Klein (Valley Stream, NY/Long Island Lutheran) added 11 for the Golden Eagles.

Hope to see everyone out at the U of R. Let's go Brockport!

-Ellz

2010 Season Underway

Happy New Year Golden Eagle Fans!

I hope everyone had a nice holiday season and didn't get buried under all the snow. I was going to travel south but since they were experiencing cold weather as well I stuck around to keep tabs on our student-atheltes.

Here is a quick recap to catch everyone up to date on what our teams have been up to the past week.

The men's basketball team posted three SUNYAC wins against Geneseo, Oneonta and New Paltz and are now 7-2 on the season and in second place in the conference standings with a 4-1 record. Brockport will be competing in the Wendy's College Classic Tournament this week as the #5 seed and take on #4 seeded Roberts Wesleyan on Wednesday night at 8:15.



Women's basketball earned its second SUNYAC win of the season with a 52-48 victory over Geneseo last Tuesday night before losing to Oneonta and New Paltz over the weekend. The women will also be participating in the Wendy's College Classic and will face Nazareth on Tuesday at 6:15 at Roberst Wesleyan.

Wrestling traveled to the Virginia Duals over the weekend and took third place. Freshman Tyler Marlow was named the most outstanding wrestler of the American College Division. He won three matches including two by pin in 32 and 30 seconds.

Gymnastics opened its season with a victory over Cortland on Saturday as the Golden Eagles won all four events. Senior Christina Baggetta won the uneven bars event, junior Kaitlin Dewey won the vaulting competition, sophomore Colleen Chahbazi won the balance beam and freshman Elizabeth Levy won the floor exercise.


Men's Ice Hockey competed once over the break and lost 4-2 to Hobart. Justin Noble and Jason Gorrie each scored third-period power play goals to close a 3-0 lead but Brockport surrendered a late empty-net goal.

Senior Dan Brigano and junior Maria Quagliana each placed first in both the one meter and three meter diving events for The College at Brockport Swimming and Diving squads last week but RIT swept the first place finishes in each of the swimming events to post a pair of victories.

And now for your athletes of the week:
For the men:
Freshman Tyler Marlow (Palmyra, NY/Palmyra-Macedon) was named the most outstanding wrestler of the American College Division of the 30th annual Virginia Duals tournament. Marlow won three matches to lead The College at Brockport Wrestling team to a third place finish.

Brockport cruised to a 28-11 victory over Millersville University in the first round as Marlow pinned his opponent in the 125 weight class in 32 seconds. Brockport lost to Pitt-Johnston in the next round but rebounded to defeat Anderson College, 24-9, and Millersville University, 27-17, to claim the third place finish.

Against Anderson Marlow opened the match with a 5-4 decision and in the third place match against Millersville Marlow downed his opponent in 30 seconds.

For the women:
Freshman Elizabeth Levy helped guide the Golden Eagles to a 176.325-166 win over SUNY Cortland in the first gymnastics meet of the year. Brockport won all four events in the season opening victory as Levy won the floor exercise scoring a 9.450 in her collegiate debut.





That's all for now. Go Golden Eagles!

-Ellsworth

2009 Recap

It's officially the last week of Golden Eagles sports in 2009. Last night I was sitting in my nest and thinking of how awesome this year really was at Brockport...

We kicked it off late in February as our both out men's and women's basketball teams were SUNYAC Champions. It was the first time EVER that both teams made it to the Division III NCAA Tournament in the same season!

Our hockey team had a great end to the season in 2009 winning 14 games as well by hosting their first ever SUNYAC home tournament game. Oh yea, they won it too and moved on the SUNYAC semi-final.
The snow melted which meant our spring teams were ready to compete.

Our softball team made school history by sending six players to the All-SUNYAC team. The team was eliminated in the ECAC tournament. Senior Rachel Maxon earned an Academic All-American honor being named to ESPN's Academic All-American second team! Another reason why the classroom is so important!

For baseball, our Golden Eagles made it to the championship round of the SUNYAC tournament where they lost to rival SUNY Cortland. Brockport advanced to the ECAC tournament championship where they lost to St. John Fisher. The Golden Eagles still placed three players on the All-SUNYAC first team.

It was another successful year for our track and field teams. Our women's team finished with a SUNYAC title! Brockport also sent three players to the NCAA Division III Championships. Senior Dom Gonzalez earned his second All-american honor and a sixth place finish in the hammer throw at the championships.

School was then out for the summer and I got to head on down to the Carribean (what? It's my one time to actually get away. I am one verrrrrry busy bird!)

Late August arrived and cars started to flock the campus as students returned for the 2009-2010 school year. If you were an athlete you were back on campus a couple weeks before. Same went for me! I had mascot training as well. Double sessions were rough as I had to out-cheer the Cardinal from St. John Fisher and the Bomber from University of Rochester.

Anyways, back to the sports.

The fall season brought a lot of success to our soccer teams. Our men's team went on to beat nationally ranked SUNY Plattsburgh in the SUNYAC Championship game for the first time since 1978 and headed to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2004.

Congrats to our Women's Soccer team as well. They won the ECAC Upstate Tournament that was held here on campus. This week Nicole Gibaud and Jess VanAllen were named to the third team on the All-region team. Congrats girls!

And lastly, our football team finished up the year at 4-6. The season was highlighted by many school records were broken. QB Jake Graci broke many season records with pass attempts, passing yards, touchdown passes, and tied his own record twice of five touchdowns in a game.


Ok, now back to fast forwarding to right now. Last night our women's basketball team lost a tough one to Ithaca 57-49. Whitney Smith led the way for the Golden Eagles with 24 points. Brockport is now 1-5.

And the last game of the semester is this Friday night when our hockey team hosts Western New England. It's the last game of the year, so trust me I am going all out. Puck drops at 7:00 and we will have tons of contests and prizes. Come support your Golden Eagles!

That's all for now, and thanks for making 2009 special for Brockport Athletics.

-Ellz

It's the Holiday Season!

Hey all,

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving with family and friends. The Ellz household was rocking as usual on the holidays. We had turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and much more.

Well as all of us were enjoying the long weekend and kicking our feet back, some of our teams were out competing!

Before we headed to break, our men's basketball team hit the road (literally just down Interstate 490) to take on St. John Fisher. Although senior Brandon Williams had a career high 13 points, Brockport lost to the Cardinals 78-61.

Most of our hockey team couldn't make it home for the holidays because they had to hit the road for the Skidmore Invitational. On Friday night, Todd Sheridan made 27 saves as the Golden Eagles shutout Western New England 5-0. The Golden Eagles were champions of the tournament on Saturday after they topped Nichols College 6-3. Sean O'Malley was named the tournament's MVP while Tom Galiani and Sheridan made the All-Tournament team.

And now your athletes of the week:

For the men:

Sean O'Malley

Senior Sean O’Malley (Lakewood, OH) led The College at Brockport Ice Hockey team to a pair of wins and the 2009 Championship of the Skidmore Invitational to earn male athlete of the week honors.

The senior forward scored the second goal in the 5-0 win over the University of New England and opened the scoring on a power play in the 6-3 win over Nichols College. On the weekend, O’Malley sparked a power play unit that accounted for five goals to earn the Most Valuable Player of the tournament.



For the women:

Lauren Mesi

Senior Lauren Mesi (East Aurora, NY/Clarence) finished 75th at the NCAA Division III Championship meet at Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio to earn female athlete of the week honors.

Mesi was the lone representative for The College at Brockport cross country team and completed the six-kilometer course in 23:22.

The All-Region runner qualified for nationals with a 15th-place finish at the Atlantic Regional meet last weekend. Mesi finished eighth among Atlantic Region runners at nationals.


Open up your advent calenders everyone! December and the snow is finally here and don't worry I won't be migrating at all this winter!!! Go Golden Eagles!!!

-Ellsworth