Athletics
The North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) office announced its individual award winners, naming Morrisville State College freshman attack, Louis Geswaldo (Lafayette, N.Y. / Lafayette HS) the 2013 Men’s Lacrosse Rookie of the Year.
Geswaldo led Morrisville State in scoring this season, posting 25 goals and assisting another 13 for 38 team points. Three of his tallies came on man-up opportunities, and he added 28 ground balls and three caused turnovers to his tallies in 13 games.
The Morrisville State College athletic department has named freshman Tiffany Burks (Macedon, N.Y.) and junior Brandon Shannon (Stanhope, N.J.) the Mustang Athletes of the Week for the Week ending April 29.
Burks, designated player and pitcher for the softball team, was key to the Mustangs play throughout the week, going 8-for-16 from the plate (.500), scoring six runs, four RBI’s, while throwing three complete games on the mound. Of her six hits, one was a double, two were triples and two were homeruns.
The #4 seed Morrisville State College men’s lacrosse team concluded the 2013 season Wednesday afternoon, falling 11-5 to top seed Keuka College in the semi-final round of the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Championship Tournament, held in Keuka.
Morrisville State concludes the season with a 4-9 overall record, and finish fourth in the conference with a 4-3 record.
The North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) office announced its post-season tournament brackets Monday, giving Morrisville State College men’s and women’s lacrosse bids to the championship tournament for the fourth straight season.
The men’s team claimed the fourth spot in the tourney and will face-off against top seed Keuka College on Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the semi-final round in Keuka.
Hamilton College’s Kelly Leonard '15 tossed a one-hit shutout and the Continentals cruised to a 12-0 non-conference win against Morrisville State College at Hamilton’s Ferguson Fields on April 30.
The game was stopped after the top of the fifth inning due to the eight-run mercy rule. Hamilton wraps up its season with a non-conference doubleheader at home against St. Lawrence University on Wednesday, May 1.
The Morrisville State College women’s lacrosse team saw an eight game win streak snapped Sunday afternoon, as visiting Keuka College collected the 18-11 North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) victory, claiming the regular season conference title.
The Mustangs drop to 9-6 overall and 8-1 in conference action, and will await NEAC tournament seeding and additional information as it becomes announced at the beginning of the week.
The Morrisville State College women’s lacrosse team remained undefeated in North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) action Saturday afternoon, collecting a 16-3 conference decision over visiting Wells College on Drake Field in Morrisville.
The SUNY Cobleskill women’s softball team made a strong move toward the North Eastern Athlete Conference (NEAC) Championship Tournament on Thursday afternoon as the Fighting Tigers swept visiting Morrisville State College by scores of 5-3 and 4-2 in league action. With the victories Cobleskill evens their overall record at 15-15 overall including a 9-7 mark in NEAC while the Mustangs fall to 5-17 overall with a 5-11 mark in conference action.
The Morrisville State College women’s lacrosse team posted their seventh straight victory Thursday afternoon, notching a 16-8 defeat of conference foe Medaille College on the road in Buffalo.
The win boosts the Mustangs to an overall 8-5 record, a 7-0 North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) mark. The victory puts Morrisville State at the top of the conference alongside rival Keuka College (7-0 NEAC).
The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) has announced its weekly award winners, selecting Morrisville State College’s Shelby Wood (Duanesburg, N.Y.) the Mid-Atlantic Women’s Lacrosse Co-Offensive Player of the Week for the week ending April 21.
Wood, sophomore midfielder, led Morrisville State to a 3-0 week behind a 19 goal, seven assist performance, helping keep the Mustangs undefeated in North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) play. She added a total 15 ground balls, 13 draw controls and eight caused turnovers to her tallies on the week.