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HUDSON VALLEY SPORTS REPORT
By Andres Bodon


Andres Bodon

Soccer- The Orange County Women’s Soccer League started its indoor winter season with a strong showing from the Grey team with victories also coming from the Green and Light Blue teams. For the Grey team, Mandy Blanton was an offense machine scoring all three of their goals. In the second game, defense was the key to victory for the Green team as they held off a strong second-half showing against the Red team and kept their goalie protected for a 7-5 victory. The Light Blue team gave a dominant performance against the Orange team as their offense managed to score 8 goals. The final score for this game was 8-3.

Hockey- With 11 seconds left in the final period, the captain of the Black Knights, Eric Sefchik, scored the tying goal to send the hockey game against Air Force into overtime. In a risky move with less than 4 minutes left in regulation, Army pulled its goaltender in order to have an extra skater on the ice which allowed them the opportunity to extend the game and give them the tie. Jay Clark, honored for being Goalie of the Week last week, managed 37 saves and held off the Falcons for the first 15 minutes of play. In overtime, the Falcons managed to score a goal, but Army came right back and managed to hold off the Air Force team and hold onto the tie game. This pushes the Black Knights overall record to 9-12-5 and they now prepare to take on Holy Cross on Friday and Saturday.

Basketball- The Army Women’s Basketball team suffered a third loss this season after falling to Bucknell at home on Saturday. The Bisons out-shot the Black Knights by 41% to 28% and out scored them 23-5 in the victory. The final score was 59-41.

The Men’s Basketball team snapped its 11 game winning streak losing to the Bucknell Bisons. The Black Knights suffered a season low shooting percentage of 31.1 percent in the 55-48 loss.

Both teams will now take some time off before heading to the Patriot League games next Saturday. The men’s game will be televised and the women’s game will be available on the radio. Check your local listings.

Tennis- The Black Knights scored only a single point in a losing effort against Dartmouth on Saturday. The lone point was scored by Brooklyn, N.Y. native and freshman Gary Kushnirovich. Army’s record now stands at 1-2 as they also loss to Binghamton by a score of 5-2.

Wrestling- The Black Knights defeated Brown in their meet on Saturday taking the first four bouts and winning the EIWA match by a score of 27-6. Casey Thome, a junior from Troy, Ohio, won his match with a pin with his teammates Travis Coffey, Joey Walters, Rudy Chelednik, Ryan Mergen, Richard Starks, Christian Botero and Lance Penhale all piled up decisions to help gain Army the victory.

Army then headed to Massachusetts to take on Harvard. They were again victorious defeating Harvard by a score of 35-11. The Black Knights wrestling team now heads to Annapolis, MD., to battle Navy in the Academy Championships on February 6.

Swimming/Diving- The Army swimming and diving team managed to score 3 of 4 decisions in the Patriot League tri-meet in both the men’s and women’s division with the men’s team dominating the hosting Raiders and Lafayette and the women defeating Lafayette but falling to Colgate.

SUNY New Paltz lost to the Stevens Institute of Technology Ducks on Saturday by a score of 126-79.

 

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