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.