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MORE INFORMATION
2006-07 – Week 15 Contact:
Mark Fleming (610) 861-1472, (610) 390-7545 or (610) 758-8721
GREYHOUND TRACKS
Team Records as of December 10,
2006
Overall Commonwealth MASCAC/MAC Meets & Tournaments
Men’s Basketball 4-5 0-2 2-4
Women’s Basketball 5-4 1-1 3-2
Men’s Track & Field 0-0 0-0
Women’s Track & Field 0-0 0-0
GREYHOUND STUDENT-ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Female – Jenny Hackleman (Sr., Arroyo Grande,
CA/Rutgers
Prep {NJ} HS), basketball
Dana Haslett (Fr., Sellersville,
PA/Pennridge HS), track &
field
Male – Ozzie Brown (Jr., Plymouth Meeting, PA/Plymouth Whitemarsh HS), track & field
Mark Franzyshen (Jr., Somerset, NJ/Immaculata
HS), basketball
UPCOMING HOME EVENTS:
Friday, January 5th – Women’s
Basketball hosts 6th Annual Starters Moravian Winter Classic –
Lincoln (PA) University
vs. William
Smith College,
6:00 p.m. & Moravian vs. William Paterson (NJ) University, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 6th – Women’s
Basketball hosts 6th Annual Starters Moravian Winter Classic – Consolation
game,
1:00
p.m. & Championship game, 3:00 p.m.; Men’s Basketball hosts 29th
Annual Greyhound Starters Classic –
Montclair State
University of New
Jersey vs. Salisbury
(MD) University, 6:00 p.m. & Moravian vs. Drew
University, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 7th – Men’s
Basketball hosts 29th Annual Greyhound Starters Classic –
Consolation game, 1:00 p.m. &
Championship game, 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 19th
– Men’s Basketball vs. *Lebanon
Valley College,
6:00 p.m.; Women’s Basketball vs.
\*Lebanon Valley
College, 8:00 p.m.
*Conference opponent
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DAILY UPDATES OF MORAVIAN COLLEGE ATHLETICS,
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Greyhound Weekly Update, December 11, 2006 (-2222-)
Women’s Basketball – 5-4 (Commonwealth
Conference 1-1, MASCAC 3-2)
Last Week – Defeated #Drew University,
Won 87-85 (overtime); Lost to #The University of Scranton, 64-57; Lost to Ursinus
College, 72-60. #MASCAC game
This Week – Off. Next game scheduled for Wednesday, January 3rd
at Wilkes University, 7:00 p.m.
The Greyhounds remained undefeated at home, defeating Drew University,
87-85 in overtime, in a non-conference contest at Johnston Hall. Moravian is
now 4-0 overall in 2006-07 at home and 9-0 at home all-time against Drew. The
Rangers took an early four-point advantage, 8-4 with just 2:18 gone off the
clock; however, the Greyhounds responded with a 12-2 run to take a 16-10 lead
with 14:27 remaining in the first half. The six-point edge was Moravian's
largest of the first half. Drew answered with a 9-0 run, taking a 19-16 lead
with 12:38 left in the first 20 minutes and the teams would go back-and-forth
for the remainder of the first half with the Greyhounds pushing the lead to
five points twice and heading to the locker room with a 38-37 lead. The
Greyhounds pushed the lead to three points in the first minute of the second
half before Drew had a 9-2 run to take a 46-42 lead with 16:23 remaining in
regulation. Moravian then turned in a 13-4 run to take a 55-50 lead with 11:12
left in the second half. The Greyhounds' lead eventually hit eight on three
occasions, the final time at 75-67 with 2:07 left in regulation; however, Moravian
scored just one point the rest of the way and missed three of four free throws
in the final 22 seconds as the Rangers tied the contest with seven seconds
left. The Greyhounds scored the first points of the five-minute overtime on a
put back by freshman guard Kate Harrison
(Cold Spring Harbor, NY/Cold Spring
Harbor HS) and
Moravian led the entire overtime period. Moravian had four players in double
figures led by senior forward Kelly
Applegate (Easton, PA/Wilson HS)with a game
high 25 points. Applegate also had a
career high assists while grabbing seven rebounds to move into tenth all-time
at Moravian with 554 career rebounds. Senior forward Jenny Hackleman (Arroyo Grande, CA/Rutgers Prep {NJ} HS)
netted 14 points for the Greyhounds in her first start of the season, and
she added two assists and two steals. Harrison
and junior guard La'Toya Blake (Allentown, PA/Dieruff
HS) each scored 11 points for Moravian; the first time in Blake's career she hit double figures. Harrison added
four rebounds and three assists while Blake
had three boards and two steals. Freshman guard Jessica Foran (Annandale, NJ/Rutgers Prep HS)
had eight points, five rebounds and two assists in the win while freshmen
forward Kirsty Stearns East Norwich, NY/Oyster Bay HS)and
Alyssa Bisci (Easton, PA/Easton HS) and
guard Amanda Brown (Schuylkill Haven,
PA/Schuylkill Haven HS) all scored six points. Stearns added a team high eight rebounds for Moravian while Bisci had four assists and four boards.
Moravian dropped a 64-57 non-conference decision at
fourth-ranked The University of Scranton. Moravian scored the first two points
of the game before the Royals ran off eight straight points for an 8-2 at the
15:35 mark. Scranton
would continue to stretch its lead in the first half to as many as 21 points
with a 30-9 lead with 4:03 to play before the intermission. The Greyhounds
closed the half with a 14-2 run to head to the locker room, trailing, 32-23. Moravian continued its run when the second half
started, scoring ten of the first 15 points to pull within four points at 37-33
with 16:04 left in the game. Scranton
eventually pushed the lead back into double digits for most of the remaining
time. The Greyhounds had two players in double figures led by a career high 15
points by Stearns, who also had
seven rebounds in the contest. Hackleman
had her first double-double of the season with a career high 17 rebounds to
go with ten points, four steals and three blocked shots. Hackleman became the sixth player in school history to reach 600
career rebounds, and she has a total of 609 in her career. Harrison contributed nine points and five
rebounds for Moravian while Brown netted
six points. Foran had five points and four rebounds in
the game while sophomore forward Cody Fedorishen (Nazareth, PA/Allentown
Central Catholic HS) had four points. Bisci
and senior guard Katie Rizman (Wall,
NJ/St. Rose HS) each had three points with Rizman added three steals for the Greyhounds. Applegate, the team’s leading scorer, was held scoreless for the
first time since November 20, 2004, and Applegate
had just four rebounds in the game.
The Greyhounds suffered their second straight loss,
falling to Ursinus College, 72-60, in non-conference
action as the Greyhounds now have 24 days off before their next game on January
3rd. The Greyhounds had won nine
straight games over the Bears and had not lost to Ursinus in Johnston Hall
since the first game the two schools played in Bethlehem on January 16, 1981. Moravian had
won 17 straight home games against Ursinus since that first loss, and the
Greyhounds now own a 29-8 all-time lead in the series. Ursinus jumped out to a
10-0 lead in the first three minutes before Moravian got on the scoreboard with
a lay-up by Applegate at the 16:24
mark. The closest the Greyhounds would get the rest of the way was six points,
55-49, after a three-point play by Hackleman.
The Greyhounds had four players in double figures led by Foran, who tied her career high
with 17 points. Foran
also had three rebounds, two assists and two steals. Hackleman had her second straight double-double with 15 points and
12 rebounds while Applegate and Stearns each netted 11 points. Applegate contributed nine rebounds and
four assists while Stearns had five
rebounds, three assists and two steals. Fedorishen added four points and two rebounds for the
Greyhounds while Bisci had two
points and two rebounds. Blake had
three rebounds and three assists.
Greyhound
Weekly Update, December 11, 2006 (-3333-)
Men’s Basketball – 4-5
(Commonwealth Conference 0-2, MASCAC 2-4)
Last Week – Defeated #FDU-Florham, 85-67; Defeated
#Delaware Valley College, 66-62; Lost to #The University of Scranton, 72-59. #MASCAC game
This Week – Mon., Dec. 11th
vs. Kean University
of New Jersey,
7:00 p.m. #MASCAC game
Moravian snapped a two-game losing streak, defeating
FDU-Florham, 85-67, in non-conference action in Johnston Hall. With the game
tied at 3-3, the Greyhounds put together a 15-0 run to take an 18-3 lead with
11:25 remaining in the first half. The Devils, who lost their second straight
game after opening the season with a five-game winning streak, responded with a
12-2 run to cut Moravian's lead to 20-15 with 8:44 until the intermission;
however, the Greyhounds quickly scored seven points to put the lead back in
double digits for the rest of the game with a 27-15 lead with 7:01 left in the
first half. Moravian stretched the lead to 27 points several times in the
second half and led 85-59 when the Greyhounds scored their final points with
3:12 left in the contest. Moravian had three players score in double figures
led by 17 points by junior forward Eric
Whitman (Blairstown, NJ/Notre Dame East Stroudsburg {PA} HS),
who also had six rebounds. Junior guard Ryan
Miller (Easton, PA/Easton HS) tossed in 13 points to go with three assists
and three rebounds while senior guard Michael
Clemente (Toms River, NJ/Central Regional HS) had 12 points and four
assists for the Greyhounds. Junior forward Steve
Wenderfer (Chester, NJ/Mendham
HS), junior forward Mark Franzyshen (Somerset, NJ/Immaculata HS) and senior forward Matt Devlin (Sadsburyville, PA/Coatesville
HS) each tossed in nine points for Moravian with Wenderfer contributing five rebounds. Devlin added team highs of seven rebounds and three blocked shots
while Franzyshen
had three boards. Freshman forward Eric
Weaver (Succasunna, NJ/Roxbury
HS) had six points and five rebounds for the Greyhounds while junior
forward Chris Earley (Brielle, NJ/Manasquan
HS) had six rebounds, two points and a pair of blocked shots in the win.
Junior guard Greg Jones (Bronx, NY/Mt.
St. Michael Academy) dished out a team high six assists to go with three
points, three steals and two rebounds for Moravian while sophomore forward Dave Bowden (Beachwood, NJ/Toms River South
HS) had three points and three rebounds.
The Greyhounds won their second straight non-conference
game, rallying from an eight-point halftime deficit to defeat Delaware Valley
College, 66-62. Delaware
Valley led by as many as
10, 18-8, with 10:40 remaining in the first half and it took a 30-22 advantage
into the intermission. Moravian trailed for most of the game, but a free throw
by Earley gave the Greyhounds a
46-45 lead with exactly seven minutes to go. The lead changed hands eight times
after that until four straight points by Moravian gave the squad a 58-53
advantage with 2:12 to go. Moravian had three players in double figures led by Franzyshen, who
netted a career high 20 points including a three-point play with 13.7 seconds
left to give the Greyhounds a 64-60 lead. Franzyshen also had five rebounds
and two steals. Earley and Wenderfer each tossed in 13 points for
Moravian with Earley contributing
seven rebounds and three steals and Wenderfer
grabbing a team high nine boards. Miller
had eight points, four assists and three rebounds for Moravian while Weaver added six points and three
rebounds. Whitman was limited to two
points for the Greyhounds; however, he did grab nine rebounds while Clemente contributed three assists,
three rebounds and two points. Jones
had a career high five steals for Moravian.
Moravian dropped a 72-59 decision at The University of
Scranton in non-conference action. The loss snapped a two-game winning streak
for the Greyhounds. The Royals led the
entire first half with the largest lead being 12 points. Scranton's
lead would hit ten three times in the second half, the final time at 55-45 with
9:59 remaining on the clock. The Greyhounds put together an 11-1 run to pull
within one point, 57-56, on a pair of free throws by Earley with 3:38 to play. However, Moravian made just three of four
free throws and missed all six of its field goal attempts as Scranton ended the game with a 15-3 run to
seal the victory. The Greyhounds did finish the game with a 35-31 advantage in
rebounds. Moravian had two players in double figures led by Franzyshen with a game high 19 points. Franzyshen also grabbed eight
rebounds to lead the Greyhounds. Whitman
tossed in 15 points, 13 in the first half, with three boards while Miller added nine points, five assists
and four rebounds. Jones came off the bench to contribute five points, four rebounds,
two assists and two steals as well as taking several charges for Moravian while
Earley had four points and three
rebounds. Wenderfer grabbed five
rebounds and scored two points while Weaver
had three points and three rebounds for the Greyhounds.
Greyhound
Weekly Update, December 11, 2006 (-4444-)
Women’s Indoor Track &
Field – 0-0 (Commonwealth Conference 0-0, MASCAC 0-0)
Last Week – No Team Scores at Lehigh
University Season Opener Invitational,
Bethlehem, PA
This Week – Off. Next Competition – Fri., Jan. 19th
at Great Dane Classic hosted by
University of Albany at Armory Track & Field Center, New York, NY
Moravian had six individuals and one relay team place
first at the non-scoring Lehigh University Season Opener indoor meet at Rausch
Fieldhouse between the Greyhounds, the Mountain Hawks and DeSales University.
All times are hand held. Freshman Dana
Haslett (Sellersville, PA/Pennridge HS) won the 60-meter dash in 7.8
seconds and the 200-meter dash in 26.0 seconds while senior Amy Reehil (Roselle,
NJ/Roselle Catholic HS) captured the 400-meter dash in 1:03.5. Freshman Anna Heim (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown HS)
won the long jump with a leap of 5.27 meters (17 feet, 3 1/2 inches) while
freshman Rebeka Woolley (Point Pleasant, NJ/Point Pleasant
Boro HS) won the shot put with a toss of 10.89 meters (35 feet, 8 3/4
inches). Freshman Rachel Riggs (Gettysburg, PA/Gettysburg HS)
recorded a winning distance of 10.85 meters (35 feet, 7 1/4 inches) in the
triple jump. Moravian "A" 4x400-meter relay squad of Reehil, Haslett, Heim and freshman Kaitlyn Boyer (Oley,
PA/Oley Valley HS) was first in 4:19.9.
Senior Erin Recker
(Catasauqua, PA/Catasauqua
HS) placed second to Haslett in
the 60-meter dash in 7.9 seconds while freshman Alessandra Valdetara (Butler,
NJ/Butker HS) and
senior Kathleen McCarron
(Nazareth, PA/Nazareth HS) tied for
third at 8.2 seconds. Freshman Queenie Tang (Bedminister, NJ/Chatham HS) was tied for eighth in the
60-meter dash in 8.3 seconds while Heim
placed tenth in 8.4 seconds and freshman Cassidy
Thomas (Arnold, MD/Broadneck HS) was 11th in a
time of 8.6 seconds. Freshman Jessica Posimo (Philadelphia, PA/St. Basil Academy)
took second in the 60-meter hurdles in 9.5 seconds while Tang was fourth at 10.0 seconds and Heim placed fifth in 10.4 seconds. Boyer took second to Rehill in the 400-meter dash in a time of 1:04.5 while
freshman Katelyn Chando (Coopersburg, PA/Southern Lehigh HS) finished fifth in 1:06.7. Recker also finished fourth in the
200-meter dash in a time of 27.7 seconds while Reehill was fifth in 27.8
seconds. Posimo
and Tang tied for sixth in the 200-meter dash in 28.0 seconds while freshman Leslie Pope (Pottsville,
PA/Pottsville
HS) took tenth in 32.9 seconds.
Sophomore Kelly
Williams (Tafton, PA/Wallenpaupack HS) placed third in the 1,000-meter run
in a time of 3:28.8 seconds while sophomore Stephanie Miller (Easton, PA/Easton
HS) was seventh in the 800-meter run in 2:43.2. The Greyhounds
"B" 4x400-meter relay team Chando, Tang, Williams and Thomas was fifth in the race in 4:49.5.
In other field results, Posimo placed third in the long
jump with a leap of 5.22 meters (17 feet, 1 1/2 inches) while McCarron was
fourth at 5.11 meters (16 feet, 9 1/4 inches). Haslett placed fifth in the long jump with a distance of 5.08
meters (16 feet, eight inches) while Valdetara took sixth at 5.05 meters (16 feet, seven inches).
Thomas was 14th in the event with a
leap of 4.27 meters (14 feet, 1/4 inch). Posimo was second in the triple
jump with a distance of 10.73 meters (35 feet, 2 1/2 inches) while McCarron took
fifth at 10.34 meters (33 feet, 11 1/4 inches). Heim was second in the pole vault, clearing ten feet, six inches
(3.20 meters) while sophomore Thea Kennerknecht (Central Valley, NY/Monroe-Woodbury HS) was
fifth at a height of nine feet, six inches (2.89 meters). Posimo was tied for third in the
high jump, clearing the bar at four feet, ten inches (1.47 meters) while Heim was tied for 12th at four feet,
eight inches (1.42 meters).
Freshman Flora
Robertson (Hawley, PA/East Stroudsburg North HS) was third in the 20-pound
weight throw with a toss of 9.90 meters (32 feet, 5 3/4 inches), and Robertson was third in the shot put
with a distance of 9.29 meters (30 feet, 5 3/4 inches). Junior Ashlee Scarborough (Warrington,
PA/Villa
Joseph Marie
Academy) was fifth in
the shot put at 7.96 meters (26 feet, 1 1/2 inches) while Pope took sixth with a toss of 7.93 meters (26 feet, 1/4 inch).
Greyhound
Weekly Update, December 11, 2006 (-5555-)
Men’s Indoor Track &
Field – 0-0 (Commonwealth Conference 0-0, MASCAC 0-0)
Last Week – No Team Scores at Lehigh
University Season Opener Invitational,
Bethlehem, PA
This Week – Off. Next Competition – Fri., Jan. 19th
at Great Dane Classic hosted by
University of Albany at Armory Track & Field Center, New York, NY
The Greyhounds competed at the Lehigh University Season
Opener indoor meet at Rausch Fieldhouse with the host Mountain Hawks and DeSales University. All times in the meet are
hand held times. Moravian had six first place finishes with a pair by junior Ozzie Brown (Plymouth Meeting, PA/Plymouth Whitemarsh HS), who won the 400-meter dash in a time of
51.1 seconds and the long jump with a leap of 7.05 meters (23 feet, 1 3/4
inches) that provisionally qualified him for the NCAA Division III National
Championships in March. Junior Nathaniel
Tussey (Perkiomenville, PA/Boyertown HS) won the
60-meter hurdles in 8.0 seconds while sophomore Blair Maginnis (Asbury, NJ/Warren Hills Regional HS) captured the
shot put with a toss of 14.44 meters 47 feet, 4 1/2 inches). Freshman Michael Blenk (Inwood, NY/Lawrence HS) won the triple jump with a
distance of 12.90 meters (42 feet, four inches) while junior Allan Fatzinger (Catasauquqa,
PA/Catasauqua HS) cleared 13 feet (3.96 meters) on his first attempt to win
the pole vault.
In other sprint race results, junior James Bell (Mohnton, PA/Governor
Mifflin HS) placed third in the 60-meter dash in 7.1 seconds while junior Robert Shaffer (Pottsville, PA/Pottsville
HS) was fourth in the same time. Senior Josh Kline (Reading, PA/Exeter HS) ran a time of 7.2 seconds to tie
for fifth while Blenk
posted a time of 7.4 seconds in the 60-meter dash to place eighth. In the
60-meter hurdles, Brown also ran 8.0
seconds but was just edged by Tussey and settled for second while Blenk placed fifth in 8.5
seconds. Tussey
would finish 0.2 second behind Brown
in the 400-meter dash to place second in a time of 51.3 seconds while junior Vince Pagano (Harrisburg, PA/Central
Dauphin East HS) placed 12th in 56.6 seconds. Freshman Nick Shubert (Doylestown, PA/Central Bucks East HS) was 14th in the
400 meters in a time of 56.9 seconds while freshman Steve DeFazio (Branchburg,
NJ/Somerville HS) was 15th in
57.6 seconds. Sophomore Stephen Mulchay (Whitehall, PA/Whitehall HS) and
freshman Nicholas Kennedy (Lake Ariel, PA/North
Pocono HS) tied for 16th in the event with a time of 57.7 seconds while
junior Timothy Pagano (Cherry
Hill, NJ/Cherry
Hill West HS) was 18th in 1:01.1. In the 200-meter dash, Kline was second in 23.5 seconds while Bell
placed fourth in 23.7 seconds and Shaffer
was fifth at 23.8 seconds.
Senior Josh Hunter
(Palmerton, PA/Palmerton
HS) placed second in the 1,000-meter run in 2:40.3 while freshman Tim Betz (Havertown, PA/Haverford
HS) placed fifth in 3:05.1. Sophomore John
McCullough (Levittown, PA/Conwell Egan HS) took sixth in the
800-meter run with a time of 2:19.3. The Greyhounds 4x800-meter relay squad of Hunter, McCullough, DeFazio and Timothy Pagano finished sixth in a time
of 8:55.0 while the 4x400-meter "A" relay team of Brown, Tussey, Kline and Blenk
was second at 3:32.4 and the "B" relay squad of Kennedy, Mulchay,
Vince Pagano and sophomore Timothy Murphy (Bethlehem, PA/Bethlehem
Catholic HS) was fifth in 3:45.0.
In other field event results, Blenk was third in the long jump
with a leap of 6.82 meters (22 feet, 4 1/2 inches) while Brown was second in the high jump, clearing a height of six feet,
four inches (1.93 meters) and Blenk placed fifth at five feet, ten inches (1.77 meters). Sophomore
Alan Woods (Mechanicsburg, PA/Cedar
Cliff HS) took third in the pole vault, clearing 12 feet, six inches (3.81
meters), and Brown was fourth at a
height of 12 feet (3.65 meters).
Freshman Ronald Draina (Metuchen, NJ/Metuchen HS) was fifth in the
35-pound weight throw with a toss of 10.84 meters (35 feet, 6 3/4 inches) while
freshman Matthew Wisotsky (Bushkill,
PA/East Stroudsburg North HS) was seventh in the event at 9.31 meters (30
feet, 6 1/2 inches).