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2008-09 – Week 22 Contact: Mark Fleming (610) 861-1472, (610) 390-7545 or (610) 758-8721

GREYHOUND TRACKS

Team Records as of February 1, 2009

Overall Landmark Meets & Tournaments

Men’s Basketball 7-12 3-6

Women’s Basketball 17-3 7-2

Men’s Indoor Track & Field

Women’s Indoor Track & Field

GREYHOUND STUDENT-ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Female – Kate Harrison (Jr., Cold Spring Harbor, NY/Cold Spring Harbor), basketball

Male – Charlie Rigoglioso (So., Wayne, NJ/Wayne Valley), basketball

UPCOMING HOME EVENTS:

Saturday, February 14^th – Women’s Basketball vs. *Goucher College, 5:30 p.m.; Men’s Basketball vs. *Goucher College,

7:30 p.m.

Sunday, February 15^th – Women’s Basketball vs. *The Catholic University of America, 2:00 p.m.; Men’s Basketball vs.

*The Catholic University of America, 4:00 p.m.

Saturday, February 21^st – Men’s Lacrosse vs. Montclair State University, 1:00 p.m.

*Conference opponent

FOR DAILY UPDATES OF MORAVIAN COLLEGE ATHLETICS,

CALL THE GREYHOUND SPORTSLINE AT (610) 625-7865 or VISIT THE MORAVIAN COLLEGE WEBSITE AT WWW.MORAVIAN.EDU/ATHLETICS, UPDATED DAILY AT 8:00 A.M. and 1:00, 7:00 and 10:00 P.M.

Greyhound Weekly Update, February 2, 2009 (-2222-)

Men’s Basketball – 7-12 (Landmark Conference 3-6)

Last Week – Lost to Susquehanna University*, 71-57; Lost to Juniata College*, 77-76. *Landmark Conference Game.

This Week – Sat, Feb. 7^th at U.S. Merchant Marine Academy*, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 8^th at Drew University*, 4:00 p.m. *Landmark Conference game

Susquehanna University forward Joel Patch had game highs of 26 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Crusaders to a 71-57 victory over Moravian in Landmark Conference action.
            Susquehanna improves to 12-6 overall and remains in a tie for first place in the Landmark Conference with a 6-2 mark while the Greyhounds fall to 7-11 on the year and 3-5 in conference action.
            The Crusaders scored first on a basket from Rob Cosgrove before Moravian scored six straight points, taking its largest lead of the game, 6-2, on a lay-up from sophomore guard Maurice Young (Philadelphia, PA/Chestnut Hill Academy) at the 17:49 mark.  Susquehanna would then run off 11 straight points to take a 13-6 lead on a Patch jumper with 13:20 to go in the first half.
            Fran Brzyski would give the Crusaders their largest lead of the first half, ten points at 23-13, with 9:11 to play.  The Greyhounds then ran off eight straight points to pull within a pair at 23-21 after a three-pointer from sophomore guard Charlie Rigoglioso (Wayne, NJ/Wayne Valley) with 5:39 until the inter mission.  Cosgrove hit a free throw with 3:31 to play to push Susquehanna’s lead back to seven points at 28-21.  Moravian freshman guard Sergio Camacho (Bethlehem, PA/Liberty) hit a pair of free throws just before halftime to send the teams to the locker room with Susquehanna leading 32-27.
            Moravian struggled shooting the ball in the first half, making just eight of 31 field goal attempts (25.8 percent), two of seven three-pointers and nine of 13 free throws in the first 20 minutes.  The Greyhounds had just seven turnovers while forcing the Crusaders into ten turnovers.  Susquehanna had a hot hand in the first half, making 13 of 27 field goal attempts (48.1 percent), one of five three-pointers and five of seven free throws.  The Crusaders had a 22-19 edge in rebounds at halftime.
            Matt McDevitt opened the second half with a jumper for Susquehanna but Moravian scored the next five to pull within two points, 34-32, on a three-pointer from sophomore forward Chris Cullen (East Islip, NY/East Islip) with 18:46 to go.  Greyhound junior forward Eric Weaver’s (Succasunna, NJ/Roxbury) jumper at 17:58 had Moravian again within two points, 36-34, before Susquehanna would take control. 
            The Crusaders scored six straight points with Patch giving Susquehanna a 42-34 lead with 16:33 remaining, and Patch would put the lead into double digits, 51-40, at the 12:03 mark.  The last time Moravian had the lead down under ten points was with 6:45 to play on a lay-up from freshman guard/forward Nelson Leon (Reading, PA/Reading).  Spencer would give Susquehanna its largest lead of 16 points, 71-55, with 1:36 to play with the Crusaders’ final points of the game.
            Moravian shot the ball better in the second half, making 13 of 30 field goal attempts (43.3 percent), three of 13 three-pointers and one of two free throws in the final 20 minutes.  Susquehanna improved its field goal percentage in the second half, making 18 of 34 field goal attempts (52.1 percent) after the break to go with one-for-four on three-pointers and two-for-two at the foul line.  The Crusaders had a 46-29 advantage in rebounds for the game while Moravian had 12 turnovers to 16 for Susquehanna.
Young and Leon led the Greyhounds with 12 points apiece.  Young also had five rebounds while Leon grabbed six boards.  Rigoglioso, Cullen and Weaver each scored eight points for Moravian with Weaver adding seven rebounds and three assists.  Camacho tossed in five points.

The Juniata College men’s basketball team held on to earn a 77-76 win in a back-and-forth Landmark Conference game over visiting Moravian , which led by as many as nine points, in Huntingdon.
            The victory lifts the Eagles to 4-16 overall and 2-7 in Landmark conference action while the Greyhounds fall to 7-12 overall and 3-6 in conference play.
            Juniata scored first on a basket by Eric Muessler, and the Eagles had a 4-2 lead after a Ryan Jones jumper.  Moravian then went on a 12-2 run, capped off by a lay-up from sophomore forward Chris Cullen at the 15:31 mark to give the Greyhounds a 14-6 lead.  Juniata responded with a 15-2 run over the next five and a half minutes to retake the lead, 21-16, on a pair of Jones free throws with 9:59 left in the first half.
            Jones converted on a three-point play to put Juniata up 24-19 with 8:54 before the intermission.  Moravian answered with an 8-0 run that saw junior forward Eric Weaver hit a three-pointer to tie it and a free throw to give the Greyhounds a 27-24 advantage with 6:52 to remaining in the first half.  Moravian would push its run to 20-6 to take its largest lead of the game, nine points, 39-30 with 3:11 in the half in a pair of free throws from freshman guard/forward Nelson Leon. 
            Juniata closed the gap late in the half but Moravian took a 43-38 lead to the locker room at halftime.  Moravian had a hot shooting touch in the first 20 minutes, making 14 of 27 field goal attempts (51.9 percent), five of 13 three-pointers and ten of 13 free throws.  The Greyhounds also had an 18-15 edge on the boards in the first 20 minutes while both schools committed eight turnovers.  Juniata was 12 of 29 from the field (41.4 percent), two of nine on three-pointers and 12 of 15 at the foul line in the first 20 minutes.
            The Eagles started the second half with a 5-0 run to tie the game at 43-43 on a jumper from Dave Thompson with 18:14 to play, and Juniata would eventually retake the lead, 49-47, on a jumper by Jones at the 12:35 mark.  Leon would hit a free throw at 10:47 to pull Moravian within one, 51-50, before the Greyhounds retook the lead on a lay-up from sophomore forward Alvin Adams (Newark, NJ/Marist), 55-54 with 9:19 to go.
            From that point on, there were six lead changes and three ties during the remainder of the game.  Juniata led 60-55 after a Muessler lay-up with 7:27 remaining before Moravian ran off six straight points, all from freshman guard Sergio Camacho to give the Greyhounds the lead back, 61-60, with 6:04 to play.  Moravian’s final lead of the game came with 2:57 remaining when Cullen hit a pair of free throws to put the Greyhounds up 67-66.  The Eagles would finally take the lead for good on a lay-up from Jeff Berkey with 50 seconds to play.  Berkey hit a free throw with five seconds remaining to give Juniata a three-point lead, 77-74, before Moravian sophomore guard Charlie Rigoglioso hit a lay-up with a second to play ending the scoring.
            Moravian continued its hot shooting, making 11 of 22 field goal attempts in the second half; however, the Greyhounds were just one-for-ten on three-pointers and ten of 13 at the foul line.  Juniata was 17-for-30 from the field (56.7 percent) in the final 20 minutes, and the Eagles were three of eight on three-pointers and just two-for-nine at the foul line in the second half.  Juniata did finish the game with a 32-29 edge in rebounds, and the Eagles had 15 turnovers to 17 for the Greyhounds.
Camacho led four Moravian players in double figures with 18 points, three rebounds and a pair of assists while Rigoglioso had 13 points and four boards.  Cullen tossed in 12 points and grabbed three rebounds for the Greyhounds while Weaver had ten points.
Leon had eight points and four rebounds for the Greyhounds.  Adams had six points and three boards off of the bench while freshman forward Jeff Cullinan (Bridgewater, NJ/Immaculata) had five points.  Freshman guard Shane Painter had five boards and two points.  The Greyhounds did play the game without starting sophomore guard Maurice Young, the team’s second leading scorer, due to injury.

Greyhound Weekly Update, February 2, 2009 (-4444-)

Women’s Basketball – 17-3 (Landmark Conference 7-2)

Last Week – Defeated Susquehanna University*, 69-65 (ot); Lost to Juniata College*, 64-58. *Landmark Conference Game.

This Week – Sat, Feb. 7^th at U.S. Merchant Marine Academy*, 5:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 8^th at Drew University*, 2:00 p.m. *Landmark Conference game

 Junior forward Alyssa Bisci (Easton, PA/Easton) opened overtime with a pair of three-pointers to give nationally ranked Moravian a lead it finally wouldn’t relinquish in a 69-65 overtime win at Susquehanna University in Landmark Conference action.
            The Greyhounds, ranked 16th in the nation in the USA Today/ESPN Division III Coaches’ Top 25 Poll and 17th in the D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll, improve to 17-2 overall and 7-1 in Landmark Conference action with their fourth straight win.  The Crusaders fall to 12-7 overall and 4-4 in Landmark Conference play with the loss.
            Susquehanna jumped out to a 2-0 lead on a basket by Libby Shober to opening the scoring before Moravian junior forward Kirsty Stearns (East Norwich, NY/Oyster Bay) tied the game with a jumper.  Stearns would give the Greyhounds their first lead at 6-4 with 17:21 to go with another jumper. 
            Moravian led 13-12 at the 12:34 mark after a jumper from junior guard Amanda Brown (Schuylkill Haven, PA/Schuylkill Haven).  The Crusaders then went on a 16-6 run to take their largest lead of the game, nine points, on a free throw from Jennifer Butts making the Susquehanna lead 28-19 with 3:52 to play in the first half.  The Greyhounds responded with an 8-0 run including three baskets from junior guard/forward Kate Harrison (Cold Spring Harbor, NY/Cold Spring Harbor) to pull within a point, 28-27 with 1:12 until the intermission.  Susquehanna finished the half with a spurt to head to the locker room with a 32-28 lead.
            The Greyhounds shot the ball well in the first half, making 11 of 23 field goal attempts (47.8 percent), but Moravian missed all four of its three-point attempts.  The Greyhounds were also six-for-eight at the foul line and had a 16-13 edge in rebounds; however, Moravian committed 12 turnovers in the first 20 minutes.  Susquehanna also shot well in the first half, making 14 of 31 field goal attempts, three of six three-pointers and one of two free throws.  The Crusaders also had just seven turnovers in the first 20 minutes.
            Susquehanna’s Samantha Jansson started the second half scoring to push the Crusader lead to 34-28.  Moravian answered with six straight points including four straight free throws by junior guard Jessica Foran (Annandale, NJ/Rutgers Prep) to tie the score at 34-34 with 17:28 to play.  The Greyhounds trailed 40-38 when Bisci connected on a three-pointer at the 12:55 mark to give Moravian a 41-40 lead and start a 7-0 Greyhound run.  Bisci would make a lay-up with 12:00 left in regulation to build the Moravian lead to 45-40.
            Moravian’s largest lead of the game would come with 6:38 remaining on a three-pointer by freshman guard Hilary Murray (Clinton, NJ/North Hunterdon) that gave the Greyhounds a six-point edge, 54-48.  Susquehanna ran off six straight points to tie the game again at 54-54 with 4:51 to play on a lay-up by Shober.  Sophomore guard/forward Amy Heffner (Schnecksville, PA/Parkland) put Moravian up 56-54 before Shober tied the contest again with 3:56 to go.
Stearns hit a free throw with 2:31 remaining to give the Greyhounds a 57-56 lead but it was short lived as Shober hit a pair of free throws 29 seconds later to give Susquehanna the lead back, 58-57 with 2:02 to go.  Moravian scored the next points on a three-pointer from Murray with 33 seconds remaining to put the Greyhounds up 60-58.  Shober tied the game at 60-60 with 11 seconds left in regulation with a lay-up. Moravian had the ball with under five seconds to play by Crusader Erika Brown stole the ball from Murray to force overtime.
            Moravian struggled shooting the ball in the second half, making just ten of 26 field goal attempts (38.5 percent), but the Greyhounds were three-for-seven on three-pointers.  Moravian, the top free throw shooting team in the country was nine-for-ten at the foul line.  Susquehanna shot 13 of 24 from the floor and was two-for-two on the foul line in the second half.
Bisci opened the scoring in overtime with a three-pointer as Moravian went ahead 63-60.  Susquehanna’s Jessica Zigarelli scored to pull the Crusaders within a point before Bisci hit her third three-pointer of the game to give the Greyhounds a 66-62 lead with 3:36 to go in overtime.  Susquehanna pulled within two points on a Jansson jumper at the 1:56 but Harrison answered a minute later to put Moravian up 68-64 with 58 seconds to play.  Zigarelli hit one of two free throws with 48 seconds to play before Foran iced the game with a free throw with just seven seconds left in overtime.
            Moravian made three of seven field goal attempts (42.9 percent), two of four three-pointers and one of two free throws in the five minute extra session.  The Greyhounds finished the contest with a 37-32 edge in rebounds, and Moravian finished the game with 19 turnovers.  Susquehanna struggled shooting in the overtime, making just two of ten field goal attempts and one of two free throws.  The Crusaders missed all three of their three-point attempts in the overtime while committing 15 turnovers in the contest.
Harrison led all scorers with a game high 22 points, which tied her career high, and she had seven rebounds and five assists for the Greyhounds.  Moravian had a total of four players in double figures with Bisci scoring 11 points, all in the second half and overtime, to go with seven rebounds.  Stearns also tossed in 11 points and had three rebounds for the Greyhounds while Murray had ten points and three boards. Foran contributed eight points while Heffner had four points off of the Moravian bench.  Junior forward Alyson Steltz (Emmaus, PA/Emmaus) grabbed three rebounds in limited action for the Greyhounds.

Moravian started the second half with a 19-1 run to take a seven-point lead but the nationally ranked Greyhounds were unable to hold the lead, falling to Juniata College, 64-58, in Landmark Conference action in Huntingdon.
            Moravian, ranked 16th in this week’s USA Today/ESPN Division III Coaches’ Top 25 Poll and 17th in the D3hoops.com Top 25, fall to 17-3 on the season with the loss, the team’s third of the year on the road, and to 7-2 in Landmark Conference action, dropping the Greyhounds out of a first place tie.  The loss also snapped Moravian’s four-game winning streak.  Juniata improves to 10-10 overall and 4-5 in conference play.
            Moravian scored first on a three-pointer from junior guard/forward Kate Harrison on the first possession of the game.  The Greyhounds led 5-2 after a pair of free throws from junior forward Kirsty Stearns at the 18:18 mark but Juniata would then take the lead with a 7-0 run. 
            Junior guard Amanda Brown made a pair of free throws at the 13:15 mark to pull Moravian within two points, 13-11, but the Eagles would run off another seven points to build a 20-11 lead.  Juniata would take its largest lead of the first half, 13 points, on a Jen Hnatuck lay-up with 8:32 left in the first half for a 27-14 Eagle lead.  Moravian got within five points, 31-26 on a jumper by Brown with 3:16 remaining in the half.  Juniata finished the first half with an 8-2 run to head to locker room with a 39-28 after Moravian sophomore guard/forward Emily Smith (East Stroudsburg, PA/East Stroudsburg South) hit a lay-up at the buzzer.
            The Greyhounds struggled shooting the ball in the first half, making just eight of 26 field goal attempts (30.8 percent) and one of five three pointers in the first 20 minutes.  Moravian, the top free throw shooting team in the nation, was 11-for-12 in the first half at the foul line while holding a 19-17 edge in rebounds.  The Greyhounds committed 11 turnovers in the first 20 minutes while Juniata had just six turnovers.  The Eagles had a hot hand in the first half, making 16 of 32 field goal attempts (50 percent), three of eight three-pointers and four of six free throws. 
            Moravian started the second half on a 9-0 run to pull within two points, 39-37, on a three-pointer from freshman guard Hilary Murray at the 17:44 mark.  Murray scored seven points during the run.  Juniata scored its first point of the second half on a free throw from Ashton Bankos at the 17:02 mark.  The Greyhounds then scored another ten straight points to start the half with a 19-1 run capped off by a jumper from freshman forward Alexandra Blair (Hellertown, PA/Bethlehem Catholic) to give Moravian a 47-40 lead with 13:49 to play in the half.  However, the Greyhounds would score just 11 more points in the game.
            The Greyhounds took their largest lead of the game at the 10:42 mark on a lay-up by Smith to build a 51-42 advantage, but Moravian would not score another field goal until the 3:33 mark when sophomore guard/forward Amy Heffner hit a lay-up to the Greyhounds back in front, 55-54.  The Eagles had taken a 54-53 lead on a three-pointer by Gina Piccolini at the 6:13 mark.  After Heffner’s basket, Harrison hit a jumper to put Moravian up 57-54 with 2:53 to go.  Juniata would retake the lead with 2:20 remaining on a lay-up from Claudia McDowell.
Stearns would tie the game at 58-58 with 58 seconds remaining by converting one of two free throws but that would be Moravian’s final point of the game as Juniata took the lead for good on a lay-up from Kelly Ashcraft just six seconds later.
            Moravian started the second half by hitting seven of ten field goal attempts including a trio of three-pointers, but the Greyhounds were just 12-for-32 from the floor (37.5 percent) total in the final 20 minutes.  Moravian was three of eight on three-pointers and three of four at the foul line.  The Greyhounds had just eight turnovers in the second half for 19 in the game while Juniata made 11 second half turnovers for a total of 17.  The Eagles also struggled shooting the ball from the field in the second half, making eight of 29 field goal attempts (27.6 percent) and one of three three-pointers.  Juniata was eight-for-nine at the foul line in the final 20 minutes, and the Eagles finished the game with a 41-37 edge in rebounds.
Murray led Moravian with 12 points, all in the second half, and she had two rebounds while Brown tossed in 11 points with two assists as the only other Greyhound in double figures.  Harrison tossed in nine points and grabbed five rebounds for Moravian while Smith had eight points.  Stearns led Moravian with seven rebounds to go with five points and a pair of blocked shots while Heffner also had seven boards to go along with four points.
            Moravian juniors guard Jessica Foran and forward Alyssa Bisci, who are the team’s second and third leading scorers combining for 23 points per game, were limited to just five points.  Foran had three rebounds and two points while Bisci played just the first half of the game due to an injury and had three points and three boards.  Blair recorded two points and a pair of blocked shots while junior forward Alyson Steltz had two points and two boards.

Greyhound Weekly Update, February 2, 2009 (-6666-)

Men’s Track and Field -- 0-0 (Landmark Conference 0-0)

Last Week – Did Not Compete

This Week – Frank Colden Invitational hosted by Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA.

The Moravian Men’s Track and Field Team did not compete this past week but will return to action this upcoming Saturday, February 7^th as they are set to compete in the Frank Colden Invitational hosted by Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA.

Greyhound Weekly Update, February 2, 2009 (-7777-)

Women’s Track and Field -- 0-0 (Landmark Conference 0-0)

Last Week – Did Not Compete

This Week – Frank Colden Invitational hosted by Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA.

The Moravian women’s Track and Field Team did not compete this past week but will return to action this upcoming Saturday, February 7^th as they are set to compete in the Frank Colden Invitational hosted by Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA.