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2008-09 – Week 17 Contact: Mark Fleming (610) 861-1472, (610) 390-7545 or (610) 758-8721

GREYHOUND TRACKS

Team Records as of December 14, 2008

Overall Landmark/Centennial Meets & Tournaments

Men’s Basketball 3-6 1-0

Women’s Basketball 7-1 1-0

Men’s Indoor Track & Field

Women’s Indoor Track & Field

GREYHOUND STUDENT-ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Female – Jessica Foran (Jr., Annandale, NJ/Rutgers Prep HS), basketball

Male – Eric Weaver (Jr., Succasunna, NJ/Roxbury HS), basketball

UPCOMING HOME EVENTS:

Friday, January 2^nd – Women’s Basketball vs. Frostburg State University in 8^th Annual Starters Moravian Winter Classic,

8:00 p.m.

Saturday, January 3^rd – Men’s Basketball vs. Misericordia University in 31^st Annual Greyhound Starters Classic, 8:00 p.m.

Friday, January 9^th – Women’s Basketball vs. *Juniata College, 5:30 p.m.; Men’s Basketball vs. *Juniata College,

7:30 p.m.

Saturday, January 10^th – Women’s Basketball vs. *Susquehanna University, 2:00 p.m.; Men’s Basketball vs.

*Susquehanna University, 4:00 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, December 22, 2008 (-2222-)

Men’s Basketball – 3-6 (Landmark Conference 1-0)

Last Week – Lost to Muhlenberg College, 69-54. *Landmark Conference Game.

Next Competition – Sat., Jan. 3^rd vs. Misericordia University in 31^st Greyhound Starters Classic, 8:00 p.m.

Muhlenberg College used a 23-7 run over the final 9:46 to earn a 69-54 non-conference victory over rival Moravian College in Memorial Hall. The Greyhounds drop to 3-6 on the season with their second straight loss and the team’s final game before the holiday break. Muhlenberg jumped out to a 4-0 lead before the Greyhound scored on a free throw from sophomore guard Maurice Young (Philadelphia, PA/Chestnut Hill Academy) at the 16:57 mark. That was Moravian’s only point until the Mules had built a 12-1 lead. Sophomore guard Charlie Rigoglioso (Wayne, NJ/Wayne Valley HS) made a pair of free throws to set the score at 12-3 with 15:27 to go in the first half, and Rigoglioso would eventually score Moravian’s first field goal of the contest, a three-pointer at the 13:31 mark to set the score at 14-6. The Mules pushed their lead to 13 points at 19-6 after a lay-up with 10:23 left in the half; however, Muhlenberg would score just six points the rest of the half. The Mules final bucket of the half was a lay-up at the 3:22 mark to keep the Muhlenberg lead at five points, 25-20. Moravian scored the final seven points of the half with Rigoglioso tying the game at 25-25 with a three-pointer with 1:17 remaining before sophomore forward Alvin Adams (Newark, NJ/Marist HS) gave the Greyhounds their first lead of the contest at 27-25 with 35 seconds to play until halftime. The teams headed at the same score, and neither team shot the ball particularly well in the first 20 minutes of the contest. Moravian was just eight-for-29 from the floor (27.6 percent), four-for-ten on three-pointers and seven-for-12 at the foul line. Muhlenberg shot a little better at 34.4 percent (11 of 32 on field goal attempts, but the Mules were three-for-ten on three-pointers and missed all three of the free throw attempts. The Mules did have a 28-18 edge in rebounds in the first half while Moravian committed just four turnovers to nine for the Mules.

Moravian came out of the locker room and would build a five-point lead after a three-point play from junior forward Eric Weaver (Succasunna, NJ/Roxbury HS) to put the Greyhound lead at 32-27 with 17:04 on the clock. The Mules answered with a 7-0 run to take a 34-32 lead at the 16 minute mark. Muhlenberg eventually pushed its lead back to five points, at 41-36 with 13:10 to play. However, Moravian would counter with a three-pointer from freshman guard Sergio Camacho (Bethlehem, PA/Liberty HS) and a pair of three-pointers by freshman guard Shane Painter (Bedminster, NJ/Bernards HS) to take a 45-44 lead with 10:33 remaining. The Greyhounds would have the lead twice more, the final time at 50-48 after a three-pointer by sophomore forward Chris Cullen (East Islip, NY/East Islip HS) with 9:17 to play. Moravian settled for just a lay-up and a pair of free throws from Weaver in the final nine minutes while Muhlenberg scored 21 points. The Mules heated up in the second half, making 15 of 28 field goal attempts (53.6 percent), and Muhlenberg added two of five three-pointers and 12 of 15 free throws in the final 20 minutes. The Mules had a 48-31 edge in rebounds for the game. Moravian continued to struggle shooting the ball, making nine of 26 second half field goal attempts (34.6 percent), four of 16 three-pointers and just five of eight free throws. The Greyhounds also committed nine second half turnovers to five for the Mules.

Weaver led the Greyhounds with 14 points and five rebounds while Rigoglioso had 11 points, all in the first half, and four boards. Painter had eight points and a pair of steals off of the Moravian bench while Young had seven points and a team high seven rebounds. Camacho tossed in five points for the Greyhounds while Adams had four rebounds and three points.

Greyhound Weekly Update, December 22, 2008 (-3333-)

Women’s Basketball -- 7-1 (Landmark Conference 1-0)

Last Week – Defeated Muhlenberg College, 98-87. *Landmark Conference Game.

Next Competition – Fri., Jan. 2^nd vs. William Paterson University in 8^th Annual STARTERS Moravian Winter Classic, 8:00 p.m.

Moravian team used a torrid shooting second half to turn a one-point halftime lead into a 98-87 non-conference victory over rival Muhlenberg College in Memorial Hall. The win was the fifth straight for the Greyhounds as the team heads into its holiday break with a 7-1 mark. Moravian’s last six games have included five teams that reached the 2008 NCAA Division III Tournament and NCAA Division II East Stroudsburg University, and the Greyhounds are 5-1 in those six games with the only loss to The University of Rochester, now the top ranked team in the latest D3hoops.com Top 25 poll. Muhlenberg entered the game tied for 18^th in last week’s USA Today/ESPN Division III Coaches’ Top 25 Poll and while Moravian was ranked 23^rd. In this week’s D3hoops.com Poll, the Mules are ranked 14^th while Moravian is just outside of the rankings as the top team receiving votes. Moravian also has a win over its other Lehigh Valley rival during its winning streak, topping 15^th-ranked DeSales University.

The game between the Mules and Greyhounds didn’t start out as if either team would score a lot of points as neither team scoring until Moravian junior guard Jessica Foran (Annandale, NJ/Rutgers Prep HS) hit a jumper at the 17:40 mark for the first points of the contest. The Greyhounds led 4-0 before Muhlenberg scored on a lay-up with 16:54 on the clock. The Mules took their first lead of the game 26 seconds later on a three-pointer. Muhlenberg finished off a 7-0 run with a lay-up at 15:53 for Muhlenberg’s biggest lead of the game at 7-4. Moravian scored five straight points with junior guard Kate Harrison (Cold Spring Harbor, NY/Cold Spring Harbor HS) hitting a pair free throws with 14:54 to put Moravian back in the lead, 9-7. The rest of the first half would feature eight lead changes and three ties. Moravian’s biggest lead would be seven points, 30-23, with 4:23 until the intermission after a pair of Foran free throws while Muhlenberg never led by Moravian than a point. The Greyhounds headed to the locker room with a 36-35 lead, their first halftime lead since the first game of the current winning streak, after a jumper by freshman forward Alexandra Blair (Hellertown, PA/Bethlehem Catholic HS) with just two seconds left on the clock. The Greyhounds were 12 of 28 from the field (42.9 percent) in the first 20 minutes, and Moravian made two of six three-pointers and ten of 14 free throws in the first half. The Greyhounds also had a 24-15 advantage in rebounds, but Moravian has 12 turnovers in the first 20 minutes to just eight for Muhlenberg. The Mules struggled shooting the ball in the first half, making 11 of 31 field goal attempts (35.5 percent) and three of nine three-pointers. Muhlenberg was hot at the foul line making ten of 11 free throw attempts.

Moravian would heat things up early in the second half as the Greyhounds made ten of their first 11 shots of the half including four three-pointers to stretch the one-point half time lead to 14 points, 60-46 with 13:56 remaining in the game after a lay-up from Foran. The Greyhound lead would reach 20 points at 71-51 with 9:14 to go after a jumper from junior forward Kirsty Stearns (East Norwich, NY/Oyster Bay HS). Moravian still had a 17-point edge, 74-57, after two free throws from sophomore guard/forward Amy Heffner (Schnecksville, PA/Parkland HS) with 6:54 to play when Muhlenberg connected on four straight three-pointers, two after Moravian turnovers, to pull the Mules within six points at 77-71 in a minute and a half at the5:22 mark. The Mules would get within five points at 84-79 with 3:21 remaining on a four-point play. The Moravian lead was at five points after a pair of Mule free throws with 2:11 remaining, but the Greyhounds would get a three-pointer from freshman guard Hilary Murray (Clinton, NJ/North Hunterdon HS), an Amanda Brown (Schuylkill Haven, PA/Schuylkill Haven HS) jumper and seven of eight free throws in the final 49 seconds to clinch the victory. The Greyhounds shot 66.7 percent from the floor in the final 20 minutes, making 18 of 27 field goal attempts, and Moravian was a perfect six-for-six on three-pointers in the second half. Where the Greyhounds really won the game was at the foul line as Moravian made 20 of 24 free throw attempts in the second half while Muhlenberg was just seven-for-11 from the foul line after the intermission. The Mules were almost as hot from the field as Moravian, making 19 of 31 field goal attempts (61.3 percent) and seven of 11 three-pointers. Moravian finished the game with a 37-26 advantage in rebounds, and the Greyhounds limited themselves to seven second half turnovers while forcing the Mules into nine points.

The Greyhounds placed four players in double figures led by 22 points from Harrison, who also had four rebounds, three assists and two blocked shots. Foran added 18 points, six assists and five rebounds, and she was eight-for-eight from the foul line and has made her last 19 free throws. Junior forward Alyssa Bisci (Easton, PA/Easton HS) added 16 points, six rebounds and three assists while making all six of her free throw attempts while Brown tossed in 13 points including three three-pointers. Heffner led Moravian on the boards with ten rebounds to go with six points and two steals while Stearns added eight points and six boards. Murray tossed in seven points for the Greyhounds while Blair had five points and two boards. Junior forward Lauren Fornazor (River Vale, NJ/Pascack Valley HS) had three points off of the bench for Moravian.

Greyhound Weekly Update, December 22, 2008 (-4444-)

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

Last Week – Did Not Compete

This Week – Do Not Compete

Moravian will return to action on Saturday, January 17^th at the Orange & Maroon Classic hosted by Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.

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

Last Week – Did Not Compete

This Week – Do Not Compete

Moravian will return to action on Saturday, January 17^th at the Orange & Maroon Classic hosted by Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.