Army West Point Athletics
This Week In Army Athletics
February 07, 2013 | General
Feb. 7, 2013
Dear Friends,
The rifle team takes top billing this week with its victory over Navy. The win marked the team's fourth straight Star and seventh in the last eight years. Michael Matthews and Richard Calvin led the team, winning the individual titles in smallbore and air rifle, respectively.
Once again, a plethora of plebes stepped to the forefront. Rookie gymnast Jesse Glenn won the all-around title at the 22nd Annual West Point Open. He is the first Black Knight to win the all-around in the event's history. The victory led to Jesse's selection as the ECAC Gymnast of the Week. Staying with the gymnastics team, firstie Garrek Hojan-Clark was victorious on the pommel horse at the West Point Open and earned Army Athletic Association Athlete of the Week honors.
For the second straight week, both basketball teams had cadets win the Patriot League Rookie of the Week Award, and both selections were ones for the record book. On the women's side, Kelsey Minato won the honor for the fourth straight week and seventh time this season. Her total number of selections ties the Academy record set by Cara Enright and Lisa Russell, and is just one shy of matching the Patriot League record. Kelsey averaged 11.0 points per game for the week.
Kyle Toth earned the honor on the men's side. While it was his first certificate, the honor made Patriot League history. Army is now the first school to have three different rookies win the award in consecutive weeks (Dylan Cox, Kyle Wilson). Kyle scored in double figures both games, including a 20-point effort against Lehigh.
In the pool, plebe Nick Treiberg broke the Army rookie record in the 50 free and finished among the top five in four other events at the Bucknell Invitational. Harrison McCormick made his collegiate debut on the tennis court, winning both his singles and doubles contests against No. 56 Arkansas and Oral Roberts.
It's hard to believe with the winter weather in the forecast, but the spring season begins this weekend. The lacrosse team opens its 96th season of play on Saturday at 12th-ranked Massachusetts. Joe Alberici's squad makes its home debut next Wednesday versus Manhattan. Face-off is at 3 p.m.
The softball team also starts its season this week. The squad will play four games at a tournament hosted by Auburn University. The season starts on Friday versus Furman. The team will also play Kent State, Austin Peay and East Tennessee State.
The baseball season starts the following week, but a lot of attention has been focused on the New York Yankees' visit to West Point on March 30. We are finalizing the details of the event, and will have all the ticket information available on-line at www.goARMYsports.com in the coming days.
Thank you again for all of your support of Army Athletics. To find out more about the Army A Club and how you can enhance the cadet-athlete experience, click the following link: http://www.goarmysports.com/aclub, call (845)938-2322, or email armyaclub@usma.edu.
Information on all the winter teams is below.
We appreciate all of your contributions to our success. Be well.
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WEST POINT SPORTS FLASH
Men's Basketball (10-12, 3-4 Patriot League)
• Army split its two Patriot League games, scoring an 80-66 road win at Holy Cross before an 85-76 home loss to first-place Lehigh.
• Plebe Kyle Toth was named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week after averaging 15.0 points and shooting better than 50 percent for the week. Toth had 10 points at Holy Cross and matched his career high with 20 versus Lehigh.
• Toth's selection made Patriot League history. It was the first time that three different players from the same team won the rookie award in consecutive weeks. Dylan Cox was chosen on Jan. 21 and Kyle Wilson won the ward on Jan. 28.
• Wilson moved into moved into eighth place on Army's freshman scoring list with 283 points. He is the Black Knights' highest-scoring plebe since Alex Morris in 1992-93 (346).
• Cox, Army's primary point guard, has gone six straight games without a turnover. In Patriot League play, Cox is on top of the conference's assist-to-turnover ratio at 6.0 (30/5).
• Firstie Ella Ellis became the ninth member of Army's 1,400-point club with 14 points against Holy Cross. Ellis also moved into fifth place on Army's career three-point ledger (170).
• Plebe Kyle Ferguson has blocked at least one shot in five consecutive games. His 20 rejections on the season rank seventh on the Black Knights' single-season list.
• Army has started five plebes in each of the last three games. Wilson, Toth and Larry Toomey have all scored in double figures in all three games. Wilson had his three-game run of at least 20 points snapped with a 12-point effort against Lehigh.
• Army starts the second half of its Patriot League schedule on Saturday when it hosts first-place Bucknell.
Women's Basketball (16-6, 5-2 Patriot League)
• Army went 1-1 to cap the first half of Patriot League play with a 5-2 record for the first time since 2007-08. The Black Knights fell to Holy Cross at home, 51-46, on Wednesday night before getting a rare win at Lehigh, 61-56, on Saturday night. The win in Bethlehem, Pa., was Army's first since 2007 and just the seventh time since 1983-84.
• Cow Jen Hazlett recorded back-to-back 15-point games, while plebe Kelsey Minato had a pair of 11-point contests en route to capturing her seventh Patriot League Rookie of the Week certificate, including fourth consecutive. Minato's seven newcomer honors tie the Army record set by Cara Enright and Lisa Russell, while she is one shy of the Patriot League standard.
• The Black Knights stand in a tie for second place in the conference standings with American, while Navy sits alone in first place with a 6-1 mark. The Midshipmen's lone blemish in Patriot League play came against the Black Knights on Jan. 20.
• Army will return to the court for the second cycle of conference games on Saturday at Bucknell. Tipoff in Lewisburg, Pa., is set for 7 p.m.
Gymnastics (0-2)
• Army's runner-up finish at the 22nd annual West Point Open equaled its top performance at the meet. The Black Knights last placed second in 2006.
• Plebe Jesse Glenn captured the all-around scoring to become the first Black Knight to win the title. Glenn was named the ECAC Gymnast of the Week. It was the second weekly ECAC award for Glenn who was selected the ECAC Rookie of the Week on Jan. 19.
• Firstie Garrek Hojan-Clark was crowned the pommel horse champion, the fourth Black Knight to win the title in that event. He was named the Army Athletic Association Athlete of the Week for the second time this season.
• Glenn is unbeaten in all-around and Hojan-Clark is unbeaten on pommel horse. In the latest rankings, Glenn lists seventh in all-around with an 84.45 average and Hojan-Clark is second on pommel horse (15.112).
• The Black Knights will be idle this week, returning to action Feb. 16 when the team heads to Atlanta, Ga., to compete with Air Force and Navy for the All-Academy title.
Hockey (7-13-4, 7-8-4 AHA)
• Army played an Atlantic Hockey series last weekend, tying Mercyhurst on Friday before suffering a loss on Saturday.
• In Friday's draw, goalkeeper Rob Tadazak made 40 saves and Zak Zaremba scored a second-period goal.
• Brian Schultz scored a shorthanded goal on Saturday to account for the Black Knights' lone goal.
• The Black Knights play a home-and-home series with AIC this weekend, hosting the Yellow Jackets on Friday before traveling to Springfield, Mass., on Saturday.
Rifle (7-3, 3-2 GARC)
• Army swept both the smallbore and air rifle disciplines to defeat Navy, 5822-5755, in the annual Star match at West Point. It was the team's fourth straight victory over the Midshipmen.
• Michael Matthews and Richard Calvin led the way as medalists in smallbore and air rifle, respectively.
• The win is the 7th over Navy for head coach Ron Wigger. All seven of those wins have come in the last eight years.
• In addition to winning the five-man scoring used in a service-academy match, the No. 5-ranked Black Knights (7-3) defeated the No. 15 Midshipmen (3-3) 4663-4620 in the NCAA four-man format in posting their third highest mark of the season and second best in air rifle (2352).
• It is the straight weekend that Matthews captured medalist honors in smallbore (581) and sixth time this season. Calvin's 591 air rifle score edged teammate Zachary Wells by a point to earn first-place honors for the second time this season. It is the third straight meet Calvin has scored in the 590 range and sixth time this season. Wells' 590 tied his career high that he set last year.
• Army heads to Nebraska Saturday in closing its Great America Rifle Conference schedule.
Men's Swimming & Diving (11-3, 5-1 Patriot League)
• Plebe Nick Treiberg shattered the plebe record in the 50-yard freestyle and several other Black Knights authored personal-best performances at the non-scoring Bucknell Invitational on Saturday.
• Treiberg led the Army men throughout the meet, winning the 50 free and recording four other top-five finishes. He led an Army sweep of the top three positions in the 50 free, touching the wall in an Army plebe-record time of 20.90 seconds. Yearling Dion Hart (21.42) and cow John Blickle (21.56) completed the Black Knights' sweep, placing second and third, respectively.
• Treiberg added runner-up finishes in the 200-yard individual medley (1:56.91) and 100-yard freestyle (46.50), while placing fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke (58.80). The first-year swimmer also teamed with fellow plebes Pierre Archambeau, Zach Blankenbeker and Colin Kanzari to win the 200-yard medley relay in a clocking of 1:34.13.
• Cow Brendan Lorton, sophomore Tyler Sowell, freshman Austin Kong, Blankenbeker and Kanzari added individual wins in the pool for the Army men. Lorton took gold in the 200 IM (1:55.39), Sowell outswam the field in the 200 back (1:53.68), Kanzari won the 200 breast (2:03.40), Blankenbeker was victorious in the 200 fly (1:52.02) and Kong touched first in the 100 breast (57.28).
• Sowell and Kong also helped Army win the 200-yard freestyle relay as the two underclassmen teamed with Hart and Blickle to take gold with a time of 1:23.69.
• The Black Knight men accounted for eight additional runner-up finishes in the pool. Sowell took second in the 500-yard freestyle (4:38.02), Archambeau placed runner-up in the 100 back (51.30), Kanzari took the silver in the 100 breast (57.67) and cow Wesley Trumbauer was second in the 200 fly (1:53.37). Yearling Matt Kane added a second-place showing in the 1,650-yard freestyle (16:24.99), Kong was runner-up in the 100 fly (50.61), Blankenbeker placed second in the 200 free (1:43.46) and freshman Cole Garriott earned the silver in the 200 breast (2:07.73).
• Third-place finishers for the Army men included Trumbauer in the 100 fly (50.70), freshman Daniel Bleyl in the 200 IM (1:57.11), Hart in the 100 breast (58.27) and Blickle in the 100 free (46.95). Bleyl added fourth-place showings in the 100 fly (51.79) and 200 fly (1:57.97). Trumbauer chipped in fourth-place effort in the 500 free (4:41.67), while Kane took fourth in the 200 free (1:45.50). Lorton was fourth in the 200 back (1:59.61).
• The Black Knights will return to Bucknell for the Patriot League Championships at the end of February. The three-day meet is scheduled to run from Feb. 21-23.
Women's Swimming & Diving (7-8, 3-3 Patriot League)
• Yearling Renee Mihail and plebe Carolyn McCarty combined to author five top-eight showings to pace the Black Knight women at the non-scoring Bucknell Invitational on Saturday.
• McCarty set the tone for the Army women, placing runner-up in the 200 IM with a clocking of 2:12.36. She later finished eighth in the 200 back (2:12.66). Mihail, meanwhile, was second in the 200 fly (2:14.63), fifth in the 1,650 free (18:22.61) and seventh in the 400 IM (4:48.64).
• Yearling Josie Antilla added a fourth-place showing in the 1,650 free with a clocking of 18:07.81. Elsewhere, freshman Jess Fabrizio (2:26.81) and junior Jessica Clay (2:28.18) placed fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 200 breast.
• Cows Breawna Davis and Rita Snyder paced the Army women in the diving events. Davis placed eighth off the three-meter board (233.10), while Snyder finished 11th off the one-meter board (208.30).
• The Black Knights will return to Bucknell for the Patriot League Championships at the end of February. The three-day meet is scheduled to run from Feb. 21-23.
Men's Tennis (1-1, 0-0 Patriot League)
• Army men's tennis lifted the lid on its dual-match schedule last weekend when the Black Knights traveled to Fayetteville, Ark., to face No. 56 Arkansas as well as first-time foe Oral Roberts. Army fell to the Razorbacks, 6-1, before topping the Golden Eagles, 6-1, to carry a 1-1 record.
• Army won five of six singles matches in straight sets against ORU, while six of the nine matches against UA went into extra sets.
• Plebe Harrison McCormick shined in his first collegiate duals as he went undefeated in a pair singles and doubles contests. McCormick teamed with cow Asika Isoh for an 8-7 (7-3) doubles win against Arkansas, before winning his singles matches against the Razorbacks at No. 6, 7-5, 2-6, 10-6.
• McCormick teamed with classmate Caison Best in doubles the following day for an 8-5 win at No. 2. He then won his singles match at No. 5 in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2.
• Up next, Army will begin a 10-match homestand at Lichtenberg Tennis Center starting on Feb. 9 against Stony Brook. The match against the Seawolves will be the first of a weekend tripleheader which will include contests against Connecticut and Vassar as well.
Women's Tennis (3-0, 0-0 Patriot League)
• The Army women's tennis team opened the 2013 dual match season with a trio of home victories over Binghamton (6-1), Sacred Heart (4-3) and Seton Hall (5-2).
• Plebe Haley O'Connor provided heroics over the weekend, winning back-to-back three-set matches on Friday. Her thrilling 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 triumph over Sacred Heart's Paige Olson clinched the Black Knights' victory and ended a four-hour long match.
• All but one singles match against Seton Hall took three sets to decide. O'Connor, Elle Taylor and Maya Parker all recorded victories. Army swept the doubles point against the Pioneers.
• Three of six singles sets on Saturday against Seton Hall also required three sets. Jamila Paul, Eva Sung, Elle Taylor and Gabriella Spindler were all winners.
• TennisRecruiting.net released its Top 25 recruiting classes last week. While North Carolina topped the list, Army received four votes in the poll and was the only Patriot League team to be mentioned.
• In a poll released earlier this month, the Black Knights were picked to repeat as Patriot League Champions for a ninth-straight season. Army will host the 2013 championships the weekend of April 26-28.
• Army continues a stretch of 19-straight home matches with single matches this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Black Knights are set to host Stony Brook, Connecticut and Fordham, respectively.
Track & Field
• Navy swept in the annual indoor Star Meet for the second consecutive season, defeating Army in the women's meet 97-84 and the winning the men's competition 93-88.
• In the women's meet, Army won the majority of events, including one in record-setting fashion. The Black Knights captured first place in nine of the day's 16 events in what was the closest women's indoor Star Meet in three years.
• In the men's competition, Army won seven of the 11 running events on the afternoon, but Navy used a dominant jumping contingent to tally 32 points. Army finished 1-2 in four events on the day but Navy earned the two best marks in five events which proved to be the difference.
• Yearling Lisa Junta won three events on the day, while classmate Katrina Donarski set the Academy record in the 500 meters. Donarski bested the No. 2 finisher by nearly two seconds en route to establishing the Army standard in 1:15.46, which also meets ECAC standards. Donarski teamed with senior tri-captain Kaitlyn Love, sophomore Samantha Reid and freshman Haley Winters to win the 4x400 relay as well.
• Army outscored the Navy men on the track, 64-51, including the top two times in the 500-meter dash, 800m and 3,000m.
• Army will have one final tune-up meet before the postseason begins. The Black Knights will travel to The Armory for the Lafayette-Rider Winter Games on Feb. 8. Events are scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.
Wrestling (5-6, 2-2 EIWA)
• Army placed fourth at the 19th annual All-Academy Championships on Saturday.
• Firstie Jordan Thome (133 pounds), cow Paul Hancock (165), cow Tyler Rauenzahn (141) and plebe Bryce Barnes (197) placed runner-up in their respective weight classes to lead the Black Knights.
• Army also totaled a pair of third-place finishes as cows John Belanger (149 pounds) and Patrick Marchetti (157) both successfully navigated the consolation draw.
• Firstie Collin Wittmeyer (285 pounds), yearling Cole Gracey (174) and plebe Austin Wilding (184) each placed fourth in their respective weight classes.
• Army will jump back into its dual match schedule on Sunday, Feb. 10, when the Black Knights host American and Boston University at West Point's Gillis Field House beginning at 5 p.m. That competition will serve as Army's final tune-up prior to welcoming Navy to West Point for the annual "Star" match on Sunday, Feb. 24.
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