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This Week In Army Athletics
May 14, 2014 | General
May 14, 2014
Dear Friends,
It’s a bittersweet time here at the Academy as time winds down on the 2013-14 academic year. Our teams have wrapped up competition, and our Firsties anxiously await rapidly approaching graduation and commissioning ceremonies in two weeks.
TEE (Term-End Exams) also take place this week. We wish all of our cadet-athletes the best of luck, and as always, BEAT THE DEAN!
ARMY WRAPS UP SUCCESSFUL 2013-14
With the final team competition completed for the 2013-14 academic year, Army teams have combined for a winning percentage of .575. Army’s 25 NCAA-sponsored sports competed in 415 games or matches during the year. The teams showed 235 wins, 173 losses and seven ties for the sparkling winning percentage. Army’s .575 winning percentage is the best since 2004-05 when the success rate was .582.
The stellar winning percentage comes on the heels of Army winning the annual Star series against Navy as well as the overall competition against the Midshipmen. While team competitions for the academic year are complete, Army does have individuals in golf and track and field still competing.
KIM SETS SIGHTS ON NCAA SAN ANTONIO REGIONAL
Plebe golfer Peter Kim learned he will travel to the Briggs Ranch Golf Club in San Antonio, Texas, to compete in the NCAA Regionals this weekend. Kim, who won the individual title at the Patriot League Championships earlier this month, becomes the first Black Knight to qualify for the regionals since William Park did it in 2012.
TRACK & FIELD CONTINUES AT ECAC/IC4A CHAMPIONSHIPS
The outdoor track and field team continues its 2014 run at the ECAC/IC4A Championships this weekend. Those athletes who qualified will take part in the two-day event at Princeton University all day Friday and Saturday. Additional congratulations go out to Kendall Ward, Christopher Kittle and Lindsay Gabow for being named to the Patriot League All-Academic squad on Monday.
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/boosters/army-a-club.html, call (845)938-2322, or email armyaclub@usma.edu.
We appreciate all of your contributions to our success. Be well.
Go Army!
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Baseball (33-18)
- Second-seeded Army hosted No. 3 Lehigh in a best-of-three Patriot League Semifinal Series at Doubleday Field. The Black Knights rallied from a 6-0 loss to win Game 2 by a 3-2 score. The Mountain Hawks edged Army 3-1 in Sunday’s Game 3 to move on to next weekend’s Patriot League Championship Series at top-seeded Bucknell.
- Cow pitcher Alex Robinett was named the Army Athletic Association Athlete of the Week following his complete game victory against Lehigh. Robinett threw nine innings, scattered five hits, walked just one and struck out six to lead Army to a 3-2 win over Lehigh in a pivotal game two of a Patriot League semifinal series. Robinett gave up just two earned runs in winning his sixth game of the season.
- Army bids farewell to four All-Patriot League seniors, but returns three all-league honorees in Alex Jensen, Harold Earls and Mark McCants.
- Robinett closed out this season tied for ninth on Army’s single-season strikeouts list with 85. Firstie pitcher Gunnar Carroll’s eight wins on the year land seventh in Academy history. Earls’ 26 stolen bases this spring are tied for third all-time, while his 64 career stolen bases rank third in career annals.
Golf
- Plebe Peter Kim will travel to the Briggs Ranch Golf Club in San Antonio, Texas, to compete in the NCAA Regionals, May 15-17.
- Kim won the individual title at the Patriot League Championships earlier this month to become the first Black Knight to qualify for the regionals since William Park did so in 2012.
- Kim will join nine other individuals in San Antonio on Thursday, May 15 to begin a 54-hole tournament, which is set to conclude Saturday, May 17. Briggs Ranch Golf Club, a par-72, 7,206-yard course, will also host 13 teams over the three days of competition.
- Kim is one of 45 golfers who will compete as an individual at the NCAAs. He will play in a group of 10 golfers, while the remaining 35 competitors will be spread out over the other five regional sites. Eugene, Ore., and Raleigh, N.C., will also host 10 individuals, while Auburn, Ala., Columbia, Mo., and Sugar Grove, Ill., will welcome five.
- The lowest scoring five teams and the low individual not part of an advancing team from each of the six regionals will all participate in the NCAA Championships at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kan. The 30-team, six-individual field will begin competition on May 23.
Softball (23-28)
- Army opened the Patriot League Tournament with a bang, upsetting No. 1 Lehigh in a 5-1 exra-inning thriller last Thursday in Bethlehem, Pa. The Black Knights scored four runs in the top of the ninth to snap a 1-1 tie and plebe right-handed pitcher Caroline Smith retired the side to secure the victory.
- The Black Knights advanced to Friday’s winners’ bracket where the team fell to Boston University and Bucknell to end the season.
- Kasey McCravey and Caroline Smith were named to the Patriot League All-Tournament Team.
- McCravey led the team in batting (.388), doubles (10), home runs (7), RBI (44), total bases (92),slugging percentage (.605) and on-base percentage (.427) in 2014.
- Firstie Amanda Nguyen led the team in runs scored (36), hits (62) triples (four) and stolen bases (29). Nguyen closed out her career as the school record holder for runs scored, hits and stolen bases and also holds Patriot League career and season marks for stolen bases and hits.
- Smith posted a team-best 13-13 mark in 150.1 innings compiling a 3.03 ERA.
Men’s Tennis (20-6)
- The Army men’s tennis team’s season came to an end on Saturday afternoon,as the Black Knights fell to No. 4 Virginia, 4-0, in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament at defending national champion Virginia’s indoor facility, Boar’s Head Sports Club.
- It marked Army’s sixth appearance in the NCAA Tournament and first since 2011.
- Under the direction of 2014 Patriot League Coach of the Year Jim Poling, the Black Knights kept pace with the Cavaliers early in doubles action, but the hosts eventually pulled away to take the doubles point.
- The Cavaliers went on to sweep three singles matches to secure the victory. Virginia’s singles lineup featured four nationally ranked players, including a pair in the nation’s top 10.
- Army loses five seniors to graduation but returns a host of players to include All-Patriot League performers Alex Van Velzer, Sam Lampman and Grant Reichmann. Lampman was this year’s Patriot League Rookie of the Year as well.
Track & Field
- The Army track & field teams were idle last week, preparing for this weekend’s ECAC/IC4A Championships to be held all day Friday and Saturday at Princeton University.
- Three members of the Black Knights’ squad were selected to the Academic All-Patriot League Team the conference announced Monday. Firstie Kendall Ward and cow Christopher Kittle represented the men's team, while yearling Lindsay Gabow was the lone women's honoree.
