Upcoming Schedule:
 
Monday, February 19
Men's Tennis vs. Emerson @ Nashua, N.H., 12:30 p.m.
Women's Tennis vs. Emerson @ Nashua, N.H., 12:30 p.m.
Women's Basketball @ Bentley, 1:30 p.m.*
 
Wednesday, February 21
Women's Basketball vs. Assumption, 5:30 p.m.*
Men's Basketball vs. Assumption, 7:30 p.m.*
 
Friday, February 23
Alpine Skiing @ Middlebury Carnival/EISA Championship (Hancock, Vt.), 9 a.m.
Nordic Skiing @ Middlebury Carnival/EISA Championship (Ripton, Vt.), 10 a.m.
Women's Ice Hockey @ LIU, 7:30 p.m. (NEWHA Championship Best-of-3 First-Round Series)
 
Saturday, February 24
Alpine Skiing @ Middlebury Carnival/EISA Championship (Hancock, Vt.), 9 a.m.
Nordic Skiing @ Middlebury Carnival/EISA Championship (Ripton, Vt.), 10 a.m.
Men's Lacrosse @ Bridgeport, 12 p.m.
Baseball vs. Saint Anselm @ Northboro, Mass., 1 p.m. (2)
Women's Basketball @ Adelphi, 1:30 p.m.*
Men's Basketball @ Adelphi, 3:30 p.m.*
Men's Ice Hockey vs. TBA, 4 p.m. (NE10 Championship Semifinal)
Women's Ice Hockey @ LIU, 7:30 p.m. (NEWHA Championship Best-of-3 First-Round Series)
 
Sunday, February 25
Women's Ice Hockey @ LIU, 7:15 p.m. (NEWHA Championship Best-of-3 First-Round Series; if necessary)
Baseball vs. Saint Anselm @ Northboro, Mass., TBA
 
* Northeast-10 Conference Event
 
 
Men's Basketball (19-6, 15-4 NE10) Splits Pair Against Regionally-Ranked Foes
 
The Saint Michael's College men's basketball team went 1-1 against regionally-ranked Northeast-10 Conference foes last week, losing at Bentley University, 84-65, on Wednesday before downing Southern Connecticut State University, 91-80, on Saturday. The Purple Knights, who have a two-game lead for first place in the NE10 with three games to go, were 21st in last week's D2CSC national poll and second in its regional rankings, and received votes toward the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) national poll. Junior Jhamyl Fricas (Lawrence, Mass./Worcester Academy/Connors State) had 17 points off the bench at Bentley, senior Romar Reid (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Woodstock Academy/Manhattan) added 15 points and seven rebounds, while sophomore Nolan Marold (Highlands Ranch, Colo./Brewster Academy/Loyola Chicago) totaled 14 points and eight boards. Reid scored a team-high 24 points against Southern Connecticut State, and sophomore Darrel Yepdo (Dracut, Mass./Brooks School) had 15 points and seven assists versus zero turnovers. Marold netted 13 points, sophomore Alan Brzezinski (Örebro, Sweden/Western Reserve Academy) scored 12, and first-year TJ Henaghen (Hampden, Maine/Williston Northampton School) added 11 off the bench.
 
Women's Basketball (5-19, 1-17 NE10) Falls Against Regionally-Ranked Southern Connecticut State
 
The Saint Michael's College women's basketball team lost to regionally-ranked Southern Connecticut State University, 60-41, on Saturday during Northeast-10 Conference play. Seniors Paige Slaven (Fair Haven, N.J./Rumson-Fair Haven Regional) and Makayla Blake (Colonie, N.Y./Colonie Central) notched 11 and 10 points, respectively, and junior Molly Brophy (Greenwich, N.Y./Greenwich Central School) pulled nine rebounds.
 
Men's Ice Hockey (15-13, 13-7 NE10) Sweeps Post, Clinches First-Round Bye in NE10 Championship
 
The Saint Michael's College men's ice hockey team swept a Northeast-10 Conference series from Post University, 3-2 on Saturday and 6-1 on Sunday, to clinch the No. 2 seed in the upcoming NE10 Championship and a first-round bye into a Saturday home semifinal. Fifteen wins match the Purple Knights' most since netting 16 in 1998-99, and their 13 conference wins are their most since posting a record 15 in 1988-89. Sophomore Quinn McCarthy (Melrose, Mass./Holderness School) had three assists in the opener, while junior Brennan McFarland (Greeley, Colo./Northern Colorado Eagles) added a goal and an assist. Senior Zach Taylor (Hanover, Mass./South Shore Kings) tacked on two helpers, while classmate TJ Beaver (Enfield, N.H./Proctor Academy) and junior Case Kantgias (Bloomfield Hills, Mich./Northern Colorado Eagles) also scored. Sophomore Cole Manahan (Hermantown, Minn./Vernal Oilers) made 33 saves. On Sunday, McCarthy, McFarland and Taylor all had one goal and two assists, and first-year Ty Bloom (Helena, Mont./Helena Bighorns) posted a goal and an assist. Kantgias and junior David Ciancio (Scituate, R.I./Seahawks Hockey Club) scored, and Manahan made 18 stops.
 
Women's Ice Hockey (0-33-1, 0-27-1 NEWHA) Swept by LIU in Final NEWHA Weekend
 
The Saint Michael's College women's ice hockey team lost twice at New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) regular-season champion Long Island University, 7-0 on Friday and 3-2 in overtime on Saturday, to cap the regular season. As the No. 8 seed in the NEWHA Championship, the Purple Knights return to LIU this coming weekend for a best-of-three quarterfinal series. Sophomore Annika Lavender (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata) made 36 saves on Friday before recording 40 more on Saturday, and left the weekend with a school-record 1,106 saves this season. Junior Angelina Ruiz (Independence, Minn./Gentry Academy) and sophomore Elisabeth Gerebi (Victoria, Minn./Chanhassen) both scored in the finale.
 
Alpine and Nordic Skiing Finish Sixth at Williams Carnival, Strand Wins Sunday Slalom
 
The Saint Michael's College Alpine and Nordic skiing teams combined to place sixth among 14 schools when the Williams College Carnival concluded on Saturday, bolstered by six top-10 finishes. During an NCAA Championship-qualifier slalom on Sunday in Egremont, Mass., senior Simen Strand (Nedre Høvik, Norway/Dønski VGS) earned his first collegiate victory, besting the field by 1.37 seconds; the second- through 20th-place finishers were separated by 1.36 seconds. First-year Aidan Robin (Stowe, Vt./Burke Mountain Academy) was 19th.
 
On Friday, Strand tied for fifth in the GS and junior Helene Kristoffersen (Rælingen, Norway/Dønski VGS) took ninth. Strand followed that up by tying for seventh in Saturday's slalom, with Robin 14th. Junior Declan Hutchinson (Duluth, Minn./Marshall School) led Nordic by placing 10th in the 10K classic on Friday, when first-year Henrik Wist (Trondheim, Norway/Heimdal VGS) took 20th. The Purple Knights had their first seventh-place relay since 1998 on Saturday, when a pair reached the milestone. Hutchinson, Wist and first-year Andrew Scanio (Lake Placid, N.Y./Lake Placid) were seventh in the men's 3x5K freestyle, while senior Grace Castonguay (Jackson, N.H./Kennett), sophomore Clara Wyatt (Bozeman, Mont./Bozeman) and first-year Zoe Devine (Ely, Minn./Memorial) were seventh in the 3x5K freestyle.
 
Five Swimming & Diving School Records Fall at NE10 Championship, Kowal Lands All-Conference
 
Five school records fell as the Saint Michael's College men's and women's swimming & diving teams capped their season at the four-day Northeast-10 Conference Championship in Worcester, Mass. The women claimed fifth among eight schools, tying a program record for finish at the meet, while the men took sixth and came within 26 points of a 14-year-old school scoring mark. During Friday's 500-yard freestyle, sophomore Rafael Kowal (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh/Alfred State) became the eighth Purple Knight to land NE10 All-Conference honors.
 
During a fourth-place finish on Thursday, Kowal, junior Will Englehardt (Sparta, N.J./Sparta), sophomore Connor Quirbach (Lowell, Mass./Chelmsford) and first-year Hunter Cook (Garden City, N.Y./Chaminade) set the program's 800 free relay record (7:06.20), shattering a two-year-old standard by 9.83 seconds. First-year Madeline Waldt (Abingdon, Md./The Catholic High School of Baltimore) was fifth in the 1,000 free, while she, sophomore Katie Dzambo (Windermere, Fla./Bishop Moore) and first-years Ashley Meade (Belle Harbor, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy) and Ayden Walsh (Tallahassee, Fla./Creekside) claimed fifth in the 800 free relay.
 
On Friday, Kowal took second in the 500 free while first-year Liam Jordan (Mendon, Mass./Wellesley) broke the program's 200-yard individual medley record during both morning trials and again in evening finals (1:59.62). Junior Thomas Kane (Sparta, N.J./Pope John XXIII Regional) was fourth in the 50 free, coming within 0.13 seconds of an all-conference accolade, and sided with Englehardt, Quirbach and senior Aaron Bouchard (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Seton Catholic Central) for a fourth-place 200 free relay performance. Sophomore Ashley Silveira (Seekonk, Mass./Seekonk) placed fifth in one-meter diving, posting the best finish by a Saint Michael's diver at an NE10 Championship since Joe Vo '15 was fifth in the 1M in 2013-14. She had the highest placement by a Purple Knight woman diver since Tierney Carey '09 took fourth in the 1M in 2008-09.
 
Kane broke his own school records three times on Saturday, all during the 100-yard breaststroke. In morning trials, he set both the 100 breast record and the 50 breast mark (26.92). Kane followed up his prelims performance by taking fourth in the evening championship race, clocking in at 57.95 to again lower his 100 record. He came within 0.15 seconds of a top-three finish and all-conference honors in the process. Kowal placed fourth in the 400-yard individual medley, and Quirbach was fourth in the 200 free.
 
On Sunday, Dzambo, Meade, Walsh and senior Emily McLane (Morrisonville, N.Y./Peru) combined to break the program's 12-year-old 400 free relay record by 0.32 seconds, clocking in at 3:42.02 during a fifth-place finish. Waldt was fifth in the 1,650 free. On the men's side, Kowal finished fourth in the 200 back to come within 0.17 seconds of a podium finish. Englehardt, Kane, Kowal and Quirbach combined to record a fifth-place finish in the 400 free relay, falling 0.26 seconds short of a three-month-old school record.
 
Men's Tennis (4-5, 2-2 NE10) Rallies Past Saint Lawrence, 5-4
 
The regionally-ranked Saint Michael's College men's tennis team stormed back from a 3-1 deficit to defeat Saint Lawrence University, 5-4, on Thursday. The Purple Knights were ninth in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) East Region poll. Senior Tristian Du Plessis (Rustenburg, South Africa/Höerskool Waterkloof/Wallace State CC) and junior Sergio Barroso (Madrid, Spain/Colegio Montpellier) both won twice, while first-years Garrett Brooker (Charleston, S.C./Oceanside Collegiate Academy) and Jack Li (San Diego, Calif./San Marcos) each earned one victory. The Purple Knights won for the first time in 14 all-time road meetings, having made their first visit to Canton, N.Y., in 1938.
 
Women's Tennis (1-10, 0-8 NE10) Downed by Saint Lawrence
 
The Saint Michael's College women's tennis team lost to regionally-ranked Saint Lawrence University, 9-0, on Thursday, as the Purple Knights returned to action for the first time since Oct. 13. First-year Emma Gredenhag (Jacksonville, Fla./Bishop Kenny) and junior Natalle Meiler (South Burlington, Vt./South Burlington) both took one game during singles play, at No. 1 and 5, respectively, with the former facing the 18th-ranked player in the Division III Northeast Region.