Medaille Sports

The Medaille College men’s basketball team will host its 3rd Annual Boy’s Summer Basketball Camp.  There will be two great weeks of camp, session I will run July 6-10 and session II will take place August 3-7.  The camp is run by Medaille College head coach Mike MacDonald who led the Mavericks to the 2009 NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history.  He has assembled a staff that has some of the finest coaches in the country.  Click here for the camp brochure.

The Medaille College softball team headed to Alfred University and the Hornell High School softball facilities to compete in their second straight Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Upstate Tournament. With a hundred in attendance, the single elimination contest placed the fifth seeded Mavericks against the fourth seeded Alfred University Saxons. The Mavericks fought hard only giving one run up in the first and none in the second, but after a twenty-five minute delay due to a lighting failure, the Saxons would erupt for five runs in the third before being shut down for the remaining four innings. Medaille tried to counter, but was held scoreless by a strong Alfred defense who held on to beat the Mavs (6-3).  Amanda Westling (Dunkirk, NY/Dunkirk) would take the start for the Lady Mavs, facing thirty batters in her six innings of work. Westling would give up six runs on eight hits, striking out three and walking two against the Saxons (26-9).  (more…)

Alyssa Zemla (So. – Softball – Hamburg, NY)

In a (2-2) week at the AMCC Tournament the sophomore catcher stole the show. She hit four home runs and drove in six RBI’s. Two of her homers were mammoth shots that towered over the left field wall. Zemla has connected for (12) round trippers on the season and has an unbelievable (.832) slugging percentage.

Ben Dlugosh (Sr. – Men’s Lacrosse – Palmyra, NY)

In a (1-1) week for the Mavs Ben was stellar. In a narrow one goal victory over Morrisville State he made six critical stops in the fourth quarter to preserve the victory. In the NEAC Championship game the senior, goalkeeper, made (16) saves in the loss. He finished his Medaille career with a record setting (676) saves.

The Medaille College softball team received good news this afternoon as they were one of six teams selected to participate in the ECAC Upstate Softball Tournament.  The Lady Mavs (20-18) are the fifth seed and will head to Alfred University (25-9) to face the fourth seeded Saxons with a 7:00pm first pitch.  This is the second straight ECAC bid for the Lady Mavs as they traveled to Oneonta State in 2008.  The Lady Mavs are in the midst of their second straight twenty win season.

Thank you for voting for the Medaille Mavericks highlight of the year that was caught on tape during the 2008-2009 athletic season. The voting is now closed and the results for the best male highlight and the best female highlight will be announced tonight (5/4) at the Maverick Awards Night.

The Medaille College men’s lacrosse team had the best season in school history end with a disappointing (17-4) loss to Keuka College in the NEAC title game.  The Mavs would be overmatched throughout as the Storm led wire to wire.  It would be the final game for a trio of seniors who left an indelible mark on the program as David Bennett (Macedon, NY/Palmyra-Macedon)(1 goal), Ben Dlugosh (Palmyra, NY/Palmyra-Macedon)(pictured) (16 saves) and Jeff Zacharias (Kirkville, NY/East Syracuse-Minoa)(1 goal, 1 assist) all played their guts out in search of a conference title.  The Storm would prove to be too much for Medaille as they cruised to victory.  The host team jumped out to a (5-0) lead after the first quarter and would never look back.  The Mavs finally got on the board at the (11:35) mark of the second quarter on a goal by Zacharias which would trim the Storm lead to four.  However, the Storm would strike for two quick goals, putting the game out of reach.  Despite the loss, the Mavs finished with a (7-9) record.  The seven wins are the most in school history.  Bennett leaves Medaille holding every offensive record, while Dlugosh ends his career as the Mavs greatest goaltender.  Zacharias turned his career around after his freshman season to finish in the top five in career goals. The 2009 season saw many records fall for the Mavs and they will push for a conference title in 2010.

The Medaille Lady Maverick softball team entered day two of the 2009 AMCC championship tournament at Penn State-Behrend with a (1-1) tournament record and would be battling to stay alive in the double elimination format. They would be scheduled to take on the fifth seeded La Roche Red Hawks that in day one of the tournament fell by one run to Pitt-Greensburg in an extra inning game. Medaille would come on strong and would come out victorious (9-1) in only five innings sending La Roche home and advancing to the next round where they would not only have a rematch with Frostburg State but fall to them (5-2), ending their bid for an AMCC Championship.  Amanda Westling (Dunkirk, NY/Dunkirk)(pictured) would pitch a dominant five innings in the opener against La Roche giving up only one run on five hits, striking out five and walking none while seeing twenty one batters at the plate. (more…)

The Medaille College Softball team hit the road today for the 2009 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference softball championship tournament in Erie, PA at the Penn-State Behrend softball facilities. The third seeded Mavericks took on the sixth seeded Frostburg State Bobcats in game one defeating them (1-0) before advancing to the next game against the second seeded Mounties of Mount Aloysius. The Mounties took control of the game early and held on for a (6-1) win over the Lady Mavs. In the opening game Amanda Westling (Dunkirk, NY/Dunkirk) faced twenty-six batters in the seven inning shutout victory. She gave up no runs on three hits, striking out nine and walked none en route to the win.  Westling forced eight Bobcat batters to fly out and another four to ground out in the late morning pitchers duel. Each team was held in check until the bottom of the fourth inning when sophomore, Alyssa Zemla (Hamburg, NY/Hamburg)(pictured) went deep hitting a towering home run to leftfield scoring the only run of the game, she finished (1 for 3) from the dish. (more…)