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Lady Hawks Looks Ahead

May 10, 2012 Kelsey Damrad 0

The Lady Hawks Softball team completed their spring 2012 season with an overall record of 14-26, accompanied by their 6-12 record in SUNYAC play. The Hawks’ season began at the National Training Center Spring Games in Clermont, Fla. From March 17 to 22, where they competed in 12 games and went 4-8. The spring season concluded with back-to-back doubleheaders on the SUNY New Paltz turf against No. 11 SUNY Cortland and SUNY Oswego. The Lady Hawks left the field with a winning game on Friday, but not making it to the SUNYACs was disappointing, Head Coach Denise Marchese said. “The seniors are the most disappointed, they definitely expected more,” Marchese said. “But they never stopped working hard, and I thank them for all of their hard work.” The Hawks were one of the youngest teams in the conference this season with eight first-year players, leaving the team with […]

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Left on Base

May 10, 2012 Andrew Wyrich 0

The final strike has been thrown for the SUNY New Paltz Baseball team this season. The team, which made the SUNYAC tournament last season for […]

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Parting Ways

May 3, 2012 Kelsey Damrad 0

With the 2012 spring semester coming to a close, departing senior athletes take one last glance at their colorful times spent competing on the SUNY New Paltz fields. One senior in particular reluctantly draws the blinds around her involvement on the Women’s Lacrosse team, laying her crosse down to rest. “I started playing lacrosse when I was in fourth grade,” fourth-year Captain Samantha DelGaudio said. “I came in my freshman year of college when the team was just being reinstated. It’s like my legacy.” Having grown up in Northport, Long Island, DelGaudio said she played Div. III all throughout high school, while the majority of the girls were Div. I. Lacrosse, she said, is a popular sport in her hometown and nearly everyone is involved on some level or another. While she admitted her high school coach had a tendency to make her cry on more than one occasion, SUNY New Paltz offered a unique experience in playing her favorite sport that kept her going. It’s something she said she will never take for granted. […]