Men's Basketball Tops In New England
Issue 5 for athletic events from January 19 - January 26, 1997
Men's Basketball Tops In New EnglandAlso recognized by the ECAC Honor Roll, Pavelski averaged 25.3 ppg while shooting 53.1% from the field and 44.4% from long range for eight of his 35 3-pointers this season. He matched his career high of 31-points against Colby, while also maintaining Amherst defensive pressure with his six steals and two blocks. Pavelski is the team's second leading scorer wjth 19.1 ppg and second leading rebounder with 6.2 rpg.
The junior paired up with senior tri-captain Jamal Wilson (East Orange, NJ) for 25-points a piece in an 87-85 squeaker at Connecticut College. The Jeffs went on a 14-0 run late in the first half to push their halftime lead to 18. Amherst stayed about 20-up on the Camels throughout the second half until four minutes left to play. Conn held Amherst scoreless for over three minutes while the Camels added 10-points to cut the lead to six. In the final minute (that took 20 to play), the Jeffs were outscored 10-4, but junior Julian Rowand (Washington, DC) made the back-end of a two-shot foul to push the Amherst lead to 2 and force a three-point attempt.
Against Bowdoin, the Jeffs shot close to 50% throughout the game while holding the Bears to 36% from the floor. Rookie Hugh Quattlebaum '00 (Andover, MA) gave a phenomenal performance, shooting 6-7 from the floor for a career high 13 points in just 16 minutes on the floor. Quattlebaum sparked the 17-0 run over a five minute span in the second half to pull away from the Bears toward an 84-67 victory. This was the eleventh straight win by the Jeffs.
However, that streak was snapped the next day against Colby. The Mules jumped out to a nine-point lead at the half by hitting over half their shots while Amherst could get only a third of theirs to fall. But the Jeffs stayed in the game with a 10-0 run in the second half before senior tri-captain Chris Akers '97 (Washington, DC) was saddled with two more questionable fouls. Less than two minutes later, Wilson was slapped with foul number four as the Jeffs found themselves in foul trouble for the remainder of the game. In the last ten minutes, the Mules went to the line 22 times and made all but two shots. Meanwhile, Pavelski attempted to jump-start the game, scoring 10 of his 31 in that span. At the final buzzer, Colby handed Amherst only its second loss of the season, 67-81.
No. Name GP ppg rpg apg 21 Jamal Wilson '97 13 20.8 5.4 1.9 41 John Pavelski '98 13 19.1 6.2 1.5 4 Julian Rowand '98 13 8.7 3.8 2.5 32 Billy Skorupski '98 13 7.1 5.0 0.8 44 Chris Akers '97 13 5.8 6.6 1.2 12 Patrick Mulvey '00 13 5.8 1.8 1.5 23 Hugh Quattlebaum '00 13 4.7 2.2 0.8 24 Chris Ingraham '99 11 4.0 2.0 0.5 11 George Charles '97 13 3.1 1.4 3.2 40 Charles Field '99 7 3.1 1.7 0.3 20 Caith Chapman '99 12 2.8 0.4 2.1 10 Josh Anish '99 6 2.7 1.5 0.2 5 Mark MacLeod '99 8 2.3 0.5 1.8 3 Peter Denby '00 3 2.0 1.3 1.0 31 Jackson Collins '00 3 1.7 2.3 0.3 30 Chris Smith '00 9 1.4 2.9 0.2 Amherst Totals 13 87.5 43.4 17.5 Opponent Totals 13 70.5 39.0 11.1Current Record: 11-2 Last Week: at Conn College, W 87-85 Bowdoin, W 84-67 Colby, L 67-81 Next Week: Tue Jan 28 at Babson Sat Feb 1 Hamilton
Hersey jumpstarted her week by rattling off the first ten points of the Conn College game to put her well on the way to a 21-point, 10-rebound performance. The Jeffs led by as much as 16 points while shooting 54.7% from the floor. Liza Feldman '00 (Lincoln, MA) shot a perfect 4-4 from the field, including 2 from behind the arc, in her career high 11-point game. Hersey and Feldman were only two of four Lord Jeffs in double figures, along with Janinne Noel '99 (Dalton, MA) and Naomi Sullivan '00 (Hudson, MA) with 13 and 10, respectively.
Two days later against Clark, junior forward Sarah Rinaldi (Washington, DC) hit her first five shots for the Jeffs. But the Cougars sank four straight from long-range before the Jeffs fought back to a one-point halftime deficit. The teams played each other close, as neither could push a lead into double figures. A jumper from Rinaldi with 1:57 left to play gave the Jeffs a 93-92 edge before she sprained her ankle going for a rebound on the next trip down the floor. Hersey picked up the slack, driving for her 21st point of the night and a 95-92 lead. But the Cougars turned to All-American Meegan Garrity in the final 30 seconds, hitting a 3 and releasing the winning deuce with under a second left on the game-clock. Garrity finished with 37 points.
But the Jeffs would have payback against Springfield, winning 58-56 on a Sullivan shot with 4.0 seconds to play. Amherst took spent close to eight minutes stifling the Pride's offense while outscoring them 17-2. But down by nine at the half, Springfield fought back to tie the game at 39 with 9:43 left to play. A Hersey jumper would give the Jeffs the lead for good after a 12-0 run late in the game. Donna Masterson had a putback of her own shot to tie the game again at 56, but a fast-break and the Sullivan basket bettered the Jeffs record to 8-5 for the season.
Current Record: 8-5
Last Week: at Conn College, W 79-69
Clark, L 95-97
Springfield, W 58-56
Next Week: Tue Jan 28 at WPI
Thu Jan 30 at Wellesley
Sat Feb 1 at Tufts
Travelling to UConn the next day, the Jeffs posted a 5-2 win over the Huskies with goals by five different players. Tim Kelly '98 (St. Johnsbury, VT), Blyth, Rob MacDonald '99 (Walpole, MA), Matt Sather '97 (Trumbull, CT)Dan Moos '98 (Wayzata, MN) all added points to their season totals. Blyth currently leads both the NESCAC and the ECAC in points with 13 goals and 16 assists in 15 games. The Jeffs rise to No. 22 in the nation and tied for ninth in the ECAC-East with Fredonia and Bowdoin.
Goaltending W-L-T Min Sht Sav G GAA Save %
Joe Branca '97 7-4-0 692 362 322 40 3.46 88.9%
Chris Addesa '99 3-0-0 153 64 58 6 2.35 90.6%
Greg Morneau '98 1-0-0 60 10 9 1 1.00 90.0%
Amherst Totals 11-4-0 908 437 389 48 3.17 89.0%
Current Record: 11-4
Last Week: at AIC, W 3-1
at UConn, W 5-2
This Week: Tue Jan 28 North Adams
Fri Jan 31 Bowdoin
Sat Feb 1 Colby
Over the weekend, Amherst faced both Little III foes, Wesleyan and Williams at home. Frisch scored the lone Jeff goal against Wesleyan in a 6-1 decision, while Brittany Evans '99 (Avon, CT) snuck one by Williams in an 8-1 game. Cindy Matsushita '98 (Bronx, NY) took over at goalie in the third period against Williams and shut-out the Ephs with her 18 saves in 20 minutes. The previous day, Matsushita made 28 against the Cardinals.
Goalkeeping GP/GS W-L-T Min Saves Save% GA GAA SOs
22 Sarah Evans '99 6/5 1-4-0 277 166 85.1% 29 6.28 0
31 Catherine Cugell '98 3/3 1-2-0 160 77 82.8% 16 6.00 0
1 Cindy Matsushita '98 3/1 0-1-0 88 48 88.9% 6 2.09 0
Amherst Totals 9 2-7-0 465 291 85.1% 51 6.58 0
Opponent Totals 9 7-2-0 465 177 87.6% 25 3.23 1
Current Record: 2-7
Last Week: at RPI, L 2-5
Wesleyan, L 1-6
Williams, L 1-8
This Week: Sat Feb 1 at Vermont
Sun Feb 2 at Middlebury
Current Record: 5-1
Last Week: Bowdoin, W 138-46
Hamilton, W 167-76
This Week: Wed Jan 29 So. Conn.
Sat Feb 1 Wesleyan
Co-Captain Becky Watson '97 (Hamel, MN) also qualified for her second straight appearance at Nationals with 258.97 points on the 3-meter board. Watson, Tamara Ball '99 (Des Peres, MO) and Lauren Leibsohn '97 (Mission Hills, KS) swept both boards to propel the Jeffs to a 163-80 victory over the Continentals. Amherst also swept the 200 IM with Moran, Kristin Olson '00 (Los Angeles, CA) and Fein coming in at 1-2-3, respectively., before Weeks and Soto took 1-2 in the 200 butterfly.
Current Record: 4-3
Last Week: Bowdoin, W 113-73
Hamilton, W 163-80
This Week: Tue Jan 28 Smith
Sat Feb 1 Wesleyan
Current Record: 7-0
Last Week: at Dartmouth, W 9-0
This Week: Wed Jan 29 at MIT
Fri Jan 31 at Princeton
Current Record: 8-3
Last Week: at Wellesley, W 8-1
Penn at Yale, L 0-9
Princeton, L 1-8
This Week: Wed Jan 29 at Dartmouth
Fri Jan 31 Brown
Sat Feb 1 Yale
The Jeffs rebounded from a ten-point loss to Williams last week for two wins and a buzzer-beating loss over Connecticut College, Springfield and Clark. For her 18.0-points-per-game and 10.6-rebounds-per-game, Kathryn Hersey '99 (Westford, MA) was named a NESCAC Co-Player of the Week for the second straight week and to the ECAC Honor Roll for the fourth consecutive week. She leads the team in both scoring (16.5 ppg) and rebounding (9.5 rpg).
Women's Basketball Posts 2-1 Record for Week
No. Name GP ppg rpg apg
15 Kathryn Hersey '99 12 16.5 9.5 1.8
31 Sarah Rinaldi '98 6 10.3 3.5 0.7
12 Janinne Noel '99 13 9.2 2.5 2.0
33 Naomi Sullivan '00 13 8.9 6.6 1.8
34 Nora McCartney '98 13 6.5 5.5 1.0
21 Kate Sullivan '97 13 6.5 2.8 2.5
24 Liza Feldman '00 12 4.8 1.3 0.3
30 Sam Ince '97 13 3.2 3.3 0.5
14 Dacia Walker '00 13 3.1 1.8 1.2
10 Melissa Roja '00 7 1.0 0.3 0.1
32 Molly Auth '97 11 0.5 0.6 0.1
22 Tari Cash '98 2 0.0 0.0 0.0
Amherst Totals 13 63.0 40.5 11.6
Opponent Totals 13 63.0 36.5 11.6
With wins at AIC and UConn this week, men's ice hockey extends their win-streak to seven games after its third consecutive weekend sweep. After a scoreless first period, the Jeffs netted two goals late in the second by Matt Drawz '99 (St. Anthony Village, MN) and Charlie Blyth '99 (Beaconsfield, Quebec). AIC scored first in the third, but sophomore Mike Noone's (Swampscott, MA) eighth goal of the season sealed a 3-1 win over the Yellow Jackets, the team's second this season.
Men's Ice Hockey Pushes Streak to Seven
No. Name GP G A P PIM
22 Charlie Blyth '99 15 13 16 29 22
24 Rob MacDonald '99 15 10 14 24 14
9 Mike Noone '98 15 8 13 21 0
19 Matt Sather '97 12 8 12 20 0
23 Dan Moos '98 15 7 7 14 8
2 Buster Nelson '00 15 4 7 11 21
21 Doug Erickson '98 15 2 9 11 14
11 Paul Gozzo '98 15 2 8 10 12
8 Tim Kelly '98 15 3 6 9 10
18 Matt Rogers '99 11 3 6 9 2
5 Tim Quinn '00 15 4 2 6 18
7 Tom Carideo '98 15 3 2 5 14
17 Andy Jones '00 15 0 4 4 4
15 Matt Drawz '99 15 2 1 3 12
6 Chris Gargiulo '98 6 1 2 3 2
3 John Collura '97 15 1 1 2 4
20 Bart Molloy '97 14 0 2 2 6
12 Dave Hale '97 14 0 1 1 14
10 John Maguire '00 11 0 0 0 2
Amherst Totals 15 71 113 184 179
Facing three Alliance opponents this week, women's ice hockey registered an 0-3 week to fall to 2-7 overall. The Jeffs struck first at RPI when junior tri-captain Jess Frisch (Bethesda, MD) scored off an April Zenisky '97 (Holyoke, MA) pass. Genevieve Furst '00 (Deephaven, MN) posted the Jeffs' second goal of the night to bring the score to 3-2 at the end of the second period, but the Engineers sealed the win with two third period scores.
Women's Ice Hockey Struggles against the Alliance
No. Name G A Pts P-Min
24 Amanda Ash '97 0 1 1 0-0
17 Rebecca Asmar '97 0 0 0 0-0
8 Lissa Brod '00 0 0 0 0-0
7 Sarah Carr '97 0 0 0 1-2
9 Brittany Evans '99 5 5 10 0-0
20 Darcy Forrester '97 0 0 0 0-0
18 Jess Frisch '98 12 6 18 2-4
4 Genevieve Furst '00 5 3 8 0-0
11 Lisbeth Rowinski '00 1 1 2 6-10
12 Val Klein '98 0 1 1 11-22
15 Margaret Seiler '98 0 2 2 0-0
19 Megan Smith '98 0 2 2 0-0
21 Alice Taggart '00 0 0 0 0-0
16 April Zenisky '97 2 5 7 1-2
Amherst Totals 25 26 51 18-32
Opponent Totals 51 60 111 14-28
With back-to-back meets against Bowdoin and Hamilton, the Jeffs finished the weekend with four convincing wins between both teams. The men's team is currently at the 5-1 mark while the women are 4-3. In both meets combined, the men took first place in all but three of the 24 events. Against Bowdoin on Friday night, the Jeffs swept all four freestyle events (50, 100, 200 and 500) and the 100 IM on the way to a 138-46 victory. The 50-butterfly proved to be a shock to observers watching Flori Fischetti '99 (Potomac, MD) pass butterfly ace Andrew Grossman '99 (Chappaqua, NY) for the win from lane 6 (in a six lane pool). Four events later, Bryan Luke '97 (Honolulu, HI) broke the 28 second mark for the first time in season in the 50 breaststroke with a first place finish.
The men continued their dominance against Hamilton the following day with a 167-76 win. Divers Matt Smith '99 (North Bridgton, ME), Joe Schneider '97 (Delmar, NY) and Dan Fernandez '97 (Tampa, FL) swept both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards.
Men's Swimming and Diving Win Two
Kerry Weeks '98 (Longmeadow, MA) broke four records in two meets over the weekend to lead the Jeffs to two wins and a 4-3 record. Against Bowdoin she broke the seven-year old record in the 100 IM, clocking a 1:01.81. The following day, Weeks led off two relay teams who would also shatter pool records. Weeks, Sarah Lukaska '99 (Edina, MN), Deny Soto '00 (New Haven, CT) and Sarah Moran '00 (Bristol, TN) teamed up in the 400 medley relay for a 4:08.13 performance, almost two seconds faster than the former record set in 1993. Weeks, Lukaska and Moran then closed out the meet with Sondra Fein '00 (Potomac, MD) in the 400 free relay to close out the meet with a time of 3:40.76, over two seconds faster than the record set in 1994 by a Williams relay. This finale was also fast enough to shatter the Amherst varsity record and make an NCAA B-cut.
Women's Swimming and Diving Re-Write the Record Books
Men's squash posted a 9-0 victory over Dartmouth to better their record to 7-0 as the only undefeated squad left this season. Hayden Felice '98 (Radnor, PA) was pushed to five games playing at the No. 4 spot before finishing off his opponent 15-8 in the fifth. The Jeffs now gear up for the final and toughest stretch of their schedule, facing some of the top teams in the nation, such as Ivy Leaguers Princeton, Yale, Brown and Harvard in the next three weeks.
Men's Squash Blanks Dartmouth
Individual Records
David McNeely '00 6-0
Kevin Orphan '99 6-1
Evan Khan '98 7-0
Collin Bell '97 6-1
Hayden Felice '98 5-1
Stephen Seelbach '99 7-0
David Ford '97 6-1
Andrew Snyder '99 7-0
Chris Herron '98 2-0
Jamie Ford '98 5-0
Kunal Rakshit '00 1-0
Brad Johnson '98 0-1
Entering the toughest part of the schedule, women's squash fell to two powerhouses, Penn and Princeton over the weekend after defeating Wellesley 8-1. No. 1 Harriet Ells '97 (Brooklyn, NY) posted the lone Amherst win over the Tigers, a victory in just three games, 9-4, 9-3, 9-2. The Jeffs look to face Dartmouth, Brown and Yale this week before heading to Little IIIs the following weekend.
Women's Squash 1-2 for the Week
Individual Records
Harriet Ells '97 12-2
Rachel Nisselson '00 5-3
Page Callaghan '99 2-1
Justine O'Connor '98 5-4
Sheila Reynolds '99 9-2
Jess Green '97 8-3
Jackie Chen '97 7-3
Carrie Goodwin '98 6-3
Bevin Sell '99 7-2
Kim Karetsky '99 9-2
Melinda Mahaffey '98 5-3
Sarah Lipton '98 2-0
Christine Kahm '00 1-0