Daily Sports Digest: North Edges South Golf At Paramount CC

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The Top Spot:

Clarkstown North improved to 7-3 on the year as the Rams edged out the Vikings 221-233 yesterday at Paramount Country Club. Students took part in the Par 35 and North’s Satish Gopalaswamy, and South’s Dave Maffeo tied for the top spot with a 40.

Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Baseball

Game: Clarkstown North vs. East Ramapo

Score: Clarkstown North Won 16-2

Kyle Unger pitched 4 innings, giving up only 2 runs. Josh Forman pitched 3 innings allowing no runs and striking out 4. He also went 4 for 5 with a 3 run homerun and 3 singles for a total of 4 RBI’s. Jacob Fiskin also had a solo home run. Nick Termini went 5-5 with two doubles and four runs in the win.

Sport: Boys Lacrosse

Game: Clarkstown North vs. Nyack

Score: Nyack Won 19-6

Highlights: Daniel Minunni, Andrew Quigley and Kevin Nuget each scored four times for Nyack in the win, Charles Francois led the defense with four saves. Six different players scored for North as Vincent Barbetto had a goal and an assist in the loss.

Sport: Boys Tennis

Game: Clarkstown North vs. East Ramapo

Score: Clarkstown North Won 7-0

Sport: Boys Tennis

Game: Clarkstown South vs. North Rockland

Score: Clarkstown South Won 6-1

Sport: Softball

Game: Suffern vs. Clarkstown South

Score: Clarkstown South Won 18-4

Highlights: Sam McDonald pitched a complete game with three strikeouts in the win and went 4-4 from the plate with a home run, double, five RBI and three runs for South. Brittany Montana also had five RBI for South

Sport: Baseball

Game: Albertus Magnus vs. Nyack

Score: Nyack Won 3-1

Highlights: Paul Giardina struck out eight in six innings of work to lead Nyack to victory, he also went 2-3 with a triple, run and RBI from the plate. James Gizzi scored the lone run for the Falcons.

Sport: Softball

Game: Albertus Magnus

Score: Nyack Won 9-3

Highlights: Michaela Contreras picked up the win as she struck out three in her seven innings of work. Contreras, Alex Bacalan, Jenna Lane and Tiffany Salcito each knocked in two RBI for Nyack in the win.

Today’s Schedule:

In softball, Pearl River will host Clarkstown North at 4 p.m.

In golf, Clarkstown South will host Hastings at 3:30 p.m.

In girls lacrosse, Albertus Magnus heads to Nyack at 4:15 p.m.

In softball, Nanuet heads to Albertus Magnus at 4 p.m.

College Sports Notebook:

Spartans on the run

The St. Thomas Aquinas College men’s and women’s track and field teams, coming off a strong showing at the two-day CTC Championships at Desales University in Lehigh County, PA, return to the Keystone State to compete at the Penn Relays, scheduled Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

The prestigious meet is a prelude to the Spartans’ final competition of the season at the ECC-CACC Team Challenge, hosted by Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ, on May 4.

Mike Galonski of Newton, NJ, was second in the 10,000-meter run while Mike Abelard of Spring Valley was a double winner in the 100 and 200 at the CTC Championships, edging teammate George Erazo of North Babylon in both events. Erazo, however, bounced back to win the 400.

Other runners-up finishes were turned in by Garvency Nicolas of Brooklyn in the 800, and Joe Chegwidden of Hamburg, NJ, in the 3,000-meter steeplechase; and the 4x100 relay team of Frankie Colon of Suffern, Abelard, Erazo, and Rich Ricca of Pearl River, and the 4x400 team of Colon, Erazo, Abelard and Russell Ross of Bainbridge.

Keeley Bateman of Pearl River led the women’s team with a second-place showing in the 800, while Catherine Sandkuhl of North Babylon was third in the event.

Bateman also sparked the 4x400 relay team to victory, along with Sandkuhl, Ashley Stokkeland of Warwick and Chelsea Klinger of Owego.

Roemer, Lombardi Power Pace

Chris Roemer of Ardsley raised his average to .307 with a double, and Joe Lombardi of Briarcliff belted an RBI triple as the Pace University baseball team raised its record to an impressive 13-8 in the Northeast-10 with a 5-3 win over visiting Assumption College.

Roemer is second in batting for the Setters, and second in RBI with 22.

Junior Eddie Byrne of Yonkers tossed a scoreless inning in relief to improve to 4-3 after Brandon Martineson of Warwick blasted a two-run homer in the last of the ninth inning.

The Setters, who are in first place in the NE-10 Southwest Division with an 11-2 mark, defeated the University of New Haven in a division game at home, 3-2, to raise their mark to 23-16 overall. The rematch is scheduled today at 3:30 p.m. in New Haven, CT.

Mortarboard musings

• Midfielder Margaret Sharp of Suffern is second in points with 39 on the women’s lacrosse team at St. Thomas Aquinas College. Sharp has 35 goals for the Spartans, who visit Queens College on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. Stephanie Brown of Stony Point has 12 points on seven goals and five assists while Johannan Mitchell of Pearl River has four goals and seven assists. Kimberly Cunningham of Mahopac has played 11 games on defense, and defender Becky Torres of Nanuet has three goals and an assist. Samantha Lowney of Valley College has five goals and four assists, and Kelly Moresi of Suffern has made 10 starts at midfield.
• The Manhattan College softball team dropped a doubleheader to visiting Iona College, the two-time defending Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MACC) champion. The Jaspers (6-29, 1-7 MAAC) were able to muster just four hits in the two games, as the Gaels (25-20, 7-3 MAAC) posted 7-0 and 3-1 wins at Gaelic Park in Riverdale. Iona pitcher Sarah Jackson, the MAAC preseason player of the year, no-hit the Jaspers through six innings in the first game before Amanda Babcock of Haverstraw ripped a clean single to right leading off the bottom of the seventh. Jackson (12-9) allowed just two base runners, Babcock’s single and a walk to Jen Keller of Woodridge, NJ, in the second inning.
• Iona College freshman Damika Martinez was named the 2011-12 All-Met Division one Rookie of the Year by the Met Basketball Writers Association.

Weekly Sports Poll:

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