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Baseball: Baseball had a couple games rained out last week, but was able to finish the week on a high note as the team collected two wins over Adirondack on Sunday afternoon at Joe Bruno Stadium. The Vikings have now won three straight as they enter this week with six games on the schedule.
Men’s Lacrosse: The men’s lacrosse team had an offensive explosion as they scored a season high 23 goals in its 23-3 win over Mohawk Valley at the campus’s Outdoor Athletic Complex on Wednesday afternoon.
The 23 goals scored by the Vikings were the most goals scored by the program since February 2018 when they put up a 30-spot on Northern Virginia.
Softball: The softball program earned two wins for the series sweep of SUNY Broome Tuesday afternoon in Binghamton. The series was an offensive slugfest by the Vikings and was highlighted by a game one no-hitter by Shealynn Peckowitz. The softball team had six games canceled or postponed due to the weather last week. They are off until April 19 when they travel to take on Adirondack in Queensbury.
Men’s and Women’s Track and Field: The men’s and women’s track and field program earned two top-seven finishes at the James Sheehan Memorial Invitational hosted by Fitchburg State University in Fitchburg, Mass.
The meet had 22 total collegiate programs along with eight college club teams. There were several programs that were members of scholarship programs from the NCAA Division 1 and Division 2 levels.
As a team, the men’s program placed seventh and accumulated 42.5 points, placing ahead of four-year programs like Worcester State, Boston University and Western New England. The meet had several prominent four-year programs like Southern Maine, host Fitchburg State and Keene State.
The women’s program also placed seventh overall with 33.5 points and placed ahead of four-year programs like Framingham State and Mass. Maritime. Southern Maine won both the men’s and women’s team titles for the meet.
Charles Benichoux, who won the event’s 100m and 200m races for the third week in a row, posted a 100m time of 11.03, defeating top NCAA Division 3 sprinters. Benichoux’s winning 200m time was 22.22.
Olivia Skylstad won the women’s steeplechase and finished with an official time of 12:42.67.
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Published: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 12:05:03 +0000 by a.sopris