{"id":11674,"date":"2018-11-05T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/this-week-in-athletics-42\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:34:30","slug":"this-week-in-athletics-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/this-week-in-athletics-42\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cross Country<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Hudson Valley Community College men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross-country teams performed very well at the 2018 NJCAA National Championship Meet on Saturday morning in Westfield, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s team finished in seventh place out of 23 teams and first among the NJCAA Region 3 participants. Freshman\u00a0<strong>Jared Craw<\/strong>\u00a0earned All-American status behind his fourth-place finish in the 8k race. He crossed the line with a final time of 27:31.82.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s cross country team finished in fifth place out of 14 teams and were led by sophomore\u00a0<strong>Mercedes Planavsky<\/strong>. Planavsky joined Craw in earning All-American status after crossing the finish line in 10th place in the 5k race with a final time of 20:15.42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s Basketball<br \/>\n<\/strong>The men\u2019s basketball team jumped out to a 2-0 start with a pair of home wins against Rockland and Cayuga. Caleb Canty and Jordan Gleason had a great game on Saturday as the duo combined to score 60 of the team\u2019s 103 points vs. Cayuga.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Basketball<br \/>\n<\/strong>The women\u2019s basketball team simply dominated their opponents last week with a pair of home wins to start the season, 2-0. Hannah Kreiger led the Vikings in scoring, which included a 26-point effort on Saturday in the Vikings 85-44 win vs. Cayuga.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Football<br \/>\n<\/strong>Hudson Valley Community College football closed out the 2018 season on the road at Navy Prep and were defeated 33-0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s Soccer<br \/>\n<\/strong>The All-Conference and All-Region awards were announced last week and Bryan Drossell earned All-Region Second Team, while Sylvain \u201cMarco\u201d Ngako and Wickson Joseph earned All-Conference honors for the 2018 season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Soccer<br \/>\n<\/strong>The All-Conference and All-Region awards were announced last week with Sydnee Metzold leading the way. Metzold was named the NJCAA Region 3 Player of the Year and the Mountain Valley Conference Player of the Year following her tremendous season in which she scored 28 goals. Metzold joined Serena Gates as All-Region First Team selections and Bailey Dunn earned All-Region Second Team. Metzold, Gates, Dunn and Brooke Clough were named to the All-Conference Team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Tennis<br \/>\n<\/strong>The NJCAA Region 3 Champions, Jackie Bornt competed in the NJCAA National Tournament over the weekend and won the back draw finals in straight sets 6-0, 6-0 on Sunday in Peachtree City, Georgia. Bornt dropped her first match on Friday, but recovered with match wins on Saturday and Sunday for the back draw title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Volleyball<br \/>\n<\/strong>The All-Conference awards were announced last week and sophomore captain, Kirstin Wood was named to the Mountain Valley All-Conference team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming Events<br \/>\n<\/strong>Saturday, Nov. 10: Women\u2019s basketball at Herkimer (1 p.m.); Men\u2019s basketball at Herkimer (3 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, Nov. 11: Women\u2019s basketball at Jefferson (1 p.m.); Men\u2019s basketball at Jefferson (3 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 05 Nov 2018 13:34:30 +0000 by\u00a0a.sopris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Cross Country The Hudson Valley Community College men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross-country teams performed very well at the 2018 NJCAA&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}