{"id":19035,"date":"2022-11-07T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/this-week-in-athletics-119\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:05:16","slug":"this-week-in-athletics-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/this-week-in-athletics-119\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Week in Athletics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Cross Country<\/strong>: The cross country programs competed at the NJCAA National Championships. Olivia Skystad earned the women&#8217;s team&#8217;s best finish as she crossed the finish line in 24th place with a time of 21:07. Eva Sgambettera placed 43rd overall and posted a time of 22:19. Rounding out the women&#8217;s scores were Laurel Ticer (50th \u2013 23:35), Jessica Wank (64th \u2013 24:53) and Rebecca Seiter (67th \u2013 25:16).<\/p>\n<p>Eric Zumpe paced the men&#8217;s team with a 27th place finish. Zumpe tallied a time of 28:36. Jake Kinnicutt placed 56th overall with a time of 30:10 and Adam Blough crossed the line in 66th place overall with a time of 30:33.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Football<\/strong>: The football program dropped a tough game 48-0 against a nationally-ranked Nassau program in Garden City on Saturday. The 2022 football season ends and the Vikings finished the year with a 6-4 record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Tennis<\/strong>: Tennis closed out its 2022 season over the weekend as they competed at the NJCAA National Championships in Peachtree, GA.<\/p>\n<p><b>Women&#8217;s Basketball:\u00a0<\/b>The women&#8217;s basketball team won its 2022 season opener, 93-59, over UConn-Avery Point at the McDonough Sports Complex on Tuesday evening. The Vikings were led by freshman Payton Graber (Schenectady\/Schalmont), who filled the stat book with game-highs in points, rebounds, assists and steals. Graber, the all-time leading scorer at Schalmont High School, finished with 33 points on 12-of-25 shooting, including 5-of-9 from beyond the three-point arc in her first collegiate game. She also tallied game-highs with eight rebounds, seven assists and six steals as the Vikings handled the Pointers with ease to tip-off the new season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men&#8217;s Basketball:\u00a0<\/strong>The men&#8217;s basketball team were defeated on the road, 96-69, in their season opener against a talented SUNY Orange program in Middletown on Thursday evening. Leading the Vikings offensively was Trevor Green, who finished with a team-high 13 points. Demani Benjamin added 11 points and Kobi Wallace had 10 points, including eight points in the second half alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming Home Games:<\/strong><br \/>\nTuesday, Nov. 8 &#8211; MBB vs Fulton-Montgomery (6 p.m.)<br \/>\nThursday, Nov. 10 &#8211; MBB vs Columbia-Greene (7 p.m.)<br \/>\nSaturday, Nov. 12 &#8211; WBB vs Mohawk Valley (1 p.m.), MBB vs Mohawk Valley (3 p.m.)<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>GoVik<span style=\"color: #339966;\">ings<\/span><\/strong>!<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:05:16 +0000 by\u00a0a.sopris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This Week in Athletics Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Cross Country: The cross country programs competed at the NJCAA National Championships.&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-19035","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\/19035","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=19035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}