Seawolves

The Seawolves men’s lacrosse team defeated the Albany Great Danes on Saturday afternoon to win the 2010 America East Championship and secure an automatic bid in the NCAA tournament.

The Seawolves defeated the Catamounts 10-6 in a slow paced and sometimes sloppy game to advance to the finals of the conference tournament, which is to be played Saturday afternoon. This was the second matchup between the two teams in four days, with Stony Brook taking the first game, 16-10.

The Seawolves drop the Catamounts 16-10 en route to their first ever America East regular season title. Kevin Crowley led the way for Stony Brook with a career-high five goals.

The Seawolves baseball team continues their winning ways at home with a win over the Fairfield Stags on Wednesday. Junior Stephen Marino went 3-for-4 in the game with 5 RBI, including a go-ahead, two out single in the eighth to put the Seawolves on top for good.

After Albany knocked Stony Brook out in the semi-finals of the America East Conference tournament last year, you can bet that the Seawolves marked an asterisk on their schedule next to their home series with their upstate rivals. The Seawolves split their doubleheader with Albany, winning the first game, 1-0, and dropping the second game, 9-1.

Seawolves baseball wins both games of a doubleheader on Saturday behind two consecutive shutout performance from Nick Tropeano and Tyler Johnson. Maxx Tissenbaum went a combined 4-for-6 in the afternoon to help the Seawolves most into a tie for first place in the America East.

A tough first half schedule for the Seawolves has seen its share of ups and downs. Now Stony Brook has begun the portion of their schedule heavy on America East play, which got off to a good start after a series sweep of the UMBC Retrievers this past weekend.

A report earlier today said Holy Cross was looking to bring Stony Brook men's head basketball coach, Steve Pikiell, to fill their vacant position. The Seawolves' athletic department said the report was false.

Senior ace Alyssa Sruzenberg set the tone on the rubber for the Seawolves, deftly setting down 13 Hawk hitters over seven lights-out innings, while only conceding just three hits in a 6-0 victory over the Hartford Hawks.

The Seawolves win both games of an afternoon doubleheader over the visiting Hartford Hawks. Vicki Kavitsky collected four RBIs in both games, including a home run. Alyssa Struzenberg and Casey Jacobs both pick up victories for Stony Brook, each going the distance in their respective games.

With a strikeout of Fairfield’s last batter, Alyssa Struzenberg provided a fitting ending to Stony Brook’s 5-0 shutout win in the team's last game of the Stony Brook Invitational Tournament.

Colleen Matthes and Alyssa Struzenberg each pitched shutouts as Stony Brook opened their weekend tournament with two wins against the Yale Bulldogs and Quinnipiac Bobcats. Vicki Kavitsky led the offensive attack for the Seawolves, picking up four hits while knocking in two runs.

In front of a packed crowd, Stony Brook was almost able to pull off the upset against the Illinois Fighting Illini, falling 76-66. While the Seawolves’ dream season came to an end, it was not before putting a major scare into their Big Ten-reared foe and earning some respect along the way.

Stony Brook will play host to Illinois of the Big Ten in their NIT matchup. Muhammad El-Amin, the America East player of the year, will try and lead the upstart Seawolves past the NCAA Tournament-snubbed Fighting Illini in front of what is expected to be a sold-out crowd in the Stony Brook Arena. Tip is set for Wednesday at 9 P.M.

The National Invitational Tournament (NIT) released its tournament schedule today, pitting the Stony Brook men’s basketball team against the University of Illinois at 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday at the Stony Brook Arena and will be broadcasted on ESPNU. The Seawolves (22-9, 13-3), an America East Conference team ranked eighth in the NIT, will be meeting the Illinois Fighting Illini (19-14, 10-8), a Big Ten Conference team ranked first in the NIT, for the first time in school history.