by Warren Kozireski
•Kristen Beikirch (Brockport) was named the Skyline Conference softball Player of the Year after leading Sage College in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, total bases and stolen bases.
•Keuka College senior lacrosse player Mike Crumlish (Hilton) broke the school’s all-time mark for career assists (79). Lakers junior Maggie Bonafede (Churchville-Chili) set the school mark for career assists with 90.
•Churchville-Chili grad Dan Erne was named First Team All-SUNYAC after his team-best 6-1 record and 2.25 ERA season pitching for Oswego.
•Leia Hayward (Hilton) was named tournament Most Outstanding Defensive Player as she helped lead Monroe CC’s women’s lacrosse team to their first NJCCA national championship.
•Holley grad Brandon Grzywacz finished second overall and Brockport’s Tyler Hill helped MCC claim its fifth consecutive Region III men’s golf title. Hill led the Tribunes in the first round of nationals with a 75.
•Ithaca College pitcher Jimmy Wagner (Hilton) led the Bombers in saves and lowest batting average against to help his team set a school record with 41 wins and advance to the NCAA championship weekend for the first time since 1994. Wagner was named Second Team ABCA All-Region.
•Julie Brooks (Holley) finished second in the high jump, sixth in the triple jump and ninth in the long jump for Finger Lakes CC at the NJCCA national championships.
•Walt Roman (Spencerport) was named All-Liberty League honorable mention after the third baseman hit .280 with a home run and 22 RBI’s in 2013, while getting hit by a pitch 16 times. He has been hit by a pitch a school record 58 times in three seasons. Roman was also named to the 2012 ABCA/Rawlings All-New York Region third team.
•Sara Edenhofer (Hilton) was part of the top junior college women’s doubles bowling team for Herkimer CC.
•Senior defender Carly Augustyn (Churchville-Chili) of the RIT women’s lacrosse team was named a 2013 Co-SIDA Academic All-American Division III Women’s At-Large Team Third Team All-American. She started all 16 games this season tallying 17 points on 14 goals and three assists to go along with 23 ground balls and 10 draw controls. The 2013 co-captain was also a finalist for RIT Athletics Ellingson Award.
Roberts Wesleyan College
•Men’s tennis player Charles Farres was named East Coast Conference Men’s Tennis Rookie of the Year after posting a 20-6 overall record and 3-2 conference mark split between the second and third singles. Farres also posted a 4-1 mark at first doubles in ECC action with teammate Sam Thorold. Thorold earned Second Team honors after posting an 8-6 record in singles play and an impressive 11-3 mark in doubles action.
•Gabe Rivera won the 100m and the High Jump at the East Coast Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Rivera won the 100m title with a time of 11.52 seconds and the High Jump after clearing 1.99 meters.
•Sophomore Anthony Nucci Lauria was named All East Coast Conference Men’s Lacrosse Second Team and freshman Dom Cianfarano Honorable Mention. Nucci Lauria won 204 faceoffs, which was tops in the ECC this season and finished the season with a .614 faceoff wins percentage. Cianfarano led the conference with 50 goals this season and 65 points.
•Loren Dunn was named East Coast Conference Rookie of the Year and the ECC All-Conference Second Team after scoring 56 goals in 16 games. Dunn finished the season fifth in the conference rankings in goals and was second in the ECC in shots (121) and tied for ninth in points (57).
The College at Brockport
•Senior Nicole Jones broke her own school record and earned an All-American award with an eighth-place finish in the shot put at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field National Championship with a toss that measured 13.70 meters (44′ 11 ½”) and vaulted her into eighth place overall. The throw cleared the old school record by nearly three inches. Sophomore Rachel Malone (Fairport, NY/Fairport) took first place in the 10,000-meter run at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships
•Senior Zach Ferrara took second in the pole vault at Nationals.
•Senior Kaila Maguire of the women’s lacrosse team was named a second team All-Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Mid-Atlantic Region All-Star.
•Seniors Nick Bunce and Travis Renwick were named to the 2013 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings All-Region team. Bunce was honored with a second team selection while Renwick was named to the third team. Renwick led the Golden Eagles in most pitching categories throughout the year, including a career-high six wins and a team-best 2.76 earned run average.
