•Veteran track & field coach John Izzo (Brockport) retired after 47 years coaching at Brockport High School, SUNY Brockport and, most recently, the University of Rochester.
•Wells College sophomore attack Alex Milliken (Hilton) was named Second Team All-NEAC conference in men’s lacrosse.
•Genesee CC freshman infielder Brandon Henshaw (Brockport) was named First Team All-Region in NJCCA Region III Division II Baseball after he hit .378 with 13 RBI’s in 37 games for the Cougars. He tied for the team lead in runs scored with 31 and committed just one fielding error in 67 chances.
•Churchville-Chili grad Jimmy Latona was named to the Region III, Division II All-Region Baseball First Team after the Monroe Community College sophomore batted .411 with 34 RBI’s and 63 runs scored in just 48 games.
•Potsdam sophomore and Hilton grad Jordan Ott was named First Team All-SUNYAC in softball.
•St. John Fisher first baseman Scott Eisenmenger (Hilton) was named Empire 8 Conference Rookie of the Year and to the ABCA All-Region Second Team. He led the conference in slugging percentage at .616, home runs (8) and hits (55).
•Teammate and Spencerport grad Mike Roman was named to the Second Team after garnering Honorable Mention accolades last year. Roman led the Cardinals in walks with 16, sacrifice bunts with seven and sacrifice flies with four, while tallying a second-highest amount of runs (37), RBI (35), slugging percentage (.434), on-base percentage (.380), hits (51) and doubles (11).
•Fisher pole-vaulter James Koch (Spencerport) was named the school representative for the Sportsman of the Year honor.
•Senior Kristen Beikirch (Brockport) earned Skyline Conference Second Team honors and was named to the NFCA All-Region Third Team as a catcher for Sage College.
•Roberts Wesleyan track and field teams had several competitors earn All-American (top three) status from the National Christian College Athletic Association. For the men Thomas Rodger and Keith Pease in the 1500m, Kevin Brown in the 3000m steeplechase, Gabe Rivera in decathlon, Malcolm Shaw in javelin and the 4x800m relay team of Aaron Bellomo, Pease, Justin Bender and Rodger. For the Redhawks women Rachel Hust in the 1500m, April Sablan in the 5000m, Rachel Brush in the 3000m steeplechase and the 4x800m relay team of Hust, Rachel Hutchinson, Elizabeth Valento and Rachel Prutsman also earned All-American honors.
•Roberts’ sophomore goalkeeper Shannon Knapp was named the East Coast Conference Goalkeeper of the Year in women’s lacrosse and she ranked sixth in Division II with a .511 save percentage while leading the conference with 145 saves. Junior attacker Loren Dunn joins Knapp on the All-Conference First Team after leading Roberts Wesleyan with 65 points (59 goals, 6 assists). Three players were voted to the Second Team, including Cassley Jackowski, who was second on the team with 60 points (46 goals, 14 points), Ali Fox after leading the conference with 18 free-position goals and defender Christina Hart.
•Redhawks junior men’s tennis player Charles Farres was named to the NCCAA All-American First team for the third consecutive year and the East Coast Conference First team after going 29-13 in all competition. He was 15-5 in singles play this year while also recording a 14-8 mark in doubles. In ECC action, Farres went 10-2 overall by earning five wins in both singles and doubles. He joined the program’s Century Club when he earned his 100th victory earlier this spring when he downed Mercyhurst’s Nenad Terzic 6-4, 6-4 on March 3.
•Brockport’s Brett Sanders and Zach Lander (Churchville-Chili) were named to the All-SUNYAC baseball Second Team. Sanders led the squad in hits (35), was second in RBI’s (20) and tied for second in runs scored (20). Lander led all Golden Eagle starting pitchers with six wins and a 2.95 earned run average.
•Churchville-Chili native and SUNY Potsdam midfielder Pat Bonafede was named Second Team All-SUNYAC in men’s lacrosse. Spencerport’s Marcus Palvino was also named to the Second Team for Brockport. Golden Eagle junior defense Nick Smith was a First Team selection, sophomore Jake Guidice a Second Team choice while Colin Blind and Zach Cook were Honorable Mention.
•College at Brockport’s SUNYAC champion men’s Track and Field team placed four competitors on the SUNYAC First Team and three more on the Second Team. Senior Samuel Taft was named for the 110m & 400 m hurdles and the long jump. Zachary Brown was honored in the 400m dash, Whitman Oehler-Marz in pole vault and Antoine Keels in discus and shot put. Second Team members were Dorian Hayden in 400m dash, Darius Favors in discus and Shane Colvin in the decathlon. For the women, senior Marcy Merritt (Pole Vault) plus freshmen Brianna Hake (Javelin) and Marisa Gosdeck (Heptathlon) were First Team All-SUNYAC. Autumn Swavely (Javelin) and Savannah Cook (Shot Put) were Second Team selections.
•College at Brockport women’s lacrosse athletes Kelly Wall and Colleen Hathaway were named First Team All-SUNYAC. Junior defense Courtney Szczesniak was Second Team and senior attack Nina Tassone Third Team choices. Hathaway was also chosen for the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Mid-Atlantic Women’s Lacrosse Second All-Star team, Second-Team All-American, First-Team Empire Region, SUNYAC Defender of the Year.
