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You played a heck of a game DeSales - losing by just one point to the Ithaca Bombers 76 - 75. You still did the MAC Freedom proud!
Happy Fourth of July fellow posters!
The Del Val Aggies start their 2019-20 season this Saturday, at home, with Rosemont College at 1 pm! We'll be there - excited to see our seven new players and what they bring to the court!
Huge early season game tonight between DeSales University and University of Scranton at DeSales, 7 pm. We'll be watching on the web and Go Lady Bull Dogs!!!
How did that turn out Kate????
Was hoping for a different outcome, but it's a long season and Fred is a great coach. We shall see. Scranton can hit that trey! Lily Warhaftig looks like a solid player.
Quote from: Rofrog on December 03, 2019, 08:41:40 PM
How did that turn out Kate????
Considering outside of an 11-0 run to start the second half the game was pretty even ... I'm not sure any smacktalk was necessary. Both teams are pretty darn good.
Kate:
Unfortunately, it looks like another long, cold winter in Aggieville.
Love your dedication but 5 wins may be all they have in the cards this season.
Looks like a pretty short bench right now so that doesn't help either.
Hang in there.
Are you & the hub down in sunny Fla with the team?
Have a Merry Christmas & keep the faith.
Hi Saratoga! We are not in sunny Miami - we're in freezing Easton, and yes, i'm not too happy with the Aggies, both men & women this year, so far. The women are playing without our two fantastic Senior point guards, Ashley Smink and Dom Moser. Both out with injuries and both scheduled to come back to the lineup next season. Dom is an Easton High School grad, and attended N.A.C.C. for her first two years. Good luck to Scranton the rest of the season - will you have competition in the Landmark? As for the Lady Aggies, we'll just have to rely on Lauren Moretti and Em Kutsel until our Freshman find their court presence. Kind of a sad year, too, because the MAC made the guy's game at 6, and the women's games at 8. That gets us back to Easton at 11 - way past our bedtime. Love those Sat. afternoon 1 pm games more and more.
The Del Val games with Misericordia postponed from last night will now be played up in Dallas (at Miseri) - game times 5 and 7.
Game was postponed because a backboard was broken in pre-game warmups (I believe it fell on the floor as a result).
DIIIs don't have backboards lying around nor can they get them easily replaced.
Some DIII conferences have rules saying no pre-game and halftime dunking ... for this exact reason. I thought the MAC was one of them, but I could have them mixed up with someone else.
Thanks for the info Dave - hopefully by this time the backboard will be replaced. A sad weekend for Aggie sports, but here's to better weekends and games in general before the season ends. Go Del Val!!!
Senior Day at Del Val yesterday, and as always it was very emotional. We bid farewell to our lovely, hard-working Seniors, Laura Sweger and Sarah Wills! You will be missed Ladies and thank you for the memories!
First, Good Luck to King's tonight at Misericordia and Good Luck to DeSales as they take on Eastern at home. Next, Good Luck to the Pride of Widener & their Coach, Del Val's own Alisa DiBonaventura Kintner! King's Coach, Caitlin H. is a Belvidere High School grad, school of yours truly :)!
Great first half for King's - please keep it up Monarchs! Ahead by 13!
Super proud of King's tonight and Coach, Caitlin (Belvidere and Marywood's own) - they knocked off Misericordia tonight and will battle it out on Saturday with DeSales for the MAC championship!
All the best to our four MAC Teams playing this weekend, DeSales, Albright, Messiah and Widener! Mighty MAC!
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Heard that the Landmark will resume a limited schedule in February - any word on the MAC?
Quote from: kate on January 11, 2021, 09:37:26 PM
Heard that the Landmark will resume a limited schedule in February - any word on the MAC?
MAC has already announced they are delayed until late February - they won't be participating in any NCAA tournament that may or may not take place.
Their schedule will go into March, though I don't know the length.
Schedules could come out soon, though this is convention week so many meetings instead right now.
Good Luck to our Aggies in their abbreviated schedule! This will be the first time in TWENTY-THREE years that we probably won't get to a game. No shots, getting old :(, and the games all starting at 7, meaning that we wouldn't get home until after bedtime. GO AGGIES!!!!
Just want to congratulate the Aggies tonight beating Wilkes 57 to 47. It's a two-game winning streak for Del Val. Tonight, Junior Emily Kutskel had 29 points! It was great hearing Gordon's call of the game last night for the Aggie win in Doylestown! Tonight, Wilkes had a crisp video but no announcer.
Kate:
Break up the Aggies...2 in a row???
It's been a while since that seemingly simple feat has taken place.
Not sure defeating Wilkes is the level you want the bar set at but it is a start.
Enjoy the weekend & break out the champagne. ;)
All the BEST Luck to our Aggies tomorrow night taking on the DeSales Lady Bulldogs at Center Valley, 7 pm!!! The abbreviated schedule ends with a potential MAC Championship, and we'll be watching on the net! GO DEL VAL!!!!!
Good Luck to our MAC DeSales tomorrow night taking on the Lady Royals up in Scranton!
Also would be VERY remiss if i didn't wish our Aggies the best of luck in Annville at the Lebanon Valley College opening tourney tomorrow night and Sunday. Go Del Val!!!!
Great game for the Aggies yesterday coming from 13 points behind in the first quarter to go on to win the contest! They were on Juniata's home court! Fantastic job ladies!
Coming back from 13 down on the home teams court is a nice win Kate.
Baby steps. ;)
Huge Congratulations to Coach Fred Richter at DeSales on win # 600!!! I'm sure the entire MAC Freedom Conference is proud of you!
Best of Luck with Cortland tomorrow night to DeSales University! Tufts might be next.
Huge Congratulations to DeSales knocking off Cortland State tonight! One MAC member left for the women - Good Luck Lady Bulldogs!!!
O.K., starting a new topic - just hope that all of our magnificent MAC coaches and the people who are coaching now who have graduated from our MAC schools land in premium coaching spots if they're changing schools this season! In these seasons of change and some upheaval, we want to maintain as much continuity as we can. Go Luck to all our MAC schools this coming 2022-23 season!!!
Do you know something that you'd like to share? :)
Hi Gordon, not really, but we'll miss Rosie Gobelli at Arcadia, and i'm hoping that Del Val's own Jackie Hartzell will land a great job, and it would be even better if it was with the MAC! We feel really bad about losing Wilkes and Lycoming after this season. That trip from Easton up to Wilkes was always a favorite. That's about it - haven't been to Del Val for two and a half years - that last game was right before covid hit in 2020. Missing everybody!!!
Huge Congratulations to Del Val's own Jackie Hartzell taking over the reigns at Arcadia University! Aggie Proud!
The Very Best of Luck to our Delaware Valley University Aggies in their opening tournament at Gwynedd Mercy Friday night at 6! Since we can't make it, i truly hope that in addition to their live stats, that GMU has video for those games!!! Go Aggies!
Just checked the Gwynedd Mercy athletic site and there will be a video of tomorrow night's game with Del Val starting at 5:50!!!
Happy Thanksgiving to all on the site, and as always, GO AGGIES!
You guys have the Del Val game for this week listed as Thursday, Dec. 8 - the Del Val website has it as this Wednesday, Dec.7. I do believe that their Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony is being held Thursday night. Thanks for checking!
Huge Congratulations to Del Val Head Coach, Laura Hogan, on getting her 300th win today with a 66 to 57 W against Penn State Harrisburg! Way to GO Coach and Team!!!
Just want to say how thankful i am for the huge way D3 hoops promote all D3 sports, particularly women's & men's basketball. Since we've started following the Del Val Aggies in 1997, the popularity of those two games have gone up thanks to great coverage and announcing, not to mention the video presentation of the games! It was so much appreciated especially in these last over two years of the covid pandemic! Happy New Year to All and here's to the rest of the season free of injuries and with great weather to boot! Go Aggies!
Hadn't been down to James Work is THREE years, but got down there today to see our beloved Aggies lose to King's 55 to 48. Sad loss, of course, but good to see parity in our league. Example, today, Stevens, who had just knocked off DeSales by a point on Wednesday night, LOST today to Misericordia!!! No guarantees in this league for ANYBODY! It was wonderful to see everyone today!!!
Good game tonight between our Del Val Aggies and the Lady Knights of Arcadia coached by former Del Val star, Jackie Hartzell! Welcome home, Jackie and here's to a great game free from injuries. Because of the crazy 8 pm starting time that would get us back to Easton past our bedtime, i'll be glued to the laptop!
Couldn't let the week go by without a shout out to Jackie Hartzell, Head Coach of Arcadia University and a Del Val alum, for her 200th win Wednesday night! Jackie was always one of our favorite players at Del Val and a great person to boot! Kind of ironic that that win came against our Aggies, but way to Go Coach Jackie!!!
Two thrilling down to the wire wins for the Del Val Aggies this afternoon over Misericordia! Thanks for the amazing call of both games Gordon Mann!!! Congratulations to the Women's and Men's Teams!!!
Fun day here at DelVal! Very nice win for the Aggies.
Loved your call at one point in the game, "that was a beautiful pass to the ref...he just wasn't ready for it" ;D
Hey Saratoga - positively love that you were watching a bit of the Aggie/Miseri game! I just really appreciate that the Aggies played that game with pretty much eight players since our great Freshman, Lexi Wright, is still obviously not 100%. That Team never gave up even after being behind so often - i still get chills just thinking about it. The guys had a great game too! I still keep an eye on you guys even though i will always miss those old MAC rivalries! You're getting Wilkes next season too and we play them Saturday in a game with some consequences.
Hi Kate,
I try to watch several throughout the day.
Your Aggies are making progress & they play hard...about all you can ask.
Hope you continue to feel better & happy to hear you're able to make some games this year.
All the best.
Thanks, Saratoga. :)
Fantastic Game yesterday at James Work Memorial Gym - our Aggies beat Wilkes University in the Colonels final MAC game, by a score of 70 to 31! Both offense and defense were really on fire! In addition to the great game, we saw Joe Anastasi, Dad of former Aggie Star, Eireann Anastasi Pizzico and Moira Donohue Abrams, a star of the 2004-08 Aggie Team. An added bonus, Moira brought her two handsome Sons! So good to see them ALL! Now, Best Luck to our Aggies tomorrow night as they take on our very own Jackie Hartzell's Arcadia Lady Knights in a MAC play-off game! The only downside of yesterday, was not hearing Gordon's call of that game. The place was rocking!
At this stage of the game, for both halves of the MAC, i'm pulling for the Team that will go the farthest - love Jackie Hartzell's Arcadia squad and Alisa DiBonaventura Kintner's Pride, so if they feel like they can beat a Scranton, then by all means - Now, if DeSales and Messiah hang on and are the winners of each side, i'm o.k. with that too! Good Luck to our Mighty MAC TEAMS!!! Didn't mean to leave out Stevens Institute of Technology and Misericordia.
Also didn't mean to leave out Albright and Alvernia from the Commonwealth side of the MAC! Again. GO Mighty MAC!!!
As the chips are settling for both sides of the MAC, i have to go with DeSales on the Freedom half and Messiah on the Commonwealth. Stevens and Alvernia, both topnotch, but these are my two picks to go deep in the dance.
Best of Luck to our two MAC Freedom Teams headed to the Big Dance this week - DeSales University and Stevens Institute of Technology!
Congratulation to both Stevens Institute of Technology and DeSales University for making it to the NCAA's and representing the MAC. Even though both teams lost, they played well and hard and did the MAC proud! Looking forward to Del Val giving you stiffer competition in 23/24! While on here, just want to thank our Del Val announcer Gordon Mann for another great year of calling our games and also, Chris Henry, our Sport's Information Director, for keeping us all up to date, very well i might add, with all the critical stats, rosters and game times and places of this past season. Fantastic job Chris & Gordon!
Just saw that Smith barely beat Mary Washington in OT last night! Mary Washington is a great team and DeSales played them tough! Good luck to Smith and again, thanks DeSales for representing the MAC so well!
Congratulations to Kentucky's Transylvania! We watched the game and the Transy defense contributed to a ton of CNU turnovers. Also a quick comment to Congratulate LSU who played an unbelievable game against the heavily favored Iowa Team! Those LSU players were mostly transfers & somehow Mulkey molded them into a winning (big time) squad! Transfers may mean more in D1, as many of those players are looking for a WNBA career. I sometime question switching schools in D3, however, unless a Family is moving far from their student's current school, the student wants to play closer to home for whatever reason, or financial or academic issues that may keep said student out of the game. Just my thoughts here this morning, and as always GO AGGIES! The very Best of Luck with this upcoming 2023/24 season!
Quote from: kate on April 03, 2023, 10:41:30 AM
Congratulations to Kentucky's Transylvania! We watched the game and the Transy defense contributed to a ton of CNU turnovers. Also a quick comment to Congratulate LSU who played an unbelievable game against the heavily favored Iowa Team! Those LSU players were mostly transfers & somehow Mulkey molded them into a winning (big time) squad! Transfers may mean more in D1, as many of those players are looking for a WNBA career. I sometime question switching schools in D3, however, unless a Family is moving far from their student's current school, the student wants to play closer to home for whatever reason, or financial or academic issues that may keep said student out of the game. Just my thoughts here this morning, and as always GO AGGIES! The very Best of Luck with this upcoming 2023/24 season!
Already looking forward to the 23/24 season! Can't come soon enough. Just wondering what I'm going to do with my time now that there's no D3 hoops to watch haha.
Can't come soon enough for me as well.
Now we wait for additional info on freshman coming in, how injuries have healed, & those seniors that may opt for their 5th. year. ;)
Stay healthy Kate.
Let's support our schools in every way possible, financially, by word of mouth and Social media, and touting the many attributes of our particular school's graduates! Never take anything for granted! Go Del Val, now and forever!
Kate:
Be on the lookout for another coaching change in the MAC Freedom.
Good morning Saratoga! This summer has started out weirdly enough - could you please tell me who???
O.K., just hope it's not Caitlin (Kings & a Belvidere HS grad who we've watched since her playing days at BHS), Fred, who is a mainstay at DeSales, or our very own Jackie Hartzell at Arcadia!!! Just putting those names out there cause we DO feel a true attachment to those particular coaches. Sorry for the disjointed post - it's been that kind of morning! Thanks for the heads up Saratoga!!!
Are we talking Rhine resignation?
I will absolutely defer to Lefty & his administration to break the news but the word is most certainly out there.
Resignation...that's what it's being called?? ;)
Kate...those coaches are fine, no worries there.
yeah I have zero inside information. Just saw a news article headline.
Really looking forward to the Del Val Women's basketball schedule! Admittedly, have slowed down with attendance (no more driving to those night games :(), but hopefully will be able to make several of the day outings! Before the sport's season gets into full swing, just want to give a shout-out to the Aggies long-time, outstanding Coach, Laura Rotz Hogan! Coach Hogan has had some incredible Teams these past over 25 years with many of her players going on to coach their own successful squads! Notably, right off the top, Alisa DiBonaventura Kintner at Widener and Jackie Hartzell at Arcadia. Sorry if i missed anyone this morning, but you all get the picture!
Just saw the schedule of a Landmark team - it genuinely breaks my heart to see Wilkes, our long, long standing MAC Freedom foe as a Landmark member. Lycoming, too of course, but Wilkes hits hard - it's all for football i guess, but nonetheless sad to me. Colonel John, if you're out there, did you ever think you'd see the day?
Kate:
What's the word on the team for this season?
Hopefully, they'll have their roster posted by tipoff on the 10th.
Hope you & your husband are doing well & can make a few games this year.
Stay healthy.
Hi Saratoga! Thank you so much for your kind words, and other than getting older by the second, we're fine. We certainly hope that you are too! Now, getting to the Aggie 2023/24 roster - I would definitely like to know right about now myself. Kind of tired looking for clues on Facebook, and apparently, even though Chris Henry is still the Sport's Information guy, a new gal, Amanda Graham is in charge of women's basketball postings. We given up night driving, so our first game won't be until December. Good luck to Scranton this year. Tough to tell how the MAC Freedom teams will do other than DeSales of course. Again, hope you Scranton followers are all healthy and i'm sure you're looking forward to the season as much as we are.
Our DVU rosters, women's & men's are up - Best of Luck this season Aggies!!!
Nice win yesterday at Messiah beating the Sea Gulls of Salisbury in the Consolation game! Just a note here, in the D3 Hoops listing for the MAC Freedom, Steven's Institute of Technology is missing. They are still with us, correct?
Huge Belated Congratulations to Del Val Senior guard, Haley Keenan, notching the big 1,000 last Monday night in a thrilling OT win against Stockton University! The Aggies are currently enjoying a nice little winning streak!
O.K. D3 fans - next Tuesday, December 19th at 5 pm at DeSales University, there will be a battle between No.6 Scranton and No. 18 DeSales!! The fact that we're just not young anymore very sadly keeps us home for that one and most certainly watching on here! It will certainly be a hard fought contest! Merry Christmas to ALL!!!
And they put it at 5 to get u home at a reasonable hour. ;) We'll be watching. Merry Christmas, Kate!
Thank you Ronk! Going up Route 22 at that hour wouldn't be so bad for us, but coming home would be a bit tricky. As i mentioned before, we don't go to any night games anymore. We wouldn't miss an Aggie game on here however! Thanks again for your good wishes!
What a game!!! Congrats to Scranton on their overtime win tonight, but i might add, both Teams played incredibly well! Proud of you DeSales! Have fun in Florida and get those two wins! My Aggies have off until January 3 when they start MAC league play with Misericordia.
Totally thrilled that you're back! Good Luck to ALL our MAC teams, in the Freedom, DeSales, Arcadia, Stevens Intitute of Technology and Lebanon Valley, and in the Commonwealth, Widener, Messiah, York and Alvernia! I'll be going nuts on here switching around between the games! Again, thrilled to pieces that you're back!!!
Last night, in the MAC Freedom, DeSales and Arcadia prevailed! That sets up one heck of a game on Saturday!
Looking forward to that one! Arcadia is solidly-in for a Pool C bid as well, so very, very likely we see both of them still playing next week. Would love to see Arcadia challenge DeSales more than they did in the previous two meetings...
This is a tough choice today at one - For me, DeSales and Coach Richter and Arcadia and Coach Hartzell are absolutely two of the best teams and coaches. Hope the previous poster is right about the pool C bid for Arcadia should they lose this afternoon! Fantastic basketball!
The Very Best of Luck in the Dance to the DeSales Lady Bulldogs!!!
Tomorrow, i'll be too excited to post, but want to wish the Very Best Luck to the DeSales Lady Bulldogs taking on Southern Virginia at 7 p.m. on their home court in Center Valley!
Congratulations to the DeSales Lady Bulldogs beating a solid Southern Virginia Team tonight!
Playing the best Division 3 Women's Team in the country isn't easy - the Lady Bulldogs gave it their all last night! Congratulations on a wonderful season in the MAC - we'll all have to make our competition a little stiffer this coming year! Good Show, DeSales!
Happy Memorial Day to ALL! As we're heading into the month of June, doesn't it seem as though there are way too many coaching vacancies on the women's side - haven't checked the guys.
Big ups to Misericordia (including Lefty2 if he's lurking) for winning the D3baseball title!
https://www.d3baseball.com/playoffs/2024/world-series-d3cs-game-two
MAC Freedom doesn't get too many national titles.
Thanks Gordon. Baseball might be one of the toughest to win. You have to win a minimum of 10 games in the NCAA Tournament.
It is a grueling event when you get to the Division III World Series, for sure. But baseball is actually maybe easier to win than most. Some food for thought:
In the automatic bid era, starting fall of 1999:
Seven conferences have had teams win the football national title.
Eleven conferences have had teams win the men's basketball national title.
Thirteen conferences have had teams win the women's basketball national title.
Fifteen conferences have had teams win the baseball national title.
Hi Kate:
Hope all is well.
I'm sure DV will have you on the selection committee to replace Coach Hogan (at least they should)...think any alums that are coaching elsewhere want to head back to where it all started?
Hi Saratoga, can you imagine how bummed I was and still am this morning after reading the news on here yesterday. Such a lovely human being and fantastic Coach! So, so many memories starting back to the 97-98 season! We hardly missed a home game until age and that rotten pandemic. I am so glad that we got to the final game of the season this past year. She was a tremendous representative for the University and whoever DVU hires, they will have some huge shoes to fill. Thank you so much for thinking about me. Good luck to Scranton this coming season.
Saratoga you were 100% right - Del Val has hired Lauren Snyder Stackhouse as our new Coach at Del Val! She graduated from the school in 2002 and has coached on several levels ever since. Lovely person and an exceptional b'ball player. Her bio is up on Del Val's site. I could not be happier about the choice!!!
Great to hear Kate.
If you're happy, we're happy.
All the best this year, looks like she'll be pretty well connected in Philly & the greater Delaware Valley.
Geez, 5 days away from their opening tipoff...maybe Kings will post their 2024/25 roster one of these days. ::)
Quote from: saratoga on November 04, 2024, 12:37:02 PMGeez, 5 days away from their opening tipoff...maybe Kings will post their 2024/25 roster one of these days. ::)
They're one of only 26 WBB teams that have not posted their roster yet, and the only from the MACF or MACC.
I'd venture to guess they had another less than stellar year on the recruiting side.
But, I guess we'll never know as long as they never post it. ;)
Here you go saratoga!
https://kingscollegeathletics.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/2024-25
Thanks Scottie.
I just happened to check about 10 minutes ago & saw it was finally up.
Impressive. ;)
Kings sure has a lot of coaches for a school that may win about 8 games.
Hi Saratoga! King's Coach Caitlin H. happens to be a grad of my high school, Belvidere!!! She also graduated from Marywood, one of your Scranton schools, but to boot, she's definitely one of the good ones!!! It really breaks my heart that Hubby & I won't be live in Lancaster on Saturday for OUR brand new Coach, Lauren Snyder Stackhouse, DVC class of 2002! You'd better believe we'll be watching on here. Good Luck to Scranton this season - have to admit, I haven't checked out your schedule or roster yet, but as the season gets rolling, I will. Widener with our very own Alisa DiBonaventura opens with a tourney in your E'town on Friday night. Anxious to see the stats on the Elias twins at E'town!
All the best with your season Kate & I think your new coach will really do a nice job once she has a few years to start bringing in the students that match well with her style of play.
Enjoy the games & hopefully, you & your husband can make it down to D-town for some live action this year.
In the meantime, stay safe & healthy.
Huge Congratulations to new Aggie Head Coach, Lauren Stackhouse, for her first Collegiate win this afternoon! Del Val beat Lancaster Bible College in that first game of the 1924/25 Season - way to go Team & Coaches!!!
Hi Kate,
A nice start to hopefully a long and successful career in Aggieland. :)
Thank you Saratoga! Just realized I had typed 1924 & not 2024 - wow, does that show you how old I'm getting??? ugh! I noticed that in the near future New Jersey City plays Scranton. They have our transfer, Kendra Rico out of Bethlehem Catholic. She does play well, so watch her! Thanks again for the congrats for DVU!
Congratulations to our DVU Aggies for winning the Consolation game of the Franklin & Marshall Tournament yesterday! Credit where it's due, the F & M announcer was wonderful!!!
Congratulations to our DVU Aggies for winning the Consolation game of the Franklin & Marshall Tournament yesterday! Credit where it's due, the F & M announcer was wonderful!!!
Crazy league this year, Kate.
Kings knocks off DeSales & then your DVC kids return the favor to Kings.
Hope you & the hub are staying warm & watching all the games.
Hi Saratoga! This does seem to be a down year for the MAC Freedom. No doubt Del Val will rebound after Coach Stackhouse implements her first recruiting class. If you've ever watched an Aggie game this season, you would know that every player on that small squad fights like the devil til the end! I see that Scranton is doing super well this season! Yes, we are watching the Aggies, but it does break my heart for not being there in person - age is catching up with us, although we are fine. Thanks for thinking about us and sure hope that you & Ronk are well too! Sorry to read about Coach Spirk and certainly hope that she can return to that sideline next season.
The Aggie Spirit was more than alive and well yesterday at the final regular season games for Del Val! Yes, the women lost to DeSales (Congrats to Coach Richter and his Team), but everyone came out to honor Star guard, Haley Keenan in her last game for the school! As a grad student athlete, she gave five incredible years to the Aggie program. Her former coaches, Laura Rotz Hogan and Shannon Barlow were there, and her Coach (our new Aggie Coach, Lauren Snyder Stackhouse, a 2002 grad of the school) was so glad to heap accolades on this outstanding player. Just a great and heart felt day in Aggie Land, complete with a guy's win to assure a play-off game this coming week!
Pretty impressive career for Haley at Del Val. Will leave as the program's third-leading scorer in career points, No. 2 in career field goals, and obviously the all-time leader in steals. 19-point, 16-rebound double-double on Senior Day as well!
Best of Luck to the DeSales Team playing Stevens Institute of Technology this afternoon at 5 pm!
Best of Luck to Stevens Institute of Technology in the dance!
Jackie Hartzell becomes the second Division III women's head coach to get a Division I head coaching job in the past two days:
https://d3hoops.com/notables/2025/04/arcadia-coach-takes-d1-job
Huge Congratulations Jackie!!! WOW, Aggie Proud!!!