MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[Matt Letourneau]

Susquehanna beats Catholic 67-62.

Long, long layoff for the Cardinals obviously didn't sit well.  Yikes.

They have to come out and win their tournament this weekend.  Looks like somehow Sowden got completely shut down (4 points). 

Mary Wash went into the break playing pretty poorly too.  Everybody but York (and Gally I suppose) is tanking a bit, going to be interesting to see what happens when league play resumes.

[muchacho]

Matt...CUA's release said Sowden was held to 4 points and 1 block, but the boxscore on Susquehanna's website says 17 points, 6 boards, and 3 blocks. It looks like Fumai and Dwyer struggled though.

http://www.susquehanna.edu/Sports/teams/MBasketball/boxscores/game11.htm

[Matt Letourneau]

Ahh, thanks for clearing that up, I didn't see the box score last night.

That really didn't make any sense to me.  The box score at least paints the picture of what happened: Susquehanna was 5-7 from 3 in the 2nd half, Catholic 1-6.  Everything else was pretty even.  Fumai just had a bad game.  At least Papageorge hit some 3's, he really hasn't been heard from much this year.  Satalin struggled too, I hope he can finish his career on a stronger run.

Susquehanna isn't a good team, so this one stings.  If you were so inclined, you could certainly find some reasons for it--long road trip, first game after more than 2 weeks off, other team got hot at the end...but still.  I know this team is better than that.  Its all in how you finish. 

Lets seem if they come out Saturday with the same intensity they did against Marymount following the Mary Wash loss.  They were unbeatable that day, Marymount got blown out of the building in the first 5 minutes.

[sunny]

Ahh, thanks for clearing that up, I didn't see the box score last night.

That really didn't make any sense to me.  The box score at least paints the picture of what happened: Susquehanna was 5-7 from 3 in the 2nd half, Catholic 1-6.  Everything else was pretty even.  Fumai just had a bad game.  At least Papageorge hit some 3's, he really hasn't been heard from much this year.  Satalin struggled too, I hope he can finish his career on a stronger run.

Susquehanna isn't a good team, so this one stings.  If you were so inclined, you could certainly find some reasons for it--long road trip, first game after more than 2 weeks off, other team got hot at the end...but still.  I know this team is better than that.  Its all in how you finish. 

Lets seem if they come out Saturday with the same intensity they did against Marymount following the Mary Wash loss.  They were unbeatable that day, Marymount got blown out of the building in the first 5 minutes.

From the Catholic release:

"Catholic (7-3) had its last first half lead at the 18:30 mark as the Crusaders went on a 14-2 run midway through the half to lead 27-13 with 4:43 remaining. Steven Papageorge was the lone bright spot for the Cards, scoring nine points on 75% shooting from beyond the arc while Susquehanna's D held leading scorer Shane Sowden to four points and one block. CUA trailed its future conference opponent at halftime despite forcing more turnovers (10)."

Apparently, the four points and one block is referring to Sowden's numbers in the first half, since the whole paragraph is about the first half. (Papageorge's nine points are mentioned, but I think they may have all been in the first half, since it also says he shot 75% from three and the box indicates he was 3-for-5 in the game.)

I can see how you were confused, however, since the story doesn't go on to mention Sowden's game totals anywhere.

[Coach C]

It's a badly worded realease.  Especailly for the early morning bleary eyed among us who watched the Texas shocker.

C

[muchacho]

It's a badly worded realease.

Unfortunately Catholic's new SID, as of summer of 2005, has not had a smooth transition into the job. I suspect there was a lot of trouble with him coming in after the University having no SID for over a year. However, the updates on the school's website are often not there or incorrect. Its now noon the day after a game, and in addition to the inaccurate release which is still on the website, there is no link to the boxscore on Catholic's website, and the record has not been updated.  You will also find the score of last nights game on the cumulative stats page, but the link it is under shows the box score from the Susquehanna game last year.
I know this post is critical, and I have never had the job of an SID like some posters here have, but I would like to be able to go to Catholic's website and get accurate information instead of repeatedly searching other schools' websites.

[Matt Letourneau]

Well I think the new SID is actually doing the best he can.  The issues seem to be web related, I'm not sure how that is handled.

[bbald eagle]

01/05/06
Hood College, Villa Julie College to Join CAC
ST. MARY'S CITY, MD - The Capital Athletic Conference has announced that Villa Julie College and Hood College will be joining the conference in select sports in the fall of 2006 and in all sports for the 2007-2008 academic year. Villa Julie and Hood will be replacing Catholic University and Goucher College, as they will be leaving the CAC effective June 1, 2007, according to CAC commissioner Richard Cook.

http://www.cacsports.com/

[ycp]

Final from York...

YCP 105-Lebanon Valley 59

Opening round of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic

I will post details after the Lincoln/Messiah game.

[ycp]

Another final from YCP..

#21 Lincoln 85-Messiah 83

[mwcsid]

Buffalo State (8-2) 88
UMW (6-5) 86

Lee 29, Baker 23, Fitzgerald 22

Eagles play in consolation at 2 on Saturday.

[Hampton U SID]

Final from Great Ships Classic in Newport News
Chowan 86, Salisbury 78

Ray Williams 24 (5-8 3's), Justin Rice 17 (4-7 3's)
SU 11-22 3's

SU plays Apprentice School tomorrow at 3

[ycp]

Details from York....

York placed six players in double figures led by the senior duo of Kenny Fass and Brandon Bushey as they each had 14 points. Fass added seven rebounds, three assists, three steals and a blocked shot in just 22 minutes. Fass was 6-for-7 from the floor including 2-for-3 from beyond the arc. Bushey tallied his 14 points of 5-of-10 shooting from the floor including 3-for-6 from downtown. He added three rebounds and an assist in a team-high 24 minutes of action. Sophomore Chad McGowan chipped in with 13 points, five rebounds and a steals while senior Brian Singer contributed 11 points, four rebounds, and a blocked shot in the win. The freshman combo of Quinn Howard and Nate Fry each tallied 12 points for YCP. Fry was 4-for-6 including 2-for-4 from distance while Howard was 4-for-8 from the floor. Howard was a perfect 4-for-4 from the charity stripe. Senior Paddy Lee made his 18 minutes of action impressive as he grabbed seven rebounds while he dished out seven assists with just one turnover. Junior Joe Yeck established a new career-high as he also handed out seven assists while he also had three steals. Fourteen of the 15 Spartans that saw action in the game scored.

Game Box
http://www.ycp.edu/sports/mens_basketball/2005/YCPMBB11.HTM
Lincoln/Messiah Box
http://www.ycp.edu/sports/mens_basketball/2005/messlinc.htm

[Matt Letourneau]

Interesting field for the CUA tournament.  The first game is Brockport State vs. Eastern--a tale of two schedules.  Brockport is just 3-4 but has played an very, very difficult schedule and lost a couple of very close games.  I think they're a quality team who will do well in their conference.  Eastern, meanwhile has racked up a bunch of wins against low quality teams (Bible schools, etc).  I think Brockport will beat them.

Catholic, of course, is coming off a tough loss at Susquehanna and needs to turn it around.  They're playing Drew University, which went through a stretch of bad losses but now has one 3 in a row to push them to 6-5.  Now they're playing pretty well and maturing and will be a reasonably tough opponent for Catholic today, particularly because the Cards probably won't have much of a home court advantage.  I think most students probably aren't back yet (someone can correct but I believe they don't go back in till Monday), and the Redskins play at 4:30.   

One other note---the CUA cheerleaders are now ranked #4 in the D2/3 and will compete with a first round bye at the National Championships at Disneyworld.  Now I'm not exactly into that sort of thing, but considering I vividly remember when the squad was started just a few years ago (it wasn't pretty), they have come an incredibly long way in a short period of time.  For years, CUA didn't even have cheerleaders.  They'll be at the games this weekend and last year gave up some of their break to cheer on the Cardinals.  Its a great thing for school spirt.

[ycp]

Early final from York...

Lebanon Valley 82-#21 Lincoln 80

LVC head coach Brad McAlester records his 200th career win.