Athletics News

COMPLETE RESULTS

GETTYSBURG, Pa. - Freshman Michael Bernasek shot a 37 on the back nine, finishing with an 82 as Swarthmore ended up 14th at the Gettysburg Spring Invitational on Tuesday afternoon played at the Links at Gettysburg.

Junior Ed Goldstein shot 43-42 on his way to an 85 while classmate Zach Moody was one stroke back with an 86. Sophomore Michael Johns rounded out the scoring with a 91 as the Garnet posted a team score of 344.

Invite champion Susquehanna posted a team score of 296.

The Garnet travel to Neumann College on Friday, March 31 for a 12:00 p.m. tee-time.

BOX SCORE 

3/28: #8 Diplomats End Garnet Run

SWARTHMORE, Pa. — Franklin & Marshall freshman attack Jen Pritchard scored a career-high six goals on seven shots as the eighth-ranked Diplomats brought Swarthmore's nine-game winning streak to a close, defeating the Garnet 15-7 on Tuesday afternoon in Centennial Conference action.

Midfielder Lindsay Roth '07 led Swarthmore (8-1, 1-1 CC) with three goals while midfielders Katie Crawford '07 and Rachel Jordan '08 added two goals each.

The Garnet took an early 2-1 lead following Crawford's first goal at 7:29. Pritchard evened the score, 2-2, finishing off a pass from junior Sloan Giampa at 10:22 and the Diplomats took their first lead 1:31 later when freshman Shannon Summers tallied one of her three goals off a feed from sophomore Catherine Onnen.

Roth scored her second goal of the afternoon at 12:12, knotting the score at 3-3.

F&M (6-1, 1-0 CC) scored the next seven goals, including five at the end of the half to assume an 8-3 advantage at the intermission. Roth broke up the streak with her 17th goal of the season at 35:14, yet the Diplomats put home four more scores to put the game out of reach.

The Diplomats held a 34-19 shot advantage while the Garnet held a slight lead in ground balls 30-29.

Kamissa Mort made 10 saves in goal for F&M while sophomore Susannah Blair registered 14 stops for Swarthmore.

Swarthmore travels south on Rt. 320 this coming Thursday, March 30 to take on Widener University at 5:00 p.m.

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

3/28: Zelaski Blanks Widener, Garnet Split

CHESTER, Pa. -- Swarthmore freshman Alexandra Zelaski tossed allowed only one hit and catcher Christina Procacci '06 drew four walks as the Garnet defeated Widener 5-0 in the first game of a non-conference doubleheader on Tuesday afternoon. The Pioneers (8-8) won game two 3-1 over Swarthmore (9-8).

The first game featured a dazzling performance by Zelaski, whose only blemish was a second-inning jam. The Pioneers' Rachel O'Leary cracked a two-out single to center and Zelaski walked Katie Mitchell and hit Danielle LaMarra with a pitch to load the bases. The freshman righthander bore down, striking out Trina Menta to end the threat.

Zelaski (4-2) sailed the rest of the way, retiring the final 15 batters to earn her second shut-out of the season. Zelaski fanned six batters, upping her season total to a team-high 44.

The Swarthmore offense put a run up in the top of the second and then benefitted from three Widener errors to score four more times in the fourth. Sophomore shortstop Katie Gold laced a two-run single to give the Garnet the 5-0 lead they would not relinquish.

Senior Danielle Miller had two hits and an RBI for the Garnet while Procacci drew a free pass on each her four plate appearances.

Procacci now has 85 career base on balls, putting her in a tie for the 12th-most all-time in Division III with Jeanne Hengemuhle from the College of New Jersey. Mariann Shumbo from Eastern Connecticut State holds the all-time record with 106 walks.

Swarthmore drew first blood in game two as freshman infielder Christine Sendelsky walked and stole second to lead off the second. Gold followed with an infield hit and junior Kelly Siano drew a walk to load the bases. Freshman outfielder Lauren Walker drove in Sendelsky with a base hit for a 1-0 Garnet lead.

The Pioneers evened the score at 1-1 in bottom of the third, wrapping three hits of Swarthmore starter Emily Walz. Widener struck for two unearned runs in the fourth inning, giving Pioneers pitcher Mallory Meyer all the run support she would need.

Sendelsky, Gold, Siano, Walker, and freshman Kristin Caspar all had base hits for Swarthmore. Walz (3-4) took the loss, allowing seven hits in four innings.

The Garnet return home for their next game, welcoming Philadelphia Biblical University to Clothier Fields on Thursday, March 30 for a 3:00 p.m. doubleheader.

COMPLETE RESULTS

SPRINGFIELD, Pa. - Junior Zach Moody posted the low round of the day, a three-over par 74, leading the Garnet to its second straight home win on Monday afternoon at Rolling Green Golf Club.

Swarthmore posted a team score of 309, the team's best home score in recent memory, easily outdistancing Cabrini (324), Eastern (369), and Arcadia (400). The Richard Stockton club team also competed, scoring a 328 while the Swarthmore #2 team posted a 339.

Joining Moody on the leader board were junior Eric Zwick (76) and Michael Cullinan '06 (77). Freshman Michael Bernasek, playing on the #2 team, finished fifth with an 80 while classmate David Lau carded an 82 and junior Ed Goldstein scored an 88.

3/27: Sendelsky Honored Again

SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- Swarthmore infielder Christine Sendelsky (Edison, NJ - John P. Stevens) was named Centennial Conference Co-Hitter of the Week and Co-ECAC Player of the Week on March 27.

Sendeslksy, a freshman, continued a torrid start to her collegiate career, hitting .750 (12-for-16) with four doubles, five RBIs, and seven runs in six games for Swarthmore.  The freshman is in the midst of a six-game hitting streak, including a stretch of six straight at bats with a base hit.  She opened the week with a 3-for-3 game with a double and three runs scored in the first game at Rosemont and went 2-for-2 with a double, RBI, and run scored in game two.  In a sweep of a twinbill vs. Penn State-Berks, Sendlesky went 5-for-6 with two doubles, two walks, four RBIs, and three runs scored.

Sendelsky leads the Conference in batting average (.500), runs (16), hits (23), and doubles (eight) and is tops on the team slugging percentage (.717), on-base percentage (.549), and total bases (33) in her first 15 games.

Sendelsky is the first Swarthmore player to earn Conference honors twice in one season.

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

3/26: Scarlet Knights Trip Garnet

SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- Arcadia first basemen Jenn Compton had two doubles and a home run, powering the Scarlet Knights (12-2) to a Sunday afternoon sweep of a doubleheader with Swarthmore. Arcadia won game one 3-0 and then followed up with an 8-0 victory in the second game.

In game one, Arcadia got two runs of four hits in the fourth inning off Garnet starter Emily Walz '08. The Knights added another in the sixth when Dana Shay scored on a Jaime Beer double.

Swarthmore got a pair of hits from starting pitcher Walz in the first game; it was the first two career hits for Walz.

Game two turned on a six-run fifth, as Arcadia jumped on Garnet starter Marianne Klingaman for six hits.

Third baseman Melissa LaVan had a pair of hits for the Garnet (8-7) in the second game.

Swarthmore travels to Widener University for its next game, scheduled for 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28.

GAME BOX SCORE

GETTYSBURG, Pa.- Third-ranked Gettysburg (6-0, 1-0 CC) scored four goals in the third period, and then held off a late Swarthmore charge to win 7-4 on Saturday afternoon in the Centennial Conference opener for both squads.

The Bullets, the 2005 Centennial Conference champions, got on the board early with an unassisted goal by Chase Stewart at 13:26 in the first period.

Swarthmore evened the score 1-1 when junior captain Jay Charles put home his team-leading ninth goal of the season off a feed from freshman midfielder Todd Friedman with 2:37 to go in the half. The Bullets used a Brian Pryor score off a pass from Andrew Mavraganis to re-take the lead at 1:09.

Swarthmore knotted the score at 2-2 when freshman attack Stelios Wilson tallied his fifth goal of the season with only twenty-three seconds left in the half. The score remained 2-2 into the intermission.

The Bullets took control of the game in the third period, scoring four times in the final seven minutes to take a commanding 6-2 lead.

The Garnet managed two more goals in the fourth period, one by sophomore middie Ivano Ventresca and one from freshman Ben Young, but Bullets goalie Pat Vaughan kept Swarthmore at bay with two key saves.

Gettysburg held a 26-17 advantage in shots and a 22-15 lead in ground balls. The Bullets also controlled the face-offs, winning 12-of-15 on the afternoon.

Garnet sophomore goalie Frank Mazzucco made 10 saves in goal.

Swarthmore travels to upstate New York for its next game; the Garnet will be in Saratoga County on Saturday, April 1 to take on the Thouroughbreds of Skidmore College at 11:00 a.m.

BOX SCORE

3/25: Swarthmore Runs By Terror

WESTMINSTER, Md. — Swarthmore midfielder Katie Crawford capped an incredible Garnet comeback on Saturday afternoon, scoring the game-winning goal with 1:52 left to give Swarthmore a 16-15 Centennial victory over homestanding McDaniel. The Garnet (8-0) are off to the best start in school history.

Sophomore goalie Susannah Blair made three big saves (totaling ten on the day) in the final 1:13 to give Swarthmore a win in its 2006 Centennial Conference opener.

McDaniel (2-5, 1-1 CC) jumped out to a 2-0 lead before Swarthmore ran off three straight scores to take its first lead of the day. Junior midfielder Athena Samaras scored her 13th goal off an assist by midfielder Megan Sanborn '08 at 2:16, senior midfielder Niamh Shortt put in one of her two goals at 7:15, and junior midfielder Lindsay Roth scored her first of three at 7:38.

The Green Terror scored four of the next five goals to assume a 7-4 lead midway through the first half. The Garnet closed the half with three scores of their own (one each by Shortt, Sanborn, and Heidi Fieselmann '06) to tie the score at 7-7.

The McDaniel offense came out on fire in the first ten minutes of the second half, scoring six times to increase the lead to 13-9. Sanborn put in an unassisted goal for the Garnet at 34:20 and junior Rachel Jordan scored off a pass from Roth at 39:05 to keep Swarthmore within striking distance.

Roth made it 13-10 with her second goal at 44:21, but the Green Terror answered with two more goals to seemingly put the game away, 15-10, at 49:04.

Roth got the Swarthmore comeback started with a free position goal 52:01 and Crawford followed suit with a free position score two minutes later. Jordan cut the McDaniel lead to 15-13 at 75:30 with a free position goal of her own.

Fieselmann kept the ball rolling at the 57:15 mark, scoring an unassisted goal and Jordan completed her hat trick with the game-tying score at 57:49. Crawford put Swarthmore ahead for good (its first lead since the seven minute mark in the first half) with the unassisted game-winner just under the two-minute mark.

Blair, among the conference leaders in save percentage (.537) and goals-against-average (7.00) thwarted four Terror attempts to tie the game, including getting a little help from the post on one shot.

Roth completed a banner day with three goals, one assist, a game-high five ground balls, two draw controls, and three caused turnovers.

Crawford's game-winner was her second goal of the day, and the 16th of the season - a career-high. Jordan tallied all three of her goals in the second half, matching her career high of eight scores on the season.

Swarthmore faces a big challenge this Tuesday, March 28 when the 10th-ranked Diplomats from Franklin & Marshall come to Clothier Field for a 5:00 p.m. game.

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

3/25: Garnet Power Surges Swarthmore to Sweep

SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- Junior Kelly Siano had a career-day on Saturday, going 6-for-8 including her first career home run as the Garnet (8-5) swept Penn State-Berks at a drizzly Clothier Fields. Swarthmore won game one 10-2 and continued to roll in the second contest, winning by a score of 12-4.

The streaking Garnet are off to their best start since the 1990 Swarthmore club began the season 8-2.

The ball was soaring on the chilly afternoon as Siano, sophomore Katie Gold, and senior Danielle Miller all hit round-trippers in game one. Swarthmore got four runs in the fifth and four more in the sixth, rapping out 15 hits in the process.

Looking through records dating back to 1940, this appears to be the first time in school history the Garnet have hit three home runs in the same game.

Siano was 4-for-4 with three runs and three RBIs in game one, slugging a towering drive over the centerfield fence to lead of the second inning with her first career home run. Gold's one-out four-bagger (also the first of her collegiate career) in the fifth went over the same sport as Siano's. Miller led off the sixth with a frozen rope over the left field fence for her second career round-tripper.

Righthander Emily Walz '08 allowed four hits while striking out three batters to earn her third win of the season in the first game.

Swarthmore took game two, 12-4, behind six strikeouts from freshman Alexandra Zelaski. Freshman sensation Christine Sendelsky led the offense with a perfect 4-for-4, four-RBI (a career-high) performance while classmate Kristin Caspar totaled a career-high three hits.

Sendelsky continues her torrid pace, most recently collecting 10 hits in her last 11 at bats and has reached base 12 of her last 13 plate appearances.

The Garnet return to action on Sunday, hosting Arcadia in a 1:00 p.m doublheader on Clothier Fields.

SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- On Saturday afternoon at the Mullan Tennis Center, #16 Swarthmore upset #11 Washington and Lee 4-3. Zac Rodd '06, Jon Reiss '07, and Brian Park '06 won both their singles and doubles' matches as the Garnet improved to 2-8 overall.

The No. 1 seeded duo of Rodd and Park once again saw victory on Center Court. A combination of good serves and controlled shots gave them the upper hand, and eventually the win (8-4).

The No. 2 doubles pair, Reiss and Jon Lo '07 had their opponents scrambling to return a shot. Both individuals were able to quickly recover from a missed point to win the match 8-6.

At No.1 singles, Rodd faced off with Washington & Lee's David Shay (ranked 10th in the region), battling him in a heart-wrenching tiebreaker to take the second set. Rodd (recently listed fifth in the Atlantic South region) pulled out service aces exactly when he needed to and was able to take the third set easily, winning 3-6, 7-6 (11-9), 6-1.

After injuring himself during his doubles win, Reiss went on to come back from a deficit in the first set. After snagging the first set from W & L's Nat Estes, Reiss was forced into a third set that he won (7-6, 4-6, 6-2).

Park played brilliantly the entire match, allowing the crowd to see some great tennis. His opponent Seth Feibelman attempted to rally back in the first set, but Park refused to back down. Park went on to win 7-6 (7-3), 6-2.

The Garnet will next travel to Fredericksburg, VA to battle #22 Carnegie Mellon at the University of Mary Washington on Saturday, April 1. The match commences at 1:00 p.m.