Williams at NCAA Wrestling Championships, NESCAC Hockey Semifinals
Ephs to Play Middlebury in NESCAC Hockey
SemifinalsWILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Third-seeded Ephs rode an overtime goal by first year Connor Olvany to a 3-2 win over visiting Bowdoin to punch their first ticket to the NESCAC semifinals since 2000.
The Ephs will play second-seeded Middlebury at 4 on Friday at Amherst College's Orr Rink. At 7:30, top-seeded Amherst squares off against fourth-seeded Trinity. Friday's winners will meet at Saturday night at 7:30 at Orr Rink to determine the NESCAC title and the automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament that accompanies it.
Advance ticket sales are Wednesday and Thursday in Lasell Gym lobby (Spring St. entrance) from 9 until noon and then 1 to 4. Tickets are adults $5 and students $2.
Connor Olvany also assisted on the Ephs' second goal in the win over Bowdoin and was named the NESCAC Player of the Week for the game-winning tally that came at 9:10 of the first overtime session. First year goalie Ryan Purdy also fashioned a stellar performance by turning aside 46 of 48 Polar Bear attempts including one dramatic kick save when he was without his goalie stick. Purdy raised his record to 10-4 and lowered his goals against average to 2.25.
Williams (15-8-2/12-5-2 NESCAC) and Middlebury (18-6-1/14-4-1 NESCAC) met once in the regular season at Middlebury and the contest ended in a 4-4 tie as the Ephs got late goals from Chris Fahey and Justin Troiani to force overtime.
Middlebury advanced to the semifinals with a 6-2 win over Hamilton at home on Saturday. Both the Ephs and the Panthers are 3-2 in their last five contests.
W-A-T-C-H NESCAC Semifinals & Finals: www.amherst.edu/athletics/jeffcast
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Williams Sends Two to NCAAs Wrestling Championships
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Sophomores Corey Paulish (Ridgefield, CT) and Ryan Malo (Georgetown, MA) will try to extend the Williams College streak of scoring at the NCAA Wrestling Championships to seven years in a row this weekend when they compete in Cedar Rapids. IA.Paulish, the New England champion at 141, is unseeded in the NCAA Championships field and will face third-seeded Luke Baum of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in his first bout. Paulish is 37-7 on the year and Baum enters with a record of 38-7.
Malo earned a trip to the NCAA Championships by winning the New England title at 197. The transfer from Boston University sports a glittering record of 36-1 and has been seeded fourth in the Championships field.
Malo, who wrestled at 184 to open the year and then moved up to 197 later in the season has received a first round bye and will face the winner of the bout between unseeded Chris Carbello of Ithaca (16-8) and unseeded Brian Scher of Hunter (20-3).
Scher is the only wrestler to defeat Malo this season. Back on January 31st at
the NEWA/Metro Duals hosted by Hunter. Scher recorded a 4-3 win over Malo.The NCAA Division III Championships are being held in the U.S. Cellular Arena in Cedar Rapids with Coe College, Cornell College and the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference serving as hosts.
NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships: www.iowaconference.com/ncaawrestling/2009/.
