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Softball and baseball teams earn conference championships

The Saint Joseph’s College softball and baseball teams capped incredible spring seasons when both appeared in the NCAA Tournament for Division III. Both teams landed at the tourney after earlier winning the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Tournament Championships. The SJC softball team (37-10 overall) made its first- ever NCAA Tournament appearance after winning the [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:04-04:00August 1st, 2011|Categories: Summer 2011|Tags: |

Other campus news

Basketball program wins prestigious sportsmanship award Men's basketball head coach Rob Sanicola '99 accepted the 2009-10 Collegiate Basketball Officials Association (CBOA) Schoenfeld Award presented to the college or university, which in the judgment of the CBOA membership, best exemplifies "the highest degree of sportsmanship, character, and ethics among their players, coaches and spectators." The award [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:07-04:00November 30th, 2010|Categories: Fall 2010|Tags: |

Jesse LaCasse ’03

Baseball star’s handmade bats hit it off with players Ask Maine native Jesse LaCasse ’03 why he makes custom wooden baseball bats and he’ll answer simply, “For the love of the game.” LaCasse, who earned a degree in sports management from Saint Joseph’s and excelled on the baseball diamond for the Monks, began making wooden [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:10-04:00May 1st, 2010|Categories: Spring 2010|Tags: , , |

High scoring runs in the family

Carolyn Freeman, a senior guard and co-captain for the Saint Joseph’s women’s basketball team, loves to compete. Attending college and playing the game had always been her dream, but come senior year, while playing against Skidmore College, something magical happened that left her friends and family cheering ecstatically in the bleachers above. Earlier this year, [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:10-04:00May 1st, 2010|Categories: Spring 2010|Tags: , |

Sports management internships land students in good position

The very first ball game Chris Taylor worked during his internship with the minor league Memphis Redbirds left him a bit “shell-shocked.” Trot Nixon stood nearby. Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Bud Selig passed him in the hall. His inaugural day turned out to be the day of a national MLB event to commemorate the [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:11-04:00May 1st, 2010|Categories: Spring 2010|Tags: , , , |

Getting into game day

It's 1:30 p.m. on game day and with Rascal Flats' "Fast Cars and Freedom" blasting from her iPod, sophomore Shannon Fitzgerald, a fullback and midfielder on the women's soccer team, begins her stretches. On this particular fall day the team is undefeated in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference and pressure mounts for another win. After [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:12-04:00November 30th, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , |

Men's basketball team wins championship...and our hearts

February Fabulous led to March Madness for the men's basketball team, as it headed to the NCAA national tournament after clinching its first Great Northeast Athletic Conference championship in just its second year as a member of the conference. At the GNAC Championship game on the Monks home court, up-beat excitement showed in the waves [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:14-04:00May 1st, 2009|Categories: Spring 2009|Tags: , |