Women's Basketball Cruises Past Hartwick, 66-35

GENESEO, N.Y. - The SUNY Geneseo women's basketball team traveled to Hartwick on Saturday afternoon and earned a 66-35 victory. The Knights win improves their record to 8-4 on the season and 3-0 in Empire 8 action, while the Hawks dip to 2-9 overall and 0-3 in conference play.

HOW IT HAPPENED:

• The Knights quickly jumped ahead on Hartwick, leading by nine points at 11-2 halfway through the first quarter. The Hawks were able to fight back to

Doody Records Five Points to Lead the Knights past New Paltz, 15-3

GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo sophomore midfielder Tessa Doody totaled three goals and two assists as the No.12 Knights earned a 15-3 home victory over State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) foe New Paltz, Saturday.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Geneseo (10-0, 3-0 SUNYAC) started the game with two-straight tallies, as senior midfielder Halee Beebe and first-year attacker Hannah Marafioti each found the net. The Hawks added a goal two minutes later to make the score 2-1 at 23:00.
• The Knights responded with seven unanswered goals and held a 9-1 advantage heading into halftime.
• Doody scored the opening goal of the second half at 28:07. Geneseo outscored New Paltz, 5-2, over the remainder of the game to secure the win.

QUICK FACTS

• Junior midfielder Mallory Max finished the game with two goals and two assists, while junior goalkeeper Tess McFadden compiled six saves.
• Senior defender Karen Boronczyk scored her first goal of the season and fifth of her career, and finished with three ground balls and three caused turnovers.
• This victory marks the tenth-straight for the Knights, tying the longest winning-streak in program history.

WHAT'S NEXT

Geneseo returns to action Wednesday (April 11), traveling to SUNYAC rival Buffalo State at 4:00 p.m.

Women's Cross Country Takes Mike Woods Invitational Crown

MT. MORRIS, New York - SUNY Geneseo first-year Olivia Ryan finished fifth to lead the Knights to first place out of 32 teams at the 35th-Annual Mike Woods Cross Country Invitational at the Letchworth State Park High Banks Recreation Area course, Saturday.

Geneseo, which was ranked sixth in this week's national poll, totaled a winning score of 56 points to out-distance runner-up St. Lawrence (118), RIT (130), RPI (130) and Dickinson (140) in the top-five. St. Lawrence entered the week ranked seventh, while RIT was 21st and RPI was 27th. Elizabethtown, which was ranked 18th, placed sixth (174).

The team title was the 22nd for Geneseo, and its 11th-straight.

St. Lawrence swept the top-two spots as sophomore Megan Kellogg won the individual championship with a time of 21:34.5, just over 15 seconds ahead of junior teammate Lisa Grohn (21:49.9).

Geneseo graduate Cassie Goodman '15 crossed the finish line third (21:53.1), before RIT junior Emma Jones ended up fourth (21:53.5).

Ryan was close behind in fifth (21:56.1), ahead of Geneseo junior Sara Rosenzweig in ninth (22:06.2) and first-year Elise Ramirez in 14th (22:15.14). Juniors Marissa Cossaro (22:16.9) and Marissa Bellusci (22:25.5) finished in 16th and 17th, respectively, as the Knights were the first to have five finishers.

Geneseo senior Ashton Hughes (22:34.1) ended up 24th, while sophomore Kristen Homeyer was 26th (22:35.9) to round out the Knights' top-seven.

Geneseo will will be back in action on Oct. 7, check schedule, at the Rowan Inter-Regional Rumble in New Jersey.

Men's Cross Country Wins Mike Woods Invitational Championship

Sophomore Isaac Garcia-Cassani (139)

MT. MORRIS, New York - SUNY Geneseo sophomore Isaac Garcia-Cassani finished second to lead the Knights to first place out of 38 teams at the 35th-Annual Mike Woods Cross Country Invitational at the Letchworth State Park High Banks Recreation Area course, Saturday.

Geneseo, which was ranked eighth in this week's national poll, totaled a winning score of 42 points to out-distance runner-up St. Lawrence (103), RPI (203), Hamilton (210) and Rowan (217) in the top-five. St. Lawrence entered the week ranked ahead of the Knights in sixth, while Dickinson was 23rd and RPI was 30th.

The team title was the 18th for Geneseo, and its eighth-straight.

RPI junior Benjamin Fazio won the individual championship with a time of 24:46.6, pulling away from Garcia-Cassani (24:53.1) and St. Lawrence junior Thomas Caulfield (24:57.8) over the last mile to earn the victory.

Geneseo junior Alfredo Mazzuca placed fourth (25:10.8), edging Geneseo alumni Tim Chichester '10 (25:11.3) in fifth.

Knights' junior John Panus logged a top-10 finish, crossing the finish line ninth (25:23.4), before junior Alex Kramer (25:26.6) and senior Sean Fischer (25:27.2) closed out Geneseo's top-five in 13th and 14th, respectively.

Senior Brendan Wortner (25:28.5) and junior Travis Briggs (25:29.3) completed a tight Knights' pack finishing in 15th and 16th, respectively, to close out the squad's top-seven.

Geneseo will will be back in action on Sept. 17 at the Rowan Inter-Regional Rumble in New Jersey.