Freshman right-hander Kate Hunter (Ross, Calif.) pitched a two-hit shutout with eight strikeouts, including the 67th of the season to set a new Trinity record, and added a double and a single against Wesleyan. Junior 1B Maureen Heneghan (Windsor Locks, Conn.) added two hits, two runs, and two stolen bases for the Bantams.

In the doubleheader losses at Bowdoin, which eliminated the Bantams from contention for a NESCAC Championship Tournament bid, Trinity led, 1-0, after five innings but gave up runs in the sixth and seventh frames in the first game. Hunter went the distance on the mound, surrendering six hits and one earned run while striking out seven. Heneghan and freshman 3B Marion-Anna Protano (Manalapan, N.J.) had two hits apiece for the Bantam offense. In game two, senior co-captain 2B Liz Bontempo (Granby, Mass.) and junior co-captain SS Laura Heath (Windsor, Conn.) had two hits each, including a double by Bontempo, in a losing effort.

Trinity, coached by Tami Hyde, finished in third place in the NESCAC East Division with a 3-5 league record, but failed to qualify for the NESCAC Championship Tournament.

Heneghan finished the season as the team’s leading hitter with a .347 batting average (33-for-95, 33 hits was most on the team), starting all 29 games at first or third base. Heneghan also totaled a team-high 25 runs, four RBI, and a team-high 20 stolen bases in 21 attempts batting in the leadoff spot for the entire season. Heath finished second on the team in hitting with a .341 average (29-for-85), starting all 29 games at shortstop after two seasons in centerfield. Heath also produced team-highs of 13 RBI and seven doubles, while adding 13 runs and 19 steals in as many tries. Bontempo batted .284 (21-for-74) in 27 games (27 starts) at second base with nine runs, nine RBI, and four doubles. Rounding out the infield, Protano batted .220 (18-for-82) with nine runs and seven RBI in 29 games at third base and on the mound. She made five pitching appearances (four starts), totaling 24.2 innings and nine strikeouts for a 2.83 ERA and an 0-3 record.

Senior Clare Bullock (Columbia, S.C.) batted .172 (11-for-64) in 26 games (26 starts) in left field with four runs and four RBI. Freshman Page Blumer (Washington, D.C.) posted a .221 batting average (17-for-77) with three runs, eight RBI, and two doubles in 27 games (27 starts) mostly in centerfield, while sophomore Jennifer Kernan (Milton, Mass.) batted .171 (7-for-41) with seven runs scored in 26 games (25 starts) predominantly in right field.

Freshman Sarah Hoyle (Ansonia, Conn.) handled the catching duties in every game, amazingly never coming out the game or out from behind the plate. Hoyle batted .229 (16-for-70) with five runs, seven RBI, one double, and a team-high 11 walks, while throwing out eight potential base stealers.

Hunter finished as the Bantams’ top hurler, appearing in a team-high 14 games (nine starts) and leading Trinity in innings pitched (71.1), complete games (eight), shutouts (two), and shattering the College’s season strikeout record with 87 (previous mark was 66). Hunter finished with a 4-6 record and a team-low 2.75 ERA, and notched 10 hits in 65 at-bats, five runs, six RBI, and three doubles with the bat. Junior right-hander Kristi McDermott (Barrington, R.I.) was 2-7 on the mound in 55.2 innings with six complete games, 15 strikeouts, and a 4.65 ERA in 11 appearances (nine starts). Sophomore righty Lauren McDowell (Chilmark, Mass.) had a 1-6 record on the mound in 34.1 innings with four complete games, 10 strikeouts and a 7.14 ERA in eight appearances (seven starts). McDowell also emerged as the team’s starting designated player, totaling nine hits in 54 at-bats, three runs, and three RBI.

The Trinity College baseball team lost to Amherst, 16-3, on April 23, but rebounded on April 27 with a 9/4-3/3 sweep at Brandeis on April 27.

Against Amherst, junior catcher Robert Dolliver (Norwich, Conn.) and freshman outfielder Rob O’Leary (Easton, Mass.) each delivered three hits for the Bantams, and O’Leary added two RBI.

Junior right-hander Jonah Bayliss (Williamstown, Mass.) went the distance for his sixth win of the year in the first game at Brandeis, which was ranked No. 3 in New England and No. 22 in the nation entering the game. Trinity broke a 1-1 tie with eight runs in the top of the seventh inning, keyed by a two-run single by freshman catcher Andrew Fries (Dublin, Ohio) and a two-RBI double by junior 3B Jayme Dorr (Osterville, Mass.).
In a nine-inning win in the second game, a two-RBI single by senior Tom Osuch (Fairhaven, Mass.) in his only at-bat of the game did the damage for Trinity. Freshman righty Mark Tremblay (Hooksett, N.H.) picked up the win for Trinity, allowing four hits and two runs over seven innings to improve to 3-1. Sophomore right-handed reliever Austin Kern (West Hartford, Conn.) earned his first career save, pitching out of a jam in the eighth frame. Bayliss was named to the NESCAC honor roll for the week ending April 28 for his outstanding performance in the game one.

Trinity, coached by Bill Decker, has clinched second place in the NESCAC East with an 8-4 division record. Trinity has qualified for its second straight NESCAC Championship Tournament. The four-team, double-elimination NESCAC Tournament champion receives the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament. Fries is ranked second in the league with a .457 batting average (32-70), while Bayliss is ranked sixth in the NESCAC with a 2.34 ERA, and sophomore right-hander Kevin Tidmarsh (Meriden, Conn.) is 10th with a 2.77 ERA.

Trinity is ranked No. 4 in the New England Division III Coaches Poll. The Bantams will close the 2002 regular season by hosting NESCAC West division winner Wesleyan on May 4 in a battle between two teams who will see each other the following week in the NESCAC Championship Tournament.

This week’s New England Coaches’ poll:

1. Eastern Connecticut 27-7 48

2. Wheaton (Mass.) 29-7 33

3. Tufts 21-7 28

5. Brandeis 21-10 21

5. Worcester State 30-7 20

7. Massachusetts College 27-5 14

8. Southern Maine 21-13 13

Also: Babson, Bridgewater State

Men’s Lacrosse (2-11, 2-7) Finishes Season

The Trinity College men’s lacrosse team lost to NESCAC rival Bates, 12-11, in overtime on April 10 at Harvard, and fell against league foe Bowdoin, 10-8, on April 27 to close out the 2002 season.

In the overtime loss to Bates, which eliminated the Bantams from contention for a NESCAC Championship Tournament bid, senior attackman Alex Westcott (Princeton, N.J.) forced the overtime with four seconds left in regulation on an assist from sophomore attacker James Skiff (Portland, Maine). Bantam sophomore reserve attackman David Huoppi (Pomfret, Conn.) netted three goals, while Skiff and junior attack Ravi Pillay (Church Falls, Va.) each notched two goals and two assists. Senior tri-captain attackman Sean Rohan (South Hadley, Mass.) scored twice and sophomore attackman Sandy Leighton (Blue Bell, Pa.) dished out three assists for the Bantams. Trinity senior goalie Eric Wilson (West Hartford, Conn.) made 11 stops, playing just the second half and overtime, including two stops in the extra period. Bates was ranked No. 7 in New England and No. 26 in the nation entering the game.

Against Bowdoin, which was ranked No. 2 in New England and No. 15 in the nation entering the game, Rohan and Skiff paced Trinity with four and two goals, respectively. Wilson made eighteen saves in net, and was named to the NESCAC honor roll for totaling 29 saves in 93 minutes against Bates and Bowdoin.

Trinity, coached by Brian Silcott, finished the season in ninth place in the NESCAC with a 2-7 league record. The Bantams finish the season ranked No. 14 in the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (NEILA) Division III poll.

Pillay led Trinity in scoring with 14 goals and a team-high 18 assists for 32 points, while Rohan finished with a team-high 18 goals and two assists for 20 points, and Skiff had 14 goals and five assists for 19 points. Westcott scored eight goals and five assists for 13 points, while freshman midfielder John Thach (Berwyn, Pa.) (10 g, 2a), Huoppi (10g, 1a), and sophomore midfielder Will Peace (Chestertown, Md.) (10 goals) round out the double-digit scorers for the season. Leighton added two goals and seven assists, junior middie Erik Mazmanian (Newton, Mass.) dished out nine assists, and freshman midfielder Jake Dore (Manchester, Mass.) tallied four goals. Rohan finished his career with 36 goals and 16 assists for 52 points and Westcott finishes his Bantam career with 12 goals and six assists for 18 points.

Defensively, senior tri-captain Matt Gjerulff (Rockville, Md), and sophomores Dan Bernardi (Potomac, Md.) and Tony Alexandre (Bernardsville, N.J.) were a consistent unit all season. Alexandre was the only defender to score with one assist.

Wilson played in 11 games (10 starts) in goal for the Bantams, finishing with 618 minutes, 136 saves for a .511 save percentage, 130 goals allowed for an 12.62 GAA, and a 1-10 record. Sophomore Geoff Shaw (Charlotte, N.C.) pushed Wilson, logging 165 minutes in four games (three starts) with 38 saves for a .535 save percentage, 33 goals allowed for a 12.00 GAA, and a 1-1 record. For his career, Wilson played in 31 games (25 starts) and totaled 1,448 minutes in goal with 308 saves (5th all-time), and a 6-18 record. He recorded a save percentage of .531 and a GAA of 11.27 for his career.

Other Bantams who made significant contributions to the team this season include senior midfielder/defender and tri-captain Jeff Bruno (Kensington, Conn.), senior middies Bill Meara (Hingham, Mass), Peter Rogers (Southington, Conn.), and John O’Brien (West Hartford, Conn.), junior defenders Will Seifert (Camp Hill, Pa.) and Keith Huffman (McLean, Va.), sophomore midfielders Peter Kennedy (Darien, Conn.), David Chapman (Lexington, Mass.), Jamie Creed (Valley Forge, Pa.), and freshman midfielder Joe Cortese (Winchester, Mass.), and freshman defender Win Huffman (McLean, Va.). Rogers notched four goals and an assist before suffering a season-ending injury during the spring trip, while Bruno recorded one assist in an injury-plagued season, Kennedy and Cortese scored two goals, Chapman and Creed tallied a goal and an assist apiece, Meara and O’Brien each scored one goal, and Seifert recorded one assist. For their careers, Bruno had one goal and one assist for two points, Meara had three goals and an assist in three seasons after transferring from Division I Fairfield, and O’Brien had two goals while battling through injuries in his collegiate career.

The Trinity College women’s lacrosse team defeated NESCAC rival Wesleyan, 12-9, on April 24, but lost at league foe Bowdoin, 7-4, on April 27. The Bantams finished the 2002 season at Amherst in the NESCAC first round, losing by a score of 11-6.

Freshman Beatrice Gratry (Hunting Valley, Ohio) scored seven goals against Wesleyan University, helping Trinity clinch a bid to the NESCAC Championship Tournament. Bantam freshman Martha Bliss Geisel (Gladwyne, Pa.) netted her first career goal, while senior tri-captain goalie Kelly Jo Burnett (Pennington, N.J.) made seven saves.

At Bowdoin, which was ranked No. 5 in New England and No. 19 in the nation entering the game, Gratry paced the Bantam offense with three goals, while senior tri-captain goalie Burnett made eight stops in goal. Trinity, which could have finished as the No. 5 seed in the NESCAC Tournament and played Colby in the first round with a win, settled for the No. 7 slot and a game at Amherst the next day.

Geisel and Gratry scored two goals each, while Geisel added an assist, at No. 2-seeded Amherst, which ranked No. 2 in New England and No. 3 in the nation entering the game. Burnett recorded nine saves in the NESCAC Tournament first round loss. Gratry was named as the NESCAC Co-Player of the Week for the week ending April 28, after totaling 12 goal of the Bantams 22 goals in their final three games.

Trinity, coached by Kara Tierney, finished the regular season in seventh place in the NESCAC with a 3-6 league record. Trinity qualified for its first NESCAC Championship Tournament and its second straight post-season as the No. 7 seed. Gratry is second in the league in scoring with a league-high 55 goals and seven assists for 62 points, while senior tri-captain attack Anna Sullivan (Brookline, Mass.) is fourth with 39 goals and 13 assists for 52 points.

In addition to scoring the fifth highest point total and the third highest goal total in team history, Gratry also led Trinity in shots (132), and draw controls (51) while starting all 15 games at attack. Sullivan notched 109 shots in 15 games (14 starts) and finished her career 11th on the College’s all-time scoring list with 147 points and ninth all-time in goals with 116, along with 31 assists in 53 games.

Senior tri-captain attack Ashley Taylor (Washington, D.C.) totaled 13 goals and a team-high 22 assists for 35 points, junior midfielder Elizabeth Miller (Weston, Mass.) notched 22 goals and three assists for 25 points, classmate Laura Davis (Bethesda, Md.) had 12 goals and two assists for 14 points at attack, and junior middie Katelyn Bowman (Summit, N.J.) netted 12 goals added 38 draw controls. Taylor and Miller started all 15 games and Davis and Bowman played in all 15 with 13 starts. For her career, Taylor finished with 48 games played, 56 goals, a College record 62 assists and 118 points.

Junior midfielder Betsy Walsh (North Kingstown, R.I.) added five goals and one assist for six points and paced Trinity with 57 ground balls while starting all 15 games, and sophomore midfielder Sarah Birmingham (Woodstock, Vt.) had four goals and two assists for six points in 12 games (five starts), and freshman attack Liz d’Entremont (Winchester, Mass.) and Geisel each totaled three goals and two assists in 12 games and eight games (two starts), respectively.

On a stingy defense that held opponents to 114 less shots on goal than the Trinity offense, junior Maria Lingnau (Mendham, N.J.) combined with sophomores Rebecca Sullivan (Brookline, Mass.), Alice Robinson (Springfield, Mass.), Amanda Jones (Duxbury, Mass.), and Katherine Boothy (Philadelphia, Pa.) for a formidable back line. Lingnau led the Bantams in caused turnovers with 61 and had 48 ground balls, in addition to scoring one goal, while starting all 15 games. Sullivan also started every game, scoring one goal with 50 turnovers caused, Robinson played 14 games (14 starts) with 33 ground balls and 28 turnovers caused, Jones played in all 15 games (nine starts), and Boothby played in nine games (six starts).

Burnett started all 15 games in goal for the Bantams, finishing with 782 minutes, 120 saves for a .511 save percentage, 115 goals allowed for an 8.82 GAA, and an 8-6 record. Sophomore Alexandra Benjamin (Weston, Mass.) played well when given the opportunity, logging 118 minutes in seven games with 23 saves for a .489 save percentage, and 24 goals allowed for a 12.20 GAA. For her career, Burnett played in 37 games (31 starts) and totaled 1,780 minutes in goal with 305 saves (5th all-time), and a 16-14 record. She recorded a save percentage of .510 and a GAA of 9.88 for her career.

Other Bantams who made significant contributions to the team this season included sophomore attack Meredith Goeller (Kennet Square, Pa.) and freshman midfielder Tracy Nesbit (Wellesley, Mass.). Goeller and Nesbit recorded two goals and one assist each in 11 and 10 games, respectively.

The Trinity College men’s tennis team finished the dual match regular season with a 7-0 win over Division I Holy Cross on April 23, and finished eighth in the NESCAC Championship Tournament at Amherst on April 26-28.

Sophomore tri-captain Richard Lawrence (Toronto, Ontario) advanced to the semi-finals of the No. 1 singles flight, while sophomore Scott Levy (Waban, Mass.) made the quarter-finals of the No. 2 singles tourney.

Trinity, coached by Rob Hallagan in his first season, is ranked No. 6 in the Northeast region and No. 25 in the nation by the Omni Hotels/Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings. Lawrence is the No. 6-ranked player in the Northeast and the No. 22 player in the nation, while senior tri-captain Muammer Khan (Dhaka, Bangladesh) and Lawrence are ranked No. 5 in the Northeast among doubles tandems.

The Trinity College men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams competed in the Penn Relays at Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field on April 25, and finished eighth and 10th, respectively, in the NESCAC Championships at Bates on April 27 and 28.

Junior tri-captain Ryan Bak (Suffield, Conn.) finished 14th in the 5,000 meters, classmate Jim Emord (Bridgewater, Mass.) finished 26th in the 10,000 meters, and freshman Christina Kane (Springfield, Mass.) finished 13th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in the Penn Relays. Bak finished with a College record time of 14:19.42 which qualifies him automatically for the NCAA Division III National Championships in Minnesota in late May, while Emord’s College record time of 30:43.81 was also an automatic qualifier for Nationals. Kane’s time of 11:23.21 set Trinity’s third school record of the day and qualified her for the NCAA Division III National Championships provisionally.

At the NESCAC Championships, Bak won the 1,500-meter run and freshman Jarrod Bullock (Mattapan, Mass.) took first in the long jump at 22’03.75". Junior Leeann Rheaume (Pittsfield, Mass.) paced the Bantam women’s squad with a second place performance in the 5,000-meter run at 18:04.03, while Kane was fourth in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:49.78. Bullock also finished third in the triple jump with a leap of 44’05.50" for the Bantam men’s squad.

The men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams will compete in the NCAA Division III New England Regional Championships at Bates on May 3-4. The men’s meet will be at Williams and the women travel to Springfield.

The Trinity College women’s varsity eight crew finished second against state rivals Wesleyan and Connecticut College in the Emerson Cup on April 27 on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass.
The Bantams rowed a time of 7:09.4 to finish behind Wesleyan but ahead of Connecticut College. The Trinity novice eight defeated Connecticut College with a time of 7:23.5. The women’s novice eight includes coxswain Edna Guerrasio (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Elizabeth Wynne (The Woodlands, Texas), Tara Maciog (Orange, Conn.), Erin Conley (North Easton, Mass.), Carrie Landers (LaJolla, Calif.), Danielle Markel (Villanova, Pa.), Marisa Skoglind (Sewickley, Pa.), Julia Tiessen (Avondale, Ga.), and Jamie Calabrese (Pomfret Center, Conn.).

Trinity, coached by Erica Schwab, is ranked No. 12 in the U.S. Rowing Collegiate Coaches national poll. The Bantams will compete in the New England Rowing Championships at Lake Quinsigamond on May 4 to determine qualification for the Avaya Communications Collegiate Championships the following weekend.

The Trinity College men’s varsity eight crew finished second against state rivals Wesleyan and Connecticut College in the Graff Cup on April 27 on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass. The Bantams rowed a time of 6:14.5 to finish behind Wesleyan but ahead of Connecticut College. The Trinity novice eight defeated Wesleyan with a time of 6:18.5.
The men’s novice eight crew includes coxswain Bracknell Baker (Wellesley, Mass.), Ted Lubitz (Cohasset, Mass), Tom Graves (Cincinnati, Ohio), Cameron Fraser (New York, N.Y.), Marc Shaughnessy (Andover, Mass), Alex Fekula (New Milford, Conn.), Andrew Grosvenor (Newport, R.I.), Reid Caraher (Chicago, Ill.), and Andrew McCarthy (Wayland, Mass.).

Trinity, coached by Steven Fluhr, is ranked No. 25 in the Collegiate Coaches Men’s Open national poll. The Bantams compete in the New England Rowing Championships at Lake Quinsigamond on May 4 to determine qualification for the Avaya Communications Collegiate Championships the following weekend.