November 14, 2012
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UNH Athletes of the Week
Bernard Risco and Kristen Lee have been named the NewHavenChargers.com Student-Athletes of the Week for the week ending Nov. 11, 2012. NewHavenChargers.com will select its StudentAthletes of the Week every Monday throughout the 2012-13 academic year. Bernard Risco (Philadelphia, Pa./James Hillhouse) had two interceptions and five tackles in the inaugural Northeast-10 Football Championship Game, guiding New Haven to the conference crown with a 37-12 win over American International. Risco, who was selected to the All-Championship Team, had a pick with the Chargers trailing, 6-3, and then another interception in the end zone to stall an AIC drive at the two-yard line. Kristen Lee (Colorado Springs, Colo./Liberty) hit a team-best .312 while posting 2.42 kills and 2.67 digs per set as the women’s volleyball team went 3-0 to complete its fifthconsecutive undefeated Northeast-10 Regular Season Championship. Lee added nine service aces, six assists and had a hand in two blocks in the victories over American International, Pace and Bentley.
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Volleyball Nabs Senior Night Victory
Smith Breaks Career Wins Record as Chargers Top Felician, 65-59
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laria led the team with 11 SPORTS WRITER kills, and Kristen Lee had ––––––––––––––––––––– a .563 hitting percentage (10-1-16) and posted 10 The women’s volleyfinishers. ball team wrapped up the Kristy Atufunhad had regular season on Nov. 9 four kills, and teammate when they hosted BentAmber Cannady had six ley for their senior night. kills total. They won by three sets to Kaulana Ane totaled two zero with the scores of 25- kills and distributed 23 22, 25-23 and 25-15. assists. Kea-Marie Olaso The Chargers’ final led the Chargers defense regular season record was with the team-high ten 24-1 overall, and 15-0 in digs. Senior Bai Zhang the Northeast-10. and Kristen Kee had Senior Keidy Candeseven digs in the back row
of the court, while Ashley Dalton had a helping hand in four of the seven-team blocks. With this victory, New Haven is ranked in the number one seed for the Northeast-10 Conference Championships and will start the postseason on Tuesday, Nov. 13, as they take on number eight seed Stonehill at 7 p.m. in the Charger gymnasium.
By AMANDA D’ALBERTO
With the close, the team falls to 0-1 overall, and 0-0 in the NE-10. The team will travel to Albany, N.Y. on Wednesday, Nov. 14, for a 7:30 p.m. game against the College of Saint Rose. The Chargers return home on Sunday, Nov. 18, to host Queens for a 4 p.m. game. A full listing of all the home and away games of the 2012-2013 season is available on www.newhavenchargers.com.
By AMANDA D’ALBERTO
Men’s Basketball Suffers Loss In Home Opener
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The men’s basketball team suffered a close loss to Dowling College in overtime with a score of 77-73 during their opening game on Sunday, Nov. 11. Senior Jeremy Williams led the team by scoring a game-high 22 points. Williams made eight out of 16 field goals, three out of six three pointers, and three out of five free throws. Jeffry Adkins totaled 14 points and made three out eight field goals. He also led the team in free throws, making eight
out of 11 shots. Eric Anderson totaled 12 points, and teammate Cyrus James scored nine points total. Teammates Justin Exum and Ashanti DePass both totaled eight points for the Chargers. Defensively, Adkins led the Chargers with five turnovers, one block and two steals. Williams had three turnovers, one block and two steals. Anderson recorded two turnovers and two blocks defensively. Exum had one turnover, one block and two steals for the Chargers defense. DePass and freshman Joshua Guddemi each had one turnover for the team.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Paced by 16 points from Bria Moore (West Haven, Conn./Hill Regional Career), the University of New Haven women’s basketball team earned its first win of the season on Sunday at the AIC Tip-Off Classic – a 65-59 triumph over Felician. With her 83rd career victory, Head Coach Jessica Smith became the program’s all-time wins leader. The Chargers improve to 1-1 on the season, while Felician falls to 0-2. Smith surpasses Mary Ann Palazzi, who guided New Haven to 82 victories from 1993-00. The Chargers’ seven-year head coach is slated to eclipse Palazzi’s mark of 190 games coached at UNH later this season. Moore hauled in eight rebounds to go along with her game-high scoring output. Anh-Dao Tran (Webster, Mass./Holy Name) added 15 points, including the threepointer with 1:57 to go that stood up as the gamewinner. Lauren Hebert (North Reading, Mass./ North Reading) closed in on a double-double with eight points and a teamleading nine rebounds. Brianna Bradford and Nikita Reddy (Germantown, Md./Germantown) also
had eight apiece, Ashley LeBlanc (Methuen, Mass./ Methuen) added six and Rykema Stone (Bronx, N.Y./Wings Academy) notched four as all seven Chargers who took the court scored for the second-straight game. Bradford and Tran were New Haven’s top facilitators with six and five assists, respectively, as the Chargers shot 21for-54 (38.9 percent) from the floor, 5-for-16 (31.3 percent) from the downtown and 18-for-27 (66.7 percent) from the charity stripe. Keisha Jean-Louis led Felician with 12 points and 15 rebounds. The Golden Falcons were 23for-70 (32.9 percent) from the field, 4-for-22 (18.2 percent) from long range and 9-for-13 (69.2 percent) from the free-throw line. New Haven forced 29 Felician turnovers, including five steals by Tran, which led to 30 UNH points. The Chargers committed 20 miscues that were converted into 22 points by the opposition. A 26-20 New Haven advantage was the largest margin in a back-andforth first half that consisted of five ties and 12 lead changes. Led by six points from Moore in the opening 20 minutes, the Chargers went into the intermission holding a 3229 lead. The second half began just like the first, with
the score knotted for the seventh time at 41-41 with 12:15 to play on a Tran jumper. At that point, the Chargers put together the game’s first extended run, netting a 12-2 advantage over the ensuing 3:56 to open up a 53-43 margin with 8:19 to go. However, the Chargers’ first run was followed by the first Golden Falcon spurt of the afternoon, as a layup by Shakeema Green tied the score again at 5353 with 6:10 remaining. Tran broke the deadlock a triple, but Gisell Peguero responded with a trey on the other end. After trading buckets each way, Jac’Quel Sanders put Felician on top for the first time in the second half with a free throw. The 59-58 deficit held to the 1:57 mark. Once again, it was a threepointer by Tran, who led the Chargers’ in that department last season, which gave New Haven the lead of good. The Golden Falcons would not score again, and Bradford and Tran each added a pair from the stripe in the final five seconds to round out a 65-59 victory. After beginning Northeast-10 play at Saint Rose on Wednesday, Nov. 14, the Chargers open the home slate on Sunday, Nov. 18 against Dowling at 2 p.m.
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