in their individual events. The team placed seventh at the Northeast Conference Championships with 31 team points. Baseball jumped out to the best start in program history, winning seven of their first eight Northeast Conference games and featured non-conference wins against Marshall, Ball State and a pair of wins against Richmond. In addition, Kyle Birdsall also hurled the first no-hitter in Quinnipiac history and Ben Farina became the seventh player in program history to reach the 200-hit mark. Men’s lacrosse clinched a share of the Northeast Conference Regular-Season Championship in the first year of its inception after winning four of their five NEC games. The Bobcats also had nonconference wins against Holy Cross and Providence while first-year phenom Dylan Webster was honored by the NEC five times this season as the league’s rookie of the week. Softball bounced back from losing two its first three games to win six of its next eight games and also won four of five games at the University of South Florida Tournament. The Bobcats have been one of the top NEC teams to date, sweeping doubleheaders from Monmouth, Bryant, Central Connecticut, Fairleigh Dickinson and Saint Francis (Pa.) and are currently in the hunt for a Northeast Conference Tournament berth. The women’s lacrosse team earned their first NCAA Division I Tournament bid in program history with a 15-3 win against Mount St. Mary’s to win the Northeast Conference Championship after they won their first out-right NEC Regular-Season Championship in program history. The Bobcats struggled out of the gate, losing their first
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four games before rattling off seven straight wins and winning 11 of their final 14 regular-season games. The men’s tennis team advanced to the NEC Championship game for the third time in four years after upsetting Fairleigh Dickinson to advance to the finals. The women’s tennis team won its sixth Northeast Conference Championship in the last eight seasons while head coach Mike Quitko earned his fifth NEC Womens’ Tennis Coach of the Year Award and freshman Juliet Labarthe was named the NEC Rookie of the Year. The women’s outdoor track team has competed in four events to date, with Andrea Szarkowicz winning the steeple chase at the Monmouth University Season-Opener and the University of New Hampshire Invitational. The acrobatics & tumbling team finished third in four of the five individual events at the inaugural National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association’s National Championship behind national powers Oregan and Maryland. In its first year in the NCATA, Quinnipiac defeated Fairmont State in the regular season before shocking Azusa Pacific in the first round of the NCATA Championships. Women’s golf completed its first season as a varsity sport at Quinnipiac with an 11th place finish at its first NEC Championship. Amanda Nagel, Brianne Tansey and Jennifer Forlenza were the Bobcats’ top finishers along the way. The women’s rugby team will play their inaugural season in Fall 2011. This season, Quinnipiac played scrimmages against Southern Connecticut State and Army. Four women’s rugby players were chosen to play in the inaugural MetNY U-23 All-Star Team. Katie Wood (Hamilton, N.J.), sophomore Megan Hannamann (Manchester, N.H.), freshman Jacqueline MacLearie (Tinton Falls, N.J.), and freshman Diana Poulsen (Dover, N.J) all received the honorary selection.