Corsair roundup | sports All-New England Region major award winners Shay Austin-Leary USTFCCCA New England Assistant Coach of the Year Matt Cronin ’19 D3Baseball.com Pitcher of the Year, All-New England first-team Jordan Entwistle ’19 USTFCCCA All-New England Nakira Examond ’19 D3Hoops.com All-Northeast, second-team Steve Gardiner ’74 USTFCCCA New England Coach of the Year Moisse Irizarry ’21 Freshman, USTFCCCA All-New England Alicia Kutil ’18 D3Hoops.com All-Northeast, first-team Jared Louf-Woods ’18 New England Indoor Field Athlete of the Year Jared Louf-Woods ’18 New England Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year George Papoulis ’20 USTFCCCA All-New England Nate Tellier, ’20 D3Baseball.com All-New England, second-team Stephen Tencati ’19 USTFCCCA All-New England Jose Vasquez ’19 D3Baseball.com All-New England, second-team
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Scholar-Athletes earned academic distinction this past spring. Chancellor’s List Dean’s List
Erin Kish ’18 helped the Corsairs set a new program record of 11 wins during the 2018 season.
Sasin’s charges upset No. 7 Amherst College, 1-0, to register the program’s first win over a top-10 ranked opponent.
Senior ScholarAthletes of the Year
Senior Jerry Laakso, of Tampere, Finland, and classmates Madison Boucher, of Southampton, and Hannah Smith, of Attleboro, were selected as the 2018 ScholarAthletes of the Year at the Corsair Recognition Dinner in April 30. Laakso, a fouryear member of the ice hockey program and managementsmall business/ entrepreneurship major made the Chancellor’s
List six times and the Dean’s List once. He was also named to the American Hockey Coaches’ Association AllAmerican Scholars team. Boucher, who double majors in Crime and Justice Studies and Political Science with a concentration in pre-law, is a three-sport athlete for the women’s soccer and track and field programs. She has earned six Chancellor List honors and an appearance on the Dean’s List. Smith, a four-year veteran of the softball team, was nominated for the prestigious NCAA Woman of the Year Award. As a double major in mathematics and psychology with
a Psychology BA-MAT option, she earned Chancellor’s List five times and made the Dean’s List once.
Women’s Lacrosse Breaks SingleSeason Wins Record
Women’s lacrosse established a new single-season standard for victories this past spring, achieving an overall record of 11-7. That put the team a win ahead of previous record holders in 2001 and 2004. The historic victory came in the opening round of the Little East Conference Championship tournament as the Corsairs edged Southern Maine, 16-15.
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