By Thomas Scavetta Assistant Sports Editor Entering her eighth season as head coach of the women’s lacrosse team, Meghan McNamara has placed herself among the finest coaches in all of Division II women’s lacrosse. Winning two National Titles with the Pioneers in 2012 and 2013, McNamara is seeking her third National…
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By Alex Billington Assistant Sports Editor This week, the men’s lacrosse team traveled down to Florida to take part in the North Florida College Lacrosse Face-Off at St. Augustine High School. The first of the two games took place on Friday, Feb. 27, and saw the Pioneers stroll past Saint…
By Thomas Scavetta Assistant Sports Editor Coming off National Championships in 2012 and 2013 and reaching the National semifinals last year, the women’s lacrosse team enter the 2015 campaign ranked fourth nationally in the IWILCA Division II Preseason Top-20 Poll. With the departure of several seniors, the Pioneers are now…
By Michael Otero Sports Editor On Friday, Feb. 27, the women’s basketball team (17-11) honored three graduating seniors when they hosted the Daemen College Wildcats (11-15). Junior center Nyasia Davis turned in a career performance as the Pioneers bested the Wildcats by a score of 70-65. Davis earned her 16th…
By Michael Otero Sports Editor Baseball is right around the corner. That’s right, teams have already reported to spring training in Florida and Arizona and one can smell spring right around the corner. There is a lot of optimism by many fans in the New York area for this upcoming…
By Thomas Scavetta Assistant Sports Editor There are several fresh and talented underclassmen on the LIU Post wrestling team, and then we have Johnny Brush. With a team consisting of mostly freshmen, the 32-year-old former marine sergeant is competing against athletes slightly over half his age. While serving in the…
By Maxime Devillaz Co-Editor-in-Chief It was a déjà-vu weekend for the women’s swimming team as it defended its third straight Metropolitan Conference Collegiate Championship on Sunday, Feb. 22, at Rutgers University, N.J. Senior Johanna Pettersson was recognized as the most outstanding female swimmer of the event, awarded the 2015 Joe…
By Maxime Devillaz Co-Editor-in-Chief The men’s and women’s indoor track & field teams completed the East Coast Conference Championships at Saint Anthony’s High School on Saturday, Feb. 21, by finishing sixth and eighth. The women’s team scrambled together 39 points in total, after winning the distance medley race over 10…
By Michael Otero Sports Editor On Wednesday, Feb. 18, the women’s basketball team (15-10) returned to action when they took the court against the Lions from Molloy College (11-13) from Rockville Centre, N.Y. The wire-to-wire victory for the Pioneers was powered by senior guards Chelsea Williams with a game-high 26…
By Thomas Scavetta Assistant Sports Editor With just 17 seconds remaining in regulation, senior forward Tyuan Williams sunk a go-ahead lay-up that sent the men’s basketball team (14-11) to a critical 61-56 win against Molloy College (13-11) in an East Coast Conference showdown at Quealy Gymnasium last Wednesday, Feb. 18. Senior forward Charles…