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It wasn’t pretty, but it was exactly what the Eagles needed: some momentum going into the Patriot League tournament. With a grind-it-out 66-59 win over Loyola on Saturday, the AU women’s basketball team clinched the fourth seed in the tournament, earning a first-round bye and home court advantage for their quarterfinal matchup on March 6.
For the second time in the span of a week, the AU women’s basketball team saw a large fourth quarter lead evaporate. Unlike on Feb. 18, when the Eagles lost a 16-point lead late against Holy Cross, the Eagles made enough plays on Wednesday night to squeak out a 50-48 win against the Navy Mids at Bender Arena.
The AU men’s basketball team battled against the defending Patriot League champions the Holy Cross Crusaders but eventually came up short, losing 69-54.
The AU women’s basketball team halted its two-game losing streak with a strong, balanced performance Wednesday night at Bender Arena. The Eagles received scoring contributions from nine different players and breezed past the Lafayette Leopards 75-45.
Sunday’s dual against Old Dominion University was the match AU needed to win but wasn’t supposed to win.
With six minutes left in the fourth quarter Saturday afternoon in Bender Arena, senior forward Lauren Crisler’s lay-up off a pick-and-roll pulled the AU women’s basketball team within two of the Army Black Knights. The Eagles would be outscored 15-6 the rest of the quarter en route to their second straight loss, 68-57.
Samia Akbar graduated from AU in 2003, seven years before the School of International Service building became the modern AU landmark that it is today. Yet, standing in the new, renovated building during the cocktail hour of the 2017 AU Athletics Hall of Fame dinner on Saturday, Akbar said the memories of her time on campus as both a student and a runner came rushing back to her.
Midway through 285-pound junior Brett Dempsey’s wrestling match against Binghamton sophomore Connor Calkins, Sunday’s team dual looked to be close. Binghampton had captured a win in the 184-bout, and AU responded with a victory just one weight class up. Dempsey and Calkins were battling for team points as well as individual success at 285, and with less than two minutes to wrestle, the men were tied.
The AU Eagles lost their fifth straight game on Saturday to the Lehigh Mountain Hawks, 70-55, despite a strong first half showing.
AU men’s basketball fell 70-65 in the last minute of its Phil Reeves District Day game on Sunday in Bender Arena against the Colgate Raiders, despite freshman forward Mark Gasperini’s best efforts, whose 18 points carried the team until he fouled out at the end of the second half.
The AU men’s basketball team had decent but respectable expectations this year. Picked by the coaches to finish fifth in the Patriot League, the Eagles retained most of their core players from last season’s squad that won 10 of its final 14 games and reached the Patriot League semifinals.
The height and rebounding ability of the Navy Midshipmen proved too much for AU to overcome at home on Wednesday night as they fell to their opponents 71-53.
Keira Carlstrom D'Amato stood at home plate on a baseball field in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, preparing to defend her Patriot League cross country title in 2004. The field, she thought, was a strange place to warm-up for the 6k race that awaited her, but she followed her coach’s instructions anyway.
Last January’s first annual “Eagle Sports Awards” began with a quote from Olympic champion Mark Spitz about breaking records; this year, as The Eagle honors the best athletes of 2016, it seems only appropriate to quote one of AU’s own Olympians from this past year.
The battle between a small private school in Northwest D.C. and a national wrestling powerhouse from Pennsylvania, one of the largest wrestling states in the country, could be seen as a David vs. Goliath kind of matchup. Except for one thing. David, or in this case, AU, lost.
This article originally appeared in The Eagle’s December 9 special edition.
This article originally appeared in The Eagle’s December 9 special edition.
While much has changed on AU’s campus in the past 28 years, one thing has remained constant: Barry Goldberg’s steady presence on the volleyball court. Goldberg’s calm demeanor, arms folded with one leg resting over the other, has become a staple on the sidelines of AU’s volleyball games.
Though just 5’11”, freshman point guard Sa’eed Nelson is making a huge impact on AU’s men’s basketball team this season.
When the intensity increases and the pressure mounts, AU puts the basketball in the hands of a freshman. And even on Saturday, as the Eagles propelled themselves to a comfortable 77-62 lead against Youngstown State, they still ran behind the confidence, success and adrenaline of freshman guard Sa’eed Nelson.
Solutions by The State News