ANTHONY GETTINO
Special to The Leader
The girls basketball team did very well this week, keeping their win streak going all the way to five straight. They went 3-0 this week, starting with Tuesday’s 76-58 win over Alfred State at home. The Blue Devils shot 43 percent from the field and 31 percent from three point, led in scoring by Jenna Einink with 13 points and Anna Chiacchia with 12 points.
On Friday night in Dods Hall, it was a defensive showing for Fredonia, indicated by the 58-45 win against Cortland. Leading the charge for the Blue Devils were Anna Chiacchia’s 13 points, Katie Pitcher’s 12 points and Jenna Einink’s 10 points. The total shooting percentage from the floor for the Devils was 36.6 percent, and 23.1 percent from deep.
Saturday had a similar result as Friday, with Fredonia beating Oswego in a score of 60-46 at home in Dods.
The next games for the girls basketball team are Dec. 28 and 29 in Bexley, Ohio, in the Capital University Tournament.
While the girls basketball team has started to hit their stride as of late, the Boys team is still trying to figure things out. Tuesday at Medaille, the result was a 82-59 loss. There was a balance of the scoring duties, with 9 points coming from Tyler Roberts, and 8 coming from Cody Johnson, Bediako Nyasa and Mark Morgan. The overall field goal percentage for the Blue Devils was 31.3 percent, with a 35.3 percent clip from three point range.
Friday night at home, the Blue Devils fell to Cortland 78-65. Bediako Nyasa led the scoring with 13 points, while Kadeem Riddick logged 10 points of his own. Fredonia shot 41.3 percent from the field and just 29 percent from deep.
Saturday, Fredonia had the tall task of taking on an undefeated Oswego team in Dods Hall. The result was a 77-43 loss. Mark Morgan put up 13 points. The team shot 28.8 percent from the field overall and 15 percent from the three point line.
The next games for the men’s basketball team are Dec. 29 and 30 in Utica, N.Y., in the Utica College Basketball Classic.
The ice hockey team went to Canton, New York to play SUNY Canton on both Friday and Saturday this weekend. This resulted in a 2-4 loss and a 1-1 tie in overtime.
Friday night, the Blue Devils fell to SUNY Canton 2-4. Both of Fredonia’s goals were scored off of power plays. The first one, scored in the first period, was scored by Luke Rivera and assisted by both Mike Freeman and Tommy Martyn. As for the other goal in the second period, it was scored by Jimmy Morgan and assisted by Ryan Dunner.
The Blue Devils led the power play advantage 6-3, but that could only take them so far, as they were able to tie it 2-2 early in the second period, but fail to score again for the remainder of the game.
Saturday came with a better result than Friday, but it was still not what the team was exactly hoping for with a 1-1 tie.
Both the boys and the girls track and field teams traveled to Houghton on Friday for the Houghton December Classic. For the boys team, there was a slew of PR’s and two first place finishes. Dan Sudyn took home the victory in the triple jump with a personal record of 45 feet, 7.75 inches, while the other first place was a 4×200 meter relay that had Michael Salvati, Tyler Pinnock, Alec Wright and Ivan Torres, running a total time of 1:34.06.
Other personal records included Matthew McCarthy in the weight throw, with a distance of 50 feet, 7.5 inches and Aaron Cember in the shot put with a distance of 43 feet, 5.25 inches.
As for the girls team, Morgan Ashton placed first in the 400 meter race in a time of 64.7 seconds. Other personal records for the team included Ayana Bursie in the 200 meter, with a time of 26.31 seconds and Kayla Murray in the pole vault, vaulting 10 feet.
The boys swim team came in 3rd of five teams in the annual home Swimming & Diving Invitational in Steele Hall. They did well in the finals of each event swam, finishing with faster times than they did in the preliminaries.
As for the girls swim team, they also hosted the annual Swimming & Diving Invitational in Steele Hall, also finishing 3rd out of five teams.