Weekly sports update: March 30th through April 6
by Geoff Hassard - Sports Information Director
Women's Track (6-0)
The women's track team is off to a solid start as they won the Worcester Area Meet on Saturday the 30th. Leading the charge for the Engineers was Tina Gallos (Manchester, NH) who placed in four events. She won the high jump, was second in both the long jump and triple jump and finished third in the 100-meter hurdles. Three event placewinners were Patty Panlilio (Holyoke, MA), Alison Keach (Chepatchet, RI), Heather Cleary (Pembroke, MA) and Liz Kieronski (Concord, NH). Panlilio placed second in the hammer and finished third in both the shot put and discus. Keach placed third in both the 100-meters and 200-meters and finished fourth in the shot put. Cleary won the 200, took third in the long jump and fourth in the pole vault. Kieronski placed third in both the pole vault and triple jump and finished fourth in the 100. Double placewinners were Sue Shorrock (N. Smithfield, RI), Elaine Mongeon (Southbridge, MA), Sue MacPherson (Hudson, MA) and Sunny Hwang (Manchester, CT). Shorrock tied for second in the high jump and finished second in the 3,000-meter run. Mongeon tied for second in the high jump and placed second in the 400-meter hurdles. MacPherson placed third in the javelin and fourth in the hammer. Hwang won the 100 and took second in the 100 hurdles. Sarah Wilcox (Wakefield, MA) won the 5,000-meter run. Rachel Kupcinskas (Millbury, MA) placed fourth in the long jump. Vicky Dulac (Manchester, NH) won the 400-meter run. Melanie Heck (W. Buxton, MA) placed second in the 400. Ellen Roach (Plainville, MA) took second in the discus. Jody Terranova (Westerly, RI) finished third in the 400 hurdles.
Men's Track (5-1)
The men's track team is also off to a good start in 1996 as they placed second at the Worcester Area Meet. The team that beat them, Holy Cross, competes in Division I. Leading the way for WPI were freshman Mike Pockoski (Dayville, CT) and graduate student Stan Farrell (Augusta, ME). Pockoski qualified for the New Englands in the discus after placing second at the meet with a throw of 131', while also placing fourth in both the hammer and shot put. Farrell tied for second in the pole vault, finished second in the triple jump and placed fourth in the javelin. Double placewinners for the Engineers were Jeff Coleman (Rehoboth, MA), Dan Sadowski (Ashfield, MA), Doug Martin (Biddeford, ME) and David Hawes (Seal Harbor, ME). Coleman won the 110-meter high hurdles and placed third in the long jump. Sadowski placed third in both the shot put and discus. Martin took third in both the triple jump and 110 hurdles. Hawes won the 100-meter dash and was second in the 400-meter hurdles. Chris Brennan (Providence, RI) placed fourth in the long jump. BrianMcKenna (Pawtucket, RI) was second in the hammer. Aaron Korthas (Gloucester, MA) placed third in the hammer. Marc LeFebvre won the high jump and qualified for the New Englands.
Chris Neumaier (Vernon, CT) was third in the javelin. Bruce Meacham (Exeter, NH) finished third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Rich Person (Sutton, MA) placed second in the 1,500. Steve LaBranche (Uncasville, CT) won the 400-meter run. Keith Levesque (Nashua, NH) was second in the 400. Mike Bugbee (Plympton, MA) placed fourth in the triple jump. David Bowler qualified for the New Englands when he cleared 13' in winning the pole vault. Tim Caldwell (Dover Foxcroft, ME) took third in the 800-meter run. Tyler Lupien (Waldoboro, ME) was third in the 400. Bill Freed (Stockton, NJ) took fourth place in the 400 hurdles.
Baseball (3-10)
The baseball team is trying to get on track as they split a doubleheader with Norwich on the 30th. They dropped the first game 10-7 and then came back in a big way in the second game 15-7.
In the first game, the Engineers spotted the Cadets eight runs before making the game interesting in the last four innings. Unfortunately, the rally fell short. Pat Noonan (Houlton, ME) and Eric Dubois (Cumberland, RI) had solid games for WPI. Noonan had three hits and an RBI, while Dubois had two hits and scored two runs.
In the second game, the two teams were tied after three innings when the bats of WPI came alive to score four runs in the bottom of the fourth to break the game open. Aviv Kaufmann (Shrewsbury, MA), Tom Michalowski (Northampton, MA) and Guy Miller (W. Barnstable, MA) opened the inning with three consecutive base hits. A sacrifice fly by Dubois put the Engineers ahead 7-6 and two batters later, Scott Townsend (Hollis, ME), drove in the eighth run to put WPI ahead to stay. The hit parade was led by Kaufmann who had four hits and scored three runs. Michalowski launched a rocket over the left field fence for his first home run on the season as he had three hits overall and scored four runs while driving in three. Dubois drove in three runs on the game. Tim Tully (Greenville, RI) once again had a strong outing as he pitched four and two-thirds innings and allowed only one earn run while striking out nine in picking up the win in relief.
Softball (0-5)
The softball team is struggling in the early season as they have run up against some good pitching. They dropped a pair of games to Clark on the 30th and lost another to Rhode Island College last Wednesday (3rd).
In the two losses to Clark, WPI could only manage to score two runs on eight hits as they lost the first game 6-0 and the second 7-2. Freshman pitcher Carrie Seigars (Richmond, ME) continues to throw well in her first campaign as she is currently third in the NEW-8 Conference in earned run average.
Last Wednesday WPI hosted the Anchorwomen in the hopes of breaking into the win column. WPI had only five baserunners in the game as they were shutout 7-0.
Unofficially, the softball team did defeat the baseball team 5-4 in a five inning affair last Tuesday the 2nd. Coach Griffith was roughed up and the game ended with Teresa Lintzenich scoring on a wild pitch.
