Weekly Sports Update Results from Mar. 28 to Apr. 3
by Geoff Hassard - Sports Information Director
Softball (0-13)
The softball team is still trying to find a winning formula as they dropped three games before mother nature dropped 33 inches of snow that has postponed every game over the last week. On Friday the 28th they lost to Nichols 10-0, then on Saturday they opened up conference play by dropping a doubleheader to Clark 9-0 and 10-3.
In the loss to Nichols, freshman Sonja Farak (Portsmouth, RI) went 3-3 as the only highlight. In the second game against Clark, Marissa Beres (Queensbury, NY) broke out of her slump with a 2-3 performance and one RBI.
Women's Track (2-1)
The women's track season began with the annual Worcester City Meet held at WPI. They finished second to Worcester State with 56 points and ahead of Regis (33) and Nichols (3). The only individual first on the day was in the pole vault as Lydia Stawasz (Nashua, NH) cleared six feet in winning the event. She also placed third in the long jump and fifth in the javelin. Our 4X100 relay quartet of Heather Mazzaccaro (Bristol, CT), Sunny Hwang (Manchester, CT), Amber Miller (Ellenville, NY) and Alison Keach (Chepatchet, RI) won their event. Mazzaccaro also took three seconds on the day in the javelin, and the 100 and 200-meter dashes. Hwang placed in three other events as well as sh took second in the shot put and 100-meter hurdles and third in the 100. Miller took a second in the 400-meter hurdles and a fourth in the 200. Keach placed fourth in the 100. Placing in single events were Nancy Bedrossian (Seekonk, MA) and Emily Brunkhorst (Plymouth, MA). Bedrossian was second in the discus while Brunkhorst was fifth in that event.
Men's Track (2-1)
The men's team opened as well at the City Meet and gave Holy Cross a great run as they finished behind the Crusaders by only 19 points. WPI did finish ahead of Worcester State and Nichols for second place overall. WPI had a couple of double winners in Mike Pockoski (Dayville, CT) and David Hawes (Seal Harbor, ME). Pockoski won the hammer and discus while also taking a third in the shot put. Hawes won both the 100-meter dash and the 400-meter hurdles. Single event winners on the day were Ken Otto (Ellington, CT) in the javelin. -more- Peter Manolakos (Peabody, MA) won the 400-meter run and Ted Manley (Salem, MA) won the triple jump and also placed fifth in the 100. Chris Brennan (Newtown, CT) placed in three events as he was second in the long jump, fourth in the high jump and fifth in the triple jump.
Five Engineers placed in two events as Dan Sadowski (Ashfield, MA) was second in the shot put and third in the discus. Ed Devault (Clinton, MA) was second in the triple jump and third in the 400. Bill Freed (Stockton, NJ) was second in both the 110-meter high hurdles and 400 hurdles. Tim Caldwell (Dover-Foxcroft, ME) was second in the 800-meter run and fourth in the 1,500-meter run. Matt Linnemann (Middletown, CT) was fourth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and fifth in the high jump.
Single event place-finishers were Chris Tutlis (Lewiston, ME) with a second place finish in the javelin. Aaron Korthas (Gloucester, MA) was second in the hammer. Mike Bugbee (Plympton, MA) finished third in the pole vault. Brian Kennedy (Ballston Lake, NY) was third in the steeplechase. Liam Kelly (Shrewsbury, MA) was third in the 1,500. Dan Nashold (Rocky Hill, CT) placed third in the 200-meter dash. Brandon Ngo (Worcester, MA) was fourth in the javelin. Brian McKenna (Pawtucket, RI) was fourth in the hammer. Dan Atkinson (Dedham, MA) finished fourth in the pole vault. Brian Hagglund (Uncasville, CT) placed fourth in the 400. Nick Cottreau (N. Attleboro, MA) was fifth in the long jump. Andy Lynch (Andover, MA) finished fifth in the shot put. Ken Ozeni (Prospect, IL) placed fifth in the 1,500. Keith Levesque (Nashua, NH) was fifth in the 400 and Matt Erickson (Sumas, WA) finished fifth in the 400 hurdles.
Men's Tennis (0-1)
The men's tennis team was able to get a match in down at Trinity College last Thursday. It turned out to be their season opener as their match that was scheduled versus Babson was postponed until the 14th. They were defeated by a strong Bantam team 6-1. WPI's only point was earned by freshman Alex Narvarez who won a tough two set match.
