St. Lawrence's Fay wins 500th game
FORT MYERS, Fla. — St. Lawrence University head baseball coach Tom Fay earned his 500th career victory Saturday as the Saints won their season opener, 6-5 over Olivet.
Fay is in his 37th season at St. Lawrence and is the first coach in school history to reach the 500-win plateau.
Trailing 5-2 entering the bottom of the eighth inning, the Saints scored four runs to take the lead. Olivet had the tying run on third base with one out in the ninth, but Robert Carman scooped up a grounder and threw the runner out at the plate to secure the win.
Garrett Fitzgerald smacked a double and a triple, and scored a pair of runs, while Carman drove in three runs with a double and a single for St. Lawrence.
The Saints continue their southern trip with a doubleheader today against Haverford in Fort Myers.
MEN'S LACROSSE
ST. LAWRENCE 8, HAVERFORD 6
The Saints used a six-goal second half to upset No. 8 Haverford in their season opener at Manhasset High School on Long Island.
SLU, ranked 19th in the national polls, fell behind 2-0 but fought back with man-up goals from Kyle Jacobsen and Caldwell Rohrbach and trailed 3-2 at halftime.
St. Lawrence ran off four straight second-half goals to seize the advantage with Rohrbach, Scott Smith, Peter Carpenter and John Manning putting the Saints ahead 6-4. Matt Pope and Jacobsen scored insurance goals in the fourth quarter.
Goalie Andrew Cochran made 11 saves for St. Lawrence, which heads to San Diego, for games this week against Whittier and Drew.
MEN'S HOCKEY
PENN STATE 7, SUNY CANTON 3
Junior goalie Jimmy Merrow stopped 51 shots, but No. 15 SUNY Canton still lost in the opening round of the ACHA Division 1 National Championship at the Edge Ice Arena in Bensenville, Ill.
No. 2 Penn State (32-5), the five-time national club champions, took a 4-3 lead after a pair of power-play goals in the second period.
Jeremiah Hardin, Brad Wilson and Adam Fedor provided the scoring for SUNY Canton (19-12).
INDOOR TRACK & FIELD
JONES CLAIMS TITLE
St. Lawrence's Eric Jones won the ECAC Indoor championship in the weight throw for the third straight year, shattering records in the process as St. Lawrence University finished ninth in a 48-team field at Northhampton, Mass.
Jones, a former Watertown High athlete, threw 19.31 meters, setting a meet record and improving his own school record by 0.37 meters. The senior will compete in the NCAA championships next weekend.
SLU's Andrew Goodwin placed seventh in the mile, Jeremy Beaudette finished seventh in the 3,000 meters and Terrence Fox was eighth in the 1,000.
Alyssa Pirinelli, Jenna Hulton and Wendy Pavlus all contributed a top-five finish as St. Lawrence placed eighth in a field of 49.
Pirinelli finished fifth in the weight throw after winning her fourth consecutive ECAC shot put championship Friday. She will compete in both events at the NCAA indoor championships next weekend.
Pavlus improved her own school record in the mile, finishing fifth with a time of 5:05.39, and Hulton finished third in the 1,000 meters. Both contributed to the Saints record-setting victory in the distance medley relay Friday.
