Friday, January 23, 2004
O-State going for 6th straight victory
Oneonta State Roundup
The first-place Oneonta State women's basketball team will look to continue its five-game winning streak this weekend.
The Red Dragons (10-2 overall, 5-0 SUNY Athletic Conference) play host to Geneseo at 6 tonight and Brockport at 2 p.m. Saturday.
O-State, coming off a 71-58 comeback victory over Cazenovia, are looking a lot like the 2000-01 team that went 9-0 in January en route to a 26-2 record. That team won SUNYACs and went to the NCAA Tournament.
Geneseo (8-5, 2-2) is in fifth place in the conference and defeated Buffalo State, 64-54, on Tuesday. Brockport (2-9, 1-2) was the coaches' preseason choice to win the conference but is in eighth place. Brockport eliminated O-State in last year's SUNYAC Tournament and eventually won the title.
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O-State to face tough tests
The Red Dragons (2-9) play host to SUNYAC powers Geneseo at 8 tonight and Brockport at 4 p.m. Saturday.
O-State defeated Hartwick, 89-76, on Tuesday behind Shabron Bridges' Oneonta-best 33 points.
Geneseo (10-3, 3-1) leads the conference, and Brockport (7-5, 3-1) is in second.
Wrestling
NYSCW Championships
O-State's 10 wrestlers will compete at Nassau County Community College for the New York State Collegiate Wrestling Championships today and Saturday.
The Red Dragons will compete against schools from Division I, II and III.
O-State returns three all-state wrestlers, led by Bainbridge-Guilford/Afton graduate Dustin Winn. Junior Winn, 23-1 on the year and 10-0 in dual meets, is ranked fifth nationally.
Junior Nick Castellano and sophomore Kyle Hauptfleisch (Delhi) also return.
Castellano, ranked eighth in the state at 197 pounds, finished sixth at last year's championships at 184 pounds. Hauptfleisch, who defeated a nationally ranked wrestler last time out at 165 pounds, was third last year in his weight class.
Indoor Track
St. Lawrence Invitational
The Red Dragons will compete at the St. Lawrence Invitational on Saturday.
The teams competed at the New York City Armory last Friday in a non-scoring meet.
The women had three top-10 finishers, led by senior Kelly Stevens' fifth-place finish in the 500 (1 minute, 19.96 seconds).
For the men, junior Shaun Hurley had two fifth-place finished and set two school records. He cleared 6-foot-4 in the high jump and had a distance of 43 feet, 3 3/4 inches in the triple jump.
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