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Which athletic team had the most impressive accomplishment during the 2009-10 school year?
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Field hockey winning the Empire 8 title and making the NCAA's |
11% |
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Women's lacrosse taking Empire 8 title and making the "Sweet 16" |
21% |
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Women's fencing winning a conference title |
10% |
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Men's tennis winning its second Empire 8 Championship and competing in the NCAA's |
7% |
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Women's volleyball taking its third-straight E8 title and playing in the NCAA's |
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Men's soccer winning another conference championship and reaching the "Sweet 16" |
14% |
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Men's swimming winning the Empire 8 title and placing 17th in the nation |
15% |
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Women's swimming taking 12th in the nation |
15% |
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Wrestling placing 32nd nationally |
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2009 Empire 8 Tournament Central
11/5/2009
Contact: Ben Badua
Links associated with this release:
Visitor Information
Empire 8 Volleyball Website
Empire 8 Statistics
The Stevens Institute of Technology women’s volleyball team will host the 2009 Empire 8 women’s volleyball tournament on Saturday, November 7 after posting a 24-9 overall record and a perfect 8-0 league ledger during the regular season. Top-seeded Stevens will host fourth-seeded St. John Fisher College in the day’s first semifinal slated for 12 p.m. before second-seeded Nazareth College takes the court against third-seeded Ithaca College at 2:30 p.m. The championship match set to tip-off at 7 p.m., will feature the winner of Stevens/St. John Fisher and Nazareth/Ithaca, with the eventual champion receiving the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Schedule
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Semifinals
No. 1 Stevens 3, No. 4 St. John Fisher 1(Recap) (Boxscore)
No. 3 Ithaca 3, No. 2 Nazareh 1 (Recap) (Boxscore)
Championship
No. 1 Stevens 3, No. 3 Ithaca 0 – (Recap) (Boxscore)
Team Capsules
No. 1 Stevens Ducks (24-9, 8-0 Empire 8) .jpg)
Stevens posted a 24-9 overall record and a perfect 8-0 league ledger on the season. The Ducks have not lost to a conference opponent in 61 matches – a streak which dates back to 2004 when the program competed in the Skyline Conference. Led by Empire 8 Player of the Year Sarah Byrne and Rookie of the Year Maggie Kowalska, Stevens rebounded from a rough 4-5 start to post a 20-4 mark over its final 24 matches. Along with all-Empire 8 Honorable Mention selections Brittany Fuller and Sara Budar, the Ducks finished the regular season ranked first in the conference in kills (12.01) and assists (11.11) per set and second in hitting percentage. Byrne’s 3.81 kills average this season ranks third on the program’s single-season charts, while Budar’s 1,178 assists this season rank second. Fuller’s 102 blocks on the year currently rank fifth. The East Rockaway, N.Y. native needs just 12 blocks to set the school’s all-time single-season mark. Junior libero Julia Reilly’s 505 digs on the season have propelled her to second all-time on the career digs list with 1,490.
Stevens Cumulative Season Stats
No. 2 Nazareth Golden Flyers (25-12, 7-1 Empire 8) 
Nazareth shoots for its ninth NCAA Tournament berth for women's volleyball this weekend as the Golden Flyers bring the No. 2 seed and a 25-12 overall record to Stevens for the Empire 8 Conference championship. Nazareth posted a 7-1 regular-season record in Empire 8 Conference matches with its only loss coming in a five-set match against Stevens. The Golden Flyers have a veteran team that includes three-time first-team E8 all-star Kate Zwickl (Chester, N.Y.), as the team's starting setter, and two-time first-teamer Katelynn Reed (Horseheads, N.Y.) as a middle blocker. Another key player is senior libero Mallorie Clary (Baltimore, Md.), the E8's Defensive Specialist of the Year for the last two seasons. Zwickl ranks second all-time in assists with 4,549 heading into this weekend. Reed is Nazareth's all-time leader in service aces with 294 and recently surpassed the 1,000-kill mark and currently has 1,077. Clary ranked third all-time in digs with 1,828. Another player to watch is junior outside hitter Kristi Custer (Truxton, N.Y.) who leads the team in kills with 274.
Nazareth Cumulative Season Statistics
No. 3 Ithaca Bombers (22-16, 6-2 Empire 8) 
Ithaca qualified for the Empire 8 Championship Tournament for the first time since 2007 and the eighth time in program history. The Bombers enter the weekend having won six of their last nine matches. Senior Corinna Doctor (Skaneateles, N.Y.) was a first-team all-Empire 8 player after tallying a conference-leading 1,240 assists this season. She became Ithaca’s all-time leader in assists this season and currently has 5,431 in her career. Doctor needs just four more aces to become Ithaca’s career leader in that category. Fellow senior Rachel Busch (North Canton, Ohio) leads the team with 413 kills. She ranks third in conference in kills and was a second-team all-conference player. Sophomore Kate Thoene (High Bridge, N.J.) is second on the Bombers with 413 kills and paces the squad with 93 total blocks. Junior Tina Orlandini (Altadena, Calif.) has 660 digs, most in the Empire 8 and the third-most in Ithaca history.
Ithaca Cumulative Season Statistics
No. 4 St. John Fisher Cardinals (19-17, 5-3 Empire 8) 
Fisher enters the Empire 8 semifinal with a 19-17 overall record, winning 11 of their last 12 matches. The Cardinals went 4-0 at the second round of the E8 Crossover, defeating Alfred, R.I.T., Elmira, and Hartwick to clinch the fourth seed in the Empire 8 Tournament. Fisher is led by Sydney Kandefer (Alden, N.Y.), a 2009 All-Conference First-Team selection, who has recorded 225 kills on the season so far, and is the only player in the Empire 8 to average over one block per game (1.03). Senior and second-team selection Elaina Braun (Waterloo, N.Y.) is the Cardinals’ top setter, averaging 5.69 assists per game for a total of 717 on the season. Braun leads the conference in hitting percentage. Fellow senior and second-team selection Jenna Waldron (Windsor, N.Y.) leads the Cardinals in digs, and set her own College record for career digs this season when she topped 1,885 and set the new peak at a career-high 1,952.
St. John Fisher Cumulative Season Statistics
Tournament Champions
2008 - Stevens Institute of Technology
2007 - Stevens Institute of Technology
2006 - Nazareth College
2005 - Ithaca College
2004 - Ithaca College
2003 - Nazareth College
2002 - Nazareth College
2001 - Nazareth College
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