Coast Guard Academy Sports Roundup

The Coast Guard Academy won honors in the track and field as well as the sailing competitions, and defeated Clark University in a men's tennis match. The following information was provided by the Coast Guard Academy Athletic Department:

Men's Track and Field

Freshman Adam Scalesse broke the school, facility and New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) championships records in the 110 hurdles and set facility and NEWMAC marks in the 400 hurdles leading host Coast Guard to a third place finish at the NEWMAC Championships.

MIT finished with 266 points while Springfield placed second with 223 points. Coast Guard (127) was third, WPI (92) fourth, Wheaton (51) fifth and Babson (15) finished sixth.

First and second place finishers earn All-conference honors.

Scalesse won the 110 hurdles in 14.73 seconds and then beat three-time defending NEWMAC champion and his teammate senior Kyle Coleman in the 400 hurdles with a time of 54.30. Coleman was second with a time of 55.10.

Junior Kevin O’Brien was second in the 10,000 meters for the second straight year as he earned All-conference honors with a time of 32:52.63 while senior John Jaskot earned All-conference honors in the high jump for the second straight season. Jaskot placed second with a jump of six feet, 3.25 inches, the same jump which won him the event at the NEWMAC Championship last season.

Sophomore Tieran Bonner finished second in the 100 meters with a time of 11.06.

Senior Jesse Cremeans took third in the long jump (21-1.25), senior Devin Adams was third in the hammer (166-01), senior Jordan Kellam was third in the pole vault (14-9), senior Nate Crum placed fourth in the 1,500 meters (4:03.51).

Junior Trevor Siperek placed fifth in the 3,000 meter steeplechase (10:02.46) while freshman Ben Wolhaupter took fifth in the pole vault (14-5.25).

Senior Matt Tolliver was sixth in both the long jump (20-7.75) and the triple jump (42-9), junior Myles McCarthy was sixth in the 3,000 meter steeplechase with a time of 10:05.10.

The Bears 4x100 relay team of Tolliver, freshman Ethan Baisden, sophomore Tieran Bonner and sophomore Dante Adams placed fourth with a time of 44.91.

Women's Track and Field

Freshman Alexa Hunko earned All-conference honors with a second place finish in the shot put with a throw of 36 feet, seven inches while classmate Emily Trudeau placed third with a toss of 36 feet, 6.75 inches as host Coast Guard placed seventh at the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship.

Also for the Bears, junior Amanda Cost placed fourth in the discus (101-11) while sophomore Kim Kopcak was fifth with a throw of 100 feet, nine inches. Freshman Elizabeth Flint was fifth in the triple jump (34-3), junior Katie Schumacher placed sixth in the 10,000 meters (42:36.62), freshman Jill Kelly finished sixth in the 3,000 meter steeplechase (13:09.46) and freshman Abby Bishop took sixth in the 200 meters with a time of 26.47 to lead the Bears.

The Engineers, who won the NEWMAC championship 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011, won with 216.5 points while Springfield was second with 154 points. Wheaton (103.5), Smith (77), WPI (77), Wellesley (68), Coast Guard (47), Mount Holyoke (17) and Babson (15) rounded out the team standings.

Men's Tennis: Coast Guard 5, Clark 4

Visiting Coast Guard Academy wrapped up the 2011 NEWMAC regular season with a 5-4 win over Clark University on Friday afternoon at the Corash Tennis Courts.

The Bears improve to 10-9 overall and 3-2 in league play with the win – a match that ended less than 24 hours before Coast Guard opens up conference tournament play against Wheaton.

Clark, meanwhile, who entered the match winners of three of its last four, ends its season at 5-11 overall and 0-5 in conference action.

The Bears won two of the three doubles matches, including at No.1 where Chris Hoffman and Blake Maurer defeated Harris Rollinger and Dan Hall, 8-5.

Coast Guard’s other doubles victory was at No. 2 behind Anthony Foss and Matt Faha’s 8-3 win over Bram Smith and Spencer Brightman.

Clark’s doubles win came at No. 3 as Nathan Maltais and Dan Paradee teamed up to register an 8-0 win over Eric Oredsen and Amanda Robinson.

Each team won three singles matches, with No. 1 singles being the only matchup that wasn’t won in straight sets. Rollinger won the first set 6-4, but Hoffman rebounded to win the match with a 6-4 win in the second set and a 6-3 win in the third.

Maurer took down Aaron Chin at No. 2, 6-0, 6-3 and Faha won at No. 4 over Maltais with a 7-5, 6-4 decision.

For Clark, Brightman defeated Oredsen 6-1, 6-1 at No.5 and Smith posted a 7-5, 6-1 win at No. 6 over Robinson. The Cougars’ other victory came at No. 3 singles with Paradee collecting a 6-2, 6-1 win over Foss.

Sailing

Four members of the sailing team were recognized this week by the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) for their outstanding performances throughout the season and this past weekend.

Senior Jenn Proctor and junior Kristen Holloway were selected by the NEISA Awards Committee to the All-NEISA Women’s Second Team. The duo had an excellent year, sailing consistently in all conditions, which helped the Lady Bears to be continually ranked in top-15 in Sailing World’s bi-weekly National rankings for the entire year.

The NEISA Awards Committee also announced that senior Sam Ingham and junior Amanda Hamlet are this week’s Coed Sailors of the Week for their dominating performance at the Thompson Trophy hosted by Connecticut College.

In their weekly press release, the committee said “Ingham and Hamlet won A-Division sailing very consistently. They finished 9 of the 13 races in the top 5, including four first place finishes. Ingham and Hamlet's 47 points in A-division led the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Bears to a fourth place overall finish in the 18-team event.”

Proctor and Holloway’s accomplishments include finishing 7th place at the Mrs. Hurst Bowl, Yale Women’s Intersectional, and the Atlantic Coast Championship, 5th place at the Stu Nelson, 4th place at Charleston Women’s Intersectional, and 2nd place at both the Women’s Victorian Coffee Urn and the Women’s President’s Trophy.