Basketball breaks program data, swimming wins Phoenix Fall Classic and different information

Basketball

The No. 1-ranked ladies’s workforce opened the week with a 114-34 defeat of John Jay College on Monday, Nov. 24 within the Paulson Center. 

The underclassmen had been the celebs of the win, with the highest 5 scorers of their first or second years at NYU. Sophomore Zahra Alexander made her first profession begin depend, scoring 21 factors and including seven rebounds and 5 steals to her report. First-year Olivia Lagao led the workforce with 23 factors, and fellow first-years Aila Kaibara, with 16 factors, and Megan Ohonde, with 11 factors, adopted behind. Sophomore Caitlin Kenney rounded out the highest 5 with a crammed stat sheet, recording 10 factors, eight assists, six rebounds, 5 steals and one block. 

The Violets by no means trailed within the blowout, making the most of their defensive power to earn 48 factors off of turnovers. 

The workforce went throughout town on Saturday, heading to Brooklyn for the Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial Tournament Championship hosted by Medgar Evers College. The Violets swept the match in opposition to Colby-Sawyer College, advancing to the championship with a 115-42 win. 

Senior Caroline Peper and junior Brooke Batchelor put up a robust entrance for the Violets, scoring 20 and 19 factors, respectively. Batchelor had a robust defensive efficiency, snagging seven rebounds and 7 steals for NYU. Junior Yasmene Clark secured a double-double, the primary of her collegiate profession, with 16 factors and 12 rebounds. 

NYU closed out the event on Sunday, dealing with off in opposition to the United States Merchant Marine Academy within the championship recreation. A 102-70 victory earned the trophy for the Violets and secured the second-longest streak in NCAA Division III historical past with 69 straight wins. 

It was a historic evening for Peper, who tied this system report of 41 factors scored in a single recreation and hit a milestone 1,000 profession factors with the Violets. The senior had an impressive 23 three-point makes an attempt, touchdown 11 of them, and recorded seven steals, 4 assists and two rebounds with zero turnovers. The efficiency earned her the title of Tournament MVP. 

The ladies’s workforce now stands at 7-0 on the season — scoring over 100 factors in six of their video games — and can return on Saturday, Dec. 13 to defend its residence court docket in opposition to Brooklyn College.

The males’s workforce hit the court docket in Thousand Oaks, CA on Wednesday, securing a 78-63 win in opposition to California Lutheran University. 

Though Cal Lutheran saved the lead inside 10 factors for almost all of the primary half, NYU by no means trailed and pulled away because the second half unfolded. Junior Carnegie Johnson topped NYU’s scoreboard with 20 factors and 9 rebounds, adopted by senior Bryan Moussako with 15 factors and 4 assists. Moussako shot 6-of-9 from the sector and put up three 3-point baskets. 

The collection in California continued on Saturday because the workforce triumphed over George Fox University. 

The 105-69 win was led by graduate scholar Darren Rubin, who scored 20 factors. Johnson was a flexible asset for the Violets, recording 17 factors, six assists, three rebounds and two steals. Graduate scholar Luke Kolaja and Moussako additionally ended the evening in double digits, scoring 14 and 11 factors, respectively. 

The workforce’s 35 assists broke NYU’s single-game report, with 12 of the 13 energetic Violets contributing at the very least two to the rating. At the half, the Violets led by 19 factors, and solely widened the lead within the second, ending 36 factors forward of George Fox.  

The males’s workforce is now 6-0 on the season and heads again to the East Coast on Wednesday, Dec. 3, visiting Yeshiva University in Washington Heights. 

Fencing

The males’s and ladies’s fencing groups competed within the Shark Tank Challenge hosted by Long Island University on Saturday. 

Against Yale University, NYU’s first opponent, the boys’s workforce misplaced 17-10 and the ladies’s workforce fell 21-6. The males’s workforce was profitable in epee, successful 5-4, however fell 6-3 in saber and 7-2 in foil. The ladies’s workforce dropped all three disciplines, narrowly dropping 5-4 in epee and getting swept 9-0 in foil and 7-2 in saber. 

Despite the workforce’s loss, sophomore Katherine Chen went 3-0 in opposition to Yale in epee. Overall, she had a 7-1 report in opposition to the 4 rival faculties. 

St. John’s University beat the Violets in nearer contests, claiming a 15-12 victory in opposition to the boys’s workforce and 16-11 win over the ladies’s workforce. The males’s workforce received 5-4 in foil and the ladies’s workforce took a 6-3 victory in epee, however had been finally outmatched by St. John’s. 

The Violets bounced again within the latter half of the day, securing dominant wins in opposition to Wagner College and the host, LIU. 

The ladies’s workforce swept Wagner 22-5, boasting a 9-0 foil efficiency and robust victories in epee, 7-2, and saber, 6-3. The males’s workforce got here out forward with a 19-8 victory over the Seahawks — the fencers received 7-2 in foil and 6-3 in each saber and epee. Three of first-year Julius DeStefano’s 5 victories in epee got here from wins over Wagner’s fencers.

The wins in opposition to LIU had been even larger — the ladies’s workforce completed 23-4 and the boys’s workforce closed it out 21-6. Both groups had good showings in foil, going 9-0 in opposition to the Sharks. The ladies’s workforce had a robust bout in saber with an 8-1 win and in addition carried out nicely in epee, ending with a 6-3 win. The males’s workforce went 7-2 in epee and 5-4 in saber. 

The males’s and ladies’s fencing groups will journey to Fairfield, CT on Saturday, Dec. 6 for the Sacred Heart Tradition Meet, closing out the autumn semester on the street. 

Swimming and Diving 

The males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups closed out the Phoenix Fall Classic on Sunday, Nov. 23 with two collective first-place finishes. 

The ladies’s workforce, ranked No. 2 by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association, took the highest spot with 2,779.5 factors, forward of second-place Washington University in St. Louis by over 800 factors. 

NYU earned the highest three spots within the 200-meter butterfly, led by senior Nicole Ranile. Junior Reina Gomez took second place and first-year Lina Wordelman rounded out the rostrum. The Violets had been additionally triumphant within the 400-yard freestyle relay, taking first with robust performances from senior Kaley McIntyre, junior Lian Jeong Engle and first-years Llew Ladomirak and Maeve O’Donnell. 

The males’s workforce, ranked No. 3 by the CSCAA, had simply as dominant of a margin, ending with 2,697 factors, additionally practically 800 factors forward of WashU in second. 

Sophomore Teddy McQuaid took residence a first-place particular person end together with his win within the 200-yard backstroke. Sophomore Maksym Nechydyuk earned one other first-place for NYU within the 200-yard breaststroke. The workforce earned a number of top-five finishes, together with second within the 400-yard medley relay. 

The males’s and ladies’s groups will journey to Troy, NY on Friday, Dec. 5 for the dive-only Go Red Invitational hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, adopted by a return residence to the Palladium Athletic Facility on Saturday, Dec. 6 to face Fordham University and The College of New Jersey.

Wrestling 

The wrestling workforce hosted a twin meet at residence on Tuesday, Nov. 25, dealing with off in opposition to D-II Felician University. NYU received 42-7, victorious in eight of the ten matches.

NYU earned pins from graduate scholar Ty Finn, senior Jacob Venezia, junior John Mairano, and first-year Nathan Faxon of their matches. Graduate scholar Justin Mayes closed out the competitors within the 184-pound weight class, successful 7-2 by determination over the Felician wrestler ranked No. 11 in his D-II weight class.

The wrestling workforce will return to the mat on Friday, Dec. 5 for day one of many Petrofes Invitational in Grantham, PA. 

Contact Kiran Komanduri at [email protected].