Championship Schedule Softball
All games will be played at the LIU Post Softball Complex - Brookville, N.Y.
Thursday, May 2
Game 1 - No. 4 Mercy vs. No. 1 LIU Post - 1:00 p.m. Game 2 - No. 3 Dowling vs. No. 2 Molloy - 3:30 p.m.
Friday, May 3
Game 3 - Winners from Games 1 & 2 - 10:00 a.m. Game 4 - Loser from Games 1 & 2 - 12:30 p.m. Game 5 - Loser of Game 3 vs.Winner of Game 4 - 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 4 - Championship
Game 6 - Winners from Game 4 & 5 - 12:00 p.m. Game 7 - If necessary - 2:30 p.m.
The 2013 East Coast Conference Softball Championship Program was written, laid out and designed by Casey Rafferty, Director of Media Relations, in Adobe InDesign CS5. Cover art work was designed by Casey Rafferty. Special thanks to the editorial assistance provided by: Bob Dranoff, Leslie Busch, and the Sports Information Directors of the East Coast Conference.
East Coast Conference Staff Robert Dranoff Commissioner rdranoff@eccsports.org 631.348.3451
Leslie Busch Assistant Commissioner lbusch@eccsports.org 631.348.3453
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2012 ECC Softball Championships April 26
No. 3 Dowling d. No. 2 C.W. Post, 5-0 No. 1 Molloy d. No. 4 Queens, 9-1 (6 innings) at Rockville Centre, N.Y.
April 28 - Finals
No. 1 Molloy d. No. 3 Dowling, 6-0 at Rockville Centre, N.Y.
April 27
No. 1 Molloy d. No. 3 Dowling, 4-1 No. 2 C.W. Post d. No. 4 Queens, 6-1 No. 3 Dowling d. No. 2 C.W. Post, 6-4 at Rockville Centre, N.Y.
Past Champions 1991 1992 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Southampton Southampton Adelphi C.W. Post Queens C.W. Post Queens C.W. Post C.W. Post
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
C.W. Post Dowling C.W. Post Dowling C.W. Post C.W. Post Dowling Molloy Molloy
DOWLING COLLEGE
Coach Deb DeJong
Erican Fischetti
No. Name Yr 1 Tammy Vermeulen So. 2 Erica Fischetti Jr. 3 Crystal Tarango So. 4 Kaitlin Ellingsworth Sr. 5 Alisa Fjelstad So. 6 Melissa Perez Sr. 7 Amber Fogarty So. 9 Marie Racano So. 11 Stephanie Ellwood Fr. 12 Samantha Laird Fr. 13 Amber O’Malley Jr. 16 Erika Nogan Jr. 17 Jillian Minix Sr. 21 Arianna LaPuma Fr. 22 Michelle Andrews Jr. 25 Stephanie Tarango Sr. 27 Jamie Laird So. 31 Ashley Seidel So. 42 Victoria Gallagher Fr.
Pos B/T OF L/R UTL R/R OF R/R P/IF L/L P/IF R/R SS/UTL R/R IF/OF R/R IF R/R UTL R/R C R R IF/OF R/R P R/R IF R/R IF R/R P L/L IF R/R IF R/R C R/R IF/OF R/R
Ht 5-7 5-4 5-6 5-7 5-6 5-2 5-1 5-2 5-9 5-5 5-4 5-6 5-9 5-5 5-7 5-5 5-6 5-4 5-2
Hometown/Previous School Patchouge, N.Y./ Bayport Seaford, N.Y./Seaford Fontana, Calif./Etiwanda Temple City, Calif./Temple City Corona, Calif./Eleanor Roosevelt Brentwood, N.Y./St. John the Baptist Bay Shore, N.Y./Bay Shore Deer Park, N.Y./Deer Park Bay Shore, N.Y/ Bay Shore Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem East Farmingville, N.Y./Sachem East Seaford, N.Y./Seaford Clarksboro, N.J./Kingsway Regional Centereach, N.Y./Centereach Commack, N.Y./Commack Fontana, Calif./Etiwanda East Meadow, N.Y. /East Meadow Coram, N.Y./Newfield Miller Place, N.Y./Miller Place
Head Coach: Debbie DeJong (5th Season) Assistant Coaches: Alicia Smith and Krista Thorn
Samantha Laird
Quick Facts
Location: Oakdale, N.Y. Founded: 1955 Enrollment: Over 6,500 Nickname: Golden Lions
Colors: Navy Blue and Gold Interim President: Dr. Elana Zolfo Director of Athletics: Rick Cole, Jr.
Did You Know? Stephanie Tarango
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The Golden Lions softball team has made the ECC Tournament every year of Head Coach, Deb DeJong’s tenure. Dowling’s women’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA Division II National Championship Game before falling to Ashland. The Dowling women’s soccer and women’s basketball teams won their respective ECC Tournaments in 2012-13.
About Dowling
Founded in 1955 as part of Adelphi University’s Suffolk Campus, the college purchased the former W.K. Vanderbilt estate in Oakdale in 1962. In 1968 the college was renamed after its chief benefactor, Robert Dowling, a noted city planner and aviator. Situated on the banks of the Connetquot River on a former Vanderbilt estate, Dowling’s Rudolph Campus in Oakdale is among the nation’s most beautiful. The 105-acre Brookhaven Center is located on William Floyd Parkway in Shirley and features high-tech learning facilities for a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses. Located within walking distance to the Long Island Rail Road and featuring free parking and shuttle bus service, Dowling is easily accessible from both Suffolk and Nassau counties, as well as the five boroughs of New York City.
LIU POST No. Name Yr 2 Kaci Hopkins Sr. 3 Megan Salcido So. 4 Jessica Julich Jr. 5 Maria Palmeri Fr. 7 Quincy Lewis Fr. 8 Dana Moss Fr. 9 Nicole Capella Sr. 10 Catherine Havens So. 11 Angela Carmine Jr. 13 Linda Amarante Sr. 15 Liz Weber Jr. 17 Alexis Gonzalez Jr. 18 Nicole Ehlinger So. 20 Samantha Miller So. 21 Paige Swantek Fr. 22 Kelsey McLaughlin Fr. 23 Nicole Hagenah Jr. 24 Carly Chamberlain Jr. 26 Alyson Dzierzynski So.
Pos 1B P OF IF P IF C OF IF 1B P OF P OF C IF IF OF C
B/T R-R R-R R-R R-R L-L R-R R-R L-R L-R L-L R/R R-R R-R R-R R-R R-R R-R L-R R-R
Ht 5-8 5-8 5-9 5-5 5-7 5-10 5-8 5-3 5-4 5-7 5-8 5-7 5-4 5-2 5-9 5-6 5-9 5-4 5-10
Hometown/Previous School New Egypt, N.J./New Egypt Brawley, Calif./Brawley Union Kings Park, N.Y./Kings Park Middle Village, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy Corning, N.Y./Corning West Howard Beach, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy Shirley, N.Y./William Floyd Eastport, N.Y./Eastport-South Manor Westbury, N.Y./W.T. Clarke Cheshire, Conn./Cheshire Brightwaters, N.Y./Le Moyne Hauppauge, N.Y./Siena Hauppauge, N.Y./Hauppauge East Meadow, N.Y./East Meadow Smithtown, N.Y./Commack Lido Beach, N.Y./Long Beach Commack, N.Y./Commack Nesco, N.J./Oakcrest Deer Park, N.Y./Deer Park
Coach Jamie Apicella
Alyson Dzierzynski
Head Coach: Jamie Apicella (15th Season) Assistant Coaches: Carla Campagna and Julie Soviero
Quick Facts
Location: Brookville, N.Y. Founded: 1954 Enrollment: 8,472 Nickname: Pioneers
Nicole Hagenah
Colors: Green and Gold President: Dr. David J. Steinberg Director of Athletics: Byran Collins
Did You Know? • • •
Three of the Pioneers four spring sports are nationally ranked. Head Coach Jamie Apicella has led his squad to 14 of the last 15 NCAA Regional Tournaments. This is the Pioneers 18th straight 30+ win season and seventh 40+ win season during Apicella’s tenure.
Liz Weber
About LIU Post
The LIU Post Campus of Long Island University is a private, residential campus in Brookville, New York, offering more than 250 undergraduate and graduate degrees in accountancy, business, computer science, education, liberal arts and sciences, library and information science, health professions and nursing, public service, and visual and performing arts. Founded in 1954, LIU Post offers small classes, state-of-the art facilities and a safe, beautiful campus just 25 miles from Manhattan. Situated on 307 acres on the North Shore of Long Island, the campus features stately historic mansions, redbrick academic buildings, rolling green lawns, and formal gardens. Special campus highlights include wireless classrooms, a writing center, a museum, a recreation center, and one of the largest research libraries in the New York Metropolitan Region. LIU Post’s’ 8,500 undergraduate and graduate students enjoy exceptional health and fitness facilities, more than 80 clubs and 1,000 activities each year, competitive NCAA sports programs and the celebrated Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. More than 85 percent of the LIU Post students receive some form of financial assistance or scholarship. LIU Post’s award-winning Cooperative Education program places students at companies from MTV to American Express as well as government, health care and community service agencies. Our professional experience and Career Planning Office sponsors career fairs with top employers and keeps students in touch with the latest job openings. LIU Post graduates have gone on to become entrepreneurs, executives at major firms, teachers, doctors, artists, scientists and journalists. Many of our more than 100,000 alumni have achieved prominence in society’s most dynamic fields. For more information, visit the LIU Post Web Site at www.liu.edu/post.
MERCY COLLEGE
Coach Mike Fazio
Kelly Bentson
No. Name Yr 1 Milana Gilaga Fr. 2 Jessica Simpson Jr. 5 Chrissie Cleary So. 6 Kelly Bentson Jr. 8 Jackie Couillard So. 9 Shannon Forbes So. 11 Ashley Johnstone Sr. 12 Brittany Serrao Jr. 13 Jillian Mondrone So. 14 Kimberly Crnkovich Jr. 15 Briana Panarese Jr. 16 Cristina Lisboa Jr. 18 Amanda Gardiner Fr. 20 Courtney Butler Sr. 21 Natalie Wabshinak Sr. 24 Taylor Concklin Fr. 27 Mary Sieber Jr. 28 Shelby Johnson So. 33 Jessica Doria So. 36 Brette Therriault So.
Pos OF P INF 1B/P C/INF 2B 1B/OF P/INF 2B/SS INF INF 3B/C C/INF OF OF OF P P/OF OF OF
B/T L/L R/R L/R L/L S/R R/R L/L R/R S/R R/R R/R R/R R/R S/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R
Ht 5-2 5-4 5-3 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-2 5-4 5-5 5-7 5-2 5-5 5-1 5-4 5-9 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-8 5-7
Hometown/Previous School Elmwood Park, N.J./Memorial Gilbert, Ariz./Highland Smithtown, N.Y./St. Anthony’s Brewster, N.Y./Brewster Wolcott, Conn./Wolcott Nesconset, N.Y./Smithtown West Bellmore, N.Y./John F. Kennedy Lake Hiawatha, N.J./Parsippany Bound Brook, N.J./Bound Brook La Selva Beach, Calif./Santa Rosa CC Monroe, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury Bronx, N.Y./St. Catherine Academy Stratford, N.J./Sterling Islip, N.Y./Islip New Fairfield, Conn./New Fairfield Montgomery, N.Y./Valley Central Massapequa Park, N.Y./Massapequa Bullhead City, Ariz./Mohave Franklin Square, N.Y./H. Frank Carey Trumbull, Conn./Trumbull
Head Coach: Mike Fazio (3rd Season) Assistant Coaches: Ron LoValvo, Marc Della Volpe, and Anthony Adolino Graduate Assistant: Cait Rohme Team Manager: Rachel Poccia Kimberley Crnkovich
Quick Facts
Location: Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Founded: 1950 Enrollment: 9,043 Nickname: Mavericks
Colors: Blue and White President: Dr. Kimberley R. Kline Director of Athletics: Patricia Kennedy
Did You Know? Shannon Forbes
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Mercy College accomplished alumni include: Walter Anderson (Parade Magazine), Brian Sweeney (former Major League pitcher) , Carolyn Kepcher (formerly of The Apprentice) and Mookie Wilson (New York Mets and Toronto Blue Jays). This marks the second time in three seasons the softball team has made the ECC Championship. Mercy Athletics opened their renovated athletic fields in the fall of 2012.
About Mercy:
Mercy College is a New York metropolitan area college of over 9,000 students studying at five campus locations including: Dobbs Ferry, Bronx, Manhattan, White Plains, Yorktown Heights. With over 90 undergraduate and graduate programs, 25 of which are offered online, Mercy College offers a quality liberal arts education within five schools: Business, Education, Health and Natural Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. Students may take classes during the day, evenings, weekends, and online, so that they can fit a rigorous Mercy College education into their busy lives. Mercy College also offers tremendous financial support so that the cost of college is not a barrier to success. The faculty is dedicated to the scholarship of teaching. Mercy College professors include Fulbright Scholars, published authors and national authorities in their fields. Mercy College offers a comprehensive intercollegiate NCAA Division II program that sponsors 16 varsity sports. The main campus located on the scenic banks of the Hudson River in Dobbs Ferry is just minutes from Manhattan. Mercy College students reside in the College’s on campus dormitory and within the suburban community of Dobbs Ferry. Intramural activities are also offered throughout the year for the recreational athlete. To apply to Mercy College visit www.mercy.edu or call 1-877-MERCYGO.
MOLLOY COLLEGE
Coach Susan Cassidy-Lyke
Kelley Jansen
No. Name Yr 3 Jeana Frey Sr. 5 Milan Botte Fr. 6 Nicolette Sinagra Jr. 7 Megan Butterworth Sr. 8 Jessica Thomas Fr. 9 Tracey Balinskas Fr. 10 Kelley Jansen Sr. 11 Brianne Catalano So. 12 Dayna White Jr. 13 Brenda Lee So. 15 Victoria Gunnels So. 16 Lauren Alexander Jr. 20 Reina Torlincasi Fr. 24 Samantha Sauer Fr. 32 Ryan Quick So.
Pos OF C SS P IF/OF P P OF C/OF 2B P OF 1B P OF/C
Ht L/R L/R R/R L/L R/R R/R R/R L/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R
B/T 5-9 5-6 5-7 5-9 5-5 5-7 5-6 5-0 5-6 5-9 5-7 5-8 5-8 5-6 5-4
Hometown/Previous School Island Park, N.Y./Holy Trinity San Diego, Calif./Cathedral Catholic Brooklyn, N.Y./New Utrecht North Bellmore, N.Y./Holy Trinity New Hyde Park, N.Y./Herricks Edison, N.J./Edison Long Beach, N.Y./Long Beach Franklin Square, N.Y./H. Frank Carey East Islip, N.Y./East Islip Corona, Calif./Santiago North Bellmore, N.Y./Mepham Huntington, N.Y./Walt Whitman Kings Park, N.Y./Kings Park Plainview, N.Y./Our Lady of Mercy Long Beach, N.Y./St. John The Baptist
Head Coach: Susan Cassidy-Lyke (Seventh Season) Assistant Coaches: Tiffany D’Alessandro and Melissa Medina
Quick Facts Brenda Lee
Location: Rockville Centre, N.Y. Colors: Maroon and White Founded: 1955 President: Drew Bogner, Ph.D Enrollment: 3,300 Director of Athletics: Susan Cassidy-Lyke Nickname: Lions
Did You Know?
Nicolette Sinagra
About Molloy
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The Molloy College men’s indoor track and field team won the first-ever East Coast Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship. The Lions accumulated a total of 163 points at the meet. The Molloy College men’s basketball team shattered a pair of school records in 2012-13. The Lions bested the all-time marks for consecutive victories, and most wins, in a single season. Freshman Conor Gallagher of the Molloy College men’s cross country team was tabbed as the East Coast Conference Rookie of the Year. He aided the Lions to a second-place showing at the ECC Championships, running an eighth-place time of 26:42.90 in the 8k at LIU Post. In 2012, the Molloy College softball team reigned supreme in the ECC for the second year in a row, with a 6-0 victory against Dowling College. Juniors Haley Calderwood and Kelley Jansen brought home Co-Most Outstanding Player Honors for their efforts in the tournament. Freshman Stephanie Meyer of the Molloy College women’s track and field team became the program’s first-ever national qualifier at the 2012 NCAA Division II Indoor Championships. She recorded a 14th-place showing in the long jump in Mankato, Minn., with a leap of 5.77 meters.
Molloy College is an institution of the Dominican tradition which offers students a rich, multi-dimensional educational experience in an academically challenging environment. We foster critical thinking and creative exploration while preparing students to live and work in the global world of today.