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April 26, 2016

Talent face off reaches ‘high level’ By: Sophia Jamil Staff Writer

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‘Surprise’ Win Over 500 students determine student leadership

By: Tyler McNeil Managing Editor Emma Dillon defeated Shane Batcher by 25 votes for Student Senate president with the Surprise Party taking the majority of the executive board.

All of the candidates -- with the exception of treasurer elect Daniel Kusky -- gathered outside of the Student Activities office after the polls closed to await election results. Dillon previously doubted a win against Batcher over ten minutes before election committee chair Brody O’Connor announced her victory.

“It was crazy,” said Dillon a minute after hearing the results.

Dillon’s win was her second consecutive victory over the academic year after becoming freshman class president in the fall. Including Dillon, all of the freshman class presidential candidates in the fall were elected to work as student leaders next academic year.

“There really wasn’t a bad candidate this year,” said senior class president Alex Shannon.

Last week’s election had the second highest voter turnout since 2008. It failed to break the highest recent voter turnout made last year with 648 votes.

“Over 500 people went out to vote so you should all be proud of that,” said Alfredo Balarin, assistant director of student life, addressing the candidates before the election

results came in.

The election also continued recent trends.

Manik Elahi’s win was the fourth straight year that students were elected both to executive board and trustee positions.

Despite continuing back-to-back Senate trends in the election, Elahi considered his win to be a turning point, about six months after losing the freshman class presidential seat to Dillon. After hearing the results, Elahi

“ Over 500 people

went out to vote so you should all be proud of that.

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Assistant Director of Student Life related his victory to quote from his mother, who died when he was seven years old.

“My mom used to say ‘whenever there are two doors closing, there are ... ten doors opening,’ and it literally happened like that today,” said Elahi.

While Elahi’s victory against Shane Batcher and Stephen Pelletier for trustee had

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the narrowest voting margin by 15 points, his win over Sam Paradise in the secretary race has the widest voting gap.

Paradise declined to comment.

During the election, Paradise would often advocate for Dillon before his own candidacy, which she believes reduced his notoriety among voters during the election.

“He’d introduce me before he even introduced himself, so I couldn’t have won without him,” she said.

Candidates ran unopposed for the majority of positions. Although he lost the student trustee seat by 136 votes, Pelletier secured the vice presidency, running unopposed. The spot originally had two potential contenders from the People’s Party until both candidates failed to make it into the race.

“It’s not that I necessarily wanted to win this way, but I obtained the role the best I could, and I will do everything I can to serve it,” he said.

While Pelletier and Kusky faced competition earlier during the petition process, senior class president elect Jad El Khoury had no competition throughout campaign season.

“I really think competition brings out something in me that wasn’t really brought here, but I did really go out of my way to help support the party,” he said.

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From singing to rapping to dancing, many talents were brought into BTC on Thursday for Hudson Valley’s talent show.

“We felt that this year’s talent show was a big success,” said digital media major, Matt Whalen, Whalen is also editorin-chief of the Hudsonian and a director and judge in the talent show. “Everyone that participated in helping out, and the turnout that we got was very exciting to see.”

After a morning of Springfest earlier in the day, Hudson Valley ended the night off with the annual talent show hosted by The Hudsonian and the Student Senate.

There were ten acts that participated in the show. The acts ranged from singing and guitar to dancing and rapping.

“We had a great turnout during the auditions and the acts that we chose really performed at a high level,” said Whalen.

Student Senate president Everett McNair and vice president Bryce Kirk hosted the show.

Kirk said, “We had so much fun hosting, and I think the crowd loved watching us. We put a lot of thought and effort into the skits we did.”

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Yair Asher, first place winner in the talent show.

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CDTA student ridership grows despite low enrollment By: Rebecca Jordan News Editor The number of students who have ridden CDTA have risen since last year despite the decrease in enrollment.

An average of 1,300 individual students per month rode CDTA from Sept. 2015 to Feb. 2016. Despite the decrease in enrollment the college has experienced over the past several years, CDTA ridership has seen a 0.65 percent increase.

During that same period, the average rides per month has increased 2.2 percent, meaning that individuals are riding more per month than they were last year.

“I think it is something that is of value to the students,” said Ann Carrozza, director of the FSA. “I think it helps students in a number of ways, not only to get here, but it enables them to do what they need to do.”

Collectively, student riders would have had to pay almost $280,000 out-of-pocket from Sept. 2015 to February of this

year without the free ridership the college offers. From Sept. 2014 to Aug. 2015, that number was over $413,000.

The college, FSA and student Senate split the incurred costs to offer CDTA to students at no charge. The college takes on more of the financial responsibility than the FSA or the Student Senate, which both pay the same amount.

Carrozza has been pleased with CDTA since the beginning of their partnership in 2013 despite some glitches that first year, including some students’ ID cards not allowing them to board buses. If a student lost his or her card and received a replacement without getting a new picture taken, the new card wouldn’t read in the swiper.

“It took us a little while to figure that out, but CDTA was great,” said Carrozza. “We had all of these students coming in and saying that they couldn’t use their cards, and CDTA gave us these little swiper cards so the students could just use those.”

Students were issued new ID cards at no cost to them once the problem was discovered.

Carrozza said that one parent called her complaining that his son was not able to board the bus he needed because it was too full, and that the bus drove right on by.

When Carrozza called CDTA and asked them to put a second bus on the line, they did so the next day.

“The parent called me a couple days later and said when he called, he didn’t think [a new bus] would happen at all, much less this quickly,” she said.

The college and CDTA are currently under their third contract. The first was in effect from Aug. 2013 to 2014 and the second from Aug. 2014 to 2015.

The current contract is valid until 2018.

After this third contract expires, Carrozza is confident the college will continue to offer this option to students.

“I think that we will continue [with CDTA]. Of course, we will have to renegotiate, and that can be tricky, but we’ve been pleased so far.”

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Executive endorsements create stir By: Tyler McNeil Managing Editor “A vote for Shane is a vote for success,” shouted Student Senate vice president Bryce Kirk passing through the courtyard next to Brahan Hall with a group of Shane Batcher supporters.

Kirk and Student Senate president Everett McNair’s advocacy for Shane Batcher during the first day of senior elections lead candidates and the other half of Senate officers to question the constitutionality of the endorsement.

The election committee unanimously voted to ban both officers from campaigning during a Thursday morning meeting.

Kirk and McNair did not any face repercussions due to the ruling, which also considered ex-officio member campaigning to be constitutional.

Presidents and vice presidents are ex-officio members for every committee under the Senate’s Constitution. According to the bylaws, election committee members participating in partisan behavior are subject for dismissal. The election committee decided that ex-officio member campaigning is not defined strictly enough to go against the Senate’s Constitution. “[Ex-officio members] have always been able to campaign, but it was brought up by someone who was running that they see

Tyler McNeil | THE HUDSONIAN Independent candidate Shane Batcher with vice president Bryce Kirk, campaigning last Thursday. this in the bylaws and they don’t think the structure of how this has been going is the right way,” said A’cynee Edmundson, election committee member.

Surprise Party presidential elect Emma Dillon claimed that Kirk and McNair’s campaign efforts for Batcher went against Senate rules.

“I say you just follow the

rules,” said Dillon. “If it’s not in the Constitution, you just don’t do it.”

Senate officers first met with Student Activities Wednesday to discuss the campaign controversy, including their role in the election under the Constitution.

Kirk declined to comment.

“I personally feel like if you’re in a formal position like

the [executive board], I think one should stay neutral and preside over the election like a president should,” said Independent secretary elect Manik Elahi.

The only other Senate officer involved in the election was Student Senate treasurer Josiah Dillon campaigning for the Surprise Party. With Student Senate treasurer Brody O’Connor

leading the election committee, Dillon was the only officer without direct involvement in arbitrating election conflicts.

Batcher told The Hudsonian about a week before the elections that he was unsure whether Kirk and McNair would be involved in his campaign, despite their support.

In his first year at Hudson Valley, working in the engineering science program, Batcher became more familiar with the Student Senate through McNair. Earlier this semester, Batcher joined the Senate with a focus on becoming Student Senate president.

“I’ve worked with him a lot on projects and homework, and I think he will do a great job with the presidency,” said McNair.

Kirk and McNair were not the only members of the election committee involved in campaigning. John Robert, senior senator, campaigned for Elahi starting on Thursday despite being part of the election committee.

Robert, who previously dropped out of petitioning for secretary in the People’s Party, denied any misconduct.

“I would have to recuse myself if there were anything that had to do with Manik because I campaigned for him, but other than that, there’s not really anything in there for [campaigning],” he said.

Robert later removed himself from the election committee.

Campaign trail mix: Candidates hand out snacks By: Tyler McNeil Managing Editor Scones, brownies and donuts glazed over the senior election campaign trail.

“Food will bring me over to a table, but someone’s spiel has to be really good,” said Sanghai Kamara, fine arts student, carrying a scone from the Surprise Party’s Springfest table.

The Surprise Party, secretarial elect Manik Elahi and Independent presidential candidate Shane Batcher both distributed baked goods throughout the election to swing potential voters.

“I was actually really impressed,” said John Robert, senior senator, who campaigned for Manik Elahi at the beginning of the election.

After going towards the campaign table for baked goods, Jeff Harris, ECM student, was vigilant while talking with Elahi supporters.

“You can’t just let something

like [food] influence your decision. You have to weigh the pros and cons,” said Jeff Harris, ECM student.

Last year, Student Activities pushed against the LEAD Party using brownies and other handouts during their campaign, fearing that food would give the candidates an unfair advantage.

During an early April meeting this year, Student Activities urged candidates against using handouts and other materials, except flyers. After weeks of conflict, the election committee decided to allow food within bake sale guidelines.

At the early April meeting, Elahi originally opposed using refreshments during the election, but as the elections drew closer, he changed his position to keep up with the other candidates.

“When there’s a trend, you can’t go against the trend. Even if you try to [go against the trend], it works at your disadvantage,” he said.

On the first day of the election, Elahi’s table was set up

across from the Surprise Party.

Batcher later joined in handing out food at Springfest due to limited funding.

X-avier Miller, former 2016 Independent presidential candidate, believes food distribution planned out by all

of the candidates ahead of the election has been a positive step for the Student Senate. Last year, the LEAD Party was the only group to use food during their campaign.

“I think it’s more fair because everybody’s getting equal

representation, and I see more influx of students to each table this semester,” said Miller.

Treasurer elect Daniel Kusky noticed some students moving towards the Surprise Party’s table on the first day of elections as a result of timing.

Surprise Party candidates hand out brownies, scones and candy in the Campus Center.

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Students ‘spring’ to annual festival By: Chris Payne Staff Writer Drawn by the music pulsing through campus and the alluring smell of free food, students flocked to the student pavilion last Thursday for Springfest.

“Springfest is great for relaxing and having fun before [students] have to take their finals,” said Bryce Kirk, student senate vice president.

There was a snow cone machine, volleyball net, frisbee and caricature artists available to students, along there were giveaway that included sunglasses, wristbands, tshirts and candy.

Under the pavilion, a table was set up serving mac n’ cheese, baked chicken, cornbread and assorted fruit, which was what drew business major Eli Bardhollari to the event.

“I think that Springfest is interesting. I didn’t know this was happening, and if I was not transferring next year, I would come back again,” he said.

Whitney Burke, liberal arts major, attended Springfest and

Mikey Bryant | THE HUDSONIAN loved the food as well.

“My friend told me to come and enjoy Springfest,” Burke said.

“I heard there was free food, and the mac ‘n cheese is great. I would definitely come back again next year.”

There was also a DJ playing music under the pavilion that peaked students’ interest.

Shelby Mahar, business administration major, attended Springfest last year as well.

“Springfest is a great way to get fresh air with your fellow students and have a good time.”

There were even a few

students who do not attend Hudson Valley but enjoyed the festivities.

“I came to Springfest because I was just visiting college to see if I like it at Hudson Valley,” said Giulia Cannata, senior at Columbia High School. “My favorite part of Springfest is definitely the food.”

“Springfest is a great way for people to come in unison and sing together,” said business administration student Dylan Huynh. “I would definitely come back again next year. This is a great way to come together.”

Mikey Bryant | THE HUDSONIAN (Above) Food provided by Chartwells and music in the student pavilion.

(Below) Students play volleyball at Springfest.

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Talent show The judges included Taylor LaPorta, health sciences student, Samantha Longton, individual studies major, Josiah Dillon, business administration major and Whalen.

“We had a lot of really talented people coming in tonight. What I was looking for when I was judging was progression because I watched these people perform during auditions, so I’m really curious to see how much people have worked on themselves from auditions to now,” said Longton.

Singer Wanda James and guitarist/ singer Myron James won third place.

James said, “We love what we do and we have so much fun. Winning a place was really cool, but the main thing was that we had so much fun tonight.

The hosts kept us really entertained.”

Emily Conolly, business major,

won second place for her vocal and guitar performance.

“I really worked hard on this for three weeks, so winning second place really made me feel accomplished. It was a great show and we had a lot of great performances,” she said.

The first place winner was Yayer Asher who sang and played guitar.

Prior to the beginning of the event, Yayer said, “I am excited for this. I’ve worked pretty hard with my song and my guitar, so it should be fun. I am not so hung up on winning, but it would be cool if I did.”

“We hope that the future students continue to host the talent show and participate,” said Whalen. “Having students run these events is a big way to get them more involved in activities and become more successful.”

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Assault On The Living Guitarist shreds at Guitarfest By: Jenny Caulfield Creative Editor Chris Chapman has devoted his life to a heavy lifestyle.

Chapman is the guitarist for metal band Assault On The Living, who have been performing using multiple subgenres of metal since 2011.

Over their five years as a band, Assault On The Living have shared the stage with bands like Nile, Whitechapel and The Acacia Strain, playing a variety of genres inside and outside of the Capital Region.

Chapman presented a solo workshop on metal this Friday at Hudson Valley’s Guitar Festival where students were taught how to perfect distortion, metal chords and achieving a metal tone.

Using his knowledge of music experience, Chapman hopes to bring with his metal workshops some diversity of music presented to Hudson Valley.

“People look and they’re like, ‘metal oh no,’ but It’s really not about that, it’s about being a musician and appreciating all the different aspects of being a musician and realizing that metal in a genre of music,” he said.

Two years ago, Chapman was invited to Hudson Valley’s Guitar Festival to present a lesson on metal music. The workshop being popular with students, he was invited back this year to once more share his love of metal with students.

“There’s musicians that came in two years ago who were just in shock by the things they didn’t know about achieving tone.

Whether it be what pedals do for

Mikey Bryant | THE HUDSONIAN Chris Chapman guitarist talks about equipment at a Friday workshop. you, gage of strings, pickups in guitar, or things like that, [tone] branches off across everybody,” said Chapman.

Although this year the workshop lacked in attendance compared to last year, there was an increase of involvement between Chapman and those who attended his workshop.

“Two years ago it may have been a larger number of people in the class, but there was more people just watching, listening and learning rather than asking questions and being involved; so I think it was cool today that even though it was a smaller group

they were more involved,” said Chapman.

This year, Chapman had two metal workshops at the Guitar Festival: one a solo workshop, and one a workshop with Assault on the Living’s other guitarist, Jaime Geron. The workshop alongside Geron, which he calls a “putting it together” class, discussed song structure, how to balance tone and how they write their songs.

“We go over song structures, how we harmonize with one another, how we write with one another and how you incorporate harmonies in metal and still keep it metal,” he said.

Growing up with music daily in his household, Chapman found his love of music from an early age from bands like Pantera, Slipknot and Lamb of God. “I go across the board and listen to everything,” he said.

This love of metal fused with Assault on the Living, who are a mixture of different forms of metal and core, and have influences that range from Behemoth to Rings of Saturn.

“It doesn’t matter who it is, we appreciate music as whole,” said Chapman.

This diversity in metal genres influences Assault on the Living

to share a variety of core sounds within their music.

“All of us take our influences and you can hear it in our music here and there whatever it be, and we know what we like after listening to so much music and being involved in music industry around here being a local band for so long,” he said. “When we write something special, we all know.”

Despite sharing stages with big names in metal, Chapman feels that playing local shows around the area are the best of the shows Assault on the Living plays.

“Sometimes [big] shows are really cool, but sometimes the local shows and playing out in different areas is even cooler.

Sometimes playing with the bigger bands is more of a hassle,” said Chapman.

Chapman feel that playing local shows is best because it allows him to interact with fans more.

“When you do these smaller shows it’s cool because you get to interact with people. You can talk to people and be more personal,” he said.

The fast-paced nature of big shows turn off Chapman due to the rush of the night. “When you play the big shows it’s more like, ‘on stage here’s your set, here’s your start time, your finish time, you gotta be off this band’s gotta go on next, get your stuff up, get your stuff off,’ and the whole night’s kind of like a big rush,” he said.

Being in a local band for five years and counting, Chapman likes to pride himself on sharing his music around the capital region, whether by playing shows, or giving guitar workshops to students.

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April 26, 2016

What building personality are you?

By: Tyler McNeil Managing Editor Is your focus centered around academics like the Marvin Library or having fun like Joe Bruno Stadium?

Learn about your campus building personality type below.

Lang/Higbee Hall If you’re a Lang/Higbee, you have a very straightforward personality. “What you see is what you get,” is one of the best ways to describe who you are. You’re very down-to-earth. It’s high likely that people flock to you or stray from you because you haven’t drastically changed over time.

BTC At first you appear very confusing to understand. With dimly lit hallways and three levels of classrooms, you’re very complex (and sometimes weird) to new students.

Once students get to know a BTC, they become attracted to your larger than life personality and can’t get enough of you.

Stadium Classroom Building Fame is your lowest priority. Being a Stadium Classroom Building, few people know how hard you work, but you don’t care. You’re motivated to do your job because you love working even if the credit goes to someone else.

Science Center “Primadonna” is an understatement. When people arrive on campus, you’re not afraid to glow. You’re the most fashionable around campus. Of course, you might appear a little quirky once people get to know you, but you strive to make quirky look “cool.”

Campus Center People are driven to you because you’re a nurturer.

It may not be easy for you to admit, but you love being

a shoulder to cry on, always. If anyone is hungry or sad, you’ll look to solve their problems over your problems any day.

Marvin Library You’re a bit of a brainiac and you’re not afraid to show it. To you, knowledge is everything. You love sharing your brain with others around the clock. It’s hard to know what to expect from you. Sometimes you’re really loud and sometimes you’re very silent.

McDonough Sports Complex Competition is everything. From volleyball to basketball -- you’re there. You will never back down from a fight even if the cards are stacked against you. It’s in your nature to be aggressive and a little impulsive, but very loyal.

Amstuz/Fitzgibbons Hall You’ve had a wild past and don’t settle for boring.

There’s a lot of stories you don’t tell to this day. Although you might seem “old-school,” you’re still charming. “Keep it classy” is your motto at all times.

Brahan Hall Sometimes you talk in circles, but you always know what you’re doing. Although you always get the job done, with several flights of stairs, it requires a great deal of patience to work with you. Your biggest priority is freedom even if it takes an entire lifetime to find.

Administration Building Similar to the Science Center, you’re very fashionable, but you don’t know that you’re chic at all. You don’t quite know how to accept compliments, but you like them. You’re very artsy, but try to keep your fascination with aesthetics hidden so you can seem professional at all times.

Cogan/Williams Hall You’re not afraid to get down and dirty. Chances are, you’ve never been afraid of spiders, darkness and don’t care about heights. At the end of the day, you’re too focused on

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Viking Daycare Center Over your lifetime, you’ve never strayed too far from childhood. Despite getting older, you’ve never cared for “growing up.” You love kids but understand when to separate play time from serious work. Nap time is extremely beneficial for you or else you have an unbearable personality.

Guenther Hall There’s never been a point in your life where you’ve separated your professional experiences from your work experiences. To you, they’re one of the same. If you’re not trying to recruit others to have the same opportunities as you -- you probably think that you’re failing.

Hudson Hall Art is life. You’re eccentric, edgy and sometimes even charismatic. You invite your demons into your work and try to make something beautiful out of scratch. Similar to Cogan/Williams, you’re fearless and are not afraid to smoke wherever you want.

LaPan Building As a LaPan, your main focus isn’t always academics.

It’s work. You probably have two to three jobs along with school and sometimes forget what it feels like to sleep.

Joe Bruno Stadium Out of all the structures on campus, nobody is more focused on making everything fun and exciting than you.

Everybody wants to hang out with you, but few of your friends want to go out with you. Your tastes are very expensive.

Parking Garage Winter is your least favorite season during the year.

You have a circle of friends that you stick to, but don’t trust too many people in your life at once. There’s a natural limit to how many people you strive to keep in your life.

April 26, 2016 Vikings Sports Schedule Women’s Softball Tuesday 04/26/16 vs. Adirondack @ 3p.m. (Away)

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Saturday 04/30/16 vs. Herkimer @ 12p.m. (Away)

Men’s Baseball Sunday 05/01/16 vs. Herkimer @ 12p.m. (Home)

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Baseball tied for first heading into biggest week of the season By: John C. Longton III Sports Editor The baseball team is tied for first place with the nationally ranked Herkimer Generals with less than half of the season remaining.

Second year head coach Alex Jurczynski has his team playing at a high level with even higher aspirations. Toting a 15-1 conference record this Viking team is on pace to have a season for the ages.

The Vikings currently have the best batting average in the nation (.416), best on base percentage (.496), are ranked second in slugging percentage (.573) and have shut other teams down holding their opposition to a .219 batting average, which is third in the nation. They are firing on all cylinders and seem to have hit their stride a week before facing regional foe Herkimer Generals.

The Generals have been a perennial power in the conference and have given the Vikings fits in the past. Last year Herkimer beat Hudson Valley in all four games they faced off a combined score of 29-10. Furthermore since 2012 the Vikings have only defeated the Generals twice and haven’t won a season series with them since 2011. The Generals are currently ranked 10th in the nation and have made it to the college world series the past two years, but the Vikings are on a conquest after receiving an honorable mention in the national rankings for the first time in since making the

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This is no mistake. In his first full year with the team, coach Jurczynski worked hard in recruiting to put together a team that has a nice mixture that blends talent and personalities.

His clubhouse is full of a few characters and practical jokers, but when it comes to playing the game they’re all on the same page and bring a business like mentality to the ballpark.

“The group of guys that we have are baseball guys,” said Juczynski. “They all love the game and they all want to win.”

Jurczynski has a tight knit ball club that seems to have great team chemistry and really enjoy to play for their young coach.

“This team is great,” said center fielder Connor McDonough. McDonough is a second year player and has really been an impact bat averaging over an RBI per game.

In terms of playing for coach Jurczynski McDonough echos the sentiment of the rest of the team.

“He’s (Jurczynski) the main part of the team. He’s like the glue. He

helps out with problems other than baseball.”

McDonough hits second in a very formidable lineup that has the ability to manufacture runs at any given moment. So far the Vikings have blazed a trail this season with one hiccup coming in their only conference loss to Adirondack, a game that was winnable. This weekend could be a statement series for the Vikings that have been losing wars to the Generals for a long time.

Herkimer is 19-1 with their only blemish came to the same hands of an Adirondack team that beat Hudson Valley.

For the past few weeks the Vikings have been squeezing eight games into the week. This week the stars aligned and the schedule gods gave Hudson Valley the week off before traveling to Herkimer this Saturday to begin their weekend series that could ultimately decide the conference.

“It’s definitely going to be nice to give the guys a day of,” said Jurczynski. “Eight games a week takes a toll.” In terms of what Jurczynski has planned for his team in preparation to square

off with the Generals he says, “Hopefully we’ll be able to fine tune so of their mechanics and get rid of some of their flaws.” He went on to say, “I’m excited for a big series. This is what we’ve been looking for.”

The Vikings have a chance to jump into the national conversation with a good outing against the Herkimer Generals.

If they could take the series or even split they will be in a great position to win the conference and go on a post-season run.

Saturday the Vikings will travel out to Herkimer for a two game set that begins at noon.

The following day Hudson Valley will play host to the Generals for another two game set that also begins at noon.

McDonough and his teammates know how important this weekend it, but they aren’t trying to get too ahead of themselves. “We’re really trying to go one game at a time one inning at a time and one pitch at a time,” said McDonough. “We’re just want to take it real slow, get ahead and stay ahead.”

Apr. 24 HVCC v.

WIN Columbia-Gr. 13-3

Women’s Softball

LOSS

Apr. 23 HVCC v.

Corning 3-4

LOSS

Apr. 23 HVCC v.

Corning 1-18

Men’s Lacrosse

LOSS

Apr. 18 HVCC v.

Broome 9-10

LOSS

Apr. 23 HVCC v.

Monroe 6-25

Matt Whalen | THE HUDSONIAN (Top) The Viking’s gather together after a series sweep against Columbia-Greene. (Bottom) Connor McDonough led the Vikings in game one with two doubles each to combine for three RBIs.

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