COLLEGE ROUNDUP (Oct. 2): NCCC women’s volleyball thinks pink

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October 2, 2008

Staff Reports The Niagara Gazette Thu Oct 02, 2008, 10:32 PM EDT

The Niagara County Community College women’s volleyball team wore pink warmups and hair ribbons Thursday, and sold bracelets to benefit breast cancer research before the Trailblazers defeating Elmira’s junior varsity team in three games.

“This is a cause very close to my heart,” coach Jill Faddoul said. “My grandmother died five years ago from breast cancer when I was pregnant with my daughter, so we want to do whatever we can to help increase awareness and prevention.”

NCCC (9-2) was led Thursday by Stephanie Meni (Niagara Falls) and Kathie Kreppenneck (Starpoint). Meni had six digs and Kreppenneck had 30 assists.

The college’s Foundations of Health class sold the bracelets, and will do again during Wednesday’s women’s soccer match with Erie, and against Oct. 21 when the volleyball team hosts Genesee.

Soccer

NU women open MAAC play at home

At 7-2-1 in non-conference play, the Purple Eagles are off to their best start in six years heading their first Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference game at 7 p.m. tonight against visiting Siena (7-0-2).

On Sunday, last year’s MAAC champion, Marist (2-7), visits Niagara Field for a 1 p.m. game to be broadcast by LCTV.

Both Blazers squad lose

The NCCC men’s team fell to 5-4 overall and 5-3 in Region III games with a 1-0 loss at Finger Lakes. “We were even for 75 minutes, and they snuck one in,” said coach Jon Williams, who praised the play of midfielder Kyle Weaver (Kenmore East) for marking Finger Lakes’ Nick Johnson, the nation’s top junior college scorer.

The NCCC women’s team lost to Finger Lakes 9-0 to fall to 0-8 on the season.

Baseball

NU instructional showcase camp Oct. 11

The Niagara baseball coaching staff will conduct its fall instructional showcase camp at 9 a.m Oct. 11 at the university’s Bobo Field.

The camp is open to all high school student-athletes. Campers will participate in batting practice, instructional sessions on pitching and hitting and a scrimmage.

The cost is $120. Register online at PurpleEagles.com/camps. For more information, call 286-8624.

UB to play national champions

Niagara Falls native Eric Flynn and the Buffalo Bulls will visit the 2008 NCAA baseball champions, Fresno State, for a pair of games in March, coach Ron Torgalski announced Thursday.

UB opens its season Feb. 20 in Williamsburg, Va. The Bulls home opener will be April 3 against Ball State, beginning a stretch of nine straight scheduled games at Amherst Audubon Field. They host Niagara on April 8 and Canisius on April 14.

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