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COLLEGE ROUNDUP (Oct. 2): NCCC women’s volleyball thinks pink
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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Bleumink leads Porter Cup after first-round 64
LEWISTON — Luke Bleumink weathered the wind and beat the rain to take a one-shot lead on the opening day of the 52nd Porter Cup at Niagara Falls Country Club.
Bleumink, 25, an Australian playing here for the third year in a row, shot a 6-under-par 64 on Wednesday highlighted by an eagle on the third hole.
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NFCC rolls out repaired greens at Porter Cup
LEWISTON — Heading into the Fourth of July weekend, Steve Denn was confident that this year’s Porter Cup was going to be a success.
Then the sprinklers at Niagara Falls Country Club started spewing fertilizer on the carefully manicured greens.
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Flynn surgery deemed successful
Niagara Falls native Jonny Flynn underwent successful surgery on his left hip Tuesday in Colorado that could sideline him for the start of his second season in the NBA.
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It's all work for Gailey in bid to rebuild Bills
After a little over a month off since the end of minicamps, the work for the Bills begins in earnest Thursday when the team opens training camp at St. John Fisher College in suburban Rochester.
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Wilson's Geltz promoted to Double A
Wilson native Steve Geltz continued his climb in the Los Angeles Angels farm system last week when he was promoted to the team’s affiliate in Arkansas.
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McDonald dances for cameras, delivers for Power
Even though McDonald’s life mostly revolves around baseball, he has one interesting hobby that would seem quite out of the ordinary for a baseball player — making dance videos.
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Report: Flynn to miss 3-4 months
According to a Yahoo! Sports writer, Niagara Falls product Jonny Flynn won’t be in the lineup when his second National Basketball Association season starts.
Marc Spears of Yahoo! Sports said via Twitter on Monday night that Flynn will likely miss three to four months due to a hip problem that will require surgery.
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Petrosian, locals excited about Cup
When Matt Petrosian got the call — the one he’d dreamed about as a little kid growing up just below the hill in Lewiston — he was standing, appropriately enough, in a golf course pro shop.
The Lewiston-Porter graduate works at nearby Niagara Frontier Country Club in Youngstown and when Marty Shimmel of the Porter Cup organizing committee called to see if Petrosian might be interested in participating in this week’s tournament, he got an emotional reaction.
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New book brings Porter Cup history to life
Former Gazette sports editor’s narrative covers tourney’s first 50 years
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Locals gleam with Empire State Games medals
The Western-most Westerners — athletes from the Niagara Falls area — helped the host region win the medal count at the Empire State Games, which concluded Sunday.
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