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Six members of the William Smith College basketball team earned a spot on the 2011-12 Liberty League All-Academic Team. Amog the representatives from the Herons was senior forward Kristen Kush (G. Ray Bodley/Fulton).

Senior pitcher James Williamson (Mexico) of the Brockport Baseball team has been named The College at Brockport Male Athlete of the Week for the week ending March 18.
Williamson had a solid outing on the mound against Dickinson College in Winter Haven, Fla., on March 12.

On Saturday night before 3,300 fans the Lakers lost to St. Norbert’s 4-1 and collected its third runner up finish. Coach Ed Gosek was proud of the season effort. To sum up the championship game, he said, “I am disappointed, but not disappointed in the way we played. We got beat by a better team tonight.”

The third-ranked Oswego State men’s ice hockey team (24-4-2) fell short of capturing its second NCAA Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship when it fell to defending national champion and fifth-ranked St. Norbert (21-5-5) by the score of 4-1 on Saturday night at Herb Brooks Arena.

The Oswego State baseball team (3-8) struggled with runners in scoring position on Saturday, falling to Clarkson 6-1 and 9-1 to close out their Spring Break trip in Florida.

 A six-run, fourth inning helped the Oswego State baseball team (3-6) top Suffolk University (Mass.), 11-4, for its second straight win on their Spring Break trip to Florida.

St. Norbert ice hockey coach Tom Coghlin, sitting proudly before the press corps, said, “This is the most proud I have been of any team I have coached,” after his Green Knights advanced to the NCAA Division III Ice Hockey Championship game with a 4-1 win over number one seeded Norwich.

It was a game of two gigantic heavyweights standing toe to toe and slugging it out for nearly three and a half periods before Laker Paul Rodrigues was on the receiving end of a Luke Moodie pass. Moodie battled along the boards for the puck and got it out of a crowd to Rodrigues who was breaking in on All-American, Division III Players of the year Jonathan LaRose.