APRIL 26, 2013
KING'S SOFTBALL, MEN'S LACROSSE HAVE MUCH TO PLAY FOR ON SATURDAY TENNIS TEAMS PREP FOR POST-SEASON
(Baseball, Women's Lacrosse Playing Final Games)
WILKES-BARRE — Saturday marks the final day of the regular-season for a number of King's College sports teams. Three teams have already clinched conference tournament berths with a fourth hoping to secure a spot of its own Saturday.
The King's men's and women's tennis teams have both clinched the second seed in next week's Freedom Conference Team Tournament. Both squads wrap up the regular-season Saturday at home with respective 1:00 p.m. matchups against conference foe Eastern University. Regardless of the outcome, both King's men's and women's teams are locked into the second seed and will host first-round tournament matches next week.
The men's Freedom Conference Tournament semi-finals will be held Tuesday while the women's semi-finals are slated for Wednesday. Both King's matches will be hosted at Kirby Park.
King's softball team will have a high matchup at DeSales University as the both teams are tied for first-place in the Freedom Conference with the top seed for next week's league tournament at stake. Both teams are 11-1 in the Freedom Conference and can do no worse than second-place.
If either teams sweeps both games, it will gain the top-seed but if the squads split, King's will be declared the top-seed by virtue of the conference's tie-breaking criteria. King's would gain the nod by virtue of its series sweep of third-place Manhattanville while DeSales and Manhattanville split their two-game series. The Lady Monarchs would then face fourth-seeded FDU-Florham in the tournament opener next Friday.
Follow softball at DeSales on LiveStats at:
http://www.sidearmstats.com/desales/softball/scoreboard.aspx
The Monarch lacrosse team (9-3, 3-2 Freedom) greatly complicated matters for itself when the Monarchs failed to clinch the second seed on Wednesday, falling to DeSales 11-6. The loss locked King's into a three-way tie for second place with DeSales and Misericordia, all with 3-2 league marks and four teams earning playoff berths. If the Monarchs win on the road Saturday in its 1:00 p.m. matchup at fifth-place FDU-Florham (4-11/2-3), King's will clinch a playoff berth. If the Monarchs lose, they are eliminated and FDU will gain the fourth seed. If King's wins and Misericordia falls to Arcadia, the Monarchs gain the third seed.
Follow the men's lacrosse game at FDU-Florham on LiveStats at:
http://www.sidearmstats.com/fduf/mlax/xlive.htm
FDU will also have Live Video for the men's lacrosse game at:
http://mac.ezstream.com/
King's baseball team will wrap up its season at home Saturday when the Monarchs host DeSales University in a 1:00 p.m. doubleheader, concluding a three-game series with the Bulldogs. King's entered the three-game weekend series on Friday with a 16-13 overall record and are 6-12 in conference play. DeSales, meanwhile, is tied atop the conference with a 27-8 record as well as a 15-3 league mark.
The games will mark Senior Day at King's where the team's 15 senior players will be recognized prior to the opener. Playing their final career games for the Monarchs include
Chris Sweeney,
Brian Mikus,
Rob Lemoncelli,
Tim Marchetti,
Eric Bohem,
Brenton Eades,
Rich Acierno,
Jared Turner,
Pat Matthews,
Cody Krupa,
Joe Dorbad,
Mike Santiago,
Ed McNichol,
Ryan Weiner, and
Anthony Sangirardi.
Follow both baseball games on LiveStats at:
http://www.sidearmstats.com/kings/baseball/scoreboard.aspx
The Lady Monarch lacrosse team will also play its final game of the season when King's hosts FDU-Florham at 1:00 p.m. at McCarthy Stadium. King's (6-9, 2-3 Freedom) will miss the playoffs as the Lady Monarch are locked into fifth-place while FDU sits atop the Freedom Conference at 9-7, 5-0 marks.
The contest marks the final game for four King's senior players, including four-year starters
Chelsea Manes and
Krystina Villarreal, along with first-year seniors
Carissa Cook and
Alisa Marino.
Follow the women's lacrosse game on LiveStats at:
http://www.sidearmstats.com/kings/wlax/scoreboard.aspx
Look for game recaps and updated results and statistics Saturday after the games are completed.
