| Rider’s season ends in MAAC Tournament semifinals | March 10, 2010 |
By Jordan Hall
The Broncs put up a valiant effort in the MAAC Tournament last weekend but were unable to upend Siena in the semifinals. Rider fell to the Saints, the eventual tournament champions on Sunday 72-62 after defeating Saint Peter’s 69-57 on Saturday in the quarterfinals.
Senior Ryan Thompson finished his career with a bang, dropping [...]
| Baseball team starts 4-0 with sweep of UMES | March 4, 2010 |
By Jillian Shutt
Rider’s baseball team had an outstanding start to its season, sweeping the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) in a four-game series earlier this week.
The Broncs defeated UMES 8-0 in game one and then 2-0 in the nightcap during Sunday’s doubleheader. Rider came back strong the following day, winning both games again, 4-1 [...]
By Josh Veltrie
It’s the scenario every kid dreams of while playing basketball in their backyard: just under five seconds left to go in the Championship game and your team is down by one. Racing down the floor, trying to beat the clock while avoiding defenders, a floater from the free throw line is shot with [...]
By Victoria Lyons
The men’s and women’s swim and dive teams competed in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships this past weekend at the University of Pittsburgh, where the women finished third out of 24 teams and the men placed third out of 21 teams.
The teams had much to be proud of this past weekend, [...]
By Jordan Hall
The last time Siena entered Alumni Gym, senior Ryan Thompson sent them home defeated, nailing the game-winning layup with 3.4 seconds left back on Feb. 27, 2009. This time around, the Saints left Lawrenceville with a drastically different outcome.
Siena pummeled Rider last Friday on ESPNU in a highly anticipated game for the Broncs, [...]
| Swim and dive team falls short, but individual divers excel at MAACs | February 25, 2010 |
By Paige McAtee
The women’s swimming and diving team was unable to repeat a MAAC Championship this season, while the men’s team clinched second for the third straight year. The event, postponed a week because of snow, was hosted by Loyola at the Mangione Aquatic Center.
Diving Coach Dennis Ceppa won his second MAAC Diving Coach of [...]
By David Pavlak
Rider took to the ice this past weekend in hopes of a MACHA Championship. To achieve this goal, the team would have to defeat Penn State (PSU), Temple, and the University Of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). With the momentum of closing the season on a winning streak still fresh, the Broncs defeated PSU [...]
By Victoria Lyons
The track and field team added to its list of accomplishments while the men took second out of five teams and the women finished third of six at the MAAC Championships.
Rider boosted its résumé with a number of honors. Head Coach Bob Hamer was named Men’s Coach of the Year, while freshman Daequan [...]
By Corey Donetz
Coming off a road win over conference foe St. Peter’s, the Broncs were back on the road again on Saturday to take on the Pride of Hofstra. The ESPN Bracketbuster contest went down to the wire as the Broncs fell 92-89 in overtime.
Senior Ryan Thompson had a standout game, compiling a career-high 38 [...]
| Rider grad races to success and aims for 2014 Winter Olympics | February 18, 2010 |
By Jordan Hall
On the prowl for jobs as graduation neared, Jazmine Fenlator didn’t imagine a bobsled or a shot at the 2010 Winter Olympics to be in the picture. The 2007 journalism graduate left Rider with a job at Johnson & Johnson promised for the fall, but amazingly enough, found herself racing down an icy [...]
