Posted on Jul 1, 1997

David Kelin

The baseball team set a Union record with its eighteen victories and qualified for the ECAC Upstate New York Tournament for the first time since 1987.

Union hit.338 as a team while scoring 253 runs. Three players batted over.400-junior outfielder Jeremy Lamb (.440), sophomore third baseman Todd Ellis (.422 and a team-leading 30 runs batted in), and senior second baseman Eric Kujawski (.417). Kujawski, a three-year starter, ended his career with a .337 batting average in 103 games.

In their tournament appearance, the Dutchmen dropped an 8-6 decision to number one ranked Binghamton to finish the year at 18-16.

Both the men's and women's lacrosse teams finished third in the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association (UCAA).

The men's team was 3-2 in the league and 4-9 overall, narrowly losing three games. Attackman Dave Parrott had his third straight 30-point season and finished his career with 84 goals and 123 points. Junior attackwoman Lauren Pastor scored 47 goals to tie the College's single-season record; her three-year total now is 109. The team finished 3-3 in the league and 5-7 overall.

The softball team lost ten games by two runs or less to finish the year 9-23-1. Sophomore Shannon Lawlor led the team in hitting with an average of.356.

The men's tennis team finished 5-6 and will lose only one senior. Sophomore Jordan Pinsker was 8-5 and freshman Josh Winograd was 7-6. The team was fifth of seven in the UCAA tournament.

In men's track, freshman Brian Roy finished fourth of fourteen in the decathlon at the New York State meet with a total of 5,450 points. Senior Dave Riggi placed in the top three in both the 100meters (with a time of 11.13) and 200-meters (22.5) and ran on the 400-meter relay team, which placed fourth with a time of 43.57. The women's track team saw two firsts this
spring its first pole vaulter (Jordanna Mallach, a freshman who vaulted six feet in competition), and its first steeplechaser (Charity McManaman, a sophomore who had a time of 9:55.39).