Posted on May 13, 2004

WHEW!!

What a GREAT season is was this past spring.  Softball qualified for its second
consecutive NCAA tournament (and the second in the 29-year history of the
program), women's lacrosse missed the NCAA postseason party by two goals and
qualified for its first-ever ECAC tournament, both the women and men's crew
teams received their first-ever postseason invitation, and baseball was a
first-time qualifier for the four-team UCAA championship tournament. 

Individually, several of Union's student-athletes were
recognized at the conference, state, and national levels for their
performances.

ABBY ARCENEAUX
UCAA “Player of the Year”
PETER BROWN
UCAA “Coach of the Year”

Softball 

Seventh-year head coach Pete Brown guided his softball team
to the UCAA championship and to its fifth 20-win season and into its sixth
consecutive postseason tournament. 
Individually, sophomore Abby Arceneaux (Mechanicville, NY) was named the
UCAA's “Player of the Year” while picking up All-Conference first-team honors
as a pitcher and second-team honors as a first basewoman.  Freshman second basewoman Colleen White
(Westport, CT) and sophomore centerfielder Julie Gawronski (Dunkirk, NY) joined
Arceneaux on the first-team.  Meanwhile,
sophomores, shortstop Beth Carcone (Utica, NY), catcher Alicia Gifford
(Altamont, NY), and pitcher Jackie Coffey (Boston, MA) joined Arceneaux on the
second-team.

White (first-team) and Arceneaux (honorable mention) were
both named to the NCAA All-Tournament team while three Dutchwomen, Arceneaux
and Gawronski (second team) and White (third team), were selected to the
All-Region team.

Oh yeah, almost forgot, Brown, who now has a career record
of 155-75-2, earned his second-straight UCAA “Coach of the Year” award and his
third overall (the first coming in 2001).

MOLLY FLANAGAN
Established new single-season scoring record and is two points shy of becoming the program's all-time leading scorer.
CORINNE HENNESSY
Selected to play in senior all-star game in Maryland on June 5.

 Women's Lacrosse

Linda Bevelander completed her seventh season at the helm of
the women's lacrosse team by guiding the Dutchwomen to a 15-win season, which
is a program record (surpassing the mark of 14 which she first set in 1999 and
equaled in 2002).  The Dutchwomen, who
lost to William Smith in the UCAA tournament championship, 9-8, were invited to
their first-ever ECAC Mid-Atlantic Championship Tournament.  Union finished second to top-seeded Drew,
16-11.

Junior attack woman Molly Flanagan (Simsbury, CT) had an
incredible year, especially considering that she missed the last five games of
the 2003 season after suffering a knee injury. 
That injury also forced her to sit out the 2003 soccer season (where, as
a two-year starter, she had scored nine goals and 22 points) as well as the
2003-04 ice hockey season (where, as a first-time player in 2002-03 she
finished as the team's third-leading scorer with 14 goals, 16 assists and 30
points despite missing all of preseason and the first six games while finishing
her soccer season).

Flanagan, who is two points away from breaking Nina Mandel's
(Class of 2003) all-time scoring record of 217 points, once again rewrote the
Dutchwomen's single-season scoring record. 
As a freshman, Flanagan set the standard with 62 goals and 76
points.  This year she finished with 69
goals and 97 points.

So far Flanagan's individual honors this year include being
named the Inside Lacrosse Division III “Player of the Week” (after scoring 12
goals and four assists in wins over Skidmore, St. John Fisher and Rochester);
UCAA All-Conference first-team, and New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic
Association All-State first-team. 
National awards have not yet been released.

Flanagan had a lot of company when it came to postseason
honors.  Senior midfielder Corrine
Hennessy (Mahopac, NY) was named to the Division III North-South Senior
All-Star game, which will be held at the University of Maryland on Saturday,
June 5.  A total of 70 nominations came
from 46 institutions.

Hennessy also earned All-State first-team recognition while
junior attack woman Kathy Dolezal (Clearwater, FL), junior midfielder Tanya
Davis (Fayetteville, NY), and junior defender Liz Flanagan (Simsbury, CT) were
second-team selections.  Senior attack
woman Julia Davis (Skaneateles, NY) picked up third-team honors.

The Dutchwomen were also well represented on the UCAA
All-Conference squad as Dolezal and Hennessy were first-team selections with
both Julia and Tanya Davis (no relation) and Liz Flanagan earning second-team
honors.

SHANNA THIERAULT
Helped lead the Dutchwomen to a fourth place finish in the ECAC Invitational.
BRETT DURIE
Hepled the Dutchmen qualify for the ECAC Invitational

Crew 

By virtue of their showings at the New York State
championships, both the women and men's crew teams earned their first-ever
postseason berth when they were invited to participate in the ECAC National
Invitational Collegiate Regatta. 

The Dutchwomen, whose Varsity 4+ team consisted of: c-Liz O'Connell (junior from Brooklyn, NY), s-Shanna Theriault
(senior from Queensbury, NY), 3-Lindsey Gish (senior from Smithtown, NY), 2-Ali
Stoyan (sophomore from Liverpool, NY), and 
b-Carrie Dancy (junior from Concord, NH), finished fourth of 18 teams
and missed the Bronze Medal by three-tenths of a second.

The Dutchmen, whose
Varsity 4+ team consisted of:  c-Manny
Rojas (freshman from Bayside, NY), s-Brett Durie (senior from Cobleskill, NY),
3-Brad Coyman (senior from Watertown, NY), 2-Jon Menz (senior from Colton, NY),
and b-Tresten Beeble (freshman from Cohoes, NY), placed ninth of 18 teams.

Union's women finished
first in the state meet with the men placing fifth.

ADAM CHADWICK
UCAA First Team

Baseball 

The Dutchmen diamond
squad earned a place in the four-team UCAA championship tournament by virtue of
its 6-6 conference record.  “We are
going to surprise some people in the tournament,” said rookie head coach Jeremy
Rivenburg before the event, and surprise people Union did.

While they lost their
opening game to regular-season champion Clarkson, the Dutchmen gave the Golden
Knights all they could handle before dropping a 3-2 decision.  Rochester, which finished second in the
conference at 9-3 and was 25-8 overall, was shocked when the Garnet eliminated
the Yellowjackets, 6-0.  Clarkson's 8-2
victory in a loser's bracket game ended Union's season with a respectable
record of 16-20.

Junior outfielder Adam
Chadwick (Hampton, NY), was named to the UCAA All-Conference first-team while seniors,
first baseman Jim Griglun (Southington, CT) and Dan Mehleisen (Latham, NY)
earned second-team recognition.

KATIE ELIAS
Set a Union record in the 100 meter hurdles at the NYS meet
SEAN WASHINGTON
Broke his own 100 meter record while capturing another UCAA championship.

Track 

Senior sprinter Sean Washington (Dale City, VA) won the
100-meter by blowing away the field at the UCAA Championship Meet. His time of
10.71 provisionally qualified him for nationals, which will be held later this
month. That time also that shatters his school record by .15 seconds (old one
was 10.86). Washington's time of 22.40 in the 200 was his personal best. He
finished fourth in the event.

At the state meet, Washington finished first in the 100
meter with a 10.88 while senior Bernard Carey (Dale City, VA) was seventh.  Also capturing a state title for the men was
the 4×100 relay team, which set a Union record with its time of 42.11.  The quartet consisted of freshman Doug Davis
(Yonkers, NY), Washington, Carey, and junior Mandon Lovett (Alexandria,
VA).  The men finished eighth.

Senior Katie Elias (Williamstown, MA) paced the women, as
she took ninth in the 100 hurdles while setting a Union standard.

DAN MYEROW
Led the Dutchmen in scoring with 51 points.

Men's Lacrosse 

While the men's lacrosse team didn't make any playoffs,
first-year head coach Erv Chambliss put down some strong foundational blocks
this season.  First, the Dutchmen won
twice as many UCAA games as they have in the last two seasons.  Second, the Garnet won more overall games
since winning eight games in 2001. 
Three of this year's losses were by one goal and two of those were in
overtime.

The Dutchmen will graduate five seniors, but will return
their top five scorers and all three of their goaltenders.