Bronc Sports Wrap 

Baseball (30-21, 12-9 MAAC)
W 10-7 *SIENA                         
W 7-5 *SIENA                          
W 5-3 *SIENA                          
W  8-7 LAFAYETTE                              
W 7-6 *MARIST                        
W 22-4 *MARIST                                  
L 8-11 *MARIST                        
L 10-12 (10 innings)  at La Salle                         
W  11-4 LE MOYNE      
W  7-3 LE MOYNE       
W  3-2 LONG ISLAND
W  10-4 LONG ISLAND
Fri.  21  *at Iona (DH)                             12 noon
Sat.  22  *at Iona                                    12 noon
Wed-Sat. 26-29  at MAAC Championships

Baseball
Junior Mason Heyne (Shrewsbury, Pa./Susquehannock) had five RBI and scored three other runs to lead Rider to a doubleheader sweep of former conference rival LeMoyne. Junior Mike Thomas (Forest Hill, Md./Fallston) pitched eight innings, striking out eight, to improve to 7-2 on the season.  Thomas is now 18-8 in his Rider career, tied for the 10^th best record ever at Rider.  Against LIU the Broncs took a 3-2 lead in the sixth inning of the first game on an RBI single by Mason Heyne, who had all three RBI in the first game. Third-year sophomore Patrick Devlin (Richboro, Pa./Council Rock North) pitched six innings, allowing one earned run while striking out four for his fifth win of the season. In the second game, the Broncs broke the game open when junior A.J. Albee (Ashley, Pa./Hanover Area) hit a three-run double in the fifth inning to take a 9-1 lead.

Softball (16-31-1, 8-8 MAAC)
W 2-1 at Monmouth                              
L  0-13 at Monmouth
L  0-12 *MANHATTAN               
W 7-5 *MANHATTAN
W  7-1 *SIENA                         
L  4-6 *SIENA
W  2-0 *at Fairfield                    
W  12-2 *at Fairfield      

Softball
At Fairfield sophomore Rachael Matreale (Williamstown) threw an eight-inning shutout, allowing just three hits while recording six strikeouts. Sophomore Lucy Higgins (Westminster, Mass./Notre Dame Academy) hit a one-out double in the top of the eighth inning and senior Ally Melia (Toms River/Toms River HS North) hit an RBI double to break the scoreless tie.  Junior Amanda Centeno (Ventura, Calif./Buena) followed with an infield hit to give the Broncs a 2-0 lead.  Centeno had two hits. In the second game Rider broke a 1-1 tie with four runs in the third inning on an error and three hits, including career hit number 100 for junior Brittany Eckett (Jackson/Jackson Memorial), a two-run single. Senior Candice Harris (Henderson, Nev./Coronado) hit her fifth home run of the season and a three-run double by sophomore Samantha Mayer (Neptune) put the game away.

Outdoor Track & Field
Men 1^st, Women 2^nd RIDER INVITATIONAL
at Princeton's Larry Ellis
at Penn Relays
at TCNJ
2^nd  MAAC CHAMPIONSHIPS    
at Swarthmore Last Chance Meet
at ECAC/IC4A (Princeton)
Thur-Sat 27-29 at NCAA Regional (North Carolina)

Track & Field
Junior Christian Gonzalez (Somerset/Franklin Twp.) earned All-East honors with a fourth place finish in the 1500 meter at the IC4As. Gonzalez finished with a time of 3:50.46 and will represent Rider in Greensboro, North Carolina on May 27-29 at the NCAA 1st and 2nd round meet, hosted by North Carolina A&T State University. Senior Alicia Price (Voorhees/Eastern) earned All-East honors in the hammer throw with a Rider record distance of 56.11m and will also represent the Broncs at NCAAs. Freshman Greg Wesh (Horsham, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) placed 10th in the 800m preliminaries with a Rider record time of 1:49.52, Wesh broke the 15-year old 800 meter record held by Marc McKithen (1:50.68) set in 1995 and will be the third Bronc to represent Rider at NCAAs. Junior Chelsea Callan (Hazlet/Raritan) set a Rider record in the 3000m steeplechase, placing 23rd overall with a time of 11:08.24, breaking her own record by over 11 seconds, set as a sophomore in 2009.

Golf
2^nd of 12 at Monmouth Hawk Invitational
12^th of 15 at Princeton Invitational
5^th of 8 at Mount St. Mary
3^rd  MAAC Championships (Florida)

Golf
At the MAAC Championships graduate student Eric LeFante (Colts Neck) earned All-MAAC honors after placing fifth out of 45 golfers, six shots out of the lead.  LeFante shot 73-76-77, junior Brent Wolgast (Bay City, Mich./Pendleton) had a final round 75 and a three-day total of 230, finishing 11th.  Sophomore Chris Wolak (Issaquah, Wash./Hopkinton) had a 75 on Sunday, for a 54-hole total of 231 to finish 13th.  Wolak shot 79 and 77 in his first two rounds and entered Sunday in 17th place.  Wolak had the second most pars in the tournament with 38.

W. Tennis (4-14, 1-6 MAAC)
W 7-0  WAGNER                                  
L 0-7  *SIENA                           
L  1-6  NJIT                                           
L  0-7 Marist MAAC Championships

M. Tennis (3-18, 0-6 MAAC)
W 5-2  WAGNER                                              
L  2-5  *SIENA                          
L 1-6 Fairfield at MAAC Championships

W. Tennis
At MAAC Championships junior Mallory Garbaravage (Little Egg Harbor/Pinelands Regional) won five games at fourth singles and was named to the MAAC All-Academic Team.

M. Tennis
At MAAC Championships junior Rob Olsen (Marlton/Cherokee) won in straight sets at sixth singles 6-2, 6-3. Seniors Alex D'Amico (Clark/Arthur L. Johnson) and Marc Ashed (Vineland) earned MAAC All-Academic honors for compiling a grade point average over a 3.20.