Rams Scoreboard: Women's Basketball Loses ECAC Opener

Women's Basketball

Lehman 85, 78 (OT): Given new life in the ECAC tournament, the Rams season ended in the final minute of overtime on Wednesday. With the score tied at 78 in overtime, Lehman's Paula Robinson hit a three pointer for the lead. The Lightning's Louvina Hayes, who scored 30 points and ten rebounds made her biggest contribution on the defensive end, stealing a pass and setting up the fast break to give the team a five point advantage, realistically ending the game. The Rams couldn't overcome being outshot 47.8 to 34.9 percent. Keona Jones had 16 points to lead the Rams and added nine rebounds.

Indoor Track

The women's team finished in 22nd place out of 78 teams and the men came in 38th at the two-day ECAC Championships this past weekend. In the triple jump, Faustine Chukwuezi came in fifth place with her best jump of the season. On the men's side, Qasim Ellis traveled 14.39 m in his triple jump, good enough for fourth place. Ellis was the only Ram to score for the men.

Men's Lacrosse

Farmingdale State 17, Plattsburgh State 15: Erick Thomson scored five goals and added an assist in leading the Rams to a victory in their home opener on Sunday. The Rams jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the first quarter before Plattsburgh went on a 4-0 run in the late second quarter into the third. The game was tight the rest of the way with Farmingdale State scoring three unanswered goals in the fourth for a 16-13 lead. Junior goalie Patrick Delventhal registered a career high 27 saves as the Plattsburgh attack rifled off 62 shots, compared to 35 for the Rams). Ryan Oswald added four goals. Farmingdale State was 0-7 on extra man opportunities and has not converted on yet this season (0-17).

Scranton 12, Farmingdale State 6: Scranton scored eight straight goals to put away the Rams in their season opener on Tuesday. After taking a 4-3 the Rams suffered through a scoring drought of 35:10 that lasted most of the second quarter and the entire third. When they finally scored again with 7:22 remaining in the game, the 11-5 deficit was too much for them to overcome. Steven Suris and Jimmy Owsinski lead the team with a pair of goals each. Scranton's Keenan Dowd scored a game-high four goals on seven shots. Farmingdale State was 0-10 on extra man opportunities.

Next in action: Saturday, March 12 @ Hartwick, 1 p.m.

Baseball

Farmingdale State 5, Keene State 1: Chris Phelan allowed five hits and one run over seven and two-thirds innings to lead the Rams to victory on Saturday. Farmingdale State manufactured runs with efficiency as they would score in five consecutive innings from the second until the sixth. Anthony Ferrante knocked in a run and hit 3-5 in the game. Second baseman Ryan McAllister went 2-4 and scored two runs. Phelan struck out three in picking up his second victory of the year. The Rams hit over .300 as a team, but stranded nine runners on base.

Western New England 9, Farmingdale State 2: The Rams gave up five walks in the first inning and pulled their starting pitcher before he recorded an out en route to a defeat in the opener of the Farmingdale State Baseball Tournament on Friday. Starter Vinny Messana faced four batters in the top of the first, walking three of them, and wound up being tagged for four runs (three earned). Terrence Bohonan went 3-4 with an RBI. First baseman Kevin Curtis knocked in the other run for the home team, hitting 2-4 on the day.

Next in action: Saturday, March 12 vs. Eastern Connecticut, 12 noon; Saturday, March 12 vs. Southern Maine, TBA