Mens lacrosse defeated in AEC semi-finals
By Corey Johns
The men's lacrosse team's quest for fifth straight trip to the N.C.A.A. tournament was ended in the semi-finals of the America East Conference Tournament with an 11-7 loss to conference rival University at Albany.UAlbany's game plan was simple. They played a man-to-man defense with Mike Banks covering Kyle Wimer, and first-team All-AEC defender Brendan Gleason defending Rob Grimm. While Grimm scored three goals in the game, the Retriever's had their two best passers shut down, which limited their options on offense, including Matt Latham, who had scored six goals against the Great Danes during their regular season match."They played a ... Read More
Women's tennis falls to Binghamton University after besting Albany in semifinals
By Ryan McCarty
Fourth-seeded UMBC advanced to the America East Conference Tennis Semifinals with a 4-0 victory over fifth-seeded University of Albany at the Yale University Tennis Center. The team hoped to return to the AEC finals for the first time since 2007, but were unsuccessful, falling to top-seeded Binghamton University in the semifinals.Against Albany, sophmore Carmen Jackman and junior Emily Mannix defeated Susan Ma and Aubrey Brooks, 8-4. Senior Barbara Couto and freshman Lorena Valente recorded a win against the Great Danes duo of Caitlin Crowley and Sarah Iannone 8-3. Senior Alice Chen and freshmen Heidi Danielsson did not finish their ... Read More
Victor-y! Gilreath breaks 19-year old AEC record
By Michael Donnelly
Victor Gilreath broke a school and 19-year-old America East Conference Championship meet record in the triple jump with his mark of 15.45 meters, earning him a first place finish as he was named Most Outstanding Field Performer. His record led UMBC (120.5 points) to a fourth place finish.UMBC's Keith Onto won the decathlon with 7,239 points, breaking both the previous AEC Championship record of 6,885 and the UMBC record of 7,142 that had stood since 1975. His total pushed him into the Top 25 in the nation for the event.Onto took first in six events. He won the long jump ... Read More
HAPPY BERTH DAY! Women's lacrosse earns first conference tournament bid since 2006 with a dominating victory over Binghamton, 19
By Donald Daniels
After a four year absence from post season play, the women's lacrosse team will return to the America East tournament. The Retrievers will head to the University at Albany on Thursday May 6th as the four seed to take on the Great Danes in their first America East tournament since 2006.Before entering last Saturday's clash with BU, the Retrievers were in a win or go home scenario. With close to two weeks of preparation the Retrievers responded in the pressure situation to advance to the AEC tournament. For the third straight game UMBC trailed at the half, only this time ... Read More
Athlete of the Year: Levi Houapeu
By Corey Johns
With 15 goals and 13 assists, men's soccer forward and midfielder Levi Houapeu stood alone as the nations top scorer with 43 points. After the men's soccer team was picked to finish in last place in the America East Conference in 2009, Houapeu, along with Andrew Bulls (15 goals, 10 assists) won their first nine games of the season and finished 14-6, one win shy of a conference title. Despite falling in the final two games of the regular season, Houapeu scored two goals and had an assists in the first two rounds of the AEC tournament to ... Read More
Camardo- four years of excellence, few awards to show for it
By Corey Johns
With this issue of The Retriever Weekly being the last printed one of the school year, I was going to write my year in review, which has been a normal feature the last two years, but with the men's and women's lacrosse teams in the America East Conference tournament and the baseball and softball regular seasons not at a close yet, I decided to leave that article for a post on www.retrieverweekly.com/blog after the seasons are over, and stick up for one UMBC player. Mike Camardo is a very humble guy and never takes credit for his success, however, he ... Read More
Seniors stumble, but men's lacrosse prepared for America East Conference tournament
By Corey Johns
For a second straight season, University of Hartford (4-10, 1-4 America East Conference) met the UMBC (4-8, 3-2 AEC) men's lacrosse team with nothing to lose, and for a second straight season the Retrievers were upset by the Hawks and had their winning streak ended. But this time the loss came on Senior Day, when 16 seniors were honored before the game.After going up by four early goals, the Hawks outscored UMBC 11-3 to take a four-goal lead of their own. UMBC was able to cut their deficit in half by the end of the game, but the Retrievers were ... Read More
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