Sage women fall in season finale to Old Westbury.
The Gator women helped to rewrite the record book after a banner season that came to an end on Saturday.
Old Westbury, NY--- The Sage Colleges women's basketball team traveled to SUNY-Old Westbury on Saturday for a Skyline Conference match-up. The results of the contest would decide the No. 6 seed for the upcoming 2010 Skyline Conference Tournament.
The Panthers collected the 76-60 victory on Saturday, knocking the Gators from the tournament and putting NYU-Poly in possession of the No. 6 seed by virtue of tie-breaker criterion.
The Gators close the year with a 9-15 overall record and a 7-11 mark in league play, while Old Westbury finishes with a 12-13 overall record and also a 7-11 conference record. The seven conference wins for Sage is a program high and helped the team make significant improves and strides on the women's basketball record book over the course of the campaign.
Rookie Kara Hackett (Peru, NY/Peru Central) leads the Gators with her 18 points, while junior Jessica Byerwalters (Coeymans Hollow, NY/Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk) added 17 points and eight rebounds.
Byerwalters led the Gators in scoring this year with her 299 points, while Hackett racked up 273 points, which was second best this year, while adding 189 rebounds to lead the team. She also led the team with 22 blocks, which ranks second all-time at Sage amongst single-season performances.
Junior Elizabeth Donk (Phelps/Midlakes) added 11 points for the Gators with seven rebounds and four assists. A 24-game starter for the Gators this year, she added 97 assists on the year, elevating her career total to 200 assists, which stands at now has 200 and is tied for sixth best with Elizabeth Pearl's 200 assists.
The 2009-2010 season marks final appearance for the Gators' three seniors, Amber Muir (Schenectady, NY/Notre Dame Bishop Gibbons), Amanda Crans (Watkins Glen, NY/Watkins Glen) and Carlin DeMarinis (Saratoga Springs, NY/Saratoga Springs). Each added to the Gators' record book over their careers.
Crans started 23 of 24 games played this season and finished her career with 51 starts in 81 games played. Her 81 games played ranks eighth-time in program history. She added 63 career three-point field goals, which ranks fifth all-time at Sage.
Muir wrapped her career as a four-year letterwinner with 30 career blocks, which ranks seventh all-time on Sage's career list having also played in 77 career games. She ranks 10th in career games played, just one behind Heather Alcombright's 78 games played.
DeMarinis finishes her career ranked third on the Gators' career three-point FG record as she tallied 98 on her two-year career at Sage. She collected 444 career points in 46 games played as a Gator.
The team has scored 1,459 points this season, which is third
highest in program history behind the 1992-93 team's 1,522 points.
This year's team finished second in the record book with their 106
three point baskets just three behind the mark set by the 2004-2005
team.
The 2009-2010 Gators also broke the single-season record with their
300 assists, surpassing the record established by the 1999-2000
club (289).
