TC3 Game Highlights

  • Panthers Split Sunday Doubleheader
    Game 1 Box
    Game 2 Box
    3/7/2010 2:00:00 PM
    The Tompkins Cortland Community College baseball team earned its first win of the season, splitting a doubleheader with Camden County College (N.J.) Sunday. TC3 dropped the opener 7-1 before bouncing back to take the nightcap 14-6. TC3 returns home with a record of 1-3 while Camden is now 3-1.
     
    It took a while for the bats to wake up Sunday, as the Panthers managed just four hits in seven innings in the opener. Dustin Quick (Candor H.S./Candor) picked up the lone RBI, driving in Hairo Melenciano (George Washington/New York City) in the fifth after the freshman reached with a double. At the time, it brought TC3 to within four at 5-1, but the home team added a pair of runs in the fifth and held the Panthers scoreless the rest of the way to make the final 7-1.
     
    The second game was a different story from the opening inning. TC3 exploded out of the gate, plating five runs in the top of the first to take its first lead of the season. It almost didn't last the inning, as control troubles on the mound for TC3 starter Eric Conway (Auburn H.S./Auburn) allowed Camden to score four runs on a single hit in the bottom of the inning. TC3 added a two runs in each of the second and third before Camden scored a single run in the bottom of the third to make it 9-5. Conway recorded a single out in the fourth before leaving the game with an unusual line of six runs allowed, a single hit, six strikeouts, and ten walks. After the first relief pitcher as unable to record an out, Ryan June (Fabius-Pompey H.S./Fabius) came in a closed down Camden. Pitching in his third game of the weekend, June went the final two and two-thirds of an inning, allowing no runs on three hits while striking out two. TC3's offense added five runs in the sixth for a cushion, and the game ended after the bottom of the sixth due to darkness.
     
    Dustin Sandberg (Lambrick Park/Victoria, B.C.) had a huge game at the plate, blasting a three-run home run while going 3-for-4 with seven runs batted in. Joshua Boyd (Upper Room Christian/Hempstead) and Dan Zambito (Auburn H.S./Auburn) each homered for the winners, with Zambito finishing 3-for-5.
     
    TC3 travels to Maryland this weekend for three games against CC Baltimore County-Dundalk. The two teams play a single game Friday before hooking up for a doubleheader Saturday.
  • Panthers End Season in Semifinals
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    2/27/2010 1:00:00 PM
    Playing in the NJCAA Region III Final Four for the first time, the Tompkins Cortland Community College women's basketball team gave the top-ranked team in the nation a scare before falling. TC3, the #5 seed, lost to #1 Onondaga Community College 67-54 Saturday at regional-host Cayuga Community College. The Panthers end the year with a record of 14-12, while Onondaga improves to 32-0. Onondaga will play Cayuga Sunday in the regional final.
     
    Plagued by foul trouble the entire game, TC3 trailed by five at the half. The Panthers continued to hang close most of the second half before Onondaga pulled away in the closing minutes.
     
    Kyla Knapp (Owego Free Academy/Owego) led TC3 with 12 points. Mackenzie Stilwell (Charles O. Dickerson H.S./Trumansburg) followed with ten points and six rebounds. Michelle Tuetken (Newark Valley H.S./Berkshire) added nine points and six assists, and Alyssa Georgiade (Cicero-North Syracuse H.S./Clay) and Julie Schaeffer (Ithaca H.S./Ithaca) each scored seven. Schaeffer grabbed a team-high seven rebounds.
  • Panthers Advance as Cartwright Reaches 1,000 Career Points
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    2/26/2010 6:00:00 PM
    On the day Chris Cartwright (Binghamton H.S./Binghamton) scored the 1,000th point in his career, the Tompkins Cortland Community College men's basketball beat Broome Community College for the fourth time this season, 99-84, to advance to the NJCAA Region III Final Four. TC3, the #3 seed, improves to 21-5 while Broome, the #6 seed, ends the season 17-11. TC3 will play #2 Mohawk Valley Community College, a 72-56 winner over #10 Fulton-Montgomery Community College in another quarterfinal, at 3 p.m. Saturday.
     
    The Panthers started slowly, falling behind 11-4 in the early minutes before scoring six straight to pull within one at 11-10. Broome retained the lead until 10:47 left in the half, when Cartwright completed a three-point play to tie the score at 20-20. The Panthers enjoyed the lead for the first time 30 seconds later, when Greg Mudge (Hunter-Tannersville H.S./Hunter) came off the bench and drained a three-pointer the first time he touched the ball. After Broome came back to lead 28-27, a layup by Mudge put the Panthers up 29-28 and started a 9-0 run that gave TC3 its biggest lead of the half at 36-28. TC3 held the lead the rest of the half, settling in at 46-41 at the half.
     
    The two teams traded baskets most of the first ten minutes of the second half, with TC3's lead peaking at eight points and getting as small as a single point at 71-70 after a Broome three-point play with 9:40 left. Five straight TC3 points over the next 90 seconds pushed the lead back to five at 75-70 before TC3 started to pull away. A 10-4 run that included Mudge's sixth three-pointer of the game made it 93-79 with 2:46 left, essentially ending the game as Broome never challenged the rest of the way.
     
    In the closing minutes, Cartwright connected on a three-pointer, giving him 18 points on the night and exactly 1,000 for his career. The sophomore becomes just the third player in TC3 history to reach the 1,000-point mark, and he did it on the night that he also moved into first on the TC3 career assists list. He dished out six assists against Broome, giving him 255 for his career, two more than Ryan Davis had from 1999-2001.
     
    Mudge led several strong performances with 24 points. Josh Delfino (Newfield H.S./Newfield) posted yet another double-double with 12 points and 14 rebounds to go with three assists, three blocks, and two steals. Charleston Collins, Jr. (Corcoran H.S./Syracuse) was huge with 21 points, eight rebounds, four steals, two assists, and two blocks. Michael Martin (Spencer-Van Etten H.S./Spencer) added 14 points, and eight rebounds while Tynez Wilson (Union-Endicott H.S./Binghamton) chipped in with eight points, five assists thre rebounds, and two steals.