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Both University of Scranton teams, the Keystone College men, and the Baptist Bible College and Marywood University women will take part in conference basketball tournaments this week, trying to land berths in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Tournament.
Scranton will be in the Landmark Conference, which has semifinals Wednesday and finals Saturday. The men will be home for at least the semifinals. The women still had a chance at gaining the home-court advantage going into the regular-season finale Saturday afternoon.
Keystone has the best chance of making the NCAA Tournament even if it does not win the conference tournament. Nationally ranked Cabrini and Keystone are 1-2 in the Mid-East Region and the top two seeds in the Colonial States Athletic Conference men’s tournament where they had quarterfinal byes. They will be home in the semifinals.
Baptist Bible and Marywood each went 12-4 to finish tied for first in the CSAC North women’s standings. BBC won the tiebreaker, landing the second seed and a home court in the Wednesday CSAC semifinals. Marywood is the fourth seed and is home Monday against Cabrini.
Eight Scranton women, four Scranton men, and one Marywood woman earned first-team, all-star honors in the Landmark Conference for their performances in the Swimming and Diving Championships Feb. 10-12 at Marywood.
Athletes who finished first in an individual or relay event were named to the first team. Those who had their highest finish as a runner-up in an event were named to the second team.
Both Scranton teams finished second in the standings while the United States Merchant Marine Academy won the men’s championship and Susquehanna University won the women’s championship.
Sara Franciscovich, Jessica Merino, Kesley McAnelly, Carolyn Gillespie, Paige Agnello, Christine Gorge, Jenny Fitzmaurice, and Colleen Barry made the first team for Scranton while Alexis Walsh made the second team.
Catherine Anlas of Marywood made the first team after setting a conference record in the 50-yard freestyle.
Tim McCormick, Marc Dezii, John Hughes, and David Hovey made the first team while Brendan McCrossan, Stephen Nicolosi, Patrick Urban, Ryan Holmes, Joe Clifford, Paul Vignati, and Nate Wynosky made the second team.
Scranton Prep graduate McCormick and Barry gave Scranton a sweep of the Diver of the Year Awards.
Scranton’s Paul DeAngelo and assistants Karen Spadoni and Colin Manley were named Coaching Staff of the Year.
Keystone’s Malcolm Boone was named CSAC men’s basketball Player of the Week.
Boone averaged 22.3 points, 12.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 3.0 blocked shots to help Keystone go 2-1. Boone had 34 points, including the 1,000th of his career, Feb. 11 against Centenary.
Keystone’s Jazmyn Robinson and Baptist Bible’s Rava made the CSAC women’s basketball Honor Roll.
Boone and Robinson were also named Keystone Athletes of the Week.
Barry and McCormick shared the Scranton Athlete of the Week award.
Three errors by nationally ranked Keystone led to four unearned runs that allowed Southern Virginia University to defeat the Giants, 7-4, Friday in the Ty Cobb Classic in Hampden-Sydney, Va.
Ruth Butts, a senior from Lakeland, had 20 points while Rava added 18 points and 15 rebounds Wednesday in Baptist Bible’s 85-71 women’s basketball win over Neumann College.
Allison Bruet had 17 points when Marywood defeated Centenary, 67-52, in women’s basketball Wednesday. Bruet went 15-for-21 from the line to push her career scoring total to 999.
Robinson had 21 points as Keystone finished its women’s basketball season with a fourth straight victory, 81-67, over Cedar Crest College Wednesday. The Giants finished 8-8 and 11-14.
Neumann eliminated Marywood from CSAC men’s basketball contention, 61-55, Wednesday. The Pacers finished 7-11 and 8-17.
Cabrini used 56 second-half points to defeat Keystone, 96-85, and finish unbeaten in CSAC men’s basketball, 96-85.
Tim Benedix had eight 3-pointers for Keystone Monday while scoring 24 points in an 89-71 men’s basketball victory over Baptist Bible. Dan Dodd had a career-high 39 to lead BBC, which lost again Wednesday to finish 3-15 and 3-22.
Robinson hit three free throws in the final minute Monday to lead Keystone to a 55-50 women’s basketball victory over Baptist Bible.
Butts hit the game-winning jumper with 25 seconds left Feb. 11 to help Baptist Bible avenge an earlier 24-point loss with a 57-55 women’s basketball victory over Marywood.
Meredith Mesaris scored 25 points Feb. 11 to lead Scranton to a 60-56 women’s basketball victory over Drew.



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