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Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bearcats Head Coach Bump earns ECAC Softball Coach of the Year
VESTAL, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – The Binghamton Bearcats softball season may have come to an end, following great success, but that doesn't mean that the awards have stopped, including for Head Coach Jess Bump. The Bearcats won the America East regular season and the conference tournament before heading off to the NCAA Tournament and falling in the Eugene Regional in Oregon. In recognition of the team's success, Coach Bump was named the 2025 ECAC Division I Softball Coach of the Year. She's the first coach to lead Binghamton to a sweep of the regular season and the tournament. This is the first time that Binghamton has landed the ECAC Softball Coach of the Year. The team also earned 3 ECAC first-team all-stars, the most in program history, in Brianna Roberts, Emma Lawson, and Brianna Santos. Roberts makes her second straight appearance on the ECAC All-Star Team. She earned many accolades this season, including America East Pitcher of the Year and the America East Tournament Most Outstanding Player. Lawson is an ECAC All-Star for the first time in her career. She was also a first-team America East all-conference selection and was named to the conference All-Tournament Team. Santos also makes her first appearance on the ECAC All-Star Team. She was named first-team all-conference and was also a member of the America East All-Tournament Team. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Binghamton Bearcats to face #7 Georgia in Athens Regional
VESTAL, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – The Binghamton Bearcats baseball team took home the America East title over Bryant and are now set to head to Georgia, where they'll play in the Athens Regional of the NCAA Tournament. The Bearcats are the #4 seed in the regional and will face off with the Bulldogs in their first game of the regional. The other two teams heading to Athens are Duke and Oklahoma State. Following a 29-24 season, the automatic bid from winning the America East title sets them up to face Georgia at noon on Friday, May 30th, on the SEC Network. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Boston Globe
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
These three R.I. college baseball powerhouses are making waves in the postseason
Here's a quick guide to where the Rams, Bulldogs, and Seahawks stand. URI The Rams are the No. 1 seed in the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament after finishing the regular season 23-8 (37-20 overall). They play St. Louis for a spot in the conference championship at 3 p.m. Senior Anthony DePino was second in the league with 19 home runs, and Jack Hopko, who was a member of a Little League World Series-winning team from New York, added 15 homers. Lefty Trystan Levesque bounced back from an injury last season to go 8-1 with 90 strikeouts and a 3.25 ERA. Get Rhode Map A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State. Enter Email Sign Up Bryant Advertisement The Bulldogs breezed to the America East regular season title by going 18-6 in the league (34-18-1 overall), but they lost the first game of the conference tournament to Albany on Thursday. It's two-loss elimination, so they bounced back to beat NJIT last night, and they'll play for a spot in the conference championship today. Shortstop Drew Wyers won the conference player of the year with a .422 batting average that ranked seventh in the country, and Ryan Klosterman was named coach of the year. Freshman pitcher Michael Belcher was named Rookie of the Year. Advertisement Salve Regina Eric Cirella is quietly building a powerhouse in Newport as Salve seeks to reach the Division III World Series for a second consecutive season. The Seahawks haven't lost since April 8, and they swept through the regionals last week. The team plays No. 8 Kean University at noon in game one of the best-of-three of super regionals. This story first appeared in Rhode Map, our free newsletter about Rhode Island that also contains information about local events, links to interesting stories, and more. If you'd like to receive it via email Monday through Friday, . Dan McGowan can be reached at
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Former Vermont basketball player is returning to the Catamounts
Jackson Skipper is returning to Vermont basketball. The former Catamount — who left Burlington to play at Oral Roberts this past winter — is transferring back to Vermont, The Athletic's Tobias Bass reported on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, on Monday afternoon. Skipper also announced his commitment to Vermont on social media. Advertisement The 6-foot-6, 190-pound Skipper spent his first two collegiate seasons at Vermont, redshirting the 2022-23 year and playing a reserve role in 2023-24, averaging 7.1 minutes per contest in 11 appearances, as Vermont completed an America East championship three-peat. Skipper started 11 of 26 games for Oral Roberts, Skipper's hometown school located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He put up averages of 4.9 points and 2.3 rebounds per game while shooting 36.1% on his 3-point attempts. He reached double figures four times, including a career-high 20 points in a 92-54 victory over Texas A&M-Texarkana in December. Oral Roberts went 7-23 this past season, losing in the play-in game of the Summit League tournament. Advertisement Vermont previously picked up forwards Gus Yalden, Ben Michels and Trey Woodyard via the transfer portal this offseason. Head coach John Becker and his Vermont staff still need to fill three more scholarship spots for the 2025-26 campaign. Contact Alex Abrami at aabrami@ Follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter: @aabrami5. This article originally appeared on Burlington Free Press: Vermont basketball: Transfer Jackson Skipper returning to Catamounts
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Binghamton Bearcats Softball prepares for AE Tournament; Sweep Conference Honors
VESTAL, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – After being co-regular season champs last season and coming up short of the America East Championship, the Binghamton Bearcats Softball team dominated the competition this season, going 16-2 in the AE, and head into the tournament as the 1 seed. The team went 33-12 in the regular season and currently sits on a 7-game win streak. They are 9-1 at home, with their only loss at the Sports Complex being to out-of-conference Cornell. The team's conference losses came to the 2 seed, UMBC, in late March. They kick off their America East Tournament run on Thursday at 11 am, as they have a first-round bye, where they'll either face Bryant or UMass Lowell, which will be found out on Wednesday. 'I think that we knew right from the start of the fall that this was going to be a special team,' said Head Coach Jess Bump. 'They followed through and did everything that we were expecting them to do.' The tournament is hosted at the Bearcats Softball Complex. After the America East released the all-conference teams for 2025 on Tuesday afternoon, it was all headlined by Binghamton. Sophomore catcher and Groton native Elisa Allen was named Player of the Year in the conference. Junior Brianna Roberts got the nod for Pitcher of the Year. Rookie of the year was given to freshman Rachel Carey, and Head Coach Jess Bump repeated as Coach of the Year. The Bearcats are the first softball program in the America East ever to sweep all four major awards outright. In addition, Binghamton posted a conference-record seven first-team selections and nine overall picks. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WIVT - News 34.
