By DAVID MEISTER
Sports Editor

Mother Nature was not kind this week to either the Saint Rose baseball or softball teams. For the baseball team, last Thursday’s matchup with Saint Thomas Aquinas Spartans was cancelled. On Friday, the team was slated to take on the Bentley Falcons but the game has been postponed and will now take place as a doubleheader. And the home doubleheader the Golden Knights were supposed to host on Saturday against Stonehill was also cancelled.

They will have a doubleheader on the road with Bentley on Sunday and then return home for a matchup with their Upstate Challenge rivals, the Le Moyne Dolphins on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday the team will be in Connecticut for three games against the Southern Connecticut State Owls.

The softball team also suffered a slew of cancellations and postponements last week. The team was slated to have a six game homestand. Wednesday’s Upstate Challenge against Le Moyne has been moved to Tuesday afternoon out in Syracuse. Their Saturday and Sunday doubleheaders against Saint Michael’s and Saint Anselm respectively were both cancelled.

This week the team will be on a six game road trip. After Le Moyne, they will head to Connecticut on Saturday and Sunday for three games against the New Haven Chargers. The softball team will not return home to Albany until April 3 when they host American International.

The lacrosse team only had one game last week and it did go off as scheduled Saturday afternoon on the road against Bentley but the Golden Knights lost, 13-8. Three members of the team each scored two goals despite the loss: they were sophomore Jack Pemrick, sophomore John Loughlin, and junior Jordyn Marchiano. Saint Rose was dominant in their face off game too with senior Nicolas Johnson going 21/24 in faceoffs.

The loss drops their record to 1-5 on the season and will look to snap their four game losing streak on Wednesday when they host the American International Yellow Jackets at 5 p.m. at Plumeri.

In other sports news, junior Christine Myers can add another title to her growing collection: NE-10 Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year. Myers had many record breaking performances throughout the 2018-19 season including two conference championships in the 3,000 and 5,000 meter runs last month, and also being a key contributor to the distance medley relay team which broke a 23 year old school record last month by 27 seconds.

Finally, Saint Rose’s Assistant Athletic Director for Communications, David Alexander, won the 2019 Irving T. Marsh Service Bureau Award, which is handed out by the ECAC-SIDA. According to their website, the award is given annually to someone who “has exhibited excellence in the field of sports information.”