NEW YORK | The Skyline Conference and New Jersey Athletic Conference announced their weekly winter awards recently, and Farmingdale State College men's basketball senior swingman Nick Hurowitz (Mt. Sinai, N.Y.) has been tabbed as the Skyline's Player of the Week. Additionally, a pair of the Skyline's preseason coaches polls were released Tuesday afternoon, including the baseball and men's lacrosse tallies.
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The Rams are winners of five of their last six contests, including a 2-0 week with a Wednesday decision at Mount Saint Vincent and a Saturday victory over St. Joseph's-Brooklyn on Alumni Day.
Hurowitz took home the Skyline's Player of the Week kudos, as well as an honorable mention on the Met Basketball Writers Association's Division II/III Player of the Week ledger, after he picked double-doubles in both contests en route to averages of 17.5 points and 11.5 rebounds per effort.
Head coach Brendan Twomey's side, co-leaders in the Skyline Conference standings, will play as the away team Tuesday night at FSC against SUNY Old Westbury, before welcoming Yeshiva University – the team the Rams are tied with – to the Walter A. Lynch Sports Center on Senior Night, Saturday at 8:30 p.m., in a game that will have massive seeding implications for next week's Skyline Conference Championship.
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FSC held second-half leads in two of its three Skyline contests last week, falling at home to St. Joseph's-Brooklyn (Tue.) and Yeshiva (Thu.), and on the road Saturday at St. Joseph's-Long Island.
Head coach Mark Dellecave's Rams wrap up their season at home Tuesday night, when the team honors Emily Zeblisky (Northport, N.Y.) in a Senior Night ceremony before a 5:30 p.m. tip-off against visiting Sarah Lawrence College.
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The Rams wrapped up regular-season action Friday in Staten Island at the Fastrack National Invitational, with women's junior sprinter Alexxis McNeil (Valley Stream, N.Y.) moving to No. 2 on the program's all-time leaderboard in the 60-meter dash (8.03) and men's sophomore Robert Kalinowski (Farmingdale, N.Y.) recording a sixth-place finish, and the sixth-best mark on the FSC ledger, in the pole vault (4.35m; 14-3.25).
Head coach Daniela Georgieva's Farmingdale State teams are serving as the host institution for Monday's (Feb. 20) New Jersey Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships, which will take place at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island.
Baseball
The Skyline's preseason baseball coaches poll was released Tuesday afternoon, and head coach Keith Osik's Rams are slotted No. 3 on the tally after compiling a 21-14 record (13-7 Skyline) in 2022. Farmingdale State, led by senior right-handed pitcher and D3baseball.com preseason second-team All-American Stephen Clancy (Mineola, N.Y.), is slated to lift the lid on its 2023 campaign next Saturday (Feb. 25), when they welcome UMass-Dartmouth for a noon doubleheader.
Men's Lacrosse
Head coach Sean Chamberlain's FSC squad, finalists in the last two Skyline Conference Championships, have been slotted to finish second in the 2023 edition of the conference's preseason coaches poll. The Rams open their 2023 season next Sunday (Feb. 26), when they travel to Boca Raton, Fla., for a noon faceoff at NCAA Division II foe Lynn University.