Women's Basketball

HEADLINES:

Poirier Named Both All-SUNYAC and All-ECAC

04.03.09

POTSDAM, NY - Cortney Poirier (Moira/Brushton-Moira), a junior guard at SUNY Potsdam, has been named to the 2008-09 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Upstate Women’s Basketball Second Team.

The ECAC is the nation’s largest athletic conference with 319 member institutions and over 122, 000 student athletes. The ECAC awards one Division II and four regional Division III all-star teams (New England, Upstate, Metro and South).

Poirier led the Bears in scoring last season with 487 points for a 17.8 game average. She was also the second highest scorer in the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC). With 106 steals Poirier also topped the Potsdam steal stats and again placed second in the SUNYAC.

Previously  Poirier was named to the 2008-09 All-SUNYAC Women’s Basketball First Team. Additionally, she was named the SUNYAC Player of the Week on February 16th after completing the best week of her college career when she averaged 24.3 points including a career high 35 points in the Bears win over Geneseo.

In Potsdam’s January 13th victory over SUNY Canton, Poirier scored 23 points to top the 1,000-point career scoring mark. Her current three-year career tally stands at 1282 points.

 

Women Advance to SUNYAC Championship

2.27.09

(POTSDAM, NY) For the first time in school history, the women's basketball team will play in the championship game of the SUNYAC Tournament. The Bears will face Brockport at 4 pm Saturday for that historic contest at host SUNY Cortland.

The seventh seeded Bears defeated the top-ranked Cortland Red Dragons 64-59 in Friday's SUNYAC semi-finals. The Brockport Golden Eagles defeated Oneonta 56-54 in an earlier semi-final game. (MORE)

Saturday's game will be broadcast locally on 99 Hits radio, as well as, broadcast online from the SUNY Potsdam website at: http://bearcast.potsdam.edu:8000/


Women to Play In SUNYAC Semi-Finals

2.25.09

(POTSDAM, NY) The SUNY Potsdam women upset second-ranked New Paltz 62-61 in Tuesday’s quarter-final round of the 2009 SUNYAC Tournament to advance to the tournament’s semi-finals on Friday. The Bears (16-10/8-8 SUNYAC) will then take on the top-seeded Cortland Red Dragons (23-3/15-1) at 8 p.m.

Cortland defeated eighth-ranked Geneseo 72-41 to advance and also host both Friday’s and Saturday’s games as the conference’s number one seed. Third seeded Oneonta (20-5/12-4) will play fourth place Brockport (17-9/11-5) in Friday’s 6 p.m. semi-final. The SUNYAC championship contest will start at 4 p.m. on Saturday.

The Bears and the Red Dragons have met twice before this season with Cortland prevailing 80-63 at home in January before slipping past the Bears 67-61 in Potsdam on February 17th.