The cycling club competed at the Duryea Downhill Mountain Bike Race, in Reading, PA. Practice was on Saturday, from 9-3 and Sunday, from 8-11. The race began at noon on
Sunday. Aproximately 300 racers competed and 800-1000 spectators looked on. Classes were beginner, sport, expert and pro. Paulo Dotsenkoplaced 3rd out of 10 riders in beginner class and Justin Bart placed 10th out of 29 in Sport class.

Blades crashed as Michael Krumholtz furiously parries Jamie Fuseal's attacks. Dropping back, he lunges forward striking Fuseal in the chest. "Bout" yells the director, 15-14 Krumholz. Mike, sweating and tired walks off the strip with an epic grin. When asked how does he feel, Mike answers "like some one in first place should feel, tired and satisfied."

Eliot Greene and Eric Nelson, both BU fencers traded blow for blow in another unforgettable 15-14 bout with Eliot dashing forward to get the final touch.

BU fencing dominated the saber events with 4 of the top 5 rankings held by BU fencers under the guidance of Michael Krumholz. One can only wonder what this team will be able to do next year.

The Binghamton Swim Club went to a meet in Albany on May 6th. Although they did not come out victorious, many of the swimmers broke personal records. Halfway through the meet Binghamton only trailed by half a point and in the end, only lost by a few points thanks to some very talented swimmers.

Ray, a freshman and new to the team this year won three out of the four events he swam. He finished the 50 free style in under one minute beating his personal best of 1:02. Sara, the swim club president, finished second in the 50 backstroke with 39 seconds trailing the first place winner by only one second. Everyone who participated had a great time and the meet ended with the Albany and Binghamton teams going for pizza.

This past weekend the Ultimate Team went to Oneonta for their first annual tournament.  We did not have as strong numbers as we would have liked due to the forecast.  The team went with 9 players.  Everybody played hard and we went 3-1 on Saturday.  The forecast for Sunday looked slightly better.  We were only able to scrounge up 8 players for Sunday.  This looked disastrous for us.  It turned out that the 8 who went were dedicated to winning.  We took the first game easily 15-1.  In the second game fatigue started to set in.  We were down early 7-1.  This did not stop our drive to win.  We played hard and came back to tie the game 14-14.  At this point our legs started to give out and the fresher team was able to take the next 2 points and the game.  We would have liked to win our final tournament of the season, but can not complain about a 4-2 record for the weekend.

Binghamton Women's Rugby played fiercely at the Keystone Cup Tournament, despite not having several key players in their line-up.

The team played hard and well their first game. Although they lost 35-0 to last year's tournament champion, Shippensburg Women's Rugby, their efforts forced the opposing team to work for every try they scored. The girls left the field in good spirits, with their heads up, proud of the way they had played against such a phenomenal team.

There was much anticipation going into their second game against Temple university. BUWRFC had played Temple at their previous tournament in Randall's Island and suffered a great defeat of 37-5. However with a few weeks of outdoor practice under their belt, it was evident by the first scrum that BUWRFC was a different team than the bearcats who had played at Randall's. the first half was tense. Due to the tournament policy of "continual play with as few penalties as possible," Temple was able to break many rules of the game. Despite these infractions, Binghamton played fairly and cleanly, allowing only one Try during the first half. Temple missed the 2 point conversion, leaving the score at 5-0 after the first half. In the second half, Natalia Casino, the 8-man for Binghamton was able to score in the last seconds of the game. Nicole Hauptman made the 2 point conversion kick, winning the game.

BUWRFC chose not to play in the consolation championship game due to impending weather.

The women’s club lacrosse team headed down to Long Island to face the Stony Brook club team on Saturday, March 31st. Despite having only half of the team present, the ladies controlled the afternoon matchup. The first half was highlighted by goalie Gabby Mannino saving just about everything that came her way, allowing only two goals in during the 25-minute half. Midfielders and low offensive players made a habit of making beautiful transitions. In the beginning of the second half, Stony Brook showed signs of a comeback only to be stuffed down by dominant defensive play. Binghamton won by a final score of 14-6. The ladies hope to bring their good chemistry this weekend to the University of Rhode Island, where they will be playing in four games in a division tournament.

The guys traveled to Cortland for the annual Cortland Invitational Tournament. Facing competition from Colgate, RIT, and Cortland, the guys found themselves with a 2-1 pool play record (falling short to RIT) and advancing to the playoffs. Facing Ithaca in the first round of playoffs resulted in a tough 3-game series and a loss for Binghamton. Ending the day in fifth place out of 12 teams, the guys showed some of their best play of the year.

Binghamton (22,26,18)             Colgate (25,24,16)
Binghamton (18,23)                  RIT(25,25)
Binghamton (25,24,15)             Cortland B(22,26,12)
Binghamton (18,26,12)             Ithaca(25,24,15)

This past weekend Binghamton Ultimate took 2 teams to a tournament at SUNY Stony Brook.  With only 17 people, and 7 on the field at once we were very short on numbers.  We had put 9 people on one team and 8 on the other team.  The “A” team, which started with 9 players, won two easy games 13-0, and 13-3 to start the day.  In our third game we took an early 6-2 lead against a very competitive RPI team.  We then had two injuries leave us with the bare minimum of players to finish the day.  Even with all seven people being forced to play the rest of the game we were able to keep the game close.  We forced the game to a sudden death point.  RPI took the point and the game.  In our final game of the day we played a more rested Stony Brook team.  We lost to them 13-10.  Sunday came and we decided to combine both teams.  Our first game put us against NYU.  We were the underdogs, but didn’t play like it.  We stayed with them the entire way.  We were forced to play another sudden death point.  This time we came out victorious and won by a score of 10-9.  Our second game was against the first seeded SUNY Albany.  They took the first few points and never looked back.  We lost to them 13-7.  We finished the tournament 3-3.  This was a good result for our first outdoor play since last semester.

On Sunday, March 25th, the Binghamton University Men's Club Soccer team traveled to New Brunswick, NJ to play against Rutgers University and The College of New Jersey(TCNJ). the first game against Rutgers was a hard fought battle, which ended as a 1-1 draw. Binghamton got on the board first, after Juan Carlos Corona converted a penalty kick midway through the first half. Shortly after, Rutgers was awarded a penalty kick of their own, which they scored to draw level. In the second half, it appeared the game could have gone either way, as both teams had plenty of chances. No one could break the deadlock, and the game finished with the score of 1-1.

The second game saw BU take on TCNJ. BU dominated the first half and took the lead behind a goal from Emir Guney. In the second half, TCNJ pressured but were denied in front of the goal on several occasions by senior keeper Anton Deshenko, who ensured BU held on for a 1-0 victory.

The Binghamton Women’s Club Lacrosse team had a road trip this Sunday for a double header in Kutztown, PA. The lady’s first game for the semester was against NYU. Binghamton’s team has nearly tripled its size in the past year and for many girls this was the first time playing with each other. The Bearcats played hard, but the game wrapped up with a score of 15-7 NYU. Binghamton’s second game was against Kutztown. Our girls jumped off to a lead with goals by newbies, Shawna Rocklein and Stacey Bohlert, who held up through sprained ankles and bloody lips to lead Binghamton to conquer Kutztown defense. Defender, Becky Habib, made a tremendous block, stopping a sure goal. Captain, Ally Gilli, kept the intensity up with her full field sprints and fast goals. Midfielder, Jen Bernard, has yet to drop a ball and was a MVP throughout the game. If there was overtime this would be a sure win for Binghamton, but they were proud of their team’s performance and final 6-6 score. Go Bearcats!

The Bearcats took on Saint Bonaventure in what would be the last home game of the season. The Bearcats came out fired up and took a 3-1 lead early on goals from Doug Centola and Tommy Kittay. The third goal was scored by Aaron Woolf on an powerful one time slap shot off a pass from Judson Dacher-Shapiro. Despite the comfortable lead the Bearcats would take a series of penalties, which allowed Saint Bonaventure to score four unanswered goals to take over the lead. BU would battle back lead by the efforts of Bill Woerner who would score two goals, and Bryan Coughlin plus Dan Gross who were defensive anchors with the other defensemen in the penalty box. BU would however lose on a late goal with the final score being 6-5. The Bearcats would close the season with a final record of 10-10 and would like to thank graduating seniors Bryan Cloke, Adam Leach, Bryan Coughlin, Dan Gross, and Aaron Woolf for their four years of great play, and wish them luck in all their future endeavors.

At the February 24th tournament in Delaware, the Women’s Club Volleyball team had a very impressive showing. Placing first in their pool against Buffalo, Princeton, and Rutgers gave the Bearcats a bye for the first round of pool play in the gold bracket. In the quarterfinal match, Binghamton was up against Delaware A and in a very close match, Binghamton lost 20-25. With very impressive play all year by the team, they placed 6th overall in the Northeast Women’s Volleyball Club League standings.

The BU Racquetball team finished 7th this weekend at North East Collegiate Regionals.  Despite a small team they played hard and did well.  Regionals is the toughest tournament of the year with the most teams and their best players showing up.  Julian Ginos scored a large upset beating Matt Rusnak in Men’s 1’s Gold Division, getting into the quarterfinals.  Ryan Levering made it into the Blue bracket of Men’s 1’s.  Kevin Bojko finished in 3rd place of Men’s 2’s Red Division.  The rest of the team struggled against the intense competition.  Key absences left the team’s less experienced players playing in higher divisions.  The final ECRC meet is in mid April.   

Home Team Visitor Team

Binghamton (25, 19, 9) vs. Cortland (22, 25, 15)
Binghamton (16, 24) vs. Cornell (25, 26)
Binghamton (25, 20, 8) vs. Ithaca (17, 25, 15)

On Saturday, February 10th, 2007, the Binghamton Kickline traveled to the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena to perform at the Gymnastics Competition called the I Love NY Cup.  We performed our usual Basketball Game halftime routine and then combined with the BU Dance Team at the end for our grand finale. 

Roller Hockey ECRHA Event - All Star Weekend

@ Penn State University

We had our second race of the season at Swain Mountain in Swain, NY.  About ten schools competed, including Syracuse, Alfred University, Cornell, Hobart, RIT, Buffalo, University of Rochester, Ithaca, St. Bonaventure, and Geneseo. The men's team finished 9th out of the 10 schools that fielded a full team and women's scores did not count because we did not meet the minimum number of female racers. We continue to train hard and are hoping for a higher ranking as the season continues.