Murphy in hunt at PGA Q School
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Staff Reports - Published: November 21, 2009
Vermont native Trevor Murphy is one round away from the final stage of PGA Tour Qualifying School.
Murphy fired a 5-under par 67 on Friday to work his way into the top 20 at Southern Hills Plantation Club in Brooksville, Fla. Through three rounds of the second stage of Q School he stands at 7-under par and is in a tie for 16th place.
The top 21 players and ties will go on to the final stage and as of Friday, the St. Johnsbury native had a one-shot cushion. Murphy has rounds of 69, 73 and 67 so far.
Now living in Scottsdale, Ariz., the three-time Vermont Am champion is attempting to find fulltime work on the PGA Tour. He has had two experiences on Tour, at the 2007 Wachovia Championship and the 2008 U.S. Open, where he made the cut.
Not faring as well is Bennington native Dustin Cone, who is at 11-over par and tied for 66th place after three rounds at Hombre Golf Club in Panama City Beach, Fla. Cone has had rounds of 75, 75 and 74. The top 20 players will advance from that site.
The top 20 will advance from the Pine Mountain, Ga., site, the Callaway Gardens Mountain View Golf Club, where Milford, Conn.'s Steve Sokol is tied for 48th. Sokol, the runner-up to Cone in the 1999 Vermont Amateur, is four shots off the pace with a lot of people to pass with only today's round left to play.
The final stage of Q School takes place Dec. 2-7 at Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach, Fla.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Castleton 80, MCLA 69
In Oneonta, N.Y., Derrick Faragon tossed in 28 points and Castleton State College pulled away to victory over MCLA in the first round of the Tom Greene Memorial Tip-Off Classic. The Spartans will play Cazenovia in the round-robin event today at 2 p.m. while MCLA will play host Hartwick.
Faragon and the 1-1 Spartans outscored MCLA 45-35 in the second half.
Faragon went 9-of-14 from the field and Rutland's Mark Comstock (8-for-12) and West Rutland's Greg Hughes added 18 and 11 points, respectively.
Chris Harron had 20 points to lead MCLA.
Vermont Tech 93,
Unity College 40
In Unity, Maine, Trent Roleau led four VTC players in double figures with 23 points and added 13 rebounds. Linden Smith-Hyde added 17 points, Kevin Carr 15 and Michael Brooks 13 for 1-0 VTC, which will visit Eastern Maine Tech in Bangor today.
SUNY-IT 83,
College of Saint Joseph 70
In Utica, N.Y., the Fighting Saints were unable to overcome a 36-22 halftime deficit, falling to 2-2. The Saints, who were led by Doug Childs with 25 points and Brad Drysdale with 21, will play in the consolation round of the Wildcat Tip-off Tournament today against Keuka at 1 p.m.
David Golembiowski led the Wildcats with 29 points.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Baruch 77, Castleton 45
In Plattsburgh, N.Y., Baruch earned a spot in the 2009 Cardinal Classic championship game today against Plattsburgh State.
Monique Salmon went 3-for-4 from the 3-point line and posted 18 points on the night to help lead the Bearcats to victory. She also dished out a game-high six assists. Anika Sierk (11) and Megan Bouwens (10) also scored in the double-digits for Baruch. Bouwens tied Kalea Davis for a team-high eight rebounds, as well.
Christine Jacques tossed up an impressive 19 points for the Spartans. Tarryn Bolognani came off the bench to score 12 points. Megan Johnson pulled down 11 boards.
Baruch pulled away after leading at halftime 35-24.
Baruch is 1-0 and Castleton 1-1.
MEN'S HOCKEY
Norwich 4, New England 2
In Biddeford, Maine, the Cadets needed a pair of third-period markers to pull away from the pesky Nor'Easters, who gave the Cadets all they could handle in their opener.
WOMEN'S HOCKEY
Salve Regina 3, Castleton 1
Kathleen Roche scored two goals, including one shorthanded tally, to lead Salve Regina past Castleton in Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Women's East action at Spartan Arena.
The Seahawks improve to 4-2-0 overall (3-1-0 ECAC East). The Spartans slide to 2-5-0 overall and 2-3-0 in ECAC East play.
Deadlocked at 0-0 after the first period of play, Salve Regina finally opened up the scoring 14 minutes and 19 seconds into the second on Rachel Porter's second goal of the season.
After Danika Williams cycled the puck behind the net to teammate Kendra Andrie, Porter one-timed a quick pass from Andrie past Spartans' goaltender Katharyn Dembowski into the top right corner for a 1-0 lead.
Moments later, Dembowski kept the contest at 1-0 robbing Molly Golden from scoring from point-blank range. Dembowski, on her stomach, stretched across the net denying Golden with a beautiful glove save to keep the Seahawks off the scoreboard.
The Seahawks kept applying pressure offensively, however, scoring just a few minutes later - 17:04 into the period - on a shorthanded goal by Roche, her fourth tally of the season.
Roche received the puck from teammate Kristen Aiello and broke past Castleton's last defender firing it past Dembowski on the clean breakaway.
Castleton responded quickly, scoring 27 seconds later on Laura Szwed's second power-play goal of the season.
Middlebury 3,
Connecticut College 1
In Middlebury, the Panthers women's hockey team opened up its season with a win sparked by a pair of goals from Anna McNally. Middlebury they held a 37-13 shots advantage in the game.
Lani Wright made 12 saves in goal for Middlebury, while Sara Christopher made 34 stops for the Camels.
CORRECTION
MVL cross country
Marissa D'Avignon of Otter Valley Union High School was erroneously omitted from the list of athletes named to the all-Marble Valley League cross country team as reported in Friday's Rutland Herald.
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