Stony Brook

Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary will hold a spring open house Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sponsored through a grant from eight local cultural councils, the free event will provide an opportunity for visitors to see the sanctuary, walk the trails, and enjoy naturalist-led tours of Stony Brook's wetlands, woodlands, and wildlife. The sanctuary will also offer a live animal show and provide information on volunteering and summer camp opportunities. For details, call 508-528-3140, e-mail stonybrook@massaudubon.org, or visit www.massaudubon.org.

Stony Brook's baseball team set the school mark with 43 victories, sweeping a doubleheader from Maine on Saturday to close the regular season. The Seawolves (43-11) entered the day one win behind last year's squad, but beat the Black Bears 7-2 in the first game and rallied for nine runs over the last two innings in the second game for a 10-9 victory. Stony Brook has won 19 of its last 20 entering the America East tournament, and finished 21-3 in regular-season conference games.

The Eagles will have a week to savor and learn from this victory. In most instances, a win by an Atlantic Coast Conference team over an America East team is quickly played, quickly forgotten. But when you are a very young Boston College team, which has absorbed losses to teams from the America East (Boston University), Patriot League (Holy Cross), and Atlantic 10 (UMass), you take nothing for granted. And when you carry a 2-7 record - as the Eagles did entering yesterday's game against Stony Brook - you use any positive as a building block.

Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary will hold a spring open house Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sponsored through a grant from eight local cultural councils, the free event will provide an opportunity for visitors to see the sanctuary, walk the trails, and enjoy naturalist-led tours of Stony Brook's wetlands, woodlands, and wildlife. The sanctuary will also offer a live animal show and provide information on volunteering and summer camp opportunities. For details, call 508-528-3140, e-mail stonybrook@massaudubon.org, or visit www.massaudubon.org.

Dallis Joyner scored 10 points and the Stony Brook defense forced 22 turnovers in a 58-52 win over Maine on Saturday. No other players scored in double figures for the Seawolves, who have won eight of their past nine games. Tommy Brenton grabbed 15 rebounds and got four of the Seawolves' 13 steals. Leading 31-30 in the second half, Stony Brook (11-7, 6-1 America East Conference) went on an 8-0 run for a 39-30 lead with 11:12 remaining, giving itself some breathing room down the stretch.

Dave Coley scored 21 points to lead Stony Brook past Northeastern 76-69 on Saturday, keeping the Seawolves in first place in the America East Conference with just two games left in the regular season. Tommy Brenton added 13 points and Dallis Joyner 10 with 10 rebounds for Stony Brook (18-8, 12-2), whose victory in this Bracket Busters game got the Seawolves back on the winning track after a loss in their last game at Vermont. Prior to that, Stony Brook was on a season-high eight-game winning streak.

Vermont didn't score a whole lot of points in the greatest win in the program's history so it's only right the Catamounts' latest win was a defensive effort, too. Despite scoring just five points over the final 9 1-2 minutes of the game, Vermont held off Stony Brook 51-43 on Saturday to win the America East tournament and earn the Catamounts their fifth NCAA tournament bid. In 2005, 13th-seeded Vermont shocked fourth-seeded Syracuse 60-57...

Kemba Walker scored 18 points and Alex Oriakhi added 11 with 18 rebounds last night in Storrs as Connecticut won its season opener, 79-52, over Stony Brook and former UConn assistant Steve Pikiell. The Huskies received 12 points from Shabazz Napier and 11 from Jeremy Lamb, two of the five Husky freshmen who saw action. UConn dominated the boards, outrebounding Stony Brook, 59-33. A 12-0 run early in the second half gave the Huskies a 51-33 lead and put the game out of reach.

Stony Brook ran for a school record 404 yards in their 55-6 win over St. Anselm on Saturday night. Running backs JeVahn Cruz and Brock Jackolski led the way for Stony Brook (4-3), combining for 4 touchdowns in the contest. Jackolski, who finished with 99 yards on 10 carries, scored twice in the first quarter on runs from 21 yards and 1 yard out. Cruz added his two scores late in the second half on runs of 63 yards and 3 yards. Cruz finished with 169 yards on 10 carries. Kyle Essington led the Seawolves, recording 275 yards through the air and 3 touchdowns while...

Samantha Prahalis had 25 points and 11 assists in only 28 minutes to lead No. 18 Ohio State to an 84-37 rout of Stony Brook on Friday. Prahalis equaled her season scoring average of 15 in the first half, despite sitting the final 5 minutes, and the Buckeyes (4-0) forced Stony Brook into missing 24 of its first 26 shots. Ohio State took a 42-12 lead into halftime, the fewest points the Buckeyes have allowed in a first half since leading Longwood 41-9 on Nov. 30, 2006. The Buckeyes scored the game's first 10 points and it was all Prahalis, who had eight points...

Chaz Williams scored 28 points, Sean Carter added 20, and Massachusetts outlasted host Mississippi State, 101-96, in double overtime Tuesday night in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament. UMass (23-11) won the marathon game by outscoring MSU, 11-6, in the second overtime. The Minutemen advance to the second round of the NIT, where they'll face Seton Hall, which held off Stony Brook, 63-61. Williams shot 11 of 20 from the field, including 4 of 7 from 3-point range.

A day after pulling off the road upset in the America East Conference tournament title game, Vermont snagged a No. 16 seed in the NCAA tournament on Sunday. The Catamounts will travel to Dayton, Ohio to face another No. 16 seed, Lamar, in a first-round matchup. Wednesday's winner will take on North Carolina, the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region in Round 2, on Friday in Greensboro, N.C. Vermont (23-11) went 13-3 in the America East and finished in second place during the regular season.

Vermont didn't score a whole lot of points in the greatest win in the program's history so it's only right the Catamounts' latest win was a defensive effort, too. Despite scoring just five points over the final 9 1-2 minutes of the game, Vermont held off Stony Brook 51-43 on Saturday to win the America East tournament and earn the Catamounts their fifth NCAA tournament bid. In 2005, 13th-seeded Vermont shocked fourth-seeded Syracuse 60-57...

Dallis Joyner's tip-in at the buzzer lifted Stony Brook past Albany (N.Y.) 57-55 Sunday in the America East Conference tournament semifinals. Joyner, who finished with 14 points for the top-seeded Seawolves (22-8), swooped in for the putback on Dave Coley's jumper as the clock expired. Officials reviewed the play after the buzzer sounded, but the final bucket was upheld. With 50 seconds left in the contest, Joyner had put Stony Brook up 55-52 on a layup. But Albany's Jacob Iati scored his only points of the game on a clutch 3-pointer to knot it at...

Sophomore guard Sandro Carissimo scored a career-high 18 points, forced a second overtime with a last-second basket, then snapped one final tie by making a floater with 11.4 seconds left, lifting Vermont past host Hartford Sunday night, 77-73, and into the championship game of the America East Conference tournament. The Catamounts (22-11) will play at Stony Brook on Saturday for the conference title and the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Dallis Joyner's tip-in at the buzzer lifted Stony Brook past Albany (N.Y.)

Tommy Brenton had a double-double, leading four Stony Brook scorers in double figures in the Seawolves' 78-69 win over Binghamton in the America East quarterfinals Saturday. Leading 34-28 at halftime Stony Brook (21-8) allowed Binghamton to come back on a 12-4 run to take a 40-38 lead with 15:45 to play. The top-seeded Seawolves then outscored Binghamton 11-7 to take the lead for good on Dave Coley's free throws with 10:34 left. Stony Brook moves on to the semifinals for the third consecutive season and will face either No. 4 Albany or No. 5 New Hampshire on Sunday.

We are now into March, which means it's the one-and-done phase of the season - whether it's in conference tournament play, which has already begun, or the crucible of the NCAA Tournament, which will begin in two weeks. In New England, story lines that played out during the season are almost in their final configuration. Some look good, some not so good: America East (men): Getting the No. 1 seed was a meaningful goal, since it gets you the home court if you make it to the tournament final.