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Women’s Basketball Engineers Fourth-Quarter Comeback to Stun Saint Peter’s Ms: Manhattan 68, st. peter’s 64

By Pete Janny, Sports & Managing Editor The MAAC season is not supposed to be smooth sailing for every team; just ask the Manhattan College women’s basketball team. Entering Saturday’s battle with the Saint Peter’s Peacocks (5-14, 2-8 MAAC), the Jaspers had lost three of their last four games. A week earlier, Manhattan was in the same situation they had found themselves on this day … Continue reading Women’s Basketball Engineers Fourth-Quarter Comeback to Stun Saint Peter’s Ms: Manhattan 68, st. peter’s 64

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Women’s Basketball Bounces Back With Beatdown of Iona

WB: Manhattan 54, Iona 32 by Pete Janny, Sports Editor  The Manhattan College women’s basketball team (8-10, 5-4 MAAC) has shown a lot of great things this season on the court. The team started off 3-0 in MAAC play and were playing their best ball all season. That’s until the team turned in two disappointing performances last week against Marist and Fairfield in which the team … Continue reading Women’s Basketball Bounces Back With Beatdown of Iona

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Women’s Basketball Comes up Short in Loss to Marist

by Pete Janny, Sports Editor WB: Marist 71, Manhattan 66 The Manhattan women’s basketball team (7-9, 4-3 MAAC) hoped to follow up their 30-point drubbing of Siena on the road last Thursday with another win when the Marist Red Foxes (12-3, 5-1 MAAC) came to Draddy on Saturday afternoon. This matchup with the Red Foxes was an opportunity for Manhattan to avenge last season’s season-ending 65-51 … Continue reading Women’s Basketball Comes up Short in Loss to Marist

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LaPointe’s Career-High 25 Points Leads Manhattan Past Canisius

by PETE JANNY, Sports & Managing Editor The new year has brought new opportunity for a Manhattan College women’s basketball program (4-7, 1-1 MAAC) that is hoping to make some noise this coming March at the MAAC tournament in Atlantic City. Having lost the last two years in the quarterfinals of the tournament, Manhattan hopes to prove that their pre-season projection of fourth this year was not … Continue reading LaPointe’s Career-High 25 Points Leads Manhattan Past Canisius

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Manhattan Offense Explodes Against Army in Lopsided Win

by PETE JANNY, Sports & Managing Editor  The Manhattan College women’s basketball team (3-5) entered Friday night’s meeting with Army (3-7) looking to bounce back after a disappointing performance last week in a 51-45 loss to Fordham. This game provided Manhattan one last opportunity to fine-tune their game with the team’s MAAC opener set for Tuesday night at Monmouth.  Manhattan was clearly not bothered by the adversity … Continue reading Manhattan Offense Explodes Against Army in Lopsided Win

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Women’s Basketball Comes up Short in Battle of the Bronx

by PETE JANNY, Sports & Managing Editor  The Manhattan College women’s basketball team (3-5) squared off with the Fordham Rams (4-5) on Tuesday night, looking to avenge last year’s loss at Rose Hill. Playing host for this game, Manhattan was hoping to win back-to-back games for the first time this season after beating Dartmouth last Sunday at Draddy Gymnasium.  Despite putting forth their best effort, Manhattan was … Continue reading Women’s Basketball Comes up Short in Battle of the Bronx

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Lady Jaspers Open up With a 100-Point Win in Exhibition Game

by Caroline McCarthy & Kelly Kennedy, Staff Writers The Manhattan College women’s basketball team dominated Bloomfield College in an exhibition game last Friday night. After winning the tip-off, senior Pamela Miceus found classmate Gabby Cajou, who scored on a layup. That was only the first 5 seconds. The game continued in favor of the Lady Jaspers, who were able to develop a healthy lead early in the … Continue reading Lady Jaspers Open up With a 100-Point Win in Exhibition Game

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The Powerful History of the First Lady Jaspers

by NICOLE FITZSIMMONS & CAROLINE MCCARTHY, Staff Writers One hundred and twenty years after the establishment of Manhattan College in 1853, the first women were accepted as undergraduate students. This first step in equality was followed by an ambitious leap to close the gap between male and female students on campus. Only two years later, a few individuals amongst these women took it into their own hands … Continue reading The Powerful History of the First Lady Jaspers

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Women’s Basketball Ousted In Quarterfinals of MAAC Championships By Marist

by PETE JANNY, Asst. Sports Editor FIRST ROUND WBB: MAN 62, SPU 41 QUARTERFINALS WBB: MAN 51, MAR 65 Head coach Heather Vulin’s troops arrived in Albany for the 2019 MAAC Championships already a success story before even tipping off against the Saint Peter’s Peacocks (6-24, 1-16 MAAC) at the Times Union Center last Thursday afternoon. Inexperience, injury adversity, and out of conference struggles would’ve been a … Continue reading Women’s Basketball Ousted In Quarterfinals of MAAC Championships By Marist

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