After going 3-2 a week ago, the Elmira men prepare for another five-game week. Elmira will play the final two games of a three-game series against No. 18 St. John Fisher on Wednesday, April 26, in Rochester, New York. The opening pitch for game one is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at Fisher's Dugan Yard. The Soaring Eagles will then host Alfred State at 4:00 p.m. in non-league play on Thursday, April 27, before rounding out the week's action on the road at Medaille on Saturday, April 29.  
  The 2017 season is coming to a close for the Elmira women, who will play four games this week. Elmira welcomes Houghton to Eldridge Park Stadium on Wednesday, April 26, for a 3:00 p.m. doubleheader in EC's home finale. Then on Thursday, April 27, the Soaring Eagles flock to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for a 3:00 p.m. non-league doubleheader finale against Lycoming.
  Elmira will be in action twice this week, as it takes on a pair of Empire 8 Conference teams. The Soaring Eagles open the week on the road, as they make the short trip up Route 13 to face the No. 10-ranked Bombers of Ithaca at 4:00 p.m. Three days later, Elmira welcomes Utica to Campus Field for a 1:00 p.m. league bout. The Soaring Eagles will honor its graduating members of the Class of 2017 prior to Saturday's contest against the Pioneers.
  Elmira's 2017 season is approaching its end, as the Soaring Eagles prepare for a pair of conference contests this week. The EC women welcome St. John Fisher to Campus Field on Wednesday, April 26, for a 4:00 p.m. game. The contest against the Cardinals will also be EC's Team Molly Game, an event dedicated to raise awareness about Ewing Sarcoma, which is a rare form of bone cancer that claimed the life of former Division III women's lacrosse player Molly Seifritz of Buffalo State. Following the mid-week game against Fisher, Elmira travels to face the Highlanders of Houghton in EC's regular season finale on Saturday, April 29, at 3:00 p.m.
  The Purple and Gold enter the week with a 3-3 Empire 8 record, good enough to place the Elmira men in a two-way tie for fifth place in the league standings. Elmira will face Houghton, which is tied with EC at the fifth spot, on Tuesday, April 25, at 4:00 p.m. The match against the Highlanders is EC's final home contest of the year and will serve as Class of 2017 Recognition Day, as the Soaring Eagles honor Chris Konow '18, who is graduating a year early this June. Elmira wraps up the regular season on the road this Saturday, April 29, with a 1:00 p.m. showdown with St. John Fisher.
  Elmira's final home event of the 2016-17 season is just a day away, as the Soaring Eagles welcome a slew of teams from around the region for a one-day 18-hole invitational at the Elmira Country Club. Action at the ECC begins promptly at 10:00 a.m. Four days later, the Purple and Gold will visit the Oswego Country Club to compete in the 11th Annual Laker Spring Tournament, hosted by Oswego State. The two-day tournament begins on Saturday, April 29, and concludes the following morning.
  A short spring season comes to a close for the Elmira women this Tuesday, April 25, as they welcome Nazareth, Utica and Keuka to the Elmira Country Club for the one-day 18-hole EC Spring Invitational. Action begins on Tuesday morning with a 10:00 a.m. shotgun start.
 
  In five games last week, the Soaring Eagles (12-12, 8-7 E8) captured a trio of victories, including two important Empire 8 Conference wins. The week began with a 21-14 slugfest in Alfred, New York, against the Pioneers of Alfred State. The 21 runs marked a season high for EC, which saw 11 different batters record at least one hit. Among the standouts at the plate were Harrison Zambarano '19 and Eddie O'Donnell IV '18, who each finished 3-for-4. In his debut with the Purple and Gold, O'Donnell, a transfer from the College of St. Joseph (VT) drove in two runs and scored three more. Cameron Heggie '18 also tied a program record with four walks and established a personal record with four runs scored.
 
Elmira then hosted SUNY Canton at Dunn Field in a crucial Empire 8 series. The Soaring Eagles split Saturday's doubleheader with the Roos, winning 2-1 in the matinee before falling 1-0 in the nightcap. Conor Bawiec '18 hurled a complete-game with seven strikeouts to pick up the victory in the series opener. The following afternoon, Tommy Fogarty '20 and Dennis Rudolph '18 combined for four hits and four RBIs to lead EC to a 6-4 win in the finale versus Canton, allowing the Soaring Eagles to win their third conference series of the spring
  Elmira (8-11, 2-10 E8) began last week with a pair of one-run non-conference wins (7-6, 12-11) against Alfred State, before being swept by Ithaca five days later in league play. However, EC concluded the week by splitting a conference series with Stevens, which snapped a seven-game losing streak to the Ducks. After dropping the opening game to Stevens, 5-0, Elmira rallied in game two to secure its second E8 win of the season by a 4-3 final score. The win was highlighted by the efforts of senior Emily Carlin '17, who drove in all four runs in the game – a career high for the Riverside, California, native – and came in for relief duty to hold the Ducks to zero runs over the final 3.1 innings.
 
Maddy Johnson '19 fueled Elmira's offense during the week with a team-high .412 batting average on a 7-for-17 showing from the plate. Johnson produced team highs in runs scored (8), walks (4), stolen bases (3), and on-base percentage (.524). Carlin also had solid numbers last week, as the fourth-year utility player tied for the team lead in RBIs (5) with Emily Clark '19 and logged the second-highest batting average of those with 10-or-more plate appearances (.333). Carlin also went 1-2 in the pitcher's circle with one save and a 3.50 ERA.
  The Soaring Eagles (1-10, 1-5 E8) dropped a pair of E8 games to St. John Fisher and No. 20-ranked Stevens last week. Elmira's offense was held to just five goals in the two contests, two of which came from third-year attacker Nevin Olney '18 in the loss to the Cardinals. Olney is tied with Anthony LaRusso '17 for the team lead in goals, as both have 15 on the year. Cameron Prior '17 came up with 20 saves on the road against St. John Fisher, his third 20-plus save performance of the season.
  The Elmira women (4-9, 1-5 E8) went 1-2 last week, suffering a pair of league losses to two of the E8's top teams in Stevens and Nazareth, before edging visiting SUNY Canton by two goals on Senior Day at Campus Field. In Elmira's 9-7 win over Canton, neither team lit up the scoreboard in the opening 30 minutes as the two adversaries entered the halftime break deadlocked at 2-2. Canton struck for the first goal of the second half, but a trio of EC tallies over a 5:16 span put the Purple and Gold out in front by two goals, 5-3. The Soaring Eagles never relinquished their lead from that point on to secure their fourth victory of the year.  
 
Fourth-year netminder Lindsay Wargo '17 stole the show for the Soaring Eagles during the week with 29 saves in the three contests, including a career-high-tying 17 stops against the Golden Flyers. The 29 saves brought her season total to 116, tied for the seventh-most in single-season program history, while increasing her career total to 368, just 13 shy of moving into a two-way tie for first place. Hayley Baker '19 led the EC attack with team highs of seven goals and nine points. Louisa Lippiatt Durnell '18 chipped in with a team-high three assists.  
  Elmira (8-6, 3-3 E8) went 2-1 in league matches this week with a pair of conference wins against Utica and Alfred, before falling to No. 39-ranked Stevens in Hoboken, New Jersey. The Soaring Eagles opened the week with a 9-0 road win against the Pioneers on Monday, April 17, and followed that up with an 8-1 victory over visiting Alfred two days later. Patrick Tracey '18 went 4-0 in those two matches, which included a pair of straight-set singles victories at the No. 3 spot. The wins extended his winning streak to five consecutive matches, before falling to league-leading Stevens later in the week.
  The Elmira men took home an eighth-place finish at the two-day Messiah Falcon Classic with a team score of 692 (+116). Charl Pretorius '19 and Dan Gridley '18 led EC with a pair of 170's, which put the two teammates in a tie for 38th place. Other notable performances came from Brandon Payne '17, who shaved six strokes off of his day-one score, and Nicholas Neary '19, who improved by 10 strokes from the opening round.
  Elmira made the 45-minute trip up Route 13 to compete in the Ithaca Invitational, hosted by the Bombers at the Country Club of Ithaca, the same site as the 2016 Empire 8 Conference Championships. The Soaring Eagles, who were competing in their first tournament of the spring season, fired a cumulative team score of 806 (+230) to claim fifth place at the invite. Audrey Clarke '18 led the way for the Purple and Gold with a two-day score of 177 (+33), which included a 13-stroke improvement on day two of the event. Meghan Fonfara '18 had a solid outing in her first tournament of the season with a 191 (+47), which also saw a vast improvement on day two by shaving 19 strokes. Clarke took home 14th place, while Fonfara finished in 24th.