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Right fielder Derek Yalon lines a two-run double against William & Mary on Friday, April 7. Yalons hit got the Stony Brook baseball team within one run that day, but it still lost the game and the series. BRITTNEY DIETZ/THE STATESMAN

Stony Brook baseball loses fourth-straight CAA series

Mike Anderson April 9, 2023

A career game on Easter Sunday from starting pitcher Josh O’Neill saved the Stony Brook baseball team from suffering a series sweep. Though the Seawolves (12-17, 4-8 CAA) were able to avoid the...

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Midfielder Matt Anderson  running down the field in a scrimmage Marrimack College on Jan. 28. The  reigning All-America East selection looks to lead the Stony Brook mens lacrosse team to a CAA  championship. BRITTNEY DIETZ/THE STATESMAN

Matt Anderson looks to add to Stony Brook legacy before turning pro

Matt Howlin February 12, 2023
Reaching the pinnacle of college sports to become an NCAA Division I student-athlete is impressive. Crossing national borders to accomplish that feat is downright difficult. Take Stony Brook men’s lacrosse midfielder Matt Anderson, who has done exactly that.
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The outside of the Capitol building. On Jan. 6, the day of Joe Bidens certification as president-elect, a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol building. BRIANNE LEDDA/THE STATESMAN

“It is a kind of mass social psychosis”: SBU professors react to invasion of the U.S. Capitol

Maya Brown and Claudia Motley January 14, 2021
“You hear the interviews, hear the depths or the breaths of the anger based online," Robert Chase, a history professor, said. "I think that at some point, a country has to have a national reckoning over truth.”
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Kenneth P. Lavalle Stadium, home to Stony Brook athletics, including football. SARA RUBERG/STATESMAN FILE

Stony Brook eyes money guarantees in increasingly uncertain 2020 football season

Ethan Tam July 16, 2020
Stony Brook’s season opener at MAC member Western Michigan is set to pay out $325,000 to the Seawolves. This means Stony Brook is currently slated to receive a combined total of $725,000 for showing up to play the first two weeks of its season against FBS opponents.
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Sophomore Elizabeth Tsvetkov, above, started the conference tournament strong with a win in her doubles match, along with partner Yana Nikolaeva. After Stony Brook lost to Albany the defeated UMBC in the semifinal where Tsvetkov won in the No. 2 match. KRYSTEN MASSA/STATESMAN FILE

Tennis splits contests against Lehigh, Drexel in weekend action

Kenneth Fermin February 19, 2018
The Stony Brook tennis team split their weekend contests, defeating Lehigh 4-3 Saturday afternoon while falling to Drexel 4-2 Sunday morning.
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The Stony Brooks Women Soccer Team celebrates their America East Championship win. ARACELY JIMENEZ/STATESMAN FILE

Four Stony Brook Athletics teams make NCAA postseason

Kenneth Fermin November 23, 2017
Four Stony Brook teams have earned an NCAA postseason bid, the most the university has earned in a semester since 2012.
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Junior runner Bryan Hedman.  PHOTO COURTSEY OF LEHIGH ATHLETICS

Stony Brook X/C finishes Top-25 in Paul Short Invitational

Chris Parkinson September 30, 2017
Both teams ended the day with Top-25 finishes among 82 schools. The men’s team finished 11th overall and the women’s team 22nd overall.
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Senior cross country runner Christine Eisenberg in a meet on Sept. 3, 2016. ERIC SCHMID/ STATESMAN FILE

Cross Country has top-20 finishes at Paul Short Run

Christian Cangiano October 2, 2016
In their first road tests of the season, both the Stony Brook Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams ended with top-20 finishes in the Paul Short Run.
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Ten first-half goals propel Mens Lacrosse past Lehigh

Ten first-half goals propel Men’s Lacrosse past Lehigh

Chris Peraino March 30, 2016
Corpolongo’s go-ahead goal kick-started a 9-1 first half run for No. 12 Stony Brook Men’s Lacrosse, culminating in a 16-6 rout of the Lehigh Mountain Hawks Tuesday night.
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Stony Brook Basketball stays on the court during winter break

David Vertsberger December 3, 2015
With winter break around the corner, both Stony Brook Basketball teams will approach the end of their nonconference schedules and face some of their toughest match-ups yet.
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University Police releases annual campus Clery Report

Arielle Martinez September 30, 2014
Reports of rape, robbery and aggravated assault on the Stony Brook campus increased last year, according to the Annual Security and Fire Report released by the University Police Department (UPD) Tuesday.
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SBU Men’s Soccer wins home opener over Lehigh

Jason Mazza September 8, 2014
Stony Brook men’s soccer (1-2) beat the Lehigh University Mountain Hawks Friday night, 3-0. The shutout victory came after the Seawolves lost two games in Connecticut last, beginning the 2014 season.
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