It should not be hard to regularly fill Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium’s 12,300 seats or Island Federal Arena’s 4,000 seats for sports games. Yet Stony Brook’s attendance numbers have remained low throughout the years.
Archivist Peter Lupfer digs deep in past coverage from The Statesman to describe Stony Brook University’s athletic history, starting with the school’s earliest sports programs on its original Oyster Bay campus.
Now that Murphy and Ohlmiller have gotten their respective records out of the way, them and the team can focus on what’s been driving them for the entire season: an NCAA championship.
Stony Brook women’s lacrosse team improved their impressive winning streak to 12 games, the longest to begin a season in program history, defeating America East rival Binghamton 18-5.
Then the Seawolves appeared to remember who they were and scored 11 straight goals on their way to a 20-4 victory, improving their conference record to 3-0 and their overall record to 11-1. Binghamton dropped to 1-1 in conference play and 5-8 overall.
When Stony Brook junior forward Tyrell Sturdivant floated the game-winning layup to cap the men’s basketball team’s Jan. 8 victory, his hard work had been realized.
After scoring a historic ten goals against UMass Lowell on Friday, junior attackman Brody Eastwood was honored with his second America East Co-Player of the Week award.
