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USCHO reported on the annual ECAC awards banquet that took place in Albany earlier this week. Kevin Croxton was the lone award recipient from Rensselaer. He was named to the ECAC All-Rookie Team.

Cornell cemented its dominant position in the minds of the ECAC awards committee. It won or shared five of the six major end-of-season awards.

In other news, the ECAC Hockey Tournament will take place this weekend at Pepsi Arena in Albany. Several games will be broadcast on YES, NESN, and Leafs TV in Canada.

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Over the weekend, the Mens' hockey team travelled to Cornell for a best-of-three game series in the ECAC Quarterfinals. The Big Red are ranked #2 in the nation in Division I ice hockey, and they lived up to that ranking with two very strong victories. In the Friday game, Cornell scored a goal in each period of the game and held on for a 3-2 victory. Nathan Marsters, who has raised his game back to the levels he reached last season, led Rensselaer with 23 saves.

On Saturday, Cornell consistently out-muscled the Engineers en route to a 4-0 victory. This game was televised on YES and NESN, so many RPI fans in our area were able to see it live in their living rooms. Nathan Marsters stopped 29 Cornell shots to keep the game relatively close.

RPI closes out the season with a 12-24-3 record. This was a very tough year for the team, with a long, frustrating losing streak in the middle of the year. The Engineers rallied in the playoffs, and their decisive series victory over Union in the opening round of the playoffs made the season's outcome far more positive than it otherwise would have been.

The TV commentators at the game on Saturday night pointed out that Rensselaer seems to have rediscovered quality goaltending in Nathan Marsters after a long stretch of mediocre performances in December and January. This should give all RPI fans hope as we head into the long off-season.

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Sandeep Nandy wrote, "The RCNJ has organized a trip to a Trenton Thunder (double A affiliate of the Yankees) game later this year.

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Joe Pilaro '55 has purchased a block of seats for the Sunday, June 29 afternoon game between the Thunder and the Binghamton Mets. The tickets cost $7 each. To reserve your place, please send a check (made payable to Joe Pilaro) to:"

Joe Pilaro
P.O. Box 7463
Princeton, NJ 08543-7463

"Upon receipt of your check, Joe will mail you the tickets."

"The Thunder play their home games at Waterfront Park in Trenton, NJ. Directions can be found on the team's website. The RCNJ hopes to see you on June 29."

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Sandeep Nandy told us that Rensselaer Athletic Review and Preview says that Saturday night's ECAC quarterfinal playoff game between the Rensselaer Engineers and the Cornell Big Red will be shown on both The YES Network and NESN.

YES will broadcast the game live at 7:00pm Eastern Time on Saturday, March 15. (Editor: Please note that this a correction to what we originally reported, that the game would be shown on two hour time delay at 9pm.) This is the best bet for fans in the New York Metropolitan Area who do not have DirecTV or the Dish Network. NESN will also broadcast the game live at 7:00pm Eastern Time. This feed will be widely available on cable networks in New England and the eastern part of Upstate New York.

Reportedly, re-broadcasts of the game will be aired from time-to-time over the following week on the same channels.

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Sandeep Nandy wrote, "On March 5, the Rensselaer women's basketball team hosted the Nazareth Golden Flyers in the first round of the ECAC tournament. Behind the efforts of junior Kristin Kaczynski and sophomore Kaitlin Saunders, the Red Hawks emerged with a 73-51 victory. RPI jumped out to a 33-21 halftime lead and held on for a comfortable victory. Kaczynski scored 22 points, while Saunders added 21. Junior forward Caitlin Vestal also had a strong game, contributing 10 points and 10 rebounds."

"Kacyznski also reached an important milestone in this contest as she topped the 1,000 point mark for her career. She ranks eighth on the Red Hawks all time scoring list. In addition to her accomplishments on the court, Kaczynski was also recently selected as a 2002-2003 Verizon District 1 College Division Women's Basketball All Academic First Team."

"With the win, the Red Hawks, coached by John Greene, advanced to the ECAC tournament semifinals on March 8. Rensselaer took to the court against Oneonta State on the campus of SUNY Geneseo. In this contest, Rensselaer held a 5 point halftime lead and charged to a 79-65 win. Saunders led the Red Hawks with 21 points, while Vestal and Kaczynski added 14 and 10 points, respectively."

"On Sunday March 9, the Red Hawks faced the SUNY Geneseo Blue Knights for the ECAC Upstate Women's Basketball Championship. Despite getting off to an early lead in the contest, the Red Hawks trailed by five at halftime. Although RPI got close on several occasions in the second half, the Blue Knights emerged with a hard fought 74-71 victory."

"The Red Hawks ended the season with an 18-10 record."

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We noticed that Rensselaer Athletics has relaunched their web site at http://www.rpi.edu/dept/athletics/. According to Kevin Beattie, RPI's Sports Information Director, the relaunch took place in mid-February.

The benefits of the changes are obvious. The appearance of the web site has been made consistant with other major RPI sites. This makes navigation to other Institute information resources easy. The home page has also been made more useful with a composite sports schedule and a chronological list of news releases.

With the introduction of permanent links to athletics-related stories, it will be possible for RCNJ to link to stories about Red Hawks teams that do not get as much general media attention as men's hockey and football. We hope to point out the results of more varsity sports events soon.

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In a demonstration that anything can happen in the ECAC playoffs, RPI beat Union two games in a row, to win their first round playoff series 2-0. These games were RPI's first two victories away from Houston Field House this season.

On Friday night, Vic Pereira and Kevin Croxton scored goals on breakaways and Nathan Marsters made 37 saves, en route to a 2-1 victory. The game was broadcast on several cable channels, including The YES Network in the New York Metropolitan Area.

On Saturday, Union had a 2-1 lead with about 10 minutes to go in the third period. But, they later gave up two shorthanded goals on a single power play, and lost the game 3-2 to RPI. Ben Barr scored both shorthanded goals-- the first two shorthanded goals for RPI this season. Nathan Marsters played another great game, finishing up with 29 saves.

As a result of the series victory against Union, the Engineers will face #2-ranked Cornell next weekend in a best-of-three series in Ithaca.

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The Rensselaer Club of New Jersey, in association with the Rensselaer Alumni Association and the Rensselaer Entrepreneur Network, presents a technological entrepreneurship forum entitled Entrepreneurship in a Post 9/11 World. This event will take place on Wednesday, March 26, 2003, from 8:00am to 1:00pm, at PSEG's Corporate Headquarters in Newark, NJ.

Admission to this event is $20. Registrations for the forum may be made through Rensselaer's on-line payment system.

Read on for the agenda, a speaker's list, registration details, and directions to PSEG.

Entrepreneurship in a Post 9/11 World
Rensselaer New Jersey Technology Entrepreneurship Forum

Note: Photo ID required for entrance in the PSE&G building.

Program:

Admission to this event is $20. Registrations for the forum may be made through Rensselaer's on-line payment system.

[ Click here to register ]

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According to the USCHO message boards, Friday night's first-round playoff game between the Engineers and the Union Skating Dutchmen will be shown on both NESN and the YES Network. The YES Network feed will be tape-delayed by two hours and begin at 9PM EST on Friday, March 7. Future re-broadcasts will be available as well.

We are considering a group get-together for the game at a location TBA. Please visit RCNJ.org for further details. Please also note that Cablevision subscribers do not obtain the YES Network as part of their channel lineup. If you are interested in a get-together or a location to watch the game, please contact John Cloninger '96.

It is nice to see that our Cherry and White (and Puckman as well!) are appearing on commercials here in the Metro area. Tune into YES for an hour or so tomorrow to see what I mean! My thanks go out to Sandeep Nandy '94 for bringing this item to my attention!

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Dave Aiello wrote, "Roberto is the second alumnus in the RCNJ area that we've discovered running a weblog. His site, DynamoBuzz describes itself as 'A weblog about computing, beer, New Jersey, politics, web design, current events, more beer.'"

"If you are wondering what a weblog is, it's a web site where the author 'logs' all the other webpages he finds interesting. The term was coined by Jorn Barger on his Robot Wisdom web site. Two of the keys to operating a successful weblog are to update it often and emphasize current events. Roberto is succeeding on both counts."

"Roberto and I have exchanged emails a few times over the past week. I asked him to describe himself a bit, and this is what he told me:"

I'm Roberto, class of 1983 (oh my, that's 20 years ago!). I was a chemical engineering major. I am currently a production superintendant at a chemical company in Central New Jersey. I'm living in Middlesex County, and I've been married 16 years with two children. I was a brother at Pi Lambda Phi. I played intramural hockey at RPI for the 69ers, we were D League champs in 1980-1981. I still play hockey at Mennen Arena every Sunday night. I played Hockey North America for a long time, but I haven't played the last two years. Traveling up to Hackensack every week for 11:00pm week day games was getting to me.

I started getting into blogging about 6 months ago. I started following some of the bigger blogs, like Instapundit and "Live from the WTC". I did some research and decided to get my own web space and install B2 blogging software. I'm trying to keep the content 1/3 politics, 1/3 New Jersey stuff and 1/3 everything else. I've gotten some good feedback. I got on the blogroll at www.greatestjeneration.com after only being on-line for about 10 days.

Dave Aiello continued, "Roberto has an interesting site that's worth looking at from time to time. I recommend that you visit DynamoBuzz, and let him know you heard about it from the RCNJ."

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Eric Cavosie scored two goals on Senior Night as RPI defeated Vermont 4-2 in the last mens' hockey game of the season at Houston Field House. According to Buzz Gray's article in The Times Union:

...The senior forward from Cohoes took a long, slow skate by himself around the Houston Field House ice Saturday night after playing his final college hockey game there for RPI. He bent low over his stick and let the moment linger.

Cavosie had just led the Engineers to a 4-2 triumph over Vermont in what was easily the best game of his career. The left wing scored two goals, including the game winner, and assisted on another as RPI wrapped up its regular season before meeting Union in Schenectady in next weekend's ECAC tournament.

In one night, Cavosie scored more goals than he did in his 120 previous games combined. The former standout at Albany Academy had gone 97 contests since his last and only goal in college. That too was a game winner, coming on Oct. 28, 2000 against Army.

This is a great article, well worth reading in its entirety.

Congratulations Eric, on a great performance in the most difficult Engineer's season in recent memory.

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The fans at Houston Field House probably had hope for a victory when Carson Butterwick scored a goal at 10:22 of the first period to make the score of the men's hockey game RPI 1, Dartmouth 0. But, Dartmouth responded with seven unanswered goals to win the game 7-1.

RPI's overall record is now 9-23-2. According to The Times Union, the team has broken the school record for losses in a single season. Bummer.

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