Saturday, November 7, 2009

Busy Day in Fisher Athletics

Men's Soccer

Lawrence, MA - The Fisher Men's Soccer team fell to the visiting University of Maine at Presque Isle today by a score of 5-0. The soccer team will close out the season tomorrow with a 12pm start against the University of Maine at Machias.

Basketball

Manchester, NH - Both the Fisher Women's and Men's Basketball teams competed in the annual Hesser College Tip Off Classic Tournament this afternoon. The Men played the first game and beat the host Hesser College, 76-57. Christian Hammond (Seattle, WA) led the team with 17 points and junior Casey Pursell (Seattle, WA) chipped in 16 points to pace the Falcon offense. In the women's game, junior Tiffany Beckman (East Hartford, CT) scored 16 points and senior Leslie Wadhams (Burlington, VT) added 13, as the women lost 62-58 to Briarcliffe College in the opening round of the Hesser College Tip Off Classic Tournament.

Basketball will continue tomorrow with the women playing at 10am and the men playing at 4pm.