The East Coast Conference announced the 2013-2014 Male and Female Scholar-Athletes of the Year, as well as the Scholar-Athletes of the Year for all of its sponsored sports at the ECC Awards Dinner on May 12.
Molloy standout and ECC Player of the Year, John Petrucelli has been named the All-Met Division II Player of the Year, while ECC Coach of the Year, Steve Hayn from Dowling, has been named the All-Met Division II Coach of the Year.
East Coast Conference men's basketball standouts Darien Davis of Dowling College and John Petrucelli of Molloy College, have been named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division II All-East Region Second Team.
The top-seeded Southern Connecticut State erased a six-point, 35-29, deficit with an 11-0 run to open the second half, as the Owls posted an 89-73 win over the number eight seed University of Bridgeport Purple Knights in a 2014 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship Quarterfinal Game.
East Coast Conference men's basketball standouts Vaughn Allen of LIU Post and John Petrucelli of Molloy have been named to the 2014 Daktronics NCAA Division II All-East Region Second Team.
After winning their second straight East Coast Conference Men's Basketball Championship, the University of Bridgeport Purple Knights will head to the NCAA Tournament for the 20th time in program history.
Marcus Henderson's three pointer with :07 seconds left led the St. Thomas Aquinas College men's basketball team to a thrilling 84-81 overtime victory over No. 1 seed Dowling College in the East Coast Conference Tournament semi-finals.
The number two seeded University of Bridgeport men's basketball team survived a strong comeback by the number three seeded Molloy College Lions in the semifinals of the 2014 East Coast Conference Championship Tournament, as the host Purple Knights held on to notch a 79-75 victory.
The St. Thomas Aquinas College men's basketball team survived a frantic finish but held on for a 64-62 victory at LIU-Post in the quarter-finals of the East Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament.
The third-seeded Molloy College men's basketball team advanced to the semifinals of the East Coast Conference postseason tournament Wednesday night with a 69-58 win over sixth-seeded Queens College at Quealy Gymnasium.
The men’s basketball coaches in the East Coast Conference have selected John Petrucelli (Hicksville, N.Y.) as the 2013-14 East Coast Conference Player of the Year. St. Thomas Aquinas guard Chaz Watler (Brooklyn, N.Y.) takes home the ECC Rookie of the Year honor, while Daemen junior forward Gerald Beverly (Rochester, N.Y.) has been named the ECC Defensive Player of the Year
The Dowling College men's basketball team was the only East Coast Conference ranked in the first edition of the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball East Region poll, released on Wednesday afternoon.
The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) announced today that Tim McAleer has been named the inaugural recipient of the Steve Bamford Award for Distinguished Service to ECAC Basketball Officiating.