General 11/29/2022 12:00:00 PM

This Week in Canisius Athletics: Nov. 29-Dec. 5

Home games for hockey and women's basketball, the start of conference play for men's basketball and the finish of the fall semester for swimming and diving highlight This Week in Canisius Athletics.

Hockey
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Dec. 2 | at RIT | 7 p.m.
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Dec. 3 | vs RIT | 7 p.m.
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• The hockey team begins December against longtime rival and AHA foe RIT in a home-and-home series. The series opens Friday at the Gene Polisseni Center in Rochester before shifting to LECOM Harborcenter on Saturday. Puck drop for both games is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tickets are available for Saturday's game. They can be purchased by visiting the tickets page on GoGriffs.com or at the LECOM Harborcenter ticket kiosk on gamedays.
• The Griffs completed their month-long homestand with a tie and loss to Army during Thanksgiving Weekend at LECOM Harborcenter. The teams played to a 2-2 tie in the opener before Canisius picked up the extra point with a 2-0 victory in the best-of-three shootout. The finale saw the Black Knights emerge victorious in a 3-1 triumph.
• Canisius heads into its home-and-home series against RIT looking to continue its winning ways against the Tigers as it boasts a 14-7-1 record versus RIT over the last 22 games. The Griffs enter the series riding a six-game winning streak against the Tigers, with all six of those wins having come on home ice.
• Senior goaltenders Jacob Barczewski and John Hawthorne will be counted on to build upon their solid play of late as the duo split the six games played by the Griffs during the month of November and combined to post a .921 save percentage and a 2.27 goals against average. The tandem was busy during the six-game stretch, facing an average of 29.7 shots against in those contests.
• Canisius closes out the first-half of its schedule Dec. 10 with its final non-conference game of the regular season at Maine. Start time for the matchup between the Griffs and Black Bears is slated for 2 p.m. at famed Alfond Arena in Orono, Maine.

Men's Basketball
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Dec. 2 | at Siena | 7 p.m.
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Dec. 4 | at Iona | 1 p.m.
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• The men's basketball team continues its seven-game road stretch this weekend with a pair of MAAC games at Siena (Dec. 2) and at Iona (Dec. 4).
• The Golden Griffins stand at 2-4 on the year after falling to Buffalo, 86-66, Nov. 27. In that game, graduate student Jamir Moultrie scored a team-high 17 points.
• Moultrie's three 3-point field goals makes at Buffalo extended his streak of multiple treys in a game to seven, which dates back to last year. Sophomore Xzavier Long had seven rebounds at Buffalo. He now has five-or more rebounds in three games this season and 15 times in his career.
• The Griffs will open the league portion of their 2022-23 slate Friday at Siena, the fifth time in program history the Blue and Gold have started MAAC play against the Saints. That contest will be the program's 575th all-time MAAC regular-season game since Canisius joined the conference before the 1989-90 campaign.
• The Griffs continue their seven-game road swing Dec. 10 with a 2 p.m. contest at non-conference foe Toledo.

Swimming & Diving
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Dec. 3: at St. Bonaventure | Diving: 10 a.m./Swimming: noon

• The men's and women's swimming and diving teams wrap up the 2022 calendar year with a meet against Little Three rival St. Bonaventure on Saturday. Diving will begin at 10 a.m., while the swimming portion of the meet will start at noon at the Reilly Center Pool in Olean, N.Y.
• The Griffs are back in action after competing in the Magnus Cup in Cleveland Nov. 17-19. The men placed sixth in the invitational out of ten participating schools with a score of 561.50, while the women's squad finished eighth out of 12 schools, earning a team score of 234.
• Canisius broke 10 program records and had 52 personal-best times during the three-day event, led by sophomore Archie Minto and freshman Lana Janson. Minto accounted for five records while Janson's name has now been added to the record book in three different events.
• Minto and Janson were honored for their performances by being named the MAAC Men's and Women's Swimmers of the Week, respectively, by the conference last Wednesday. Both swimmers had previously earned the weekly award on Oct. 19, marking the second consecutive season Canisius has swept the weekly swimming awards twice in a season.
• The Griffs return to the pool in 2023, when they host Cleveland State on Jan. 12. The meet will begin at 1 p.m. at the Burt Flickinger Center Pool in downtown Buffalo.

Women's Basketball
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Nov. 30: vs UAlbany | 7 p.m.
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• The women's basketball team returns home Nov. 30 to face UAlbany with tip-off set for 7 p.m. and the game streaming on ESPN+. Wednesday's game is the ninth all-time meeting between the two sides and fifth in Buffalo.
• Against Robert Morris on Nov. 26, sophomore guard Cheyenne Stubbs made her first appearance of the season. In 25 minutes of action, the Bradenton, Fla., native totaled ten points while going 2-of-5 beyond the arc.
• All-time at home against UAlbany, the Griffs are 3-2 with this being the first meeting at the Koessler Athletic Center since Nov. 27, 2019.
• Two Griffs are averaging double-digit scoring through six games with a minimum of five games played. Guard Dani Haskell has been averaging 16.3 points per game with Vannessa Garrelts second on the team with an average of 10.3 points per contest.
• Canisius is back in action on Dec. 7 when it welcomes Little Three rival St. Bonaventure to the KAC. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. with the game streaming on ESPN+.

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