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RED DRAGONS men's ice hockey 2011-12 TEam Guide 2011-12 Season Preview The 2011-12 Cortland men’s Hitmen. Freshman Erik Augspurger hockey team returns a large won a state title with his U18 AAA contingent from last year’s squad hockey team and last played at that showed moments of great Northwood Prep. promise, including a 2-0 win at nationally seventh-ranked Baldarotta brings back loads Plattsburgh and taking top- of experience at forward with 13 ranked Oswego to overtime at returnees on the roster. Senior home the next weekend. After captain Jake Saville has not missed missing the SUNYAC playoffs a game in his first three seasons. In the last three seasons, the Red 2010-11, Saville led the team with Dragons, under fifth-year head 11 assists and added four goals coach Joe Baldarotta, look to play in 25 games. Junior captain Chris 60 minutes of disciplined and Kaleta has played in all 50 games focused hockey every night in during his first two seasons. As a an effort to regain a foothold in sophomore, he scored 11 points the conference playoffs. As is the on five goals and six assists. Senior Senior defenseman Peter usual case, wins will come only Joey Christiano tied for the team Senior forward Ryan Markell. Lompado. with hard work as 10 of Cortland’s lead in scoring last season with 18 25 regular-season games come against teams ranked in the points on a team-high 10 goals and eight assists in 25 games. USCHO Div. III preseason poll, including six versus SUNYAC foes. Junior Michael Lysyj followed up a solid rookie Baldarotta continues to search for a goaltender campaign with 13 points on eight goals and five who takes ownership of the position. Senior Mike assists in 23 games as a sophomore. Seniors Ryan Reilly and junior Brittan Kuhlman return this season, Markell and Ryan Durocher saw the ice in 25 and while freshman Jeff Molner joins the team. Kuhlman 24 games, respectively, last season with Markell saw the most minutes in net last season, posting recording five goals and four assists and Durocher a 3-7-1 record with an .894 save percentage and a contributing two goals and four assists. Junior 4.48 goals against average. His best performance Matty Davie played in 13 games, scoring four points came when he turned aside 40 shots in the win on three goals and one assist. Senior Erik Nordqvist at Plattsburgh. Reilly played in seven games with skated in 21 games as a junior and had a goal and five starts as a junior, highlighted by a 41-save three assists. performance at Oswego. Molner won two New Jersey state titles in high school and played junior Senior twins Marcus and Martin Oeberg saw hockey with the NY Apple Core. the ice in 12 and nine games, respectively, last season with Martin picking up a goal and Marcus Defensively, Cortland brings back six players recording an assist. Junior Mack Swartz joined the and welcomes three newcomers. Senior captain team second semester, collecting one assist in Peter Lompado is in his second year with the Junior forward Michael Lysyj. eight games. Sophomore A.J. Moyer appeared in program. He skated in 24 games last season and led all 25 games as a freshman, scoring six points on all defensemen with 11 points on five goals and six two goals and four assists, all in conference play. assists, including nine points in SUNYAC play. Junior Matt Tardiff Sophomore Brian Roller contributed a goal and an assist in 20 has seen action in 22 games in each of his first two seasons. games. Sophomores Stephen Nardi Four newcomers join the and Matt McNamee each skated program at forward this season. in all 25 games as freshmen. Junior Adam Bevilacqua last Nardi supplied eight points on played with St. Norbert, the 2011 two goals and six assists, while NCAA Div. III national champion. McNamee chipped in with a goal Freshman Josh LaRose was a and four assists. Sophomore Joel member of the Syracuse Stars, Zangara had two goals in 16 games. freshman Danny Bailey most Freshman Tyler Virgoe appeared recently played for the CD Selects, in three games during the 2010-11 while freshman Nick Zappia season, but missed most of the last skated with the Kingston year due to injury. Voyageurs. Senior Scott Wentworth joins the team after playing a combined 42 games at Utica College and Curry College. Freshman Kevin Senior forward Ryan Durocher. Antonik last played for the Jersey Senior goaltender Mike Reilly. CORTLAND Coaching Staff Joe Baldarotta Head Coach Joe Baldarotta was named the men’s ice hockey head coach at SUNY Cortland in June 2007 after coaching for 16 years at the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point. During Baldarotta’s tenure at Cortland, the Red Dragons featured their first-ever four-time All-SUNY- AC selection and have had two players move into the top 15 in career scoring. Assistant Coach Howie Thomas (left), Head Coach Joe Baldarotta. While at Wisconsin-Stevens Point, he posted the most wins in school history, and his overall record stands at 297-233-45 and includes 10 consecutive campaigns with a .500 or better record and 14 in to- Howie Thomas tal. His 297 wins rank 22nd all-time among Division III coaches. Assistant Coach Howie Thomas enters his seventh season as an assistant Baldarotta led the Pointers to the 1993 NCAA coach for the Cortland men’s ice hockey program in 2011-12. Division III national championship, earning Ameri- can Hockey Coaches Association national coach of Thomas played collegiate hockey at Elmira College from the year honors. The program also finished as na- 1989-91 before joining the Las Vegas Aces of the Pacific tional runner-up in 1992 and 1998 and captured three Southwest Hockey League, now known as the Las Vegas Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA) Wranglers of the East Coast Hockey League. regular-season titles and two playoff crowns under Baldarotta, who was a four-time NCHA coach of the Thomas and his wife, Nicki, currently reside in Cortland year. with their son. Prior to accepting the head coaching position at Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Baldarotta was an assistant for the Pointers for five seasons, helping the team to three straight Division III national titles. Before Wis- consin-Stevens Point, he served as an assistant coach and head coach at Madison West High School. As the team’s head coach for four seasons, Baldarotta com- piled a 62-22-1 record and won the 1983 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Champion- ship, earning Wisconsin State High School Coach of the Year honors. Senior captain Peter Lompado (left), senior captain Jake Saville (middle) and junior captain Chris Kaleta. A highly regarded camp instructor, Baldarotta has been involved in numerous off-season camps and clinics and twice has been a member of the coaching For more information on the SUNY Cortland staff for the U.S. Olympic Festival. men’s ice hockey program, please contact: Joe Baldarotta, Men’s Ice Hockey Head Coach A native of Madison, Wis., Baldarotta competed in SUNY Cortland, Park Center, P.O. Box 2000 ice hockey at Wisconsin-Stevens Point and received Cortland, NY 13045 (607) 753-4990 (office) his bachelor’s degree from the University in 1989. (607) 753-4929 (FAX) Baldarotta and his wife, Cindy, have a son, Nicolo. [email protected] Web Site: http://www.cortlandreddragons.com R e D D R A g O N s Team Roster No. Name .................................. Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown/Last Team 1 Mike Reilly ................................G 6-1 190 Sr. New York, NY/Bismarck Bobcats (NAHL) 3 Matt McNamee .....................D 6-0 180 So. Sandy, UT/Weyburn Red Wings (SJHL) 4 Adam Bevilacqua ...................F 6-0 190 Jr. Toronto, ON/St. Norbert College (NCHA) 5 Joel Zangara .............................D 6-1 200 So. Buffalo, NY/CD Selects (EJHL) 6 Mack Swartz ............................F 5-10 185 Jr. Aurora, CO/Salve Regina University 7 Peter Lompado ......................D 6-1 205 Sr. Staten Island, NY/Minnesota St.-Mankato (WCHA) 8 A.J. Moyer .................................F 5-10 190 So. Perkasie, PA/Buffalo Jr. Sabres (OJHL) 9 Jake Saville ................................F 5-9 180 Sr. Bellingham, WA/Marquette Rangers (NAHL) 10 Ryan Durocher........................F 5-8 180 Sr. Canton, NY/Boston Bulldogs (AJHL) 11 Michael Lysyj ...........................F 6-4 205 Jr. Hillsborough, NJ/South Shore Kings (EJHL) 12 Josh LaRose ..............................F 5-9 155 Fr. Liverpool, NY/Syracuse Stars (EJHL) 14 Ryan Markell ............................F 5-8 185 Sr. Canal Winchester, OH/Ohio St. University 15 Brian Roller ...............................F 6-1 195 So. Utica, NY/CD Selects (EJHL) 16 Matty Davie .............................F 5-8 200 Jr. Brooklyn, NY/NY Apple Core Jr. A (EJHL) 17 Tyler Virgoe ..............................D 5-11 195 Fr. Aurora, ON/Couchiching Tigers (OJHL) 18 Nick Zappia ..............................F 5-11 180 Fr. Manlius, NY/Kingston Voyageurs (OJHL) 19 Chris Kaleta ..............................F 6-1 200 Jr. Hamburg, NY/Buffalo Jr. Sabres (OPJHL) 20 Martin Oeberg........................F 5-11 210 Sr. Leksand, Sweden/Becker College 21 Marcus Oeberg ......................F 5-10 210 Sr. Leksand, Sweden/Becker College 22 Scott Wentworth .................D 6-1 190 Sr. New Hartford, NY/Curry College 23 Stephen Nardi ........................D 6-1 200 So. Plainedge, NY/NY Bobcats (AJHL) 24 Joey Christiano .......................F 5-8 175 Sr. Rochester, NY/Port Hope Predators (OPJHL) 25 Matt Tardif ...............................D 6-0 175 Jr. Forest Hill, MD/Syracuse Stars (EJHL) 26 Danny Bailey ............................F 6-0 190 Fr. Manassas, VA/CD Selects (EJHL) 27 Kevin Antonik .........................D 6-2 205 Fr.