COLLEGE SPORTS

• Dolphin roster still mighty short
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The College of Staten Island will likely be looking at another short roster when the CUNY Conference season begins tomorrow night at 7:30 against visiting City Tech at the Sports and Recreation Center.

• Dolphins open CUNY play; Seahawks host Colgate
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The College of Staten Island is warming up -- four straight wins -- and that can't be good news for winless City Tech, which visits the Sports and Recreation Center tomorrow night at 5.

• McAlarney fills ND's void
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame has a photograph in its locker room of last year's team posing after beating Northern Illinois to break the Joyce Center record of 24 straight home wins. It's about to be replaced.

• Seahawks fend off Bucknell with balanced attack, 83-79
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- LEWISBURG, Pa. -- It's becoming clearer with every game that whatever success Wagner College finds this season will come with contributions from more than just a couple of star players, or it won't come at all.

• Tall order for Doyle, Hobart
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- He's in his first year as starting quarterback, he's two weeks removed from a badly separated throwing shoulder and in today's game he can lead his school the furthest it has even been in the NCAA Division III football playoffs.

• TAR HEELS OVERCOME MCALARNEY
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- LAHAINA, Hawaii -- Kyle McAlarney from the Banyan Tree.

• Mundweiler's growth came with some bumps
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It was a straightforward enough play.

• Columbia sinks Seahawks, 79-69
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Columbia used a significant rebounding advantage to hand Wagner a 79-69 non-conference women's basketball defeat last night in Morningside Heights.

• Depleted Dolphins fall to Montclair St.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The last man standing could barely walk on two legs.

• Dolphins run away from Ramapo
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Ramapo College's teams are known as the Roadrunners, but the College of Staten Island women's team could have easily worn that moniker last night.

• Depleted Dolphins face Montclair St.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- There's no apparent relief in sight for the College of Staten Island basketball team, which returns from a weekend tournament in Chicago to face one of the top squads in the tough New Jersey Athletic Conference.

• Seahawks own the arc, rout Loyola Marymount, 72-51
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Prior to last night, Loyola Marymount University's place in Staten Island basketball lore was as the team that hung a shooting donut on Kyle McAlarney last week.

• Wagner, CSI host games tonight
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The College of Staten Island and Wagner College head into today's non-conference action going in different directiions.

• Dolphins top Lebanon Valley; capture Rinso Marquette tourney
ANNVILLE, Pa. -- The College of Staten Island broke away late in the game to defeat host Lebanon Valley College, 80-65, yesterday afternoon in the championship game of the Rinso Marquette Tournament.

• Romanov sets CSI swim record
MADISON, N.J. -- Vadislav Romanov set a new school record in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:58.07 as the College of Staten Island bested Drew University 109-68 in non-league action yesterday.

• Seahawks host Loyola-Marymount without head coach Bayno
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Loyola-Marymount comes into Spiro without first-year head coach Bill Bayno.

• VETERANS GIVE WAGNER BIG LIFT
STONY BROOK, L.I.-- Jamal Smith and Joey Mundweiler are the two obvious men Wagner College will look to for offense this season.

• Dolphins fade fast in 100-67 loss
WHEATON, Ill. -- The College of Staten Island's shaky start to a new basketball season grew even shakier last night with a 100-67 loss to Wisconsin-Eau Claire in the consolation round of the Lee Pfund Classic at Wheaton College.

• Northern Illinois topples Seahawks
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. -- After shooting an icy 29 percent from the floor in the opening half, Northern Illinois shot at a 54 percent clip in the second half and used an overwhelming 52-16 advantage on the boards to overcome Wagner College 70-56 yesterday in the consolation game of the Seton Hall Classic.

• Sullivan has big night as Dolphins win in OT
ANNVILLE, Pa. -- Megan Sullivan had 24 points and 24 rebounds and the College of Staten Island opened the Rinso Marquette Tournament with a 73-67 overtime victory over Wesley College (Del.) last night at Lebanon Valley College.

• CSI blown out in Chicago
CHICAGO -- Wheaton College lived up to its No. 3 NCAA Division III ranking as it crushed the College of Staten Island, 87-51, last night in the opening round of the Lee Pfund Classic held on Wheaton's campus.

• Seton Hall bashes Wagner
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. -- Wagner College went toe-to-toe with Seton Hall for a half, but the Pirates wore down the smaller Seahawks on the way to a 90-59 victory last night in the opening round of the Seton Hall Classic at Walsh Gymnasium.

• Dolphins in the Windy City tonight
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The College of Staten Island jumps from the frying pan into the fire tonight when the Dolphins face host Wheaton (Ill.) College in the opening round of the Lee Pfund Classic in Chicago.

• Seahawks in Stony Brook
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When Wagner coach Mike Deane says his Seahawks can win -- or lose -- against anyone on the team's pre-Northeast Conference schedule, Stony Brook is just the type of club he's thinking of.

• Surging Seahawks already looking toward the future
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Wagner College's unbeaten -- has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? -- women's basketball team heads to Seton Hall University tonight to face the Big East Pirates, just one of the many measuring sticks the Seahawks will use in their quest for Northeast Conference prominence.

• Radford powers Wagner win
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Llew Radford had to wait a while to find his space at Wagner College.

• Dolphins run away from St. Joe's, 90-64
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- The College of Staten Island women's basketball team used its uptempo style from beginning to end in a 90-64 rout of visiting St. Joseph's of Brooklyn last night.

• Maddox made his mark gradually
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- When he was graduated from St. Peter's in 2005, Ervin Maddox didn't step into the St. Joseph's College on Brooklyn basketball program as a big-time scorer.

• Familiar face pummels CSI
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Stevens Tech senior guard Anthony Passalacqua did everything in his power to help spoil the College of Staten Island's basketball season opener last night in Willowbrook.

• Seahawks make it 2 for 2
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It may be only the second game of the season, but the Wagner College women's basketball team was in midseason form last night.

• Wagner swimmer honored
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Wagner College's Alexandra Tomlinson earned Northeast Conference Swimmer of the Week honors yesterday.

• Seahawks aim to rebound vs. St. Peter's
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Seahawks are coming off a disappointing 73-67 loss to Lafayette in their season-opener, a game when they shot 37 percent from the floor.

• Seahawks place fourth in swim meet
PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Alexandra Tomlinson turned in a second-place performance (17 minutes, 24.29 seconds) and Colleen Bowman had a career mark and a third place (17:43.19) in the 1,650-yard freestyle, leading Wagner College to a fourth-place finish in the Frank Elm Super Splash at Rutgers University.

• Wagner (1-0) plays host to NJIT
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- With opening-day wins under their belts, Wagner College and the College of Staten Island will attempt to notch No. 2 tonight and tomorrow, respectively.