From staff reports
Albertus Magnus men’s soccer coach Jim Bernardo and Falcons women’s soccer coach Nick Wajnowski have been named Great Northeast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.
Benardo, in his eighth season, earned the award for the second straight season. The Falcons are 15-2-1 heading into today’s conference semifinal.
Wajnowksi led Albertus Magnus to 12 wins, which is a program record.
Both teams lost in the GNAC semifinals

HOSTING — The Albertus Magnus women’s soccer team will have a home playoff game for the first time in school history when it hosts Simmons College on Saturday at 1 p.m. The Falcons earned the No. 3 seed in the upcoming Great Northeast Athletic Conference tournament, the highest ranking the team has ever had.

Amanda Roke (Cheshire) leads the Falcons with team-high six goals and 13 points. Sophomore goalkeeper Christina Dineson (Foran) has a goals against average of 1.00 and senior Krystal Quinones has three goals and is the program’s second-leading all-time scorer with 24 points.

HONORED

♦University of New Haven sophomore volleyball player Keidy Candelaria was named the Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Week for the third time. Candelaria helped the Chargers to a perfect week with three wins over NE-10 opponents, collecting 45 kills in 91 attempts with four errors in three matches. Candelaria recorded 22 kills against Saint Anselm and added 16 digs, three aces and three blocks during the week.