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St. Joseph's Captures Second Straight Skyline Conference Presidents Cup

8/6/2009

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. - St. Joseph’s College, which captured five Skyline Conference titles and earned five runner-up finishes among its 13 conference sports, captured its second straight Skyline Conference Presidents Cup, a measure of all-sports excellence in conference competition.

St. Joseph’s, which captured conference’s inaugural Presidents Cup in 2007-08, captured at least one conference title in each season in 2008-09. In the fall, the Golden Eagles captured men’s and women’s cross country as well as men’s soccer titles. The men’s basketball team won its first conference championship in February, while the men’s tennis team captured the Skyline title in May.

Farmingdale State College had an outstanding year, also capturing five conference titles. The Rams captured Skyline championships in golf, women’s soccer, women’s lacrosse, softball and baseball. The Farmingdale men’s basketball team, which earned a runner-up finish, also earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

A school earns points toward the Presidents Cup based upon the conference finish in each sport in which it competes. For each sport, the maximum number of points an institution can earn is equal to the number of teams competing in that sport. For example, there are nine institutions competing in women’s tennis, so a team could receive up to nine points if it finished first in both the regular season and conference tournament.

For sports with both regular-season and conference tournament play, a school receives points based upon an average of the regular-season and conference tournament finishes. For sports with only conference championships, the finish in the championship determines the Presidents Cup points.
An overall rating is generated for each school which is a percentage of total points earned divided by total points possible for that school.

St. Joseph’s had an overall rating of .841, an improvement over its 2007-08 rating of .811. Farmingdale State, which had a .798 rating, also improved from the previous year (.798). Mount Saint Mary College placed third with a rating ..646. Bard College, which finished fourth with a rating of .641, had the biggest one-year improvement, climbing up from .530 last year.

2008-09 Skyline Conference Presidents Cup Standings

Institution

Total Pts.

Possible Pts.

Rating

St. Joseph's College

97.50

116

.841

Farmingdale State College

99.00

124

.798

Mount Saint Mary College

73.00

113

.646

Bard College

59.00

92

.641

Purchase College, SUNY

60.25

115

.524

SUNY College at Old Westbury

50.25

102

.493

The Sage Colleges

29.00

61

.475

College of Mount Saint Vincent

59.75

129

.463

SUNY Maritime College

38.00

92

.413

Polytechnic Institute of NYU

35.75

113

.316

Yeshiva University

20.50

97

.211