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ITHACA, N.Y. - Liberty League commissioner Tracy King has announced that 365 winter sport student-athletes have qualified for the league's 2021-2022 All-Academic Teams in their respective sports.

The winter championship sports include men's and women's basketball, men's and women's squash, and men's and women's swimming and diving. To be recognized as a member of the All-Academic team a student-athlete must be a sophomore or higher in class standing with a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.30.

"The Liberty League takes great pride in the academic success of our student-athletes," said King. "Our student-athletes have always demonstrated that it is possible to not only excel academically, but to achieve athletically at the highest levels in Division III. I congratulate and salute them on their outstanding achievements."

For Ithaca College, a total of 46 winter student-athletes earned this honor.

MEN'S BASKETBALL (8)

Bryce Bleibtrey, So., Business Administration, Queensbury, N.Y. Andrew Geschickter, Jr., Exercise Science, Brookline, Mass. Blake Haber, Jr., Business Administration, Pittsburgh, Pa. George Sikoryak, Gr., Exercise and Sport Sciences, Cresskill, N.J. Skylar Sinon, Gr., Accounting, Armonk, N.Y. Liam Spellman, Sr., Sports Media (Communication), Waterford, Conn. Zach Warech, Gr., Exercise and Sport Sciences, Pine Brook, N.J. Logan Wendell, So., Sports Media (Communication), Bradford, Vt.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL (11)

Lindsey Albertelli, Sr., Extramural, Williston, Vt. Camryn Coffey, Sr., Clinical Health Studies, East Hanover, N.J. Emily Dorn, Sr., Speech Language Pathology, Laurel, Md. Graycen Dubin, Sr., Health Sciences, Slingerlands, N.Y. Isabella Mittelman, So., Integrated Marketing Communication, Glen Rock, N.J. Hannah Polce, Jr., Integrated Marketing Communication, Chelmsford, Mass. Shae Sabino, Jr., Business Administration, Rumson, N.J. Natalie Smith, Sr., Clinical Health Studies, Newton, Pa. Cara Volpe, Sr., Extramural, Freehold, N.J. Anya Watkins, So., Business Administration, Penfield, N.Y. Annabella Yorio, So., Business Administration, Summit, N.J.

MEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING (9)

Max Braithwaite, So., Computer Science, West Chester, Pa. Matthew Johnston, Jr., Writing for Film, TV & Emerging Media, Ridgefield, Conn. Santi Ludwig, So., Exploratory, Bethesda, Md. Jack Marxen, Jr., Television & Digital Media Production, Rumson, N.J. Joe Pezzini, Jr., Exercise Science, Milton, Mass. Holden Shatouhy, Sr., Integrated Marketing Communication, Ringwood, N.J. Matthew Stevens, Jr., Computer Science, Cranberry Township, Pa. Owen Tobias-Wallingford, So., Sports Media (Communication), Delmar, N.Y. Ben Young, Jr., Writing for Film, TV & Emerging Media, Waynesboro, Va.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING (18)

Lauren Brady, Sr., Health Sciences, Fairport, N.Y. Katie Champagne, Sr., Biology, Macungie, Pa. Kiersten Gravuer, So., Clinical Health Studies, Langhorne, Pa. Josephine Holman, Sr., Integrated Marketing Communication, Peekskill, N.Y. Abigail Ignagni, So., Clinical Health Studies, Warwick, R.I. Erin Kiley, Sr., Occupational Therapy, Woburn, Mass. Rachel Lange, Sr., Business Administration, Allentown, N.J. Leah Levin, Jr., Speech Language Pathology, Highland, N.Y. Abigail Marraccino, Gr., Speech Language Pathology - Teaching, Nyack, N.Y. Karalyn Pawcio, Sr., Communication Management & Design, Marathon, N.Y. Jane Pfeufer, Sr., Health Sciences, Decatur, Ga. Anna Rubino, Sr., Health Sciences, Great Barrington, Mass. Olivia Rubino, Sr., Health Sciences, Great Barrington, Mass. Audrey Scott, Jr., Health Sciences, Hope, Maine Emily Shorb, Sr., Psychology, Olney, Md. Jenell Slesser, So., Occupational Therapy, Las Vegas, Nev. Natalie Soloway, Jr., Health Sciences, Palatine, Ill. Emily VanderSleen, Sr., Clinical Health Studies, Mohrsville, Pa.

The NHL's top contenders did not wait until the last minute to do their shopping before the trade deadline.

League-leading Boston got bigger and tougher by adding Dmitry Orlov and Garnet Hathaway. Toronto got defensive by trading for Ryan O'Reilly. The Rangers answered their New York-rival Islanders' move for Bo Horvat by acquiring Vladimir Tarasenko — and they're not done yet.

A handful of big moves already have been made around the league, including a couple on Sunday, and many more are expected before the trade deadline Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern. Patrick Kane going from Chicago to the Rangers is the most predictable deal on the docket, and yet plenty of uncertainty remains about what else will shake out.

“I am certainly not going to predict where the market goes next,” Bruins general manager Don Sweeney said last week after making what could be his first big trade or his only big one. "That’s for all teams, all 32 teams, to continue to discuss and those discussions will continue.”

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Discussions led St. Louis to trade forward Ivan Barbashev to Vegas for 20-year-old prospect Zach Dean, who was a first-round draft pick in 2021. Other talks culminated in a swap of forwards between Dallas and Montreal, with the Central Division-leading stars landing four-time 20-goal scorer Evgenii Dadonov.

More are ongoing around Kane, San Jose's Timo Meier and Erik Karlsson, Arizona's Jakob Chychrun, Philadelphia's James van Riemsdyk and Washington's handful of pending free agents after the perennially contending Capitals went from buyers to sellers.

Prices have been high on a lot of players, most notably Meier and Chychrun, who are the top players expected to change places by the deadline.

“I can see the marketplace taking towards the end of the week to sort out for some teams,” said Hart Levine of PuckPedia, a website that tracks the salary cap and player movement.

WHAT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED

The Islanders made their splash in late January, getting Horvat, a 30-goal scorer, from Vancouver and signing him to an eight-year extension. The Rangers, after the All-Star break in early February, got Tarasenko and big defenseman Niko Mikkola from St. Louis to start loading up to try to repeat or improve on their trip to the Eastern Conference final.

"You want to win, and you want to be a part of good hockey teams who can win," Mikkola said. “The whole team is good, and we can go deep. We all know that.”

The Maple Leafs want to go deep, but they haven't won a playoff series since 2004 — before the NHL had a salary cap. Acquiring O'Reilly, a playoff MVP in 2019 when the Blues won the Stanley Cup, and tough depth forward Noel Acciari sets them up better for that pursuit, if their goaltending holds up.

WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN

The worst-kept secret in the sport is Kane's connection to the Rangers.

After New York got Tarasenko, thinking the price for Meier or Kane would be too high, Kane said: “If things were going to happen ... that was a team that I was definitely looking at.”

Not much of a poker face, but Kane has a full no-movement clause, meaning the three-time Cup champion who was league MVP in 2015-16 can choose where he wants to go. Rangers GM Chris Drury took care of his end of the money aspect Saturday by trading Vitali Kravtsov to Vancouver and waiving Jake Leschyshyn.

And while Kane's name isn't being uttered around the Rangers, there's an uneasiness around them as the buzz seeps into the locker room.

“It always does at this time of the year,” coach Gerard Gallant said. “It’s tough on some players. But at the end of the day, you’re trying to make your team better every day and that’s what management does.”

Meier, a big, 26-year-old winger, has been linked to the New Jersey Devils, who have Swiss countryman Nico Hischier as their captain, and others in the Western Conference. Chychrun has been on the trade block since before last season, and the 24-year-old defenseman with two seasons left on his contract after this one figures to finally get dealt.

WHAT MAY OR MAY NOT HAPPEN

Sellers also are buying while still selling — mass hysteria. Well, not quite hysteria, but it's not as simple as the haves and the have-nots at this deadline.

St. Louis, even after trading Tarasenko, Mikkola, O'Reilly, Acciari and Barbashev, could also be in the market for Meier, Chychrun or other players signed beyond this season. Same goes for Washington, which won the Cup in 2018 and has made the playoffs every year since 2014 but has been beset by injuries and other events that could end the streak.

The Capitals sent Orlov and Hathaway to the Bruins and still could trade forwards Lars Eller, Conor Sheary and Marcus Johansson and defenseman Nick Jensen, Trevor van Riemsdyk and Erik Gustafsson, all of whom are pending free agents.

“It’s a little bit emotional, and it’s not fun,” said Eller, who scored the Cup-clinching goal five years ago. "Just try to stay in the moment, stay in the present.”

Washington GM Brian MacLellan is certainly doing that. With Alex Ovechkin in pursuit of Wayne Gretzky's career goals record, the Capitals aren't going into a rebuild any time soon, and MacLellan already has foreshadowed taking the picks acquired and flipping them to win again as soon as next year.

“While this season has proven challenging with injuries to our significant players, we are in a position to use some of our current assets to retool our club and build a competitive team moving forward,” he said.

That could even start before the deadline.

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AP Sports Writers Jimmy Golen in Boston and Jay Cohen in Chicago contributed to this report.

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LYNDHURST — They are no more than tiny flecks in a vast ecosystem, but the five floating islands cast this week into a tidal lagoon at the Meadowlands Environment Center will nurture an abundance of life.

Students from Ridgefield Park visited the center on Thursday morning to finish the project, which they have worked on all month as part of a summer enrichment program.

They spent an hour on the waterfront — first planting two types of native species in their artificial islands before carefully dropping them into the shallow marsh.

The last step was to anchor them with sturdy cords to the jetty.

Ronaldo Ureña, 15, who was among the students to participate in the activity, said the experience taught him to appreciate the wetlands habitat.

“We’re making a change that not a lot of people are willing to do,” said Ronaldo, who will be a high school freshman in September.

“Even though it’s a small one,” he added, “we’re still helping the environment.”

The students arrived by school bus at the center at Richard W. DeKorte Park at 9:30 a.m. They were briefed on the project by Karin LaGreca, an educator at the center, and followed her across the jetty to the launch point about 500 feet from the shore.

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The islands were made of 10-foot lengths of drainage pipes, filled with empty water bottles and shaped in a ring. Sheets of mesh were fastened to the plastic tubes with zip ties to form two surfaces.

Using utility knives, the students made slits in the top of the islands and wedged in the root balls of the plants.

The islands serve multiple benefits. Frogs, turtles and birds like the marsh wren will seek refuge amid the growth of cordgrass and flowering goldenrods. Small fish are inclined to hide below the surface, where a biofilm will thrive amid the plant roots to attract a host of microscopic organisms.

Another advantage, said the educators at the center, is how such a project can control the effects of climate change.

Balmy temperatures may lead to harmful algal blooms, but the educators in charge of the program say the aquatic plants in the islands reduce algae by sucking up nutrients that cause it.

“It’s not a silver bullet,” said Angela Cristini, the director of the center and a professor of biology at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah. “But to learn how to do this is really a way to start fighting global warming.”

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The field trip to the center, a facility of the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority operated by the college, was the culmination of the Ridgefield Park summer enrichment program.

We’re making a change that not a lot of people are willing to do.

Ronaldo Ureña, 15

Dennis Murri, a co-coordinator of the program, said it is an “outstanding supplemental activity” for the students.

“On top of that,” he said, “it supports the academics that they need to help them be more successful in the year to follow.”

Hundreds of the K-12 district’s students were enrolled in the extended school year, which began on June 28. It was offered at no cost to their parents, and it was paid for through a COVID-19 relief grant. In May, the Board of Education approved a $55,000 contract with the center to provide STEM-based instruction during the program.

Murri said the floating islands project was specifically for 51 students who just finished sixth, seventh and eighth grades. In the coming months, he said, they will return to the marsh to see how their work fared.

Michele Daly, the school district program coordinator for the center, said the facility’s educators also brought lessons this summer to students with special needs in Little Ferry. Next month, she said, they will be in Ringwood.

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KERRVILLE, Texas— Junior Moira O'Reilly (Columbus, Ohio) allowed just one run with 15 strikeouts while knocking in three at the plate and hitting a home run in her first career at bat as No. 20 Babson College opened its softball season with a non-conference split at Schreiner University on Friday afternoon.

The Beavers won the opener 7-1 and the Mountaineers came back with an 11-8 verdict in game two. Babson starts the campaign at 1-1 while Schreiner snapped a five-game losing skid and is now 3-7.

Game 1 – Babson 7, Schreiner 1 O'Reilly allowed just one run on seven hits in a complete-game effort for the Beavers. Seniors Lexi Morris (Lexington, Mass.) and Kate Karamouzis (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) had two hits apiece and also clubbed home runs to lead a 12-hit Beaver attack, while sophomore Sara Moore (Kennett Square, Pa.) and junior Molly Hennessy (Tallahassee, Fla.) each had two hits.

Senior Malorie Solis (El Campo, Texas) had three hits and scored a run to pace the Mountaineers, while classmate Danielle Pedraza (San Antonio, Texas) contributed a double and an RBI in the setback.

After Schreiner scored a run in the bottom of the first on a sacrifice fly by Pedraza, the Beavers jumped on top with a pair of runs in the top if the second. Junior Caroline Taylor (Biddeford, Maine) hit a two-out single and O'Reilly followed with a two-run home run in her first career at bat.

The Beavers plated three more runs in the third inning to extend their lead to 5-0. After Karamouzis belted a two-out solo home run, Hennessy hit a double and first-year Sophia Pak (New Rochelle, N.Y.) walked to set the stage for an RBI double by first-year Sophia Bianco (Pasadena, Md.). Taylor and O'Reilly drew back-to-back walks to bring in another run to cap the three-run rally.

Two more runs in the fourth inning pushed the margin to 7-0. Morris led off the inning with a solo home run, Karamouzis reached on a one-out single and later scored on Pak's RBI single.

After O'Reilly got through the first inning, she allowed just three hits over the next five innings to earn the win. Sophomore Alyssa DeStefano (Ridgefield, Conn.) struck out two batters in a scoreless seventh inning to close out the win.

Game 2 – Schreiner 13, Babson 8 Morris had a double among her three hits in the nightcap for the Beavers, and Karamouzis added a pair of hits and a walk in the eight-hit attack. DeStefano, Taylor and Bianco also smacked doubles in the setback and Hennessy knocked in two runs.

Senior Hannah Kollmansberger (Spring Branch, Texas) had three hits, including a double, and knocked in three. Pedraza had two doubles and drove in three runs, and Solis went 3-for-3 with a double and four runs scored. Junior Yadira Lopez (Kingsville, Texas) and first-year Kendall Lippold (Richmond, Texas) also had two hits each with Lopez driving in two.

After Morris doubled and later scored on a wild pitch in the Beavers' first inning, Schreiner plated four runs in the bottom half of the inning, led by RBI doubles from Pedraza and Kollmansberger. Babson got one back in the top of the second when Taylor doubled and scored on an infield error, but the Mountaineers picked up three more in the bottom of the second, including RBI singles by Kollmansberger and senior Rebecca Gownley (Houston, Texas).

Babson scored a single run for the third straight inning when Hennessy scored on Taylor's sacrifice fly, but Schreiner answered with three more in the bottom half of the inning to extend the lead to 10-3. Lippold and Pedraza cracked RBI doubles in the rally and Kollmansberger followed with a run-scoring single.

The Beavers cut the deficit to 10-6 with a three-spot in the fourth inning, highlighted by the first career RBI single by first-year Allie Cubberly (Lagrangeville, N.Y.) and Hennessy's RBI fielder's choice. Schreiner got the lead back to seven runs with a single run in bottom of the fourth and two more in the last of the fifth.

The Green and White tacked on single runs in the sixth and seventh innings to round out the scoring. Pak delivered an RBI single in the sixth and Hennessy hit a sac fly in the seventh.

Four different pitchers made an appearance for the Beavers, with junior Nicole Sestito (Sea Girt, N.J.) starting and taking the loss.

Babson is back in action on Saturday with a doubleheader at No. 4 Texas Lutheran, beginning at 2 p.m. ET.

GAME NOTES • Babson now has a 3-1 record in the career series against Schreiner that started in 2022. • O'Reilly has allowed just one run and seven hits in 11 career innings against the Mountaineers after pitching a five-inning no-hitter in last year's game one of the doubleheader. • The Beavers have won three of their last four season-openers and 13 of their last 17 going back to 2007.