CW Post Athletics

Junior guard Janea Aiken (St. Albans, N.Y.) was named this week’s East Coast Conference Player of the Week. Aiken shares the honor with St. Thomas Aquinas’

The C.W. Post women’s swimming team competed at the East Stroudsburg Invite Sunday afternoon in preparation of the upcoming Metropolitan Conference Championships.

Despite a furious second half comeback that saw the Pioneers whittle an 18-point deficit to just four points with two-and-a-half minutes to play, the C.W. Post men’s basketball team was unable to complete the comeback and fell victim to a hot-shooting University of Bridgeport squad by an 81-73 final score on Saturday afternoon in Hubbell Gymnasium.

Junior guard Janea Aiken (St. Albans, N.Y.) scored a game-high 22 points but it was not enough as the University of Bridgeport came back from a halftime deficit and held on to defeat C.W. Post, 74-71, in an East Coast Conference women’s basketball clash Saturday afternoon at Hubbell Gymnasium.