The Binghamton Mets won a close game today 4-2 against the Boston Red Sox affiliate Portland Sea Dogs on the strength of well-timed run production and a good deal of fine pitching at NYSEG Stadium. Portland starter Junichi Tazawa, though a highly-touted prospect in the Red Sox organization, looked shaky in the early innings, working out of trouble capably enough to allow only two earned runs in his four and a third innings of work. Binghamton's Ryan Coultas, on the other hand, pitched almost impeccably, throwing a no-hitter into the fifth inning, before allowing two runs on a pair of singles and being pulled for Adam Bostick, first in a series of Binghamton relievers who would keep Portland scoreless for the rest of the game.

Binghamton's two most dramatic runs came on solo home runs off the bats of first baseman Lucas Duda, in the sixth, and, two innings later, by third baseman Shawn Bowman, who also impressed defensively with a memorable diving stop of a line drive in the sixth. Catcher Josh Thole, going 0-4, broke his six-game hitting streak, but nonetheless contributed by driving in second baseman Matt Bouchard on a sacrifice fly to center field in the fifth inning.

For the first time in the program's history, the Binghamton University Men's Basketball team is going to the National Tournament. Saturday's 61-51 victory over University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus sent a capacity crowd streaming on to the court to celebrate and gave coach Kevin Broadus' squad the first America East Conference championship in school history.

Senior Reggie Fuller led the way for the Bearcats, recording a double double with 19 points and ten rebounds. The 6 foot 6 inch Texan was 7 for 7 from the floor, while Binghamton as a whole shot 42 percent overall while smothering the Retrievers on defense.

DJ Rivera contributed 16 points and 5 rebounds.

Binghamton received a 15 seed in the East region, which sets up a first round match with Duke University on Thursday at 9:40 pm. Duke won the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 79-69 win over Florida State, spoiling the Seminoles' debut in the Conference title game.

Duke finished the season 28 and 6, ranked 9^th nationally in the AP polls. Binghamton finished its first ever 20 win season, currently 23 and 8.

Ben Meyers of the Sens Army Blog and Peter Raaymakers of the Silver Seven Sens Blog talk about the latest Senators news.

For those of us that enjoyed the football season, and with March Madness winding down there is something for all of us to look forward to: Opening Day for Major League Baseball. The New York Yankees have not won a World Championship since 2000, but that is all going to change this year. As an avid Yankee fan since birth I have witnessed the incredible events and the disappointing moments that have struck this team within the last two decades. However, no matter what scandal or injuries that seem to plagues the Yankees, they always manage to come out stronger than before.

Peter Raaymakers and Ben Myers talk about the state of the Ottawa Senators, the future of Martin Gerber, and much more in our third weekly Blogcast about the big brother team of the Binghamton Senators up in Ottawa.

To read the regular blogging of Ben Myers and Peter Raaymakers you can visit their website at: http://sensarmy.blogspot.com

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By Peter Spaet
Just a few days after the most recent turn in the Alex Rodriguez saga, (which has him primed to resign with the Yankees to a 10 year, $275 million deal,) the Yankees now appear set to preliminary terms with two more of their key players - closer, Mariano Rivera and catcher Jorge Posada.

By Peter Spaet
Just 12 days after the announcement of Joe Torre's departure and only two days after the Red Sox completed their World Series Sweep of the Rockies, Joe Girardi became the first Managerial hire of this Major Laegue Baseball offseason, accepting the Yankees' three year, 7.5 million dollar offer.