{"id":46811,"date":"2013-06-02T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=46811"},"modified":"2013-06-02T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T14:17:10","slug":"morrisville-state-college-takes-home-neac-mens-crown-for-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=46811","title":{"rendered":"Morrisville State College takes home NEAC men\u2019s crown for second year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Brandy Thurston, Director of Sports Information\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Pictured from left: Morrisville State Athletic Director Greg Carroll and Provost David Rogers are shown accepting the 2012-13 NEAC Men&#8217;s President&#8217;s Cup for athletic excellence.\u00a0(Photo courtesy of the NEAC Office)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Morrisville, NY- May 31, 2013) The North Eastern Athletic Conferen<a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PresCup2012-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46812\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PresCup2012-13.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PresCup2012-13.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PresCup2012-13-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PresCup2012-13-103x150.jpg 103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>ce (NEAC) announced the winners of the 2012-13 President\u2019s Cup during the conference\u2019s annual spring retreat this week, with Morrisville State College capturing the men\u2019s crown for a second consecutive year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s Cup is based on the institution\u2019s overall winning percentage from the entire academic year, and is calculated through a points system that takes into account each school\u2019s final regular season standings for team sports and championship finish for individual sports within conference competition. It is awarded on both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s side, along with an overall award.<\/p>\n<p>Morrisville State took home the regular season title in men\u2019s basketball and finished as conference runner-ups in men\u2019s soccer and cross country over the course of the athletic season, compiling a .847 winning percentage for the year, as they accumulated 30.5 points out of a possible 36 to finish atop the men\u2019s standings.<\/p>\n<p>The Mustangs were fifth in the overall cup standings with a win percentage of .590, and finished 11th\u00a0in the women\u2019s cup standings with a winning percentage of .432.<\/p>\n<p>Penn State Berks won the women\u2019s division and took home the overall cup for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brandy Thurston, Director of Sports Information\u00a0 Pictured from left: Morrisville State Athletic Director Greg Carroll and Provost David Rogers are shown accepting the 2012-13 NEAC Men&#8217;s President&#8217;s Cup for athletic excellence.\u00a0(Photo courtesy of the NEAC Office) (Morrisville, NY- May 31, 2013) The North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) announced the winners of the 2012-13 President\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}