Dunks of the Day: Sweat, Cooney, Mazziotta

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1: Former Florida Gulf Coast volleyball star Brooke Sweat made a great run in the AVP St. Petersburg Open this weekend. As a four seed, Sweat and her partner Lauren Fendrick breezed through the first two rounds and then took down number one seeded Emily Day and Summer Ross, 21-14, 17-21, 15-10, in the quarterfinals. After their semifinal opponents forfeited due to injury, Sweat/Fendrick were pitted against US Olympians April Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings. After Brooke and Fendrick took the first set 21-19, they dropped the next two, 15-21 and 11-15. However, this is a promising start to the 2014 season for Sweat, who is tied for fifth in the USA Beach Volleyball player rankings. Next up on the AVP Tour is the Milwaukee Open from July 3 through July 6.

3: The first of six FGCU players selected in the 2013 MLB Draft, Harrison Cooney (Burlington Bees) put together his most impressive performance of the 2014 season, on Friday. The righty tossed a complete game shutout, striking out eight batters while only giving up six hits. With a 2.05 ERA, he is now 4-3 with the Class A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels.

4: Daniel Mazziotta is looking to qualify for the US Open on Monday. The former FGCU golf standout will be competing in a sectional qualifier at the Colonial Country Club in Memphis, Tenn. Over 36 holes, 145 golfers will compete for only 13 available spots. Mazziotta has been competing in the PGA Latin America Tour, and in just his fourth start, he won the Mundo Maya Open. Live scoring for the qualifier can be found here.

Dunks of the Day is a series of smaller FGCU news bits put together into one post. If you have a news tip or idea, please email us at fgcueaglesnest@gmail.com

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FGCU Fall Sports Update

Courtesy of Linwood Ferguson

Here the FGCU Eagles Nest brings you up to date in what has been in happening in all the FGCU fall sports. Enjoy.

Volleyball 3-10 (2-1)
The Eagles started off slow, losing their first five matches, but are now 2-1 in conference play, with wins over UNF and Kennesaw State. They will battle another conference foe, Mercer, tonight (Saturday Sept. 28th) at Alico. Both Karina Mambuca and Kaitlin Holm have been dishing out block parties while Christine Pinder will look to carry over her impressive kill performance from the KSU match.

Men's Soccer 1-5-1 (0-0-0)
Felipe DeSousa and the Eagles finished in dramatic fashion on Friday night, as he scored with only 57 seconds left in OT to give FGCU the win over Penn. The story was not the same against Seattle last weekend, as they lost 3-2 in OT against the Redhawks. FGCU will now take on Princeton on Sunday Sept. 29th at 4:00 p.m in one of their nationally televised matches (ESPNU).

Women's Soccer 6-3-1 (1-0-0)

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Ally Kasun and Co. have been one of the most impressive FGCU programs this fall. They are still defending their A-Sun title, beating Jacksonville, their only conference opponent so far. They have been traveling quite a bit, flying all the way to Honolulu to take part in the University of Hawaii Outrigger Hotels & Resorts Classic. They left 2-0 with wins over Portland State and Idaho State. They take on UNF Sunday Sept. 30th, at the FGCU Soccer Complex.

Men's Tennis
The FGCU Men's Tennis team is currently opening their season at the Bedford Cup (Sept. 27-29) in Tallahassee.

Women's Tennis
The Women's Tennis team is opening their season at the UCF Invitational this weekend (Sept. 27-29)

Men's Golf
The Eagles, led by Blake Biggs (221), tied for 11th in the Golfweek Conference Challenge. Then, they tied for 8th in the Saint Mary's Invitational as Matt Cote sunk his first whole in one. Next, FGCU will travel to Atlanta to battle Kennesaw State (Oct. 21-22).

Women's Golf
They opened their season 3rd out of 4 at the Eat-A-Peach Invitational. Then, the Eagles hosted the Eagle Invitational in which Briana Carlson won the individual championship and FGCU tied for 1st with Barry University.

Swim & Dive
After the Blue/Green Scrimmage, the FGCU Swim/Dive team headed to Gainesville this weekend (Sept. 27-29) to compete in the All-Florida Invitational.

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