Scholastic Roundup: This bear got his first

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Arianna Heinsch, a senior softball performer for St. Joseph’s University, Brooklyn, formally eclipsed the 100-hit plateau while the Lady Bears were participating in the Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic, Fort Myers, Fla. The locals dropped games to Greenville University and the Rochester Institute of Technology earlier this week in their second day at the Classic.

As for Heinsch, the Fontbonne Hall Academy grad is a 2021 Bears Scholar-Athlete Team member; an All-Skyline First Team (2022); and All-Skyline Second Team (2023).

As a junior, she produced as team-leading 43 hits, 32 runs and a .468 on-base percentage. She ranked second in batting (.394) and slugging (.541). She concluded the season on a seven-game hit streak with three-for-three contests against Yeshiva and Sarah Lawrence.

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Brooklyn College freshman outside hitter, Aaron Siu, has been named CUNYAC Men’s Volleyball Rookie of the Week for the fifth time this season. Siu earned his latest honor in a CUNYAC split on the week for the Bulldogs.

Siu averaged a double-double with 10.5 kills and 14 digs. He put away a team-high 14 kills and came up 17 digs at Lehman last week. In Brooklyn’s conference sweep of CCNY, he finished with 17 kills while hitting .286 and came up with 11 digs. Siu leads the conference in kills and digs. He ranks second in service aces.

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Brooklyn College’s men’s tennis team was picked to finish second in this year’s preseason conference coaches’ polls. Baruch was picked to repeat as conference champs, while the Bulldogs edged out Hunter for the runner-up slot. John Jay was picked to finish fourth followed by Lehman and York.

The player to watch — junior Ryan Sham. Finishing with a 6-4 overall record at top-flight singles including 3-1 in the conference, Sham, is primed for his third straight season as the No. 1 slot in both singles and doubles this season.
The Brooklyn Tech High School grad finished last season with a 13-10 record. As an Engineer, he went 21-2 in…