For Immediate Release
WOMEN’S LACROSSE RESULTS–4.24.04
Contact: Christina Cracolici
Phone: (781) 283-2003
E-mail: ccracoli@wellesley.edu
WHEATON DEFEATS WELLESLEY 18-5 IN NEWMAC LACROSSE SEMIFINAL
NORTON, Mass. – Julia Coit (South
Portland, Maine) and Anna Lombard (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) scored
five goals a piece to lead top-seed Wheaton College (13-2) past
fourth-seed Wellesley (4-8) 18-5 in semifinal action of the 2004
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference lacrosse
playoffs. With its fifth consecutive win Wheaton advanced to the
Championship game and will face Springfield College for the NEWMAC
crown for the third straight year. Wellesley closes its season with
a 4-8 mark overall and a 3-3 record in conference action.
Wheaton’s Lauren Maynes (Woodstock, Vermont) netted four goals
for the Lyons while Kimberly Corbin (Branford, Conn.) and Vanessa
Pisano (Vineyard Haven, Mass.) added two goals a piece.
Wellesley first-year Casey Logan (Scituate, Mass.) collected her
second consecutive three-goal game to lead the Blue with three goals,
while seniors Dawn Kim (Greenwich, Conn.) and Laura Bender (Mattapoisett,
Mass.) rounded out the scoring for the Blue with a goal and an assist
each.
Wellesley kept the score close in the early minutes of the game,
trailing by just one goal at 3-2 nine minutes into the first half.
Logan scored both of Wellesley’s early goals, while Wheaton
spread its scoring between Maynes, Coit and Lombard.
Wheaton pulled away however when it scored six unanswered goal,
taking a commanding 9-2 lead with 8:30 remaining in the half. Lombard
and Coit sparked the Wheaton attack in the six goal run netting
three goals a piece.
Wellesley scored first in the second half, as Bender tallied her
lone goal of the game seconds into the second stanza to cut the
Wheaton lead to 10-4 with 29 minutes remaining, but Wheaton would
score the next eight goals straight to earn the win.
Wellesley first-year Maxine Brownstein (Roseland, N.J.) played well
defensively for the Blue, holding Wheaton’s Pisano, the leading-scorer
in the NEWMAC averaging nearly five goals per game, to just two
goals. Brownstein ended the game with two ground balls, a caused
turnover and a draw control.
NEWMAC Women’s Lacrosse Playoffs – SEMIFINAL
: #1 Wheaton 18, #4 Wellesley 5
1
2
Final
Wellesley (4-8)
3
2
5
Wheaton (13-2)
10
8
18
Goals:
Wheaton (18) – Julia Coit 5, Anna Lombard 5, Lauren Maynes
4, Vanessa Pisano 2, Kimberly Corbin 2
Wellesley (5) - Casey Logan 3, Dawn Kim, Laura Bender
Assists:
Wheaton (5) – Coit, Lombard, Maynes, Rose Jackson, Kate Weston
Wellesley (4) – Kim, Bender, Audrey Gill, Lydia
McGuigan
Goalkeepers:
Wellesley – Alissa Gordon (46 min) 10 saves, 14 GA,
Ashleigh Korves (14 min) 4 saves, 4 GA
Wheaton – A.J. Vasiliou, 8 saves.
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