Stony Brook's Emily Jaissle (Northport, N.Y./Northport) has been named America East women's lacrosse Player of the Week, while New Hampshire's Kelli LaPerch (Brewster, N.Y./Brewster) has been tabbed Defensive Player of the Week and Amanda Gable (Mount Airy, Md./Glenelg) of UMBC earns the first Rookie of the Week award of her career. The awards were named on Monday (April 9).
In the Seawolves 16-13 win over Boston University, Jaissle broke out for five points off four goals and an assist. She also added four ground balls and three caused turnovers. With the Seawolves trailing 7-3 in the first half, Jaissle rattled off three of SB’s next five goals and added an assist to go into the locker room tied at eight. She also tallied a goal late in the game to seal the victory, Stony Brook's first ever versus the Terriers.
LaPerch had another stellar week at the defensive end of the field with eight ground balls, five caused turnovers and three draw controls. In UNH’s stifling defensive effort at Albany, LaPerch recorded three caused turnovers and three ground balls, as well as one draw control as the Wildcats limited the Great Danes to one first-half goal and held them scoreless for the last 22:53 of the game. Earlier in the week against nationally-ranked Vanderbilt, she recorded a game-high five ground balls as well as two caused turnovers and two draw controls.
Gable scored three goals and added an assist for four points last week. She tallied an assist in the second half against American, then posted the second hat trick of her career against Binghamton with two goals during UMBC’s 11-0 opening spurt. She also picked up two ground balls and recorded one draw control and one caused turnover.
TEAM-BY-TEAM NOTES
ALBANY GREAT DANES
Albany (5-6, 1-1 America East) had its four-game winning streak, the longest at the Division I level, snapped in an 11-8 loss to Colgate on April 3... The Great Danes rebounded from a 10-2 deficit in the second half with five unanswered over a four-minute-and-10-second span... Kate Fontana (East Syracuse, N.Y./East Syracuse-Minoa) scored twice in that stretch, but her team could not get any closer down the stretch... Freshman midfielder Kayla Best (Schenectady, N.Y./Guilderland) added a pair of goals... Best, who is among three players on the team with 20-plus points, has reached the scoring column in 10 of 11 games this season... Sarah Spillett (Liverpool, N.Y./Liverpool) added one goal and one assist... A senior attacker, Spillett is tied for seventh in career goals (82) and tied for sixth in scoring with 132 points... The Great Danes gave America East preseason favorite New Hampshire all it could handle in a 6-4 defeat on April 7 at John Fallon Field... Fontana, who tied a season-high with five caused turnovers and had four draw controls, scored back-to-back goals to draw her team even at four apiece... The Wildcats, who had won the previous nine meetings by an average of 11.63 goals, responded by scoring twice over the next five minutes... freshman Christine Grueniger (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) added a second-half goal... Grueniger has tallied 13 goals over his last five outings... goalkeeper Jen Daly (Stowe, Pa./Pottsgrove) made seven of her nine saves in the opening period... Daly, who has made 62 consecutive starts in the cage, is the school’s all-time saves leaders with 616... Fontana, a three-time All-America East midfielder, needs 11 points to become the program’s career scoring leader, a standard held by Maria Ferrucci (2000-03)... Fontana is third in scoring with 174 points (141 goals, 33 assists) and third in ground balls (240).
BINGHAMTON BEARCATS
Binghamton (1-8, 0-2 America East) split its two contests this past week, notching their first victory of the 2007 campaign on Wednesday against Niagara, 14-10, before falling by an 18-3 margin on Saturday at UMBC... The 14 goals represented the Bearcats' highest offensive output this season... Senior attack Heather Grose (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown) had a team high three goals and added an assist leading the Bearcats past the Purple Eagles... Junior Sandra Alvarez (Port Washington, N.Y./Schreiber) recorded 13 saves for the win between the pipes... Senior Danielle Edwards (Horseheads, N.Y./Horseheads) continues to lead the Bearcats with 14 goals on the season. Edwards is third all-time on the Bearcats' all-time scoring list with 67 career goals... Sophomore defender Kara Slowik (Warners, N.Y./West Genesee) leads the backline efforts with a team-leading 32 ground balls and 16 caused turnovers... The Bearcats host Vermont on Wednesday before heading to Boston University on Saturday.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY TERRIERS
Boston University (4-5, 1-1 America East) suffered its first conference loss of the season on Saturday in a 16-13 decision at Stony Brook... Earlier in the week, the Terriers played host to Harvard, but the game was called off with 5:40 left in the first half and will be made up in its entirety on Monday... Sophomore midfielder Sarah Dalton (Cornwall, Vt./Taft School) scored a career-high six goals against the Seawolves and matched junior Molly Collins (Winchester, Mass./Winchester) for the game high in draw controls with four... Senior Angie Martin (Catonsville, Md./Seton Keough) tallied five points for the Terriers, including three goals, while junior Lauren Morton (Glenside, Pa./Gwynedd Mercy) and freshman Traci Landy (Seaford, N.Y./Seaford) each recorded a goal and an assist... Collins led all players in ground balls with five... Junior goalkeeper Jenna Golden (Suffern, N.Y./Suffern) made three saves before being replaced by redshirt freshman Rachel Klein (Forest Hill, Md./Roland Park), who stopped five of the 10 shots on goal she faced... The Terriers will play three home games this week, beginning with Harvard on Monday and then followed by conference tilts against Albany (Wed.) and Binghamton (Sat.).
UMBC RETRIEVERS
UMBC (5-7, 1-2 America East) was 2-0 on the week with a 15-9 victory over non-conference opponent American on Wednesday and an 18-3 win over America East foe Binghamton on Saturday, the Retrievers’ first conference victory of the season... The win over American snapped the Retrievers’ five-game losing streak... After averaging just 6.6 goals in the five consecutive losses, UMBC exploded for 16.5 goals per game last week... Senior attack Jen Kasper (Eldersburg, Md./South Carroll) scored a career-high four goals and tallied two assists for six points in both games, giving her a team-best eight goals and 12 points on the week... Four Retrievers posted hat tricks against American... UMBC scored the first 11 goals of the game against Binghamton and held a 12-1 lead at halftime... The Bearcats’ three goals were the fewest scored by a UMBC opponent since Central Connecticut scored two on March 24, 2002... Senior midfielder Kelly Fahey ranks eighth all-time at UMBC with 47 career assists... Fahey leads the team with 30 points, while junior attack Ali Levendusky (Baldwin, Md./John Carroll) and sophomore midfielder Kara Dorr (Bel Air, Md./C. Milton Wright) are tied for the team lead with 20 goals apiece... The Retrievers take on local rival and 13th-ranked Johns Hopkins on Wednesday before returning home to host America East foe Stony Brook on Saturday.
NEW HAMPSHIRE WILDCATS
New Hampshire (6-5, 3-0 America East) fell to nationally-ranked Vanderbilt (18-12 at home) but remained unbeaten in conference play with a 6-4 road victory against Albany... Rookie goalkeeper Natalie Jones (Penn Yan, N.Y./Penn Yan) recorded a career-high 16 saves against the Commodores; she recorded 15 saves in the previous game versus Vermont... Jones has a .588 save percentage and 7.00 GAA in three America East conference games... The four goals scored by Albany marked the fewest allowed by the Wildcats this season... The six goals in that game tied the lowest offensive output of the year... The last time UNH scored as few as six goals in a game and won was March 19, 1993 (6-5 win versus Drexel University)... UNH and Albany’s combined 10 goals marked the lowest total in a Wildcats’ game since April 22, 1995, when Temple University recorded a 6-3 win... Sophomore midfielder Ashley Durepo (Concord, N.H./Concord) is the only Wildcat who has recorded a point in all 11 games this season... Durepo tied her career high of two assists at Albany... Sophomore midfielder Michaela Hardy (Reading, Mass./Reading) is the team’s leading conference scorer with eight points in three games... UNH is 0-3 on Wednesday ? all at home -- and the team’s only game this week is Wednesday at home versus Stony Brook.
STONY BROOK SEAWOLVES
Stony Brook (9-1, 2-0 America East) won its sixth-straight game and its first ever over Boston University on Saturday, 16-13... the Seawolves have tied a program mark for the most wins in a season with nine and recovered from a 7-3 first half deficit to top the Terriers... Emily Jaissle (Northport, N.Y./Northport/Maryland) led the offensive charge with a team-best four goals to go along with an assist... Carlee Buck (Penn Yan, N.Y/Penn Yan Academy) and Amy Taylor (Owings, Md./Northern) each recorded three goals and three assists as the duo stretched their point scoring streak to 38 and 47 games respectively... Jen Sandtorv (Centereach, N.Y./Centereach) was the difference in the game as she made 15 saves in the cage for the Seawolves... SB has a huge week ahead of them as they hit the road for conference matchups against New Hampshire on Wednesday and UMBC on Saturday.
VERMONT CATAMOUNTS
Vermont (3-9, 0-1 America East) dropped both games this week, falling to #16 Dartmouth and LeMoyne by the score of 19-8 in each game. Senior Becky Kenison (Woodstock, Vt./Woodstock) is one point shy of reaching the century mark for career points. Sophomore Kristen Millar (Whitby, Ontario/Sinclair Secondary) scored three goals in the loss to LeMoyne and tallied seven points on the week. She is four points shy of 100 career points, having registered 96 points in 27 career games. Millar has recorded at least one point in 26 of her 27 career games and owns a current streak of 25 straight games with a point. The most recent UVM player to reach 100 points was current all-time leading scorer Vanessa Cox ’05. The Catamounts travel to Binghamton (Wed., April 11) and Albany (Sat., April 14) for a pair of America East games.