CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- Junior Sarah Dalton (Cornwall, Vt./Taft) and sophomore Rachel Klein (Forest Hill, Md./Roland Park) led Boston University to three wins last week and were chosen America East Player and Defender of the Week, respectively. Vermont freshman Megan MacDonald (Wayland, Mass./Wayland) earned Rookie of the Week honors for the week ending March 23. Click here for the complete Weekly Release in PDF format.
Dalton, a midfielder, led the Terriers to three wins last week as she tallied four goals and an assist in each contest. She also added four ground balls and two draw controls. The Terriers won three games in four days last week, defeating No. 10 Yale, 10-7, on Wednesday and posting league wins against Binghamton on Friday and Albany on Saturday. Dalton is tied for the team lead with 21 goals, despite playing in just six of her team's eight games.
Klein, a goalkeeper, posted three wins in goal for Boston U. last week, including a 10-7 victory over No. 10 Yale on Wednesday. She allowed just 17 goals (5.66 GAA) and made 25 saves (.595 save percentage) in the three games. The 17 goals were the fewest allowed by the Terriers over a three-game stretch since March 18-25 of 2006.
MacDonald, a freshman midfielder/attack, scored three goals, picked up five ground balls and caused four turnovers in pair of games last week. MacDonald scored once against Holy Cross on Wednesday and added four ground balls and four caused turnovers. She scored twice in the Catamounts' win over Stony Brook on Saturday.
Team-By-Team Notebook
Albany (5-3, 0-1 America East) had its three-game win streak halted by nationally-ranked Boston University in the Great Danes’ America East opener on March 22... The Terriers are ranked No. 15 in the IWLCA poll and 16th by Inside Lacrosse... The defending conference champions have won all nine meetings in this series, including two postseason contests... UAlbany is now 3-4 in league openers since joining America East in 2001-02... The Great Danes had equaled their best start as a Division I program heading into the contest... The 2006 team also won five of their opening seven games... Kayla Best (Guilderland, N.Y. / Guilderland) extended her scoring streak to 21 consecutive games with a second-half goal... Best, an all-conference midfielder, is second on the team in scoring with 19 points (16 goals, 3 assists)... Jane Bush (Jordan, N.Y. / Jordan-Elbridge) also found the net in the final period... Bush is one six players on the squad who has double-figure points (4 goals, 11 assists) ... UAlbany has two freshmen among its leading scorers... Tee Ladouceur (Slingerlands, N.Y. / Bethlehem Central) is first with 22 points (19 goals, 3 assists), while Jodi Battaglia (Amherst, N.Y. / Amherst) has 10 goals and one assist... Ladouceur had her streak of six consecutive games with three or more points stopped last Saturday.
Boston University (6-2, 2-0 America East) allowed just this week, which matches the lowest total over a three-game span since the team held opponents to 16 goals between March 18-25, 2006... The 2-0 opening against America East opponents is the best conference start for Boston University since 2005, when the Terriers went 6-0 against AE competition... The team has had six or more scorers in six of eight games this season... Three freshmen had their first goals of the season Friday against Binghamton, including Rachel Collins, Caitlin Defliese and Alyssa Kovach.
UMBC (2-7, 1-2 America East) dropped its fifth straight game, falling at America East rival New Hampshire, 11-4, on Saturday... Senior attack Ali Levendusky (Baldwin, Md./John Carroll) scored three of the Retrievers’ four goals in the game... She has posted a hat trick in eight out of nine games this season, including the last four... Levendusky leads the Retrievers with 28 goals and 29 points... She is now tied for 10th place all-time at UMBC with 114 career goals... Sophomore midfielder Megan Cook (Towson, Md./Towson) scored the Retrievers’ only other goal of the game, converting a feed from freshman attack Erika Braerman (Fallston, Md./Fallston)... Sophomore goalie Kate Quick (Phoenix, Md./Maryvale Prep) made nine saves in 60 minutes... Senior attack Meghan Keelan (Randallstown, Md./Mount de Sales) leads UMBC with eight assists, while Levendusky has posted a team-best 18 draw controls... Senior midfielder Maggie Chizmar (Bel Air, Md./Bel Air) leads the Retrievers with nine caused turnovers, and freshman midfielder Megan Linkous (Jarrettsville, Md./North Harford) has picked up a team-best 17 ground balls... The Retrievers play six of their final seven games of the season at home... They host America East rival Albany on Wednesday and California-Berkeley on Sunday.
New Hampshire (7-2, 1-0 America East) extended its winning streak to six games by defeating Cornell, which received votes in last week’s IWLCA Poll, by a score of 10-9 at the Vanderbilt Lacrosse Complex and then upending UMBC, 11-4, in its league opener at home ... Michaela Hardy (Reading, Mass./Reading) recorded her 50th career point with the second of her three goals Saturday vs. UMBC; she currently has 43 goals and eight assists for 51 points ... Hardy leads the team in both goals (19) and caused turnovers (12) this season while Allie Duclos (South Windsor, Conn./South Windsor) is the leader in both ground balls (17) and draw controls (26) ... Shaunna Kaplan (Framingham, Mass.) also tallied her 50th career point vs. UMBC with the first of her two goals; she currently has 36 goals and 15 assists for 51 points ... UNH’s balanced attack has seven players in double-digit goals in just nine games ... Ashley Milley (Sudbury, Mass./Lincoln-Sudbury) is off to a hot start in 2008; she has yielded double digits in goals just once in nine games and both her 7.28 GAA and .488 save percentage would be single-season personal bests ... UNH is averaging 11.78 goals per game with a .433 shooting percentage while limiting the opposition to 7.22 gpg and a .380 shooting percentage ... UNH’s single first-half goal vs. UMBC marked the team’s lowest production in any half since April 11, 2007, when Stony Brook held the ?Cats to one goal in the first half ... The Wildcats also yielded just a single first-half goal in that game against the Retrievers to mark the second time this season that the ?Cats stymied an opponent to one goal in the opening 30 minutes of play; furthermore, UNH held UConn to one second-half goal.
Stony Brook (4-3, 1-0 America East) lost its only game last week. The Seawolves fell to Vermont, 11-9 in the 2008 conference opener. Kaitlin Leggio (Bay Shore, N.Y./Bay Shore) and Diana Caroleo (North Babylon, N.Y./North Babylon) led Stony Brook with two goals. Stony Brook came out of the gates early and often, taking a 5-1 lead with 16:31 remaining in the first half but Vermont answered and took a 7-6 halftime lead. Stony Brook hosts American University on Saturday afternoon
Vermont (5-2, 2-0 America East) dropped a contest at Holy Cross, but bounced back with a victory at Stony Brook last week ... Against the Seawolves, UVM erased a four goal deficit by scoring six straight to close the first half and held on for the 11-9 victory ... The Catamounts are 2-0 in league play for the first time in the program’s history ... Junior Kristen Millar (Whitby, Ontario/Sinclair Secondary) is 10 draw controls shy of becoming the NCAA Division I all-time leader, she enters the week with 214 in her career ... Millar scored totaled nine points and seven goals in two games last week ... She also added 11 ground balls and seven draw controls ... UVM has out scored conference opponents 25-14 this season ... The Catamounts host Harvard on Tuesday (March 25) at 3:00pm then travel to Boston U on Saturday (March 29) for a 3:00pm game that will be broadcast on CN8 ... The Vermont/BU game is the only women’s lacrosse game among the 12 lacrosse games this season that will be televised by CN8.