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(03/31/04 5:00pm)
To describe the women's lacrosse team as an offensive powerhouse would be an understatement. In a 13-2 win, its high-powered offense defeated its latest victims, the Eagles of Mary Washington College, on Saturday afternoon.
In the process, the now third-ranked Lions extended their regular-season win streak to 40 after the win against their ninth-ranked opponent in Lions' Stadium. They have not lost a regular-season contest since March 22, 2001, when Amherst College crawled past them 8-7.
Sophomore Lauren Dougher helped the Lions improve to 4-0 on the season by scoring four goals and adding an assist. Mary Washington fell to 4-4 overall.
With about 20 minutes until the intermission, seniors Carin Heller and Katie Wagenblast and junior midfielder Lauren Gossner netted the game's first three goals, giving the Lions a 3-0 lead.
"There's a lot of balance on our team. There will be different leading scorers throughout the course of the season; many of the players have that capability," head coach Sharon Pfluger said.
The Eagles fired back when junior attacker Britt Gottlieb scored her 10th goal and 18th point of the season at 16:43, leading one to believe that the game would be a close one.
"They were very competitive and skilled and this was a hard-fought game," Pfluger added.
Sophomore Bridget Bigley connected on a pass from Dougher at 13:12 to make the score to 4-1 in favor of the home team. She had back-to-back goals, one of which was a free position shot at 7:34.
Gossner added the last goal in the half at 6:56, making the half-time score 7-1.
Dougher opened the second half by connecting on a pass from Wagenblast. After a quick goal by Mary Washington's Meagan O'Leary, the Lions finished the exhibition with five unanswered scores. O'Leary now has three goals and four points.
Dougher still leads the Lions in scoring with 21 points on 16 goals and five assists. The Lions' second-leading scorer, Wagenblast, recorded a pair of goals and two assists, becoming 12th all-time with 43 career assists.
Heller, who scored three goals, has 147 career points on 113 goals and 34 assists and is ranked 17th all-time in both goals and points, and 20th in assists.
Bigley contributed two goals and an assist. Sophomore goalie Megan Marquardt gave up the only of the two Eagles' goals in 56:52 with seven stops, while sophomore Paige Lucard allowed no goals and made two saves in 3:08.
Sophomore Robyn Lankford grabbed 14 saves for the Eagles, allowing 13 goals an hour of play.
"Today (Marquardt) had her best performance. She had great saves and has been very steady this season. Her counterpart (Lucard), who is also a sophomore has lots of potential as well," Pfluger added.
This is Marquardt's first season as a starting goalkeeper and she is quick to credit the ease of her transition to her teammates.
"The defense was amazing today, they make my job much easier," Marquardt said.
It was more of the same on Tuesday night as the Lions mauled the Bears of Ursinus College at home by a score of 16-4.
Dougher led the College with her personal best six goals as Wagenblast added four along with an assist.
The Bears (1-2) didn't score until there were four minutes left in the half. However, by that time, the Lions already had scored seven goals.
Dougher responded immediately by putting up a hat trick before the intermission, the last one scoring right at the horn. Five of her six goals scored came in the first half.
Ursinus fired back with three goals of their own nearly half a minute into the second half, but not before junior midfielder Lauren Gossner could score yet again for the Lions. She netted two and had an assist.
During the run for the Bears, senior attacker Emily Durkin scored one of her team-high two goals. She now leads the team with nine points and three assists.
Bigley was the final scorer of the game, contributing two goals.
At goal for the Lions, Marquardt gave up four goals in 42 minutes with a stop, while sophomore Paige Lucard gave up no goals and had no saves.
Senior Melissa Scholl recorded 11 saves for the Bears while allowing 16 goals. She stayed in the entire game.
The Lions will host Randolph Macon College on Friday, April 2 at 7 p.m. at Lions' Stadium.
(02/11/04 12:00pm)
They can be seen braving the elements just to get in a routine run around campus. You'll find them sweating in the gym day in and day out for hours on end. And when the time comes, they'll be ready.
Like the other club sports here at the College, most people have heard of the Lions Crew club team but few people actually know much about it.
Also known as rowing, crew is a physically demanding sport that utilizes lower body as well as upper body strength. It has also been referred to as the ultimate team sport.
Lions Crew members rigorously occupy ergometers (commonly known as rowing machines) located in the Recreation Center to not only enhance and complement their workouts, but also to develop stronger techniques.
"The distinguishing characteristic from other sports would be the team-oriented aspect of crew," sophomore Michael Hohenwarter said. "You gotta know exactly what your other guys are pulling and what they are capable of." This year has been Hohenwarter's first as a member of the crew team.
Rowing boats reflect upon the two forms of rowing, sweep rowing and sculling. In sweep rowing each rower moves an oar (about 12.5 ft or 3.9 m long).
In sculling, a rower uses two oars called sculls, (each about 9.5 ft or 3m long). A hull on a crew boat is so light that it is referred to as a shell.
The person who steers the boat is usually referred to as a coxswain, and usually is seated at the rear of the boat so that he or she may see the crew.
The bow is the rower seated closest to the bow of the boat and the stroke sits near the stern. The stroke's responsible for setting the boats' pace and rhythm.
The other rowers are seated according to weight and strength.
The team here at the College only has one eight-person sweep boat and has yet to compete against another school this academic year, but is optimistic that this will eventually change. After all, this is only the second year of the club's existence.
Although the group has assigned captains, positions on the team have not been assigned yet.
"Having one boat will make it difficult when we are on the water because there will not be enough time for everyone on both the men's and women's team to practice adequately," co-captain Josh Bank said.
"But with time, we will definitely plan on purchasing more boats. However, due to the cost of the boats, it will take us some time to raise enough money for even one more boat. Hopefully, by next year we will be able to start looking for a second boat," he added.
"Without a doubt, we plan on competing against other teams. We probably will not race other teams until at least next year," Bank said. "The club is still trying to get everything we need to get on the water and start training for competition, so I feel if we raced any sooner than next spring, we would not be physically or fundamentally prepared for it."
Like most other athletic units at the College and in general, the members of the crew club have built strong friendship as a result of all the time they spend together.
"Spending so much time with each other at practices and such, I have strengthened the bonds I already had with many of my friends on the team," co-captain Vanessa Wolkovitsch said. "However, I have met some wonderful new people and have developed excellent relationships with them as both friends and as teammates."
For more information about crew, contact tcnjcrew@tcnj.edu or visit tcnj.edu/~tcnjcrew.
(10/07/03 4:00pm)
After two scoreless overtimes, the College's Saturday match against Kean University ended in a draw.
Lion junior goalie Rich Adams only had to save four of the seven shots taken by the Cougars during the game.
This is Adams' second shutout of the season.
The game was a contrast with the previous match at Richard Stockton College (6-4-2 overall, 2-2-1 NJAC), in which the Lions' defense gave up five goals.
Kean's senior goalie Peter-John Falloon had nine saves on the 12 shots taken by the Lions (3-2-2 overall, 1-2-2 NJAC).
This is the fifth time he has had a shutout this season. Kean led in corner kicks 9-4.
Ospreys 5, Lions 1
Last Wednesday night, at Richard Stockton College (7-5-2 overall, 3-1-1 NJAC), the Ospreys defeated the Lions by a score of 5-1. It was the highest goal total for the Ospreys so far this season.
When the Lions scored its second goal of the night - it was for the Ospreys. The College ended the contest by accidentally scoring a goal for Richard Stockton as well.
Sophomore midfielder AJ DeSarno tallied two goals for the Ospreys.
Sophomore forward Sean Geary led the Ospreys with two assists.
DeSarno scored his first goal of the game just three minutes into the contest.
Lions sophomore forward Ryan McMann tied the game just after the start of the second half by converting on a penalty kick.
At 55:36, DeSarno scored his second goal, his fourth of the season, and put the momentum in favor of the Ospreys. The Ospreys followed DeSarno's goal with three more.
Approximately five minutes later, sophomore defender Dan Morse scored a goal that brought the score to 3-0. Senior forward Jamie Nelson then scored a goal at 81:08.
Sophomore goalie Sean Dallas picked up four saves for Richard Stockton, while junior goalie Shawn Mecchi tallied three saves for the Lions.
Last year, the College lost to Stockton twice, both times only by two points.
Upcoming Game
The Lions play the Drew University Rangers tonight, Oct. 8, at 7:30. The Lions travel for their next game against Elizabethtown College on Oct. 11 at 2 p.m.
(09/09/03 4:00pm)
The women's tennis team dominated as the College hosted both Carnegie Mellon University and New York University in an eight-player singles draw and a four-team doubles draw this weekend. The action commenced at the sparsely populated College's Tennis Center located in the heart of campus.
The women were triumphant across the board. Third singles Katie D'Amato, fourth singles Kristen Turturiello, fifth singles Ayumi Yamazuki, sixth singles Katie Richards, seventh singles Karen Shih, eighth singles Kelli Emery and ninth singles Jackie Pryzbylkowski had two wins each.
First singles Kristen Klepacki won one of her matches as well. Sunday morning was marked by doubles play.
All of the women's doubles teams had a win, with Third Doubles leading the way with two solid performances.
The singles round robin began on the calm and sunny Saturday morning. On the men's side, eighth singles player Tarik Zunic put up a marvelous exhibition as he was the only Lion to go 2-0 on the day.
Victories were also posted by fifth singles Corey Ball and seventh singles Mike Ehrlich.
Senior Brian Hanley was defeated twice in singles matches. Carnegie Mellon junior Steven Ehrlich defeated Hanley in straight sets (6-3, 6-4). New York University senior Mike Thompson was able to overtake Hanley in straight sets with greater ease (6-1, 6-2).
Both Second and Third Doubles won a match each for the men. Head coach Scott Dichek has an impressive record in the world of tennis, both as a coach and as a player.
He arrived at the College in the fall of 2000 after coaching the tennis program at Allentown College. It took Dichek three years to transform Allentown's women's program. His struggling team once only had five players.
Under Dichek's guidence, the team became a contender in the Middle Atlantic Conference. Dichek also served as the number one singles and doubles player for Moravian College in 1992, earning MVP.
In addition, he was also the number one singles and doubles player for Voorhees High School, and was named their MVP twice. Despite only breaking even last year with an 8-8 record, he has led the men's team to 23-17 record over the past three years.
This season the team will work toward earning a bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament.
This will be challenge with the departure of graduated senior captain Marc Hill. Senior captain Hanley has the task of being the new first singles player.
"We have three newcomers that should help out our lineup," Coach Dichek said.
The women's team had an impressive season last year, ending the season 14-3. Over the past three years, they have gone 31-13 and are favored to place in the 2003 New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Women's Tennis Championship.
The team has shown dominance in their division, winning the the NJAC Championship in both 2000 and 2001. NJAC honored Dichek in 2000 and 2001 with the NJAC Women's Tennis Coach of the Year award.
Upcoming Men's
Tennis Match
On Sept. 21-22, the men's team will travel to Haverford College to participate in the Philadelphia Area Team Tennis Tournament.
Upcoming Women's
Tennis Match
The women will be on the road this week for a pair of NJAC rival games against Kean University and Richard Stockton College.