COLLEGE
WOMEN'S LACROSSE FINAL SCORE
Tufts 17, Williams 7
At Williamstown, MA
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Game
Box Score
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Senior co-captain Alyssa Kopp led Tufts with
six ground balls and had four draw controls
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- Tufts University scored the first five goals of
the game and never looked back Saturday, rolling to a 17-7
conference win over Williams at Renzie Lamb Field.
The #13 Jumbos improved to 3-2 on the season, 1-2 in the NESCAC.
Williams, tied for 10th in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse
Association poll, slipped to 2-2 overall and 1-2 in the
conference.
The romp is sweet revenge for the Jumbos, who had not defeated
Williams since the 1995 season. The Ephs had won 17 straight games
in the series. Last spring, when Tufts finished 16-3 and advanced
to the NCAA "Elite Eight," two of their three losses came against
Williams. The last four games in the series had been decided by a
total of five goals, including two overtime contests. Today's
10-goal margin of victory is the biggest for Tufts over the Ephs
since the 1986 Jumbos defeated Williams 17-4.
Tufts senior co-captain Jenna Abelli (Framingham,
MA) scored six goals and added one assist in the victory
over Williams, while sophomore Lara Kozin (Suffern,
NY), senior Emily Johnson (Yarmouth, ME)
and sophomore Steph Perez (East Providence, RI)
each scored twice.
The Ephs received one goal and one assist each from Kaitlin
Ellis, Anne Marie Burke and Tina Nawrocki. Julila Schreiber made 10
saves in net for Williams.
Perez sparked the Tufts early outburst with a goal just 2:31
into the contest, flicking a pass from Kozin by Schreiber. Less
than a minute later, Johnson deked her way around a pair of Eph
defenders and beat Schreiber to the top right side of the goal for
a 2-0 Tufts lead. Goals by Albelli and Kozin followed soon after,
forcing Williams head coach Chris Mason to take a time-out.
The break did nothing to slow the Jumbos initially as Perez came
out of the timeout and batted home a rebound shot from the
left-side of the goal for a 5-0 lead with 18 minutes left in the
first half. Burke slowed the tide momentarily with a nice goal, but
Tufts responded with four straight goals to build a 9-1 lead with
5:53 left in the half.
The Ephs showed signs of life by scoring the final three goals
of the half, the last a hard-earned tally by Sam Weinstein from out
of a crowd in front of the Jumbo net with just 10.6 seconds left in
the half.
It appeared Williams might be able to make a game of it after
all when Meera Sivalingam scored off a pass from Nawrocki just 39
seconds into the second half to make it a 9-5 game, but Tufts put
together another splendid response, scoring four straight goals,
the first three of which came off free-position opportunities.
Tufts outshot Williams 31-14 in the game and won the groundball
battle, 26-23. Williams did not help itself by turning the ball
over 26 times, compared to 14 for Tufts. Junior Sara Bloom
(Summit, NJ) played 54 minutes in goal for Tufts and
earned the victory with four saves.
Tufts hosts Bates in NESCAC action on Wednesday. The Ephs play
at Catholic Tuesday at 4 pm.
Information provided by Williams College was used in this
game release
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