Princeton Survives JMU

Women's Lacrosse

HARRISONBURG, Va.

– Senior Christine Casaceli matched her personal best with a five-point effort to lead the No. 9-ranked Princeton women’s lacrosse team to a 13-11 win over No. 16 James Madison on Wednesday, March 18. The Tigers got goals from seven different players and the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week sophomore goalkeeper Erin Tochihara made 12 saves, including holding JMU to 0-for-3 shooting from the eight-meter arc.

 

Sophomore Lizzy Drumm had two goals and two assists, while senior Holly McGarvie had one of each. Junior Kristin Morrison and senior Kristin Schwab scored two goals apiece and senior Katie Cox collected two assists. Princeton improves to 4-1 on the season.

 

Kim Griffin led the Dukes with six points, scoring five goals and adding an assist. Jaime Dardine and Mary Kate Lomady each collected four points. JMU falls to 5-2.

  

Lomady and Dardine each tallied unassisted goals to bring the Dukes within one, 12-11, with 4:19 to play, but the Tigers held on.

 

JMU had a 12-6 edge in ground balls, a 14-12 advantage in draw controls and had two more caused turnovers than the Tigers. Princeton cleared on 13 of its 14 attempts and went 2-for-2 off of free-position shots. JMU went 10-for-11 on clearing attempts and was 0-for-3 on free-position shots.

Even Stevens Falls to Endicott

Stevens Men's Lacrosse

HOBOKEN

– The Stevens Institute of Technology men’s lacrosse team scored the game’s final five goals, but it was not enough as the Ducks fell to No. 6 Endicott College, 11-9 on Wednesday night at the De Baun Athletic Complex in Hoboken. A dominant third quarter by the Gulls (5-0) extended a two-goal halftime lead to six, and the Ducks could never recover.

Stevens (3-3) was led by three tallies from senior midfielder Alex Heckmanand two goals and an assist from seniors Matt Keating and J. R. Oreskovich. The Gulls were keyed by four goals from senior Nick Cosco (Londenderry, N.H.) and two scores and four assists from senior Brandon Dube (Danvers, Mass.).

Dube scored 47 seconds into the fourth quarter to give Endicott its largest lead of the contest at 11-4, and it looked like the Gulls had taken all the life out of the Ducks. From that point on however, it was all Stevens as Keating started the rally with unassisted goal with 12:16 left. Sophomore midfielder Chris Laurita brought the Ducks to within five 47 ticks later, and Keating then put away a nice feed from Oreskovich with 9:48 left.

Heckman and senior Eric Smith hooked up with 5:45 to go to make the score 11-8, and Heckman fired home a laser to pull the Ducks within two with 2:04 showing on the clock.

Face-offs were a huge reason why the Gulls came out on top. They won 19-of-24 on the night and won several key ones late to secure the win.