NEWTON, MA- Lasell College women's lacrosse finished off the 2011 regular season prevailing 19-6 over Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) opponent Emmanuel College today to improve their overall record to 10-5 and their GNAC slate to 7-1. The Lasers currently stand in second place in the league behind present leader Norwich University who are unbeaten at 6-0 in the conference with two games left to play. Emmanuel falls to 3-8 this season, and 2-6 in the league with one game left to play.
Lasell was the more commanding team for the entire contest, winning the battle in shots (32-16), draw controls (17-10), ground balls (23-15), and free possession goals (3-1). Laser net minder Kristin Coderre (Monson, MA) turned aside seven of the Saints on-target shot attempts to pick up her tenth win of the year, while Tina Canavan (Stonington, CT), Britney Wuorio (Bolton, MA), Neila Kudla (Groton, MA), and Erin Gertonson (Bayport, NY) each scored a hat trick in the victory.
Ashley Slattery (Weymouth, MA) put Lasell on top 2-0 in the first minute of the game scoring a pair of unassisted tallies in a 19 seconds span. Madeline Leahy (Cohasset, MA) cut Lasell's lead in half with a single mark at 28:22 but the Lasers replied with five unanswered goals, including the game-winning tally by Gertonson with 19:59 on the clock, to take a 7-1 lead.
Logan Carr (Saratoga Springs, NY), who proved to be the Saints biggest contributor on the scoreboard scoring half of the teams' goals, netted a hat trick for the visitors in a six minute period between 19:15 and 12:59. Carr was just once interrupted by Lasell's Tina Canavan (Stonington, CT) who capped her three-goal game with a solo attack of her own at 17:44. Canavan would finish the game with four points, chipping in with a helper on Wourio's third marker, a man-down goal, at 6:41.
The hosts closed out the first half with a 6-0 run through eight minutes which included three man-down goals by Wuorio, Kudla and Rebecca Stanton (Agawam, MA). At halftime, Lasell sat comfortably with a 14-4 lead.
Lasell's extra-man offense scored 21 seconds into the second period, with credit going to Jen Lemoine (Trumbull, CT) off the stick of Wourio for the first of two assists for the freshman. Gertonson completed her hat trick with goals in the 27th and 17th minutes of the period and Lemoine and April McGrath (WIllow Grove, PA) brought about the final score with additional goals in the final ten minutes of the game.
Michaela Brennan (Worcester, MA) and Leahy also netted and unassisted goal each in the second half for Emmanuel. Leahy added three ground balls and three draw controls while Brennan also had three ground balls a game-best three caused turnovers. Carr also won the draw three times and picked up three ground balls.
Goalkeeper HIllary Dundurant (Merrimac, MA) was hit with the loss, making nine saves against the Lasers potent offense which fired off 28 shots-on-goal in the game.
Wuorio led all scorers with six points adding two assists to four goals. Canavan had a game-best five draw controls, Chelsea Caren (Redding, CT) added four and Stanton won three draws in the contest. Stanton also rounded up seven ground balls for a contest-high.