Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 2/24/19
The 11th-ranked University of Pennsylvania women’s lacrosse team rallied from down two in the second half and finished with a golden-goal winner from junior Erin Barry in overtime to take down No. 17 Johns Hopkins on Saturday, 11-10. The win pushes the Quakers to 2-0 on the early season.
Mikalia Cheeseman made 12 saves on the day and has tallied a total of 21 on the season with a save percentage of .600 in two starts.
Penn captured 12 draw controlls to 11 for JHU. Junior Chelsea Kibler finished with six on the day, a new career best.
The Quakers held the Bluejays scoreless for nearly 22 minutes of action in the second half, allowing Penn to take the lead after falling behind by two.
Katy Junior (Radnor) led the Penn defense with three caused turnovers, while Abby Bosco recorded a team-best five ground balls.
Lehigh 19, St. Francis 4
The Mountain Hawks scored seven straight first-half goals to take an 8-1 lead and wouldn’t look back. Senior Kellie Gough scored five goals to help lead the offense while defensively, the Mountain Hawks allowed just 12 Red Flash shots compared to 18 Saint Francis turnovers. The 15-goal win marked the Mountain Hawks’ largest margin of victory since Mar. 20, 2010 when they defeated Lafayette 20-4.
Junior Sondra Dickey (Conestoga) was stellar as well, filling up the stat sheet with four goals, two assists, five draw controls, two groundballs and two caused turnovers. Junior Autumn Ryan scored three goals for her third-career hat trick, while sophomore Hannah Cermack tallied a career-high five points. Freshman Emma McGillis caused three turnovers, as did senior attacker Courtney Henig, who also dished three assists.
Tied 1-1 less than two minutes in, Ryan scored twice in less than two minutes before Dickey followed with consecutive goals to put the Mountain Hawks up 5-1 just over nine minutes in.
Lehigh ended the run with goals from sophomore Julianne Puckette (Radnor), Gough and Cermack. The Red Flash ended a 19:24 scoreless drought with 9:13 left in the half, but the Mountain Hawks responded with four unanswered goals to end the half. The run included the first-career goal from freshman Nora Giordano, as Lehigh took a 12-2 halftime advantage.
Villanova 12, Siena 7
Carlye Maita, Devin Hassinger (Owen J. Roberts), Grainger Rosati and Devon Brown each contributed two goals apiece to lead the Wildcats (2-1). Hassinger won eight draw controls to move up the leader board in all-time career draw controls. She now sits in third with 125, surpassing Becky Gardner (’04-’06).
Penn State 14, Cornell 12
Senior Madison Carter tied a career-high with six goals to lead the Nittany Lions. PSU tallied eight goals in the first half and six in the second to improve to 3-0 this season.
Carter led the Nittany Lions with seven points, including her sixth six-goal performance of her career. The senior now has 210 career points, moving into ninth all-time at PSU. On the day, she moved past Michele DeJuliis (203; 1994-97) and Colleen O’Hara (208; 2000-03). Carter is one point behind Steph Lazo (211; 2014-17) for eighth place. She also won four draw controls.
Senior Kayla Brisolari collected two goals and an assist, while junior Kristin Roberto scored twice. Junior Quinn Nicolai (Moorestown) and freshman Sydney Wolfington (Agnes Irwin) each contributed a goal and an assist.
Cornell’s Caroline Allen (Academy of Notre Dame) led the team with six points, including two goals.
Rutgers 12, Delaware 11, OT
Christine Long scored five goals and Sydney Rausa (Hatboro-Horsham) had four for the Blue Hens in defeat,
Virginia 14, Princeton 9
