Women's Lacrosse Keeps on Rolling

The College of Wooster women's lacrosse team picked up its fifth-straight win late Saturday night (April 8), defeating Whittier College - a school located just outside of Los Angeles, Calif. - by the score of 15-7 under the lights on the campus of Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.

Early on it was tied at one, but Wooster then scored seven of the game's next eight goals to take a decisive 8-2 lead and Whittier was never able to pull closer than five after that point.

Leading the way, offensively, was senior Katelyn Connolly, who had six points on four goals and a pair of assists. Also for the Scots, sophomore Megan Kennedy totaled five points coming on two goals and three assists, and junior Emily White and sophomore Beth Hemminger had four points apiece. White's total came on three goals and an assist, while Hemminger scored twice and added two assists.

Rounding out the scoring for the winners were junior Miriam Esber and freshman Rachel Stevens with two scores each, and senior Jessica Critchlow with an assist.

In goal, junior Kim Christensen stopped seven shots by the Poets.

"Our overall team effort was great," commented second-year head coach Liz Grote. "Our defense definitely stepped it up. Jessica Bacon had five groundballs, three caused turnovers, a draw control, and an overall strong game that helped the defense along. Katelyn Connolly had another strong game Ÿ We had nine of our 15 goals assisted, which is very nice to see that we're putting it all together finally."

Wooster, which is now 5-3 overall and also was scheduled to play Northwestern University's club team on Sunday afternoon in Springfield but that game won't count towards its record, will put that win streak on the line next at conference foe Oberlin College on Wednesday, April 11, at 4:30 p.m.