Lacrosse team wins 22-5 advances to Semis

Steven M Miller Jr, Staff Writer


This evening the #3 seeded Bridgewater State College women's lacrosse team beat #6 seeded Castleton State College 22-5. BSC improves to 9-6 on the season and Castleton finishes their season at 6-7.

"We played well and we worked on a lot of things today," said head coach Erika Smith. "On defense and offense we ran a lot of the plays that we are going to run on Friday (versus Curry)."

Bridgewater State went on a 13-0 run in the first 19:50 in the game, until Castleton scored their first goal of the game. After leading at the half 14-1, the Bears built on their lead scoring 7 more goals. In the second half, BSC allowed the Spartans to score four more goals in the game.

Bridgewater took a total of 26 shots in the first half, and 37 shots in the game.

The Bears were led by senior midfielder Kathryn Sweeney who had 5 goals and 3 assists. She scored 4 of her game high 5 goals in the first half, including the first three goals of the game.

Eight different players, including Sweeney, scored at least one goal. Junior midfielder Lauren Serratore had a big day as she had 4 goals, 4 draw controls, 3 ground balls, and she caused two turnovers. Freshman attacker Shannon Manning also chipped in with two goals, two assists, 3 draw controls, two ground balls, and she caused two turnovers. Freshman attacker Kate DeMaio also had 4 goals and an assist.

"On offense we got open shots, we made our cuts, and we got some good open passes," said Manning. "Our transition game was good and we put good shots on the goal."

In the first half, the Bears played tenacious defense only allowing 3 shots on goal, and 11 shots on the game. On defense, Senior Kathleen Cote and junior Adrienne Berkland each drew five ground balls in the game. Berkland also caused 8 of the teams 27 caused turnovers.

"On defense we played well," said Cote. "In the last couple of games we had been letting up, but today we really stepped it up today."

In the net, freshman Chelsea Bracci saved 4 goals, in her second start of the season.

"This was Chelsea's second start in the net and she played well," said Smith.

The Bridgewater State women's lacrosse team advances to the semifinal match of the ECAC Tournament. They will take on 11-4 Curry College at 6 pm at Curry College.

The winner of this semifinal match will take on the winner of #1 seeded Plymouth State and #4 seeded Worcester State.

The Comment will bring you a preview of the game on Thursday.


Photo 1: Junior midfielder Alison Gugliotta waits for the play to develop around Castleton colleges net

Photo 2: Junior midfielder Ashley Panzini tries to get the ball into play

Photos courtesy to Steven M. Miller, Jr


Information used in this report courtesy of bridgew.edu/athletics
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