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Date: March 18, 2006
Contact: Bill Sodoma

 

10th-ranked Colby women's lacrosse stops ninth-ranked Williams

WATERVILLE, Maine ---- First-year player Kate Sheridan (Hingham, Mass.) had five goals to help the 10th-ranked Colby College women's lacrosse team to an 11-9 victory over ninth-ranked Williams College in a New England Small College Athletic Conference game Saturday at Bill Alfond Field.

Sheridan had three goals in the first half to help the Mules fight back for a 6-6 tie at the break. Williams (0-2 overall, 0-2 NESCAC) went ahead 3-0 in the 14 minutes of the game while Colby had four shots hit the post during that time.

The Mules battled back to make it 3-3 with a goal by first-year Lauren Strazzula (Norwell, Mass.) and two goals by Sheridan. However, Williams went ahead again with two straight goals by Rachel Barr (Hanover, N.H.) and Kaylan Tildsley (Andover, Mass.). Colby, though, scored three of the final four goals of the half to tie the game at the break.

Williams took two more leads early in the second half at 7-6 and 8-7 only to see Colby (1-1, 1-1) score four unanswered goals to take an 11-8 lead. The Mules' defense kept the Ephs off the scoreboard from 26:01 to 1:09 of the second half. Tildsley got the goal at 1:09 to make the final score 11-9.

Sheridan, a high school All-American, has seven goals in the first two games for the Mules. Allie Libby (Needham, Mass.) added one goal and three assists in the game and has nine assists in two contests. Cary Finnegan (West Hartford, Conn.) scored her first collegiate goal and added an assist, while Kelsey Neville (Duxbury, Mass.), Becky Julian (South Windsor, Conn.) and Lauren Barrett (Fairfield, Conn.) all had one goal.

Tildsley had four goals and one assist to lead Williams. Britt Spackman (Newton, Mass.) and Rachel Barr (Hanover, N.H.) both had two goals.

Colby is off until playing Claremont at Colorado College on Monday, March 27. Williams heads to Virginia for three games with the first one Monday at Randolph Macon at 4 p.m.

Colby 11, Williams 9

Williams 6#3-----9

Colby 6#5-----11

Goals-Assists: Williams: Kaylan Tildsley 4-1, Britt Spackman 2-0, Rachel Barr 2-0, Emily Gladden 1-0, Laura Carroll 0-1, Alison Murray 0-1, Sarah Adkins 0-1. Colby: Kate Sheridan 5-0, Allie Libby 1-3, Cary Finnegan 1-1, Kelsey Neville 1-0, Lauren Strazzula 1-0, Lauren Barrett 1-0, Becky Julian 1-0.

Shots: Williams 27, Colby 26. Goalies: Meghan Dwyer (Williams, 60 minutes, 8 saves); Catharine O'Brien (Colby, 60 minutes, 12 saves).