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No. 15 UConn Edged By No. 19 Yale, 10-9
BOX SCORE
STORRS, Conn. (April 27, 2005) – Katherine Peetz’s goal with 25
seconds to play was the difference maker as the No. 15 University of
Connecticut women’s lacrosse team dropped a critical regional contest
to No. 19 Yale on Wednesday night at a damp and fog-encased Morrone
Stadium. The Huskies drop to 10-5 overall on the year, with each of
the five losses coming to nationally ranked teams. The Bulldogs up
their mark to 10-6 overall in the team’s regular season finale.
On a night where visibility was occasionally an issue and senior
Jacqui Hamilton was a late scratch from the lineup, UConn relied on a
diverse attack against Yale, which held Tracy Mullaney without either
a goal or assist for the first time since a loss to Northwestern on
April 4, 2004, a span of 22 games. Junior defender Clare Schwan netted
her first career goal and Heather McHugh increased her season goal
count by 50-percent, from four to six, but the Bulldogs found the
answer in the game’s waning moments.
For the game’s first 22 minutes, the teams alternated scoring each of
the contest’s first eight goals, three of which came from Yale’s
Katherine Sargent. The quick hat trick was part of a five-goal night
for the senior. Lauren Taylor netted the other one for the Bulldogs,
part of a four-goal game for her. Either Sargent or Taylor scored
every Yale goal with the exception of Peetz’s game-winner. Shannon
Burke scored twice for UConn in the early going as the teams battled
for leverage. Burke ended the night with three goals for her fifth hat
trick of the season. Taylor and Sargent would both score before the
24:00 mark to put Yale up 6-4, the largest lead of the half of either
side, but Dana Stewart tallied unassisted for UConn at 26:37 to make
it a 6-5 game at intermission.
UConn stormed out of the gate in the second half as Schwan and Burke
both scored in the stanza’s opening 2:03 to put the Huskies on top
7-6. A pair of unassisted Taylor tallies, and one for Sargent, put the
Bulldogs back up 9-7, a lead they would maintain until there were 10
minutes remaining in the contest. Kristen Link scored unassisted at
50:20 to draw the Huskies to within a goal and McHugh completed a rare
two-goal effort as the scoreboard showed 3:33 to play, converting off
of a Stewart feed. It was Stewart’s second assist, part of a
three-point night for the senior. Each team had scoring chances inside
of three minutes before Peetz found the net on a broken play at 59:35,
slipping a low shot past Kristen Haldeman in the Husky net.
Jennifer Wong started the game in net for UConn and made six saves
over the game’s first 40:33, allowing eight goals. Haldeman went the
final 19:27, allowing two goals with one save. Lonnie Sarnell stopped
10 shots and allowed nine goals, going the distance in the Bulldog
cage.
The Huskies will wrap up their 2005 regular season on Friday afternoon
then they play host to St. Bonaventure at 4:00 p.m. at Morrone
Stadium.
Yale 10, Connecticut 9
Yale
6 4 -- 10 (10-6)
Connecticut 5 4 -- 9
(10-5)
CONNECTICUT GOALS: Shannon Burke (3), Heather McHugh (2), Dana
Stewart, Tammy Michel, Kristen Link, Clare Schwan.
CONNECTICUT ASSISTS: Dana Stewart (2).
YALE GOALS: Katherine Sargent (5), Lauren Taylor (4), Katherine Peetz.
YALE ASSISTS: Alessandra Croffy, Sarah Scalia.
SAVES: YU, Lonnie Sarnell 10 (60 min., 9 GA); UC, Jennifer Wong 6 (41
min., 8 GA); UC, Kristen Haldeman 1 (19 min., 2 GA).
SHOTS: YU, 26; UC, 25.
GROUND BALLS: YU, 15; UC, 0.
FREE POSITIONS: YU, 1-of-3; UC, 1-of-5.
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