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Huskies Claim ECAC Championship With 14-7 Victory Over Boston College
BOX SCORE
 STORRS, Conn. (May 14, 2005) – Laura Trzasko scored two goals and
caused four turnovers to earn game MVP honors as the No. 16 University
of Connecticut women’s lacrosse team defeated Boston College, 14-7, to
claim the 2005 ECAC Division I Women’s Lacrosse Championship on
Saturday afternoon at Morrone Stadium in Storrs. UConn ends its most
successful season ever at 12-5 while the Eagles see their 2005
campaign draw to a close with a 10-7 mark.
In addition to Trzasko’s steady two-way play, Shannon Burke scored a
pair of goals and added four assists to help the Husky cause. Burke’s
four assists were a career high and stand just one shy of equalling
UConn’s single game record of five. Also, Dana Stewart recorded a hat
trick for the Huskies. Shauna Culhane’s three goals led all Eagles
while Carley St. Lucia scored twice for BC.
Goals by Stewart and BC’s Courtney Legath made it a 1-1 game before a
four-goal flurry by UConn over a 3:36 span opened up a 5-1 Husky lead.
Burke triggered the roll with her first goal of the game at 13:11.
Jacqui Hamilton converted on a Burke feed at 14:48, and Trzasko scored
her first of the afternoon, from Tanya Kotowicz, at 16:30. Moments
later, Burke scored unassisted at 16:47 and Boston College called time
out. Shari Krasnoo’s pep talk worked as the Eagles scored the game’s
next two goals. Culhane pocketed an unassisted goal at 21:10 followed
by Susie Breaznell’s free position tally at 22:41, cutting the Eagle
deficit to 5-3 and forcing a Husky time out. BIG EAST Coach of the
Year Bonnie Rosen got similar results from her break in the action as
UConn controlled the ensuing draw and Hamilton would find Stewart for
a goal at 23:16. UConn retook its four-goal edge two and a half
minutes later at 25:41 when Kristen Link scored unassisted. St. Lucia
scored just before the half, an unassisted goal at 29:24, which would
be a harbinger of things to come.
BC carried the momentum through intermission and scored the second
half’s first two goals to climb within a single tally of the Huskies
at 7-6. Culhane converted all alone at both 36:53 and 42:12 for the
Eagles during the stretch. The homestanding Huskies would take charge
of the game after Culhane’s final strike of the day, scoring each of
the contest’s next six goals, and seven of the last eight overall.
Stewart completed her third hat trick of both the season and her
career off of a Burke feed at 42:47 to quickly squelch the momentum
from BC’s second goal of the stanza. Kotowicz would set up Trzasko at
45:20 and then score herself at 45:32, on a give-and-go with Burke, to
put UConn up 10-6. Strikes by Link, Tammy Michel and Tracy Mullaney
completed the run of six unanswered goals. The Mullaney goal was the
154th of her UConn career, breaking a tie with Pam Lowie and giving
her sole possession of the school record.
St. Lucia and Michel each tallied in the final five minutes of the
game to account for the 14-7 final. The score was the second most
lopsided ever between UConn and BC, a series that has historically
been very close-fought, with the Huskies now holding a narrow 5-4 edge
in the win column. As evidence of the advantage in possession control
that UConn enjoyed, 10 of the team’s 14 goals featured an assist while
six of BC’s seven tallies were unassisted strikes. The 10 assists for
UConn tied a season-high and is tied for third best for a single game
in Husky lore.
Jennifer Wong went the distance in the net for UConn, allowing seven
goals while making 11 saves, all of them in the second half. Courtney
Zwirko made seven saves over the full 60 minutes for BC, yielding 14
goals.
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