Sophomore Jordan Baillargeon finished with four goals and an assist
for five points and helped lead the Ravens comeback to force
overtime.
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Rotolo nets three goals, including gamewinner in OT, as Penmen
survive
Boxscore
RINDGE, N.H. (April 7,
2009) - Southern New Hampshire University scored 1:12 into
overtime and made it stand over the final 4:48 of extra time to
claim a 17-16 victory over Franklin Pierce University in
Northeast-10 Conference women's lacrosse action at Sodexo Field
tonight.
Senior attack Laura Rotolo
(Waltham, Mass./Waltham) was one of three Southern New
Hampshire players with three goals, netting the gamewinner 1:12
into the first of two three-minute overtimes, as the Penmen notched
their third-straight win. Senior Libby Parent (Hinesburg,
Vt./Champlain Valley Union) and freshman Emily
Mongeau (Westborough, Mass./Westborough) also finished
with three goals on the night.
Seniors Julie Kraus (Derry,
N.H./Pinkerton Academy) and Jennifer Parro
(Ipswich, Mass./Ipswich) each led SNHU with five points,
with Kraus posting a goal and four assists and Parro dishing a
game-high five helpers. Junior Carole Lee (Derry,
N.H./Pinkerton Academy) chipped in with two goals and an
assist for three points.
Senior May Stoffer collected her 23rd career assist tonight,
matching the program record.
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Sophomores Lauren Stille
(North Quincy, Mass./North Quincy) and Jordan
Baillargeon (Westfield, Mass./Westfield) led Franklin
Pierce with five points each. Stille scored a game-high five goals,
going a perfect 4-for-4 on free-position attempts, while
Baillargeon finished with four goals and an assist. Classmate
Ashley Moirano (South Burlington, Vt./South
Burlington) added three goals, including two-straight to
force overtime, and an assist for four points.
Senior May Stoffer (New
Hartford, Conn./Watkinson) chipped in with a goal and
assist for Franklin Pierce. The assist, on the Ravens opening goal
by Baillargeon 3:27 into the contest, was the 23rd of
her career; matching the program record set by former teammate
Celine Stamets from 2005-2008.
Senior Katie Clark
(Norwich, Conn./St. Bernard) posted six saves in goal for
Southern New Hampshire over the first 50:29, before giving way to
freshman Hannah Moriarty (Chelmsford,
Mass./Chelmsford) who finished without a stop over the
final 15:31. Freshman Jillian Bolduc (Atkinson,
N.H./Timberlane) posted 14 saves for Franklin Pierce,
including eight in the second half to help the Ravens force
overtime.
Sophomore Lauren Stille netted a game-high five goals, including
four on free-position shots.
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Rotolo's winning goal came after
Franklin Pierce had won the opening draw to start overtime, but
turned the ball over. After the SNHU senior's 13th goal
of the season, the Penmen won the ensuing draw and maintained
possession for the rest of the first half of the extra session.
Kraus controlled the draw to start the second half of overtime and
SNHU milked all three minutes off the clock to take home the
victory.
Franklin Pierce erased a four-goal
(14-10) deficit in the final 16 minutes of regulation to force
overtime. The rally was capped by a second-straight goal from
Moirano, assisted by freshman Brianna Nash (Oceanside,
N.Y./Oceanside), with just 34-seconds on the clock. After
Kraus controlled the ensuing draw for SNHU, Franklin Pierce senior
Kayleigh Jaksina (Townsend, Mass./North Middlesex)
forced a turnover with ten seconds to play, but the Ravens couldn't
get the ball to the other end before time expired.
Sophomore Alyssa Johnson's
(Nashua, N.H./Nashua South) goal with 16-minutes to play
was SNHU's second goal in a 20-second span that gave the Penmen
their second four-goal lead (14-10) of the half. Freshman
Mary Kate Stille (North Quincy, Mass./North
Quincy) and older sister, Lauren, each scored to pull
Franklin Pierce back within two (14-12) with 12:43 to play.
Sophomore Ashley Moirano added three goals, including two-straight
in the final five minutes of regulation to force overtime.
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Trailing by three (16-13) after a
SNHU goal from freshman Jade Antonangeli (Bourne,
Mass./Bourne) with 9:31 to play, Franklin Pierce scored
the final three goals of regulation. The rally started 25-seconds
after the Penmen goal, when Baillargeon scored her fourth marker of
the day (and second-straight for the Ravens), assisted by Mary Kate
Stille, with 9:06 left. Moirano capped the rally with her
back-to-back goals.
Southern New Hampshire finished
with a 42-29 advantage in shots for the match, including 31-22 on
goal. Both teams committed 31 turnovers, but SNHU also enjoyed a
26-11 edge on draw controls.
Franklin Pierce (3-6, 1-4 NE-10) is
back in action on Thursday when it hosts 9th-ranked
Stonehill College at 4 p.m. At halftime, all 130 members of the
Franklin Pierce Student-Athlete Honor Roll for the Fall 2008
semester will be recognized as part of National Student-Athlete
Day. Southern N.H. (7-3, 4-1 NE-10) visits Saint Anselm College on
Thursday at 4 p.m.
