NE10 Women's Lacrosse Report: Week 9

Posted: Apr 24, 2023

Week 9 - April 24, 2023

NE10 Player of the Week

Jess Sullivan, Saint Anselm
Junior | Attack | Wrentham, Mass.

Sullivan posted a career-best 10 points on five goals and five assists in a win over Franklin Pierce before netting three goals and assisting on one in a win over New Haven. The junior netted eight goals and added six assists for 14 points between the pair of wins. Sullivan collected one ground ball and caused one turnover while attempting 14 shots with 12 of them on target.

NE10 Defensive Player of the Week

Alexandra Quinn, Pace
Junior | Defense | Eastport, N.Y.

Quinn played in both games for Pace this week, starting with Tuesday's 20-5 win over American International College. She had Five draw controls, one ground ball and one caused turnover in the victory. Then in Saturday's 21-7 win over Franklin Pierce, she had seven draw controls, three ground balls and three caused turnovers.

NE10 Goalkeeper of the Week

Ashlee Wargo, Bentley
Sophomore | Goalkeeper | Madison, Conn.

Wargo made 10 saves and posted a 55.6 save percentage to help the Falcons to a 13-8 road win over No. 9 Adelphi on April 18. She also added three ground balls in the win. Wargo then made a season-high 15 saves and had a 53.6 save percentage in a close 13-10 defeat to Le Moyne on April 22. In the two games she combined for 25 saves and a 54.3 save percentage.

NE10 Rookie of the Week

Marielle Colalillo, New Haven
Freshman | Attack | Manhasset, N.Y.

Colalillo finished among the team-leaders in a pair of games with eight goals combined, putting up four each against Assumption and Saint Anselm. With these two games added in, Colalillo now has five hat tricks, including in each of the last three games. In addition, she added a pair of caused turnovers and three ground balls.

NE10 Weekly Honor Roll

Katelynn Johnston, Assumption (So., M - Port Jefferson, N.Y.)
Johnston nearly doubled her season's total in goals and points in just two games for Assumption this past week. The sophomore began the week with a five-goal outburst against New Haven, but then followed that up with seven goals at SNHU. Johnston set the game to overtime, as she cashed in on her lone free position shot of the game, with just over a second left in regulation. On the week, she recorded 12 goals, one assists and 13 points.

Kenzie Lupton, Bentley (Sr., A - Canandaigua, N.Y.)
Lupton was Bentley's leading scorer in two games last week against top-10 teams Adelphi and Le Moyne. In the road win over the Panthers she notched four goals. Three of those goals came in the 4th quarter as the Falcons pulled away for a 13-8 victory. Against Le Moyne she notched her 6th hat trick of the season.

Sarah Hutchings, Le Moyne (Jr., A - Marcellus, N.Y.)
Hutchings registered eight points on six goals and two assists to go with four ground balls in seventh-ranked Le Moyne's 2-0 week. She had four goals in a 17-7 win at Saint Rose on Tuesday. She recorded four points on two goals and two assists and added four ground balls and a caused turnover in a 13-10 victory at 18th-ranked Bentley on Saturday to clinch a top-two seed in the NE10 Championship.

Raegan Bailey, New Haven (So., A - Cheshire, Conn.)
Bailey led New Haven's offense in a pair of games last week, racking up 11 point son five goals and six assists. She opened up the week with four goals and an assist in a road win at Assumption and wrapped up the week with a goal and a season-high five assists for six points. She also added four draw controls and a caused turnover.

Emma Rafferty, Pace (Gr., M - Bay Shore, N.Y.)
Rafferty played in both games for the Setters this week, helping them to two wins. In Tuesday's 20-5 win over American International College, she scored three goals and had one assist. Then on Saturday, she broke the program record for goals in a single game, scoring eight times in Pace's 21-7 victory over Franklin Pierce. She had a shooting percentage of 55.0 on the week and scored 11 times on 14 shots on goal.

Erin Doyle, Saint Anselm (Jr., M - Weymouth, Mass.)
Doyle scooped up a team-high 14 draw controls and seven ground balls in a pair of wins for the Hawks. The junior was credited with the game-winning score in the 15-13 win over New Haven. She also added nine draw controls, four ground balls, and one caused turnover in that contest.

Elizabeth Driscoll, Saint Anselm (So., GK - Marblehead, Mass.)
Driscoll made 24 saves in a pair of wins from the cage for the Hawks, good for a 0.511 save percentage. The sophomore stopped 13 shots on goal against New Haven, marking her seventh game this season with double-digit saves. Driscoll posted a 12.68 goals-against average between the contests.

Bayleigh Takacs, Southern Connecticut (Sr., A - Sparta, N.J.)
In Southern's only game of the week, a 17-9 win at Saint Rose, Takacs matched her season-high with five goals while also adding three assists for her second-highest scoring game of the season. Takacs also added three caused turnovers. Of her five goals, Takacs became the seventh player in SCSU history to reach the 100 career goal mark and is the Owls' active leading scorer with 170 career points.

Shelby Cole, Southern N.H. (Jr., M - Gilford, N.H.)
Cole registered 12 points on nine goals and three assists during a 1-1 week for the Penmen, while adding four draw controls, three ground balls and three caused turnovers. Cole tallied six goals, two assists, three draw controls, two ground balls and two caused turnovers in a 21-7 victory at Saint Michael's on Tuesday. She added three goals, an assist, one draw control, one ground ball and one caused turnover in a 17-16 overtime loss against 21st-ranked Assumption on Saturday.

Courtney Cronin, Southern N.H. (Sr., M - Woburn, Mass.)
Cronin caused four turnovers and scooped five ground balls, to go with six goals, during a 1-1 week. Cronin tallied three caused turnovers, three ground balls and three goals in a 21-7 win at Saint Michael's on Tuesday, before causing another turnover, collecting a pair of ground balls and scoring three more times in a 17-16 defeat against No. 21 Assumption on Saturday.

NE10 Weekly Winners

2023 NE10 Women's Lacrosse Standings

	Conference				Overall
-	GP	W-L	PCT	GP	W-L	PCT
Pace	12	12-0	1.000	23	21-2	0.913
Le Moyne	12	11-1	0.917	21	18-3	0.857
Adelphi	12	9-3	0.750	20	13-7	0.650
Saint Anselm	12	8-4	0.667	18	13-5	0.722
Bentley	12	8-4	0.667	17	10-7	0.588
New Haven	12	8-4	0.667	19	11-8	0.579
Assumption	12	6-6	0.500	17	9-8	0.529
So. New Hampshire	12	5-7	0.417	17	9-8	0.529
So. Connecticut	12	4-8	0.333	16	8-8	0.500
Saint Rose	12	4-8	0.333	17	8-9	0.471
Franklin Pierce	12	2-10	0.167	16	3-13	0.188
American Int'l	12	1-11	0.083	15	3-12	0.200
Saint Michael's	12	0-12	0.000	15	2-13	0.133