Cougars Fall to Top-Seeded
Montclair State in Skyline Championship
MONTCLAIR, N.J. (5/3/08) - The
Kean University women's lacrosse team fell to host Montclair State
University, 15-4, in the Skyline Conference Championship game on
Saturday afternoon.
Senior midfielder Bethany Blaine (Mooresetown, N.J.)
scored three goals and added an assist to earn Most Valuable Player
honors, as the top-seeded Red Hawks (9-7) won their third-straight
Skyline Conference title also earned the league's automatic bid to
the NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Championship.
For the Cougars (14-5), freshman goalkeeper Ashlie Berghold
(Boyertown, Pa.) (pictured right) stopped 16 shots as
their six-game winning streak was snapped. Kean, who has
already set a school-record for wins in a season, now awaits the
announcement of teams selected to participate in the ECAC
Championship Tournament on Monday afternoon.
Sophomore Morgan MacPhee (Toms Rivers, N.J.) added four
goals for the Red Hawks, while Kean freshman attack Amanda
South (Fairless, Pa.) netted three goals to lead the
Cougars.
Meeting for the second time this season, the Red Hawks jumped
out to a 3-0 lead in the first 10 minutes. Nicole Roselle (Pine
Brook, N.J.) finished off a Jennifer Tanis (Oak Ridge,
N.J.) feed 47 seconds in as Montclair grabbed the quick
one-goal margin. MacPhee netted the first of her scores with 21:35
to play and Marykate DiBenedetto (Cinnaminson, N.J.), who
had three goals, added her first 44 seconds later.
South would get the Cougars on the board 40 seconds later, but
Blaine tallied the next three goals, including the final one with
13:04 left as MSU pushed its lead to 6-1. Stephanie Cirino
(Warminster, Pa.) cut that deficit to four with 5:34 to
play, however Lauren Adams (Jackson, N.J.) sparked a
nine-goal run with just under five minutes left. MacPhee registered
her second with 4:01 left before halftime as Montclair led 7-2 and
she opened the second half converting a free-position attempt as
MSU scored three times in the first four minutes, the final two by
DiBenedetto, whose second score gave MSU an 11-2 advantage with
26:07 left in the game.
Adams scored once more and Jamie Hudacko (Montville,
N.J.) scored twice before MacPhee capped the run with her 23rd
of the season making the score, 15-2 with 19:33 to play. South
accounted for the final two goals, the latter her 58th of the year.
Freshman goalkeeper Talia Katz (Lower Merion, Pa.) made
seven saves for Montclair State which held the advantages in shot
(41-21) and draws (17-4). Freshman
Cirino and Alli Green (West Deptford, N.J.) had
two ground balls and two caused turnovers apiece for Kean.
