Garnet Take Third at Seven Sisters
Katie Crawford '07 and Niamh Shortt '06 each scored three goals to lead the Garnet (4-2) to a 13-7 victory over Wellesley to capture third place in the Seven Sisters Tournament.
Wellesley jumped out to an early 3-1 lead as Katie Moseley scored Wellesley's first three goals. The Garnet countered with goals from Ele Forbes '05, Crawford, and Shortt to take a 4-3 lead with 5:56 remaining in the half.
The teams then traded goals as Casey Logan scored twice for Wellesley and Shortt added her second. Heidi Fieselmann '06 scored on a free position shot with 1:15 remaining and Crawford scored on a nice pass from Lindsay Roth '07 with 49 seconds left to give the Garnet a 7-5 halftime advantage.
Swarthmore broke open the game in the second, scoring the first six goals of the half to open a 13-5 lead. Forbes opened the scoring in the first minute with an unassisted goal and Roth scored in the 36th minute to give the Garnet a 9-5 lead. Shortt picked up the hattrick with 20:23 remaining on a Megan Speare assist and Fieselmann added her second goal of the game off a Shortt pass.
Crawford picked up her hattrick on a free position as she did a 360 through the Wellesley defense. Roth closed out the Garnet scoring with 8:08 remaining.
The Garnet defense held Wellesley scoreless for over 25 minutes until Maxine Brownstein scored two goals to make the final score 13-7.
Susannah Blair recorded seven saves for the Garnet while Karyn Benson had seven stops for Wellesley.
Roth, Megan Sanborn '08 and Cara Tigue '06 were named to the Seven Sisters All-tournamenet Team.
The Garnet travel to Neumann on Wednesday for a 4 p.m. non-conference contest.