Women’s Lacrosse: Roth Nets 100th, Garnet Fall In CC Playoffs
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. - Freshman midfielder Anna de Regt had three goals and an assist while junior midfielder Lindsay Roth netted the 100th goal of her career as fifth-seeded Swarthmore fell to the #4 seed Ursinus 12-9 in the first round of the Centennial Conference playoffs on Wednesday afternoon. The Bears' Debbie Jensen scored her third goal of the day with 4:37 remaining to break a 9-9 tie and lift Ursinus to victory over at Snell Field on Wednesday.
Ursinus (12-5) advances to face top-seeded Gettysburg in the CC semi-finals on Saturday afternoon.
After Garnet junior midfielder Katie Crawford scored forty-nine seconds in, the Bears ran off five unaswered goals to assume the early 5-1 lead at 16:03.
Roth ended the run with an unassisted score at 12:45; it is the 100th goal of the junior's career and her 31st of the season. Roth is the 12th Swarthmore woman to hit the century mark for goals in a career.
The Bears' Stephanie Kaysen scored for Ursinus at 8:43 to give the home team a 6-2 lead. Swarthmore rallied with a flurry of goals at the end of the first half, tying the score at 6-6. Senior Heidi Fieselmann finished off a pass from Roth at 2:03, de Regt netted an unassisted goal at 1:23, Crawford converted a free position shot at 0:47, and junior Athena Samaras scored with just seven ticks left after receiving a feed from de Regt.
Ursinus got the first two goals of the second half but the re-silient Garnet came back with two scores, one from Fieselmann (21:32) and one from de Regt (19:59). The Bears' Kaitlin Glenn rang up an unassisted score at 9:03 to give Ursinus a 9-8 lead but de Regt tied the score again with her third score, a free position shot, at 7:14.
Ursinus' Debbie Jensen scored her third goal of the day with 4:37 remaining to break a 9-9 tie while Stephanie Kaysen scored with 2:21 on the clock and Catie Cameron iced the game with a tally with 1:53 remaining.
Swarthmore goalie Susannah Blair made 13 saves in net while Bears' counterpart Allyson Shicora registered 17 saves.
The historical 2006 Garnet lacrosse season ends with a new school record for wins (14), the first Centennial Conference playoff berth, and the second Seven Sisters Championship. De Regt and Crawford tied for the team lead with 35 goals apiece while six other Garnet scored at least 10 goals this season.
(Centennial Conference Executive Secretary Steve Ulrich contributed to the story )