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ALLENTOWN, Pa,- Muhlenberg (10-3, 6-0 CC) picked a Centennial Conference 2-1 win over Swarthmore (5-8, 2-4 CC) on Wednesday evening.

The Mules out-shot the Garnet 10-5 in the first half of play. At the 10:43 mark, Mules sophomore Kristen Sabia (Wind Gap Pa./ Pen Argyl) finished off a pass from sophomore Nicole Notarianni (Clarks Summit, Pa./ Abington Heights).

With 18 seconds left on the clock in the first half, Swarthmore's Abbie Fischer '08 (Sudbury, Mass. / Lincoln-Sudbury Regional) tipped in a pass from Ashley Gunter '09 (Crisfield, Md./ Worcester Prep) to make a quick contact for the Garnet goal.

The first half ended with a 1-1 tie.

The game-winning goal for the Mules came at 63:32 when Notarianni notched her 10th goal of the season.

Freshman Garnet goalie Katie Ashmore (Princeton, N.J./ Princeton) had 10 saves while. Mules' junior goalie Michelle Consigiglio (Ramsey, N.J./ Ramsey) posted three saves.

Swarthmore field hockey is taking the weekend off but will continue play on Wednesday, Oct. 17 when they host defending national champion Ursinus at Clothier Field with a 7:30 start.

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Swarthmore, Pa. - The Alvernia Crusaders (10-3) beat the Swarthmore Garnet (5-7) Monday night in a 1-0 game at Clothier Field.

The first half was evenly matched, with both teams taking three shots on goal each. During the scoreless half, the Crusaders out shot the Garnet 8-5.

The even play continued to start the second half. It was a scoreless game until freshman Crusader Christy Yousaitis (West Lawn, Pa./ Wilson) scored an unassisted goal with 44:34 in the game. The Garnet refused to let up and continued to play hard to the end. They had several attempts on goal but the rock solid Crusader junior goalie Audrey Hoffman (Mertztown, Pa./ Brandywine Heights) turned them all aside.

Hoffman held the goal line well in the night's game, posting 10 saves for the Crusaders. Katie Ashmore '11 (Princeton, N.J./ Princeton) had 5 saves in net for the Garnet.

Swarthmore field hockey resumes as they travel to Allentown, Pa. for a Centennial Conference contest against Muhlenberg on Wed., Oct. 10 at 7:00.

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COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. -- Swarthmore senior midfielder Andrew Macurdy (Lumberton, NJ / Rancocas Valley) scored his first career goal as the Garnet picked up a key Centennial Conference road win, 2-1 at Ursinus in Collegeville, Pa.

Macurdy's goal came in the third minute of play. Junior Ladule Lako Lo Sarah (Davis, CA / Claremont) flicked the ball towards the box from the left side, and Macurdy left no doubt by drilling it into the top corner. The assist increases Lo Sarah's team-leading points total to 14.

Ursinus goalkeeper Joseph Kenney (Drexel Hill, PA / Shipley) was injured on the play, and was replaced by Ed de Gottal (Flemington, NJ / St. Joseph).

Swarthmore's lead would prove to be short-lived, though, as Ursinus marched right down the field and tied the score just 17 seconds later. Freshman Brendan Gifford got credit for the goal, the first of his young career, and classmate Ian Reitman picked up the assist.

The next 42 minutes passed without a goal, and the score remained 1-1 at halftime.

The Garnet got off to another fast start in the second half and once again cashed in with a quick goal. After bouncing around near the net, the ball came to junior Evan Nesterak (Parker, CO / Ponderosa), who fired a shot past de Gottal and into the lower left corner at 47:24 for his second goal of the year.

Garnet goalkeeper Ryan Sutcliffe (Milford, DE / Milford) made the lead stand up, making a total of two saves on the afternoon. The Bears got a solid emergency performance from de Gottal, who made four stops.

Swarthmore finished the match with a 17-8 shot advantage.

The Garnet have a week to gear up for their next Centennial Conference contest. Swarthmore will get a shot at making a statement win next Saturday, when conference co-leader Franklin & Marshall comes to town for a 7:00 p.m. match on Clothier Field.

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BRYN MAWR, Pa. - The 18th-ranked Swarthmore women's soccer team resumed its winning ways Saturday afternoon, getting three goals from first-year players to sweep past the hometown Bryn Mawr Owls 3-0 in Centennial Conference action.

The Garnet (8-1-0 overall, 4-1 CC) rebounded from a tough 1-0 double overtime loss to Johns Hopkins, picking up their seventh shut-out of the season to move within two points of first-place Ursinus in the Centennial standings.

Swarthmore's first goal came in spectacular fashion, as freshman back Sarah Reece (Manhattan Beach, Calif. / Mira Costa) drilled the ball into the top corner of the Bryn Mawr goal from 35 yards out. The goal came right before the intermission (41:50) and is the first collegiate goal for Reece-she is the seventh Swarthmore first-year to tally a goal in 2007.

The Garnet picked up a pair of insurance goals mid-way through the second half. Freshman forward Megan Colombo (Arcadia, Calif. / Arcadia) scored her fourth goal of the season off an assist from sophomore forward Julia Luongo (Tallahassee, Fla. / Leon) at 71:22 while forward Kelsey Cline '11 (Stanwood, Wash. / Stanwood) notched her third score at 73:12 off a feed from classmate Hannah Purkey (Palo Alto, Calif. / Palo Alto).

Swarthmore out-shot the Owls (4-7-1, 0-5 CC) 14-2, getting a strong effort of the bench from freshmen forwards Amy Langdon (Indianapolis, Ind. / Lawrence North) and Amy Vachal (Somerset, N.J. / Rutgers Prep). The midfield play was controlled by Swarthmore All-Centennial sophomore Maggie DeLorme (Lusby, Mary. / Patuxent), who out-hustled opponents to each and every free ball.

Garnet junior goalkeeper Lauren Walker (Fallston, Mary. / The Hotchkiss School) posted two saves in goal, lowering her season goals-against average to 0.22 (good for top-ten in all of Division III).

The Garnet travel up the Northeast Extension this Wednesday, Oct. 10 to face the Muhlenberg Mules in a 7:00 p.m. Centennial match.

CARLISLE, Pa. - Swarthmore senior Ross Weller (McConnellsburg, Pa. / Mercersburg Academy) led the Garnet men's cross country with a 15th place finish at the Dickinson Long/Short Course Invitational. The men, along with the women, finished the event sixth in the team competition.

Crossing the line after Weller on the 4K course was junior Erik Saka (Quincy, Ill./ University of Chicago Lab School), who finished in 13:02, while senior Mickey Katz (Stevens Point, Wis./ Stevens Point Area) finished next at 13:04. Patrick Harnett '11 (Syracuse, N.Y./ Westhill) marked a 13:09 race while finishing 35th overall. As the 41st runner, Garnet sophomore Jonnie Tompkins (Swarthmore, Pa./ Strath Haven) posted a time of 13:19.

The Swarthmore men finished sixth as a team, while five Garnet runners were in the top 45.

Garnet runner Ashley Davies '10 (New Providence, N.J./ Hunterdon Central) ran a 15:42 to lead the women. A few steps behind was Emma Stanley '09 (Fogelsville, Pa./ Parkland) who had a finishing time of 15:42. Caitlin Russell '11 (Mountain View, Calif./ Los Altos) placed 26th with a 15:48 finish while senior Kathy Feeney (Staatsburg, N.Y. / FDR) covered the course in 16:02 placing 34th.

With nine runners placing in the top 50, the Garnet women finished the day sixth overall out of 20 teams.

A small pack of Garnet runners completed their race together, taking the 40th-43rd places: Nyika Corbett '10 (Myrtle Point, Ore./ Myrtle Point) at 16:11, sophomore Lauren DeLuca (Audubon, Pa./ Kennedy-Kendrick) at 16:11, Bess Ritter '09 (Quaker Hill, Conn./ Waterford) at 16:14 and Ada Okun '11 (New York City, N.Y./ Stuyvesant) at 16:15.

The Swarthmore men's cross country team will travel to Center Valley, Pa. on Saturday, Oct. 13 to run in the DeSales University Invitational while the women head to Massachusetts to take part in the Seven Sisters Invitational.

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SWARTHMORE, Pa. - Johns Hopkins swept the Garnet volleyball team 3-0 Saturday afternoon at Tarble Pavilion. The Blue Jays led throughout the match winning by game scores of 30-16, 30-22, 30-17.

With the loss, Swarthmore falls to 7-13, 2-3 CC on the season, while Hopkins improves to 18-4, 4-1 CC.

The Garnet recorded 67 digs in the match to go towards the Centennial Conference's effort to fight breast cancer in the "Digging for a Cure" campaign during National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Junior libero Erin Heaney (Buffalo, N.Y. / City Honors) led the Garnet with a match high 20 digs. Supporting Breast Cancer Awareness month individual sponsors pledged a donation for each dig to go directly to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The total amount collected will be announced at the Centennial Volleyball Championship in November.

Sophomore outside-hitter Allison Cappelaere (Ellicott City, Mary. / Centennial) registered a double-double (12 kills, 11 digs) set the tempo for the Blue Jays. She also logged 8 aces to keep the momentum on Hopkins side throughout the match. Senior Natalia Fijalkowski (Windsor, Calif. / Windsor) notched a match high 13 kills, while junior Kim Jackanich (Pacifica, Calif. / St. Ignatius College Prep) led the squad with 14 digs. Junior setter Amanda Lewis (San Antonio, Tex. / St. Mary's Hall) paced the visitors with 30 assists.

Swarthmore received strong play from Vanessa Wells '08 (Chicago, Ill. / Lincoln Park) who tallied double digits kills for the fifth time this season with 11. Kearney Bangs '10 (Kingston, Wash. / North Kitsap) continued her strong play as setter with 31 assists.

The Garnet will look to get back in the win column this Wednesday as they travel up I-476 to take on Mules. The match against Muhlenberg is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.

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SWARTHMORE, Pa. - The Dickinson Red Devils (8-3, 1-2 CC) came out with a 4-2 win over host Swarthmore (5-6, 2-3) in Centennial Conference action on Clothier Field.

Dickinson, striking first, scored a goal at 13:13, with Red Devils' sophomore Alyssa Sands (Copley, Ohio/ Western Reserve Academy) posting her fifth tally of the season. Making it a two-goal lead for the Red Devils, freshman Leah Kaplan (Montclair, N.J./ Montclair) scored off a penalty corner, with sophomore Katelynn Bias (Gaithersburg, Md./ Bullis School) getting credit for the assist. The Garnet quickly fought back, and with 28:25 on the clock, made it a 2-1 game. Midfielder Joslyn Young '10 (Ann Arbor, Mich./ Community) got credit for the goal, tipping in a Jordan Schmidt '09 (Houston, Texas/ St. John's School) blast. At the end of the half, Swarthmore held a 13-7 advantage in shots.

Senior forward Abbie Fischer '08 (Sudbury, Mass./ Lincoln-Sudbury Regional) took her turn to tip a Schmidt blast home to tie the game just 3:19 into the second period--Schmidt's two-assist game is the first of her career. Red Devil senior Megan Kelly (Lititz, Pa./ Warwick) put home the game-winning goal at 43:46 and later tacked one more on for good measure to complete the scoring. Kelly's goals were assisted by freshman Lizzie Boorse (Center Valley, Pa./ Southern Lehigh) and Sands.

Katie Ashmore '11 (Princeton, N.J./ Princeton) made six saves in goal for the Garnet, while Young and Schmidt both had one defensive save. Red Devils sophomore netminder Amanda West (Harleysville, Pa./ North Penn) had a busy day in net, posting 12 saves.

Swarthmore field hockey continues its season on Monday, when the Garnet host Alvernia on Oct. 8, at 7:00 on Clothier Field.

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BRYN MAWR, Pa. - Swarthmore senior middle hitters Karen Berk (Haverford, Pa. / Havertown) and Katherine Gold (Cherry Hill, N.J. / Cherry Hill East) combined for 23 kills as the Garnet volleyball team rolled to a 3-0 Centennial Conference win at Bryn Mawr Thursday night. The game scores were 30-26, 30-20 and 30-20.

Swarthmore improved to 7-12 overall and 2-2 in the Conference while the Owls slip to 6-9 overall and 0-6 in the Centennial.

Berk tied her season-high with 12 kills, posting a hitting percentage of .632 (zero errors in 19 attempts) while contributing three blocks.  She now has 423 career blocks, placing her fifth all-time in Centennial history--she needs four more blocks to tie Gigi Koundinya from Johns Hopkins for fourth position. 

Gold posted her ninth double-figure kills total with 11 in 29 attack attempts.

Swarthmore sophomore setter Kearney Bangs (Kingston, Wash. / North Kitsap) directed the offense with 37 assists while junior libero Erin Heaney (Buffalo, N.Y. / City Honors) led the defense with 25 digs. Heaney also contributed five aces, tying a team-high on the season posted by three other Garnet women.

Swarthmore continues Centennial action this Saturday, Oct. 6, hosting Johns Hopkins at 1:00 p.m. in Tarble Pavilion. Both teams will be participating in "Digging for a Cure", a fundraising effort by the Centennial Conference teams benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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SWARTHMORE, Pa. - Johns Hopkins freshman midfielder Allie Zazzali (Scotch Plains, N.J. / Scotch Plaines-Fanwood) scored the game-winner late in the second overtime to send the visiting Blue Jays to a 1-0 Centennial victory over the 18th-ranked Swarthmore women's soccer team at muggy Clothier Field Wednesday night.

The lone goal in the game came at the 106:24 mark as junior midfielder Chrissy McCurdy (Mountainside, N.J. / Governor Livingstone) sent a cross from the left flank that found Zazzali 15 yards in front of the near post. The freshman turned and hit the ball with her left foot, beating Swarthmore goalkeeper Lauren Walker (Fallston, Mary. / The Hotchkiss School) to give the visitors their fifth consecutive win over the Garnet.  It was just the second goal Walker has allowed in 720:28 (0.25 goals-against average, second-best in CC).

The Blue Jays (7-1-3, 3-1-0 CC) halted Swarthmore's seven-game win streak, handing the hometown side their first setback of 2007. The Garnet know stand at 7-1-0 overall and 3-1-0 in the Centennial.

The Blue Jays, fresh off a tough 1-0 overtime loss at #3 College of New Jersey on Monday, controlled much of the action in the first half. Hopkins's best chance of the half came on a corner kick in the 14th minute as McCurdy's header from 12 yards out was blocked. Blue Jay forward Kate Dunn (Westford, N.J. / Westford Academy) chipped the rebound towards the open right corner of the Swarthmore goal. Walker came flying in, barely touching the ball safely away.

Swarthmore's best chance came midway through the half when freshman midfielder Megan Colombo (Arcadia, Calif. / Arcadia) flicked on a ball that forward Katie Kanuka (Ontario, Canada / Holy Trinity) ran onto with the Blue Jay defenders trailing behind. JHU goalkeeper Karen Guszkowski (Sayreville, N.J. / Cardinal McCarrick) darted and knocked the ball way before Kanuka could take a shot.

The score remained knotted at 0-0 at the intermission, with the shot total (four aside) mirroring the scoreboard. Swarthmore freshman backs Sarah Reece (Manhattan Beach, Calif. / Mira Costa) and Lauren Bolger (Centerport, N.Y. / Harborfields) played brilliantly on the backline, curtailing many Blue Jay runs down the sidelines.

The Blue Jays had another golden opportunity at the beginning of the second half, as Zazzali hit the left post of the Swarthmore goal. The ball caromed off the inside of the post and dribbled back across the mouth, clear of harm's way.

The teams went to the extra time with JHU owning a 12-11 shot advantage.

The extra session was rather uneventful until Zazzali connected for her third goal of the season.

Walker and Guszkowski both posted seven saves in evenly-played match (14 shots for each team) that could be re-played at the end of October.

The Swarthmore women will travel to Bryn Mawr this Saturday at 1:00 p.m. for its next Centennial Conference match.

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SWARTHMORE, Pa. - #9 Johns Hopkins (8-1, 4-0 CC) earned a 6-1 win while visiting Clothier Field this evening for a Centennial Conference field hockey game, beating the Swarthmore Garnet (5-5, 2-2 CC).

The Blue Jays were the first to get on the board with 7:21 on the clock. Sophomore forward Gabi Henn (Lambertville, N.J./ South Hunterdon Regional) found her way through heavy traffic to score her 4th goal of the year.

Later in the first half Johns Hopkins scored a pair of back-to-back goals, starting with junior Adair Landy's (Montclair, N.J./ Montclair) unassisted goal at 13:37. Just following at 14:41 Landy sent a pass to senior Lucy Webster (Greenwich, Conn./ Deerfield Academy) for her first goal of the season. Hopkins' Landy posted her sixth goal of the season after she flipped one into the top of the cage in the 20th minute.

Closing the first half the Blue Jays led the Garnet 4-0.

Starting off the second half, Garnet junior Natalie Stone (Philadelphia, Pa./ Friends Select) hit a one-timer in front of the cage at the 36:34 mark. Pushing her career goal total to 14, this was Stone's ninth of the season (a career-high). Blue Jay junior Emily Miller (Garden City, N.Y./ Garden City) notched one in at 39:28 off her own rebound for her eighth goal of the season. In the 42nd minute Henn scored her second goal of the night, making it five-goal led for Hopkins.

The Blue Jays controlled the offensive play out shooting Swarthmore 25-9. Hopkins sophomore goalie Sophia Tieu (Cupertino, Calif./ Cupertino) had four saves. With a busy night in net freshman goalie Katie Ashmore (Princeton, N.J./ Princeton) had 10 saves for the Garnet.

The Garnet field hockey returns to Clothier Field this Saturday when they take on Centennial Conference team, Dickinson for a 12:00 p.m. game.