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BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Swarthmore midfielders Megan Sanborn '08 and Marissa Schaffer '09 scored four goals apiece and senior captain Catherine Crawford added five points as the Garnet opened the 2007 season with a resounding 19-8 win at Moravian Saturday afternoon.

Schaffer scored the first goal of the afternoon off a pass from freshman Alex Gilbert-Bono at 4:59 as Swarthmore scored six of the first seven goals.  Senior attack Athena Samaras put in a free-position score, her second on the day, to give the visitors the 6-1 at the 16:22 mark.  Swarthmore out-shot the Greyhounds 27-9 in the first 30 minutes, holding a commanding 11-4 lead at the intermission.

The second half began with more Garnet fireworks—Swarthmore put up for more scores, two from Schaffer and one apiece from Sanborn and Crawford, in the first 4:15 to extend their lead to 15-4.

Crawford finished the afternoon with three goals and two assists while Schaffer set a career-high with the four goals.  Sanborn added four draw controls, two caused turnovers and two assists to her four goals while sophomore Anna de Regt contributed three goals.

Garnet goalie Susannah Blair made three saves in just under 35 minutes of action while freshman Allison Grein notched six saves in a relief of Blair. 

The Garnet (1-0) out-shot the Greyhounds (0-1) 39-23 on the afternoon while collecting 26 ground balls to Moravian's 19.

Swarthmore will head to Colorado this week for their annual spring break trip.  The Garnet open up the week with a 2:00 p.m. contest against the University of Dallas at Colorado College on Tues., March 13.  Swarthmore takes on host Colorado College on Thursday, March 15 at 2:00 p.m. before concluding the trip with a 2:00 p.m. game at Regis College on Saturday, March 17.

GAME BOX SCORE

SWARTHMORE, Pa.-- Visiting Wooster scored four goals in the second half to defeat Swarthmore 9-6 in non-conference men's lacrosse action Saturday afternoon at Clothier Stadium.  The Fighting Scots improve to 3-0 on the season while the Garnet drop to 1-1.

Sophomore Tim Lee scored two goals in the first 5:37 of the final period--the first an unassisted shot from the left wing, and the second coming on an extra-man opportunity at 9:51.  Wooster senior attack Hisham Hassan followed with one of his two goals 59 second later, finishing off a pass from sophomore Chris Gatsch at 8:52 to give the visitors a commanding 8-5 lead.

Swarthmore's Will Predun '09 had a goal and an assist while Jay Charles '07, Todd Friedman '09, Kyle Wilson '09, Ryan McKenna '07 and Gavin Musynske '10 all scored goals for Swarthmore.

Hassan led Wooster with two goals and two assists while sophomores Lee and Mark Weschler also scored twice.  Senior Chris Vaccaro and Gatsch added a goal and an assist apiece for the Fighting Scots.

Mark Beister made 19 saves in goal for Wooster while Garnet goalie Frank Mazzucco made eight stops on the afternoon.

Swarthmore lit the lamp at the onset of the contest when captain Charles notched his first goal of the season at 13:26.  The midfielder made a cut to the left side of the net and cashed in a pass from sophomore Stelios Wilson.  The action began to see-saw as Hassan put Wooster on the board with his first goal of the day at 11:24.  Swarthmore came back with Wilson's first career goal, an unassisted shot to the lower right side of the cage, at 1:04.  The Fighting Scots tied the score at 2-2 with five seconds left in the first period, as Hassan lofted a pass over the top of the cage which Vaccaro one-timed into the net.

The Garnet scored the lone goal of the second period at 6:09--Predun took an outlet pass from the Swarthmore defense and streaked down the field.  The sophomore continued undeterred to the front of the Wooster net and dished off to Musynske, who beat Biester on the left shelf for his collegiate goal.  The Garnet held the 3-2 lead into the intermission.

Swarthmore controlled play early in the third period, and Musynske and Friedman each got good shots off, but Biester stopped both, keeping the Garnet lead at one.  Finally, with just over nine minutes to go, Gatsch ran the ball over to the right wing and shot the equalizer just to Mazzucco's left and into the goal.  Soon, the Scots took a 4-3 lead when, after a Swarthmore penalty, Ben Abbott took a Hassan feed just inside the yellow line and launched the ball straight into the net.

The Wooster lead proved to be short-lived.  Swarthmore won the ensuing face-off, and soon Friedman had the ball to the right of the goal with one man to beat.  The sophomore juked the defender right off his feet, took a few steps, and put it home.  A few minutes later, Predun bounced a shot over Biester's stick and into the top of the net, putting Swarthmore back on top at 5-4 with 40 seconds to go, but the Scots stormed back, tying the score with five seconds left when, off of a dead ball, Vaccarro lobbed the ball over the net to Weschler, who put it home for the 5-all tie.

The Garnet held a 38-21 shot advantage and collected 23 groundballs to 20 for the Fighting Scots, but were hurt by seven Wooster extra-man opportunities (two of which the Scots scored on).  The Garnet won nine of the 17 face-offs with Charles going 4-of-8, Friedman 3-of-7, and Adam Miller '08 2-of-2.  John McVarish took all of the face-offs for Wooster, winning 8-of-17.

Swarthmore travels to New Haven, Conn. for its next game, a 12:00 p.m. contest against Amherst on the campus of Yale University.  The Garnet return home on Wed., March 21 for a 7:00 p.m. Centennial Conference contest with Urinus. 

READING, Pa. -- Kim Kramer '10 took home first place in both singles and doubles, leading Swarthmore to its second straight Pennsylvania State Badminton Championship.

Kramer teamed up with senior Candice Cherk to win the main doubles draw.  In singles, both Kramer and Cherk advanced to the main draw finals, with Kramer coming out on top to wrap up an undefeated season in singles play.

Another all-Swarthmore final occurred in the C doubles draw, with first-years May Maani and Ali Xiang defeating junior Patricia Kelly and sophomore Heather Hightower.

Kramer teamed up with Young Lou of Boston University in the mixed doubles draw; the pair advanced to the semifinals.

The state title completes Swarthmore's regular season.  Kramer and Cherk will make a trip to the 2007 National Collegiate Badminton Championships will be held at the University of California at Berkeley on March 24-25.

LANCASTER, Pa. -- Swarthmore junior goalkeeper Frank Mazzucco (Redding, CT / Joel Barlow) has been named the Centennial Conference's first Defensive Player of the Week of the 2007 season.

Mazzucco, a team captain, made a number of tough saves in the Garnet's 5-4 double-overtime victory over Goucher College on Saturday, March 3, keeping the game close until the Garnet offense rallied to tie the match with three goals in the final 15:04 of regulation.  The junior made a pair of saves in overtime before Swarthmore freshman Tyler Bradshaw scored the game-winner with 0:31 left in the second overtime period.  The win was Swarthmore's second straight multiple-overtime win over the Gophers.

For the afternoon, Mazzucco made 14 saves in 18 attempts and grabbed a ground ball while facing a total of 38 shots.  His .778 save percentage is tops in the Centennial.

Mazzucco is the first Garnet player to win Player of the Week honors since Andy Place '96 earned the same award for the week ending on March 25, 1996.  2007 is the first season in which the conference has awarded separate offensive and defensive POW awards.

Mazzucco and the Garnet play at Drew University on Wed, March 7 and return home to face the College of Wooster on Sat., March 10 before traveling to Yale University in New Haven, Conn. to face Amherst College on Sat., March 17.  It will be a homecoming of sorts for Mazzucco and three teammates, who also hail from Connecticut.

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SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- Freshman attack Tyler Bradshaw's first collegiate goal concluded another exciting chapter in the Swarthmore/Goucher men's lacrosse rivalry, lifting the hometown Garnet to a 5-4 season-opening comeback win in double overtime at blustery Clothier Field Saturday afternoon.

Swarthmore's game-winner started in its own defensive end when sophomore Jacob Metzger knocked the ball free from the stick of Goucher's Brian Hoge.  Garnet midfielder Todd Friedman '09, seemingly in the middle of every big hit on Saturday, picked up the loose ball with 33 second left in the second overtime and streaked into the Swarthmore offensive zone.  Friedman appeared determined to reach the goal and three Gopher defenders step up to stop his momentum, leaving Bradshaw open on the far post.  Friedman dumped the ball to Bradshaw who one-timed the ball over the shoulder of Goucher goalie Austin Main, setting off a large celebration by the Garnet faithful.

It is the third time the Gophers (0-2) and Swarthmore (1-0) have gone to extra time in the past five seasons.  Current Garnet captain Jay Charles netted a game-winner in Towson, Md. in 2006 to propel Swarthmore to an 8-7 victory in the third overtime in the most recent affair.

The Garnet were in a hole early as Goucher took a 2-0 lead after the first period.  Ross Nochumowitz scored the Gophers' first goal off a feed from Dam Flamholz at 14:12 and Dave Duff put up an unassisted score with 12 seconds remaining. 

Garnet junior attack Chris Harman put the home team on the board at 11:33 in the second period, finishing off a pass from sophomore Will Predun.  The Gophers assumed a 3-1 lead at the intermission when Flamholz scored his first goal of the season at 2:38.  The visitors extended the lead out to three goals when Alan Tiet put home his second goal after receiving an offering from Sam Fitzpatrick at 4:20 in the third period.

Swarthmore began its comeback at the end of the third period as Bradshaw lofted a pass to sophomore Stelios Wilson in front of the Gophers' cage.  Wilson out-leaped a Goucher defender and slam-dunked the ball into the net with four seconds remaining in the period. 

The Garnet energy continued to build in the fourth period; senior Ryan McKenna scored right out of a Swarthmore time-out off an assist from Ben Young '09 at 11:20 and classmate Gavin Nurick tied the game at 4-4 with his first goal of the season at 1:31. 

The two teams traded great scoring chances at the start of the first overtime, but Main and Swarthmore netminder Frank Mazzucco '08 made a pair of saves to preserve the tie.  Mazzucco finished the afternoon with 14 saves while Main tallied 11 stops for the Gophers.

Goucher dominated the face-offs as Jerod Richardson won 10 of 13 for the Gophers.  Goucher also led in the shot category 38-34 while the Garnet picked up 24 ground balls to Goucher's 21.

Swarthmore continues its non-conference slate on Wednesday, March 7 with a 7:00 p.m. game at Drew University.  The Garnet return home on Saturday, March 10 for a 1:00 p.m. contest with the College of Wooster. 

CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE COACHES PRE-SEASON POLL

The Swarthmore women's lacrosse team has good reason to be excited for the 2007 season, following the best performance in program history during the 2006 campaign.

The Garnet set a school record for wins in a season with 14 and qualified for the Centennial Conference playoffs for the first time. The 2007 team looks get off to a fast start, echoing the 8-0 start last year, which included winning the championship trophy at the 2006 Seven Sisters' Tournament held right here at Swarthmore. The loss of a strong senior class will be the first obstacle for the Garnet women to overcome, yet head Karen Borbee's squad returns several established veterans in the midfield as well as a collection youthful impact players on defense.

Two-time All-Centennial selection Lindsay Roth '07 leads the Swarthmore offensive attack.

Senior captain and midfielder Lindsay Roth returns to lead a Swarthmore attack that tallied 213 goals in 2006, fifth-best in the Conference.  Roth, a two-time All-Centennial performer, scored 30 or more goals in three consecutive seasons.  At the end of the 2006 season, Roth became the 12th player in the program's history to reach the 100-goal milestone while making second-team All-Centennial. Roth was second on the team with 45 ground balls and third in points (38) and goals (31).  She also scored 17 goals in Centennial action—tops on the team.

 Swarthmore's X-factor is the hustle and grit of junior midfielder Megan Sanborn, the team's leader in draw controls (54), assists (11) and caused turnovers (33) in 2006.  Sanborn was named Most Valuable Player of the 15th annual Seven Sisters Lacrosse Championship after scoring a goal and causing five turnovers in 11-8 Garnet championship game win over Wellesley (Ma.) on March 19.  She was subsequently named Centennial Conference Player of the Week after tallying five goals, nine draws, and seven caused turnovers in three games.  Look for the Garnet good fortunes to begin with Sanborn holding the ball in her pocket.

 The Garnet got a career-best performance from senior captain Catherine Crawford in 2006.  The speedy midfielder tied for the team-lead with 35 goals (double her previous career-high), finishing 11th in the Centennial with 1.94 scores per game.  Her game-winning goal at McDaniel on March 25 completed 16-15 comeback win for Swarthmore.  Crawford netted four goals in two separate games, led the team with eight free-position scores, and was tied for third with seven assists—she will be looked to provide more of the same offensive fireworks in 2007.  Fellow captain Athena Samaras '07 was also one of eight Garnet women to score at least 10 goals, registering a career-high 17 scores while making 18 starts in the midfield.

Midfielder Anna de Regt '09 tied for the team-lead with 35 goals in 2006.

Swarthmore freshman Anna de Regt was viable spark of the bench in 2006, leading the squad in points despite starting only four games. Her 35 goals tied Crawford for the team lead and her eight assists were good for second-best. De Regt, a midfielder, is very accurate with the ball, led the 2006 team in shot percentage (.455) while putting almost 64% of her shots on net.  Her goals came in bunches, scoring five goals on three different occasions—at Widener on March 30, vs. Bryn Mawr on April 11 and against Rosemont on April 25.

 The Swarthmore defense ranked fourth in goals-against average in 2006 and took quite a hit from graduation, losing two seniors including All-Region and three-time All-Centennial defender Cara Tigue and fellow captain Chole Lewis (team-high with 56 ground balls in 2006).  The 2007 Garnet defense looks to sophomore Melissa Grigsby to take Tigue's place as the number-one lockdown defender and senior captain Paige Gentry (third on team with 45 ground balls) to provide a consistent force in front of junior goalie Susannah Blair.  Blair finished fourth in the Centennial with a 9.14 goals-against average while posting one of only two shutouts in the Conference—a 14-0 victory over Elms in the opening round of the Seven Sisters Championship on March 18.

 The 2007 season begins at Rosemont at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 3. The first Swarthmore home game will be on March 22 when defending Centennial champion and pre-season #2-rankedt Gettysburg visits Clothier Field for a 5:00 p.m. contest.

COMPLETE WOMEN'S RESULTS

COMPLETE MEN'S RESULTS

HAVERFORD, Pa. -- Garnet sophomore Cait Mullarkey and senior Matt Schiller picked up gold medals as both Swarthmore indoor track & field teams finished eighth at the 2007 Centennial Conference Championships Sunday afternoon in Alumni Field House on the campus of Haverford College.

Haverford swept both the men's and women's competition; the men collected 168 points, followed by Ursinus (101), Dickinson (100), Muhlenberg (79), Gettysburg (77), Johns Hopkins (58), F&M (45), Swarthmore (27), and McDaniel (8).  On the women's side, the Fords gathered 178 points, followed by Johns Hopkins (98), Muhlenberg (97.5), Gettysburg (75), Dickinson (70.5), F&M (39.5), Bryn Mawr (30), Swarthmore (26), McDaniel (25.5), and Ursinus (23).

Mullarkey, a two-time All-Centennial first-team selection in soccer, continued to make her case as one of the best athletes in Conference history.  The sophomore out-ran three Haverford women to win the 800-meter race with a time of 2:21.02.  Imo Akpan '02 was the last Swarthmore female to win an individual CC indoor gold, claiming four at the 2002 Conference meet on her way to being named the 2002 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Indoor Athlete of the Year.

Schiller won his first Centennial gold medal by posting the best time at 400 meters (51.86), besting Ryan Keane from Gettysburg (52.07) and Ryan Daniel of Dickinson (52.10).  Schiller is the first Swarthmore male to win an individual gold at the CC Indoor Championship meet since Marc Jeuland '01 won the 5,000 in 2001.

The Garnet men had three performers make the top-20 in the 3,000; junior Ross Weller ran fifth with at top-ten time of 8:50.12, sophomore Erik Saka was 14th in a time of 8:59.12, and junior Jon Shoop ran 17th in 9:00.92.

The Swarthmore men's 4x400 relay team, led by a strong leg from junior Michael Bonesteel, picked up seventh place while the men's 4x800 relay squad also pointed with an eighth-place finish.

Freshman Nyika Corbett, who ran seventh in the mile on Saturday, just missed a medal at 3,000 meters with a fourth-place time of 10:40.77.  Sophomore Bess Ritter continued her strong Championship meet, running 14th in the same event with at time of 10:57.13.

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS RESULTS

DEPAUW RESULTS

MARY WASHINGTON RESULTS

ST. PETER, Minn. -- The Swarthmore men's tennis team ran into a trio of nationally-ranked teams at the ITA Division III National Men's Indoor Team Championships, falling 9-0 to fourth-ranked host Gustavus Adolphus in the semifinal round on Friday night before dropping a 9-0 decision to sixth-ranked DePauw in the consolation semifinal on Saturday morning.

Swarthmore (1-5) picked up two doubles wins in the evening seventh-place consolation match before falling to 11th-ranked Mary Washington 7-2.

The Garnet earned an automatic bid in the National Indoor Championships after advancing to the quarterfinals in last year's Division III NCAA Championships.  Swarthmore faces Mary Washington in the seventh-place consolation match on Saturday night at 7:30 p.m.

The top Swarthmore doubles pair, senior Jon Reiss and junior Jon Lo, lost to the #3 -ranked pair from DePauw before downing the top team from Mary Washington, Randy Loden and Eddie Carver, by a score of 8-6 on Saturday evening.  The Garnet also picked up a point at No. 3 doubles as Mark Greenburg and Willy Nolan '10 defeated UMW's Evan Goff and Jon Pollak 8-6.

Reiss fought valiantly at No. 1 singles against Mary Washington's John James, ranked sixth in the country and second in the Atlantic South region, winning the first set 6-3.  James came back to win the second set in a tiebreaker 7-6 (7-4) and Reiss was forced to retire down 3-0 in the third set.

The Garnet, ranked 23rd in all of Division III in the latest ITA FILA rankings, will travel to Europe for spring break, making four stops in Ireland and one in Italy from March 10-18.  Once back in the United States, Swarthmore travels to Lexington, Va. to take part in the Washington & Lee Invitational on March 31-April 1.

COMPLETE DAY ONE RESULTS

CENTENNIAL CHAMPIONSHIP INFORMATION

HAVERFORD, Pa. -- The Swarthmore men's distance medley relay picked up a bronze medal on the first day of the 2007 Centennial Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships Saturday on the campus of Haverford College.

The Garnet men were in eighth place overall with eight points while the Swarthmore women stood in seventh place with 11 team points.  Haverford led both the men's and women's competitions at day's end.

Junior Ross Weller led off the men's medley relay with a 3:12 split, senior Matt Schiller followed with a 51.10 over 400 meters, sophomore Connor Darby ran 2:00 minutes in the 800 meters, and senior Vernon Chaplin clocked in at 4:24 in the mile to bring home the medal.

Both Swarthmore 4x200 relay teams posted season-best times, while the men picked up eighth place to earn a team point.  Senior Nat Erb-Satullo continued to run strong times, this time setting a personal-best at 5,000 meters (16:12.29).  Garnet women Bess Ritter '09 and Emma Stanley '09 ran fifth and sixth, respectively, at 5,000 meters.  Ritter, who qualified with the fastest time in the slower heat, ran strong with a time of 18:53.43, just crossing in front of Stanley who finished with a time of 18:54.11.

Senior Matt Singleton recorded his top height of the season in the pole vault, successfully clearing 12'6" to pick up a point for the team. 

Day two of the CC Championships commence tomorrow with the men's 4 x 800 meter relay finals at 10:30 a.m.

COMPLETE MATCH RESULTS

SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- The Garnet women's tennis team hosted NYU at the Mullan Center Saturday in their inaugural match-up of the 2007 spring season. Swarthmore (1-0) etched in their first win with a 7-2 victory over the Violets (3-3)--seniors Sonya Reynolds and Sara Sargent, and freshman Rachel Wallwork led Swarthmore, each reeling in wins in singles and doubles action.

Reynolds, ranked sixth in the Atlantic South region, battled the Violets' Stephanie Tu to a 6-0, 6-2 victory at No. 1 singles. Reynolds chased down every shot and forced her opponent to commit innumerable errors. The highlight of the match-up came when she sprinted from the baseline after a tough corner shot to hit a running volley.

Reynolds' doubles play was just as solid, pairing up with Sargent to defeat NYU's Erika Olson and Katie Lee 8-5 at No.1 doubles. Reynolds and Sargent are the second-ranked doubles' pair in the region and earned All-America status after winning the Wilson ITA Southeast Regional in September.

Sargent survived an up-and-down match at No. 4 singles, besting Lee 6-4, 4-6 (10-5).

A heavy forehand and cool composure granted Wallwork a swift 6-0, 6-0 victory in No. 3 singles over NYU's Maggie Smith. Hitting beautiful shots down the line and dishing out forced errors illustrated that she is a force to be reckoned with in her first year.  Wallwork teamed up with Waverly Lutz '07 to down NYU's Jaclyn Manning and Bianca Nicoletti 8-1 in No. 3 doubles.

Swarthmore sophomore Jennie Park showed unrelenting effort as she rallied back from a 4-2 deficit in the first set to take the No. 2 singles match 6-4, 7-5 from NYU's Erika Olson--securing the Garnet victory.  Jamie Midyette '08 tallied Swarthmore other win, coming back after dropping the first set to defeat Manning 3-6, 6-1 (10-3).

The Garnet will see their next action during Spring Break, traveling to Claremont, Calif. to contest against Claremont College, Carnegie Mellon, and University of the South. Swarthmore will put its 30-match Centennial Conference win streak on the line on Saturday, March 21 at 3:30 p.m. when they travel just around the corner to Bryn Mawr.