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TURNER NAMED 1ST
TEAM ALL AMERICA; Nov. 16: St. Lawrence University junior field hockey forward Stacy Turner has been named to the first-team National Field Hockey Coaches Association national All America team. Turner, who was also selected to the first team All UCAA and Regional All America teams, led the nation in scoring as a junior with 31 goals and 16 assists for 78 points. Her point total ranks fourth on the all-time national record list and her 31 goals are tied for fifth overall. Her goals, assists and points are all St. Lawrence records. She was also a regional All America selection in women's lacrosse last spring and led the Saints in scoring in that sport with 56 goals. Other Saints earning All UCAA honors included freshmen Jenny Heffler and Nicola Reid and junior Lindsay Wormwood. All three Saint players were named to the second team and Heffler, who led all UCAA freshmen in scoring with 14 goals and 12 assists, was named UCAA Rookie of the Year.
FOUR SAINT PLAYERS NAMED REGIONAL ALL AMERICA Nov. 13: Four members of St. Lawrence University's New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association and ECAC Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship field hockey team were named to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association 2000 Astro Turf/NFHCA Division III Regional All America teams as announced Monday. Senior forward Tierney O'Meara and junior forward Stacy Turner were named first team North Atlantic Region All Americas while freshmen Jenny Heffler and Nicola Reid were named second team regional All America. O'Meara finished her senior season with 15 goals and four assists for 34 points and scored three game winning goals in the Saints 14-7 season. Turner was the nation's leading point scorer in Division III and tied for the national lead in goals. She averaged nearly a goal and a half a game and 3.71 points per game with 31 goals, 16 assists and 78 points. She also led the team in game winning goals with seven. Her scoring totals for the 2000 season were all St. Lawrence records. Heffler had an outstanding rookie season for the Saints and finished second in scoring with 14 goals and 12 assists for 40 points. She scored one game winning goal. Reid finished her first season for the Saints with four assists and was one of the outstanding young defensive players in the region. She had two defensive saves and was a key factor in the Saints' season ending seven-game win streak and two tournament championships. All four players will be under consideration for national Division III All America honors which will be announced in the near future.
SAINTS ARE CHAMPS AGAIN; TURNER MVP IN ECAC TOURNEY Nov. 5: St. Lawrence University's field hockey team made it two championships in as many weekends as the fourth-seeded Saints finished their year with a 5-1 win over host Montclair State University in the ECAC Mid-Atlantic Field Hockey Tournament Sunday afternoon. The Saints, 14-7, finished their season with a seven-game win streak and knocked off the first and second seeds in tournaments in both the NYSWCAA championships and the ECAC tourney. SLU beat top-seeded Wesley College 3-1 on Saturday in the ECAC tournament and then pummeled second seeded Montclair in the championship game.
The Saints jumped on Montclair early as senior Tierney O'Meara scored her 15th of the year from Lindsay Wormwood and Jen Heffler with the game just 4:20 old. Lauren Greene then scored from Wormwood just 1:21 later and the Saints were on their way. Heffler scored her 13th goal of her freshman year on a breakaway from Turner with 14:39 to play in the first half, and while Montclair got one back on a penalty corner by Allison Bellino with 9:23 gone in the second half, the Saints responded with two more goals to put it away. Heffler scored her second of the game with 20:20 to play, powering through two defenders to score despite a collision with the goaltender and Turner put away her 31st of the year off a penalty corner from Wormwood and Greene with 15 seconds to play. Senior Kendra Mason had another strong performance in goal as she turned in nine saves while two Montclair goaltenders combined for 13 stops. The Saints outshot Montclair 17-9 despite a 22-12 edge in penalty corners for the host team. "Jenny Heffler scored two of the prettiest goals you'd ever want to see and we were able to score two in a early flurry, which set the tone for the game," said Saint coach Fran Grembowicz. "We also did a good job on their penalty corners...they had about seven in the last two minutes...and they didn't get many shots off them." "We really were able to put things together after playing William Smith tough, and the two titles certainly set us up for a big year next year." The Saints lose only four seniors total to graduation and return four of the top five scorers from one of the most prolific offensive teams in Saint field hockey history.
SAINTS UPEND TOP SEEDED WESLEY IN ECAC FIELD HOCKEY Nov. 4: St. Lawrence University's field hockey team will be out to make it two titles in two weeks when it plays the winner of a game between second seeded Montclair State and sixth seed Frostburg State for the championship of the ECAC Mid-Atlantic Field Hockey tournament at Montclair Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. The Saints, seeded fourth in the tournament, upended top-seed Wesley College 3-1 in a semifinal game at Montclair Saturday morning to run their win streak to six straight games, four of them in the post-season. The Saints came out of the fifth seed in the NYSWCAA tournament last week and knocked off number four RPI, number one Vassar and number two Skidmore to win their first-ever state championship. While the ECAC championship weekend got off to a slow start for the Saints as their departure for the tournament was delayed by bus difficulties, they shrugged off a late arrival in Montclair and scored the only goal of the first half with 23:27 to play as Stacy Turner set up Tierney O'Meara's 14th goal of the season off a penalty corner. "We were a little flat footed to start with, but that goal got us started," said Saint coach Fran Grembowicz, whose team improved to 13-7. "Rachel Kelly and Mary Amidon did a really exceptional job on defense and Kendra Mason had a strong game in goal." Wesley tied the game with 26:13 to go in the second half on a goal by Nicky Benton, but Turner scored her 29th goal of the season from Beth Lomanto 1:33 later and added to her impressive Saint single season goal record with her 30th off a penalty corner from Jenny Heffler and O'Meara with 11:18 to play. Turner's first goal of the game was the game winner, her seventh of the season. Mason finished with seven saves while the Wesley goaltender had 10 stops. The Saints outshot Wesley, which finished its season 13-5, 10-6 and each team had eight penalty corners. SAINTS TOP VASSAR AGAIN;
Nov. 1: St. Lawrence University's field hockey team scored two goals in a span of 35 seconds late in regulation time Wednesday afternoon and went on to beat Vassar 3-0 in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Mid-Atlantic Tournament quarterfinals. The Saints, now 12-7, beat Vassar for the third time this season and will now advance to Montclair, NJ to play top seed Wesley (13-4) in a 11 a.m. semifinal game on Nov. 4.
It became a 2-0 game just 35 seconds later as Jen Heffler and Lindsay Wormwood broke down field on a two-on-one break and when the defender committed to Heffler, she slid the pass across to Wormwood, who finished off the play with her ninth goal of the season. Sophomore Lauren Greene completed the scoring when she scored on a penalty stroke with 1:42 to play in the game, beating Babb to the upper left corner. The Saints outshot Vassar 24-9 and had an 11-5 edge in penalty corners. SLU had some good early scoring chances, but Babb came through with two big saves and several other shots went just wide. Babb finished with five saves for Vassar while senior Kendra Mason needed just three to record her first shutout of the season. Mason, who was the NYSWCAA all tournament goaltender, was named ECAC Goalie of the Week for her efforts in the tournament.
TURNER MVP AS SAINTS WIN FIRST STATE TITLE IN FIELD HOCKEY Oct. 29: Junior forward Stacy Turner made things easy for the all-tournament selection committee at the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association field hockey championships on Sunday as she figured in all four goals as fifth-seeded St. Lawrence recorded its third straight upset with a 4-2 win over second-seed Skidmore to win its first-ever NYSWCAA Field Hockey Championship. Turner, who scored four goals and assisted on two in a 9-4 upset of top seed Vassar in the semifinals, finished the tournament with eight goals and four assists in three games. The leading goal scorer in the nation among Division III players, she now has 27 goals and 14 assists for 68 points in 18 games.Her goals and points are both St. Lawrence single-season records. The Saints, now 11-7, avenged two of their three Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association losses in the tournament, beating fourth-seed RPI in the quarterfinals and Skidmore in the championship game. SLU built a 3-0 lead in the title game and then saw Skidmore cut it to a one-goal game before Turner iced it with her second goal of the game with just 58 seconds to play. Senior goaltender Kendra Mason put the exclamation point on the win when she made a stick save on a Skidmore penalty stroke with just one second to play in regulation. Turner opened the scoring with 13:59 to go in the first half, scoring off a penalty corner from Lauren Greene and Lindsay Wormwood. She then set up freshman Jenny Heffler's 12th goal of the year and first of the tournament with 2:55 to go in the first half. Senior Tierney O'Meara scored her fourth goal of the weekend and fifth of the tournament with 26:44 to go in the second half from Turner before Jackie Flanagan put Skidmore on the board with 20:40 to go. Hallory Mogren scored with 12:04 to play in regulation to make it a one-goal game, but Turner took a feed from Lauren Greene and put it past Skidmore goalie Kristine Osmond with 58 seconds left to ice the win. Mason finished with 19 saves for the Saints while Osmond had 11 for Skidmore, which held a 25-21 edge in shots and a 12-6 edge in penalty corners. Joining Turner on the all tourney team for the Saints were Mason in goal, O'Meara and freshman midfielder Nicola Reid, who was a standout on defense for SLU. The Saints will now await word on a possible ECAC tournament bid.
TURNER HAS 10 POINT GAME AS SAINTS SHOCK VASSAR 9-4 IN NYSWCAA SEMIFINAL; MEET SKIDMORE FOR TITLE SUNDAY Oct. 28: Junior forward Stacy Turner celebrated her 21st birthday by jumping into the NCAA Division III goal scoring lead on Saturday and led the Saints to the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association championship game with a four-goal, two-assist afternoon as the Saints beat Vassar 9-4 in a wild semifinal game. Turner, who now has 25 goals in 17 games, scored two in each half and Tierney O'Meara added three goals and an assist while Lindsay Wormwood had two goals and an assist in the biggest Saint offensive outing in years. Lauren Green and Jenny Heffler each had two assists in the game. The nine goals in a game are a St. Lawrence record. The Saints, now 10-7, will meet Skidmore, a 4-0 winner over Hartwick in the other semifinal game, in Sunday's 1:30 p.m. championship game. Vassar, the top seed in the tournament, will play Hartwick in the 11 a.m. consolation game. The Saints jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first 10 minutes of play as O'Meara scored from Turner with 4:09 gone, Turner got her first of the day from Grene just 1:12 later and O'Meara scored her second from Heffler 4:22 later. Vassar battled back to cut it to 3-2 as Kathryn Acosta scored with 20:34 to go in the fist and Kristine Austin scored with 18:06 left, but Wormwood scored her eighth of the season from Turner with 9:09 left in the half to make it a 4-2 game. Vassar cut it to 4-3 with 4:33 to play in the half on Beth Pierson's goal, but Turner's second of the game from Wormwood and Greene off a penalty corner with 48 seconds to go in the half gave the Saints a 5-3 lead at the intermission. Wormwood scored from O'Meara 3:07 into the second half to make it 6-3 and Turner scored unassisted with 21:49 to go in the game to make it 7-3 before Austin scored her second of the game with 9:26 to play for Vassar. O'Meara scored from Green with 2:57 to play and Turner second from Heffler just 29 seconds later to ice the win for the Saints. Kendra Mason had nine saves for the Saints while Jessica Babb had 14 for Skidmore. Vassar had a 25-23 edge in shots and a 9-6 edge in penalty corners. TURNER SCORES TWO AND O'MEARA THE WINNER AS SAINTS UPEND RED HAWKS IN QUARTERFINALS Oct. 25: Stacy Turner scored a pair of goals and Tierney O'Meara netted the eventual game winner as the St. Lawrence University field hockey team advanced to the semifinals of the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association tournament with a 3-2 upset of fourth-seeded RPI in Troy on Wednesday. The Saints will play the winner of the quarterfinal game between Vassar and Oneonta at Nazareth this weekend. SLU, now 9-7, jumped out to a 3-0 lead
on RPI and then held off a late Red Hawk rally for the win. Turner
opened the scoring with 20:20 to play in the first half when she converted
from freshman Jenny Heffler. Turner then scored an unassisted goal
seven minutes later to give the Saints a O'Meara scored the third Saint goal from Lindsay Wormwood with 22:30 to play in the game to put the Saints up 3-0 and the goal turned into the winner when the Red Hawks scored twice in the final ten minutes. Marie Grieco scored with 9:31 to go and Andrea Wadman with 1:23 left, but Saint goalie Kendra Mason prevented further scoring to keep the Saints alive in the tournament. Mason had five saves for the game while Cathy Hotchkiss had six for RPI, which ended its season 11-6.
GREENE, SAINTS DOWN ROCHESTER Oct. 21- Sophomore midfielder Lauren
Greene notched two goals to lead the Saints to a Lindsay Wormwood opened the scoring on a pass from Val Angelichio to give the Saints an early 1-0 lead. Wormwood then set up Stacy Turner, who converted with just 3:00 left in the half, making it 2-0 at intermission. Greene scored the first of her two goals midway through the second half on a penalty shot. With 14:20 to go, she added a consecutive goal to put the Saints up 4-0. Katie Mateer would ruin the shutout for the Saints with just 8:21 left in regulation. She scored for Rochester on a pass from Anne Marie Regan. Senior goalie Kendra Mason made 10 saves for the Saints. Amy Shutt stopped 16 shots for Rochester. ST. LAWRENCE NEARLY KNOCKS OFF TOP-RANKED HERONS Oct. 20 -- A Heron goal with 1:30 left on the second half clock did the Saints' in as their second-half comeback attempt was thwarted at William Smith. William Smith took a 2-0 lead in the first half as they outshot the Saints' 29-9 in the game. However, in the second, St. Lawrence answered with two goals of their own, on 1:07 apart to tie the game. Lindsay Wormood scored unassisted for SLU's first and Lauren Green took full advantage of a Stacey Turner helper on the second. With only 1:30 left on the game clock, Nicky Livingston scored an unassissted goal to give the Herons the 3-2 win. Kendra Mason made 23 saves in goal for St. Lawrence. With the loss, the Saints drop to 7-7 overall and 3-3 in the UCAA. O'MEARA SCORES THREE AS SAINTS BEAT HAMILTON Oct. 14:Tierney O'Meara scored her second hat trick of the season and assisted on a fourth goal as St. Lawrence gained a split of its weekend field hockey series with a 6-3 win over Hamilton on North Country Field Saturday afternoon. O'Meara opened the scoring with her sixth of the year with the game just 2:24 old and the Saints grabbed a 3-0 lead in the first 21 minutes as Lindsay Wormwood scored two goals, her third and fourth at 23:55 and 14:41. Beth Lomanto assisted on the first Wormwood goal and Stacy Turner set up the second. Hamilton battled back with three goals in the final 11:26 of the first half to tie it. Heather Dratt scored at 11:26 to put the Continentals on the board, Rebecca Iseman cut it to 3-2 at 9:02 and Dratt scored her second to tie it with 5:27 to play. The Saints put the game away in the second half as O'Meara scored her second of the day unassisted with 28:21 to play in the game and then set up Amanda Bolton's third of the season with 11:15 to play. O'Meara completed her hat trick from Turner with 5:33 left. Kendra Mason had five saves for the Saints while Sarah Baldwin had 11 stops for Hamilton. HARTWICK EDGES SAINTS 4-3 Oct. 13- The St. Lawrence University field hockey team suffered a 4-3 loss to visiting Hartwick College on Friday afternoon. The Saints fall to 6-6 overall with the loss, while the Hawks improve to 10-5 overall on the season. Hartwick's Katie Meyers opened the scoring early in the first half to give the Hawks a 1-0 advantage, but Saint junior Stacy Turner would tie the game and then put St. Lawrence on top with back-to-back goals just 10:00 later. Meyers set up Susannah Stecker with 10:24 left in the first half, to again tie the game at 2-2. Molly Johnson gave the Hawks a 3-2 lead with the opening goal of the second half. Saint freshman Jenny Heffler answered however, scoring on a pass from Turner. With 7:54 left to play, Stecker notched the game-winner for the Hawks. She was set up by Molly Johnson and Meyers. Kendra Mason made eight saves for the Saints. Lacey Pustizzi stopped 13 shots for Hartwick. SAINTS FALL TO THIRD
RANKED ST. MICHAEL'S Alves opened the scoring just six minutes into regulation, but Jenny Heffler tied things up, giving the Saints their first goal. Jamie Andrews and Alves then notched back-to-back goals within 2:02 of each other to give St. Michael's a 3-1 advantage at halftime. St. Lawrence held the Lady Knights scoreless for the entire second half of play, but got just one more goal from Stacy Turner to make it a 3-2 final. Tierney O'Meara assisted on Turner's goal. Amelia Gomez picked up 14 saves for the Saints. TURNER'S OVERTIME GOAL
BEATS VASSAR Turner's goal, her second of the game and 15th of the season capped a Saint comeback and improves SLU to 6-4 overall and 2-2 in the UCAA. Vassar drops to 8-4 and is also 2-2 in conference play. Vassar scored the only goal of the first period when Brooke Gentile scored her fifth of the season from Andrea Reyes with 28:25 to play in the half. The Saints pulled even with 16:46 to
play in regulation time when Turner scored off a penalty corner from
Amanda Bolton and took a Vassar tied it again on a goal by Kathryn Acosta, her third of the year, with 10:42 to go in regulation. Heffler started the game winning play when she took a pass from Turner and directed it toward the goal. Turner stepped around a defender, beat Vassar goaltender Tara Trifon to the ball and tapped it into the empty cage after running past the goalie. Trifon had five saves for Vassar while Kendra Mason and Amelia Gomez combined for 11 saves for the Saints. KUBIK SCORES FOUR AS RPI HOLDS OFF SAINTS IN FIELD HOCKEY Senior forward Steph Kubik scored all four goals Friday afternoon as Rensselaer posted a 4-3 Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association victory over St. Lawrence in women's field hockey. Rensselaer improved to 8-3 overall and 2-2 in the UCAA while the Saints slip to 5-4 and 1-2. Kubik scored her first goal just 3:07 into the game on an assist by Andrea Wadman and made it a 2-0 game with 21:38 to go in the first half when she converted from Jessica Mondrick. St. Lawrence cut it to 2-1 on the first of two goals by Stacy Turner just 42 seconds into the second half, but Kubik scored from Elisabeth Blanchard just over two minutes later to make it 3-1. Turner's second of the game and 14th of the season from Jen Heffler with 26:39 to play made it a 3-2 game, but Kubik scored her fourth of the day and 10th of the season on a penalty stroke with 21:09 to play to provide the eventual winning margin. Heffler scored her eighth of the season from Jill Cabral with 6:24 to play to make it a 4-3 game, but the Saints could not come up with the equalizer. Cathy Hotchkiss had seven saves for RPI while Kendra Mason made eight stops for the Saints, who had a 24-14 edge in shots and had 17 penalty corners to six for RPI. CORTLAND TOPS SAINTS WITH PENALTY STROKES Oct. 2: Tori Brown scored two penalty strokes exactly one minute apart in the second half to lift Cortland State from a 2-2 tie and send the Dragons on their way to a 5-2 field hockey victory over St. Lawrence University Tuesday afternoon. Cortland improves to 9-1 with the win while the Saints are now 5-3. Cortland grabbed a 1-0 lead with 2:14 to go in the first half when Kate Barvainis redirected a cross from Erin Ryder past Saint goalie Kendra Mason. The Saints tied it with just 22 seconds to go in the half when Stacy Turner scored her tenth of the year after a feed from Jenny Heffler. Cortland regained the lead with 2:09 gone in the second half on Julie Gentner's goal in a scramble, but the Saints tied it again when Turner scored her 11th of the season from Jill Cabral with 26:15 to play in the game. Brown was awarded her first penalty stroke when a Saint defender batted down a ball that was headed for the goal with a high stick. She beat Mason high to the left to make it a 3-2 game at 19:05 and a minute later scored on an identical shot after a Saint defender was called for covering the ball in the circle. Alana LaMorte completed the scoring when she put a rebound past Mason with 7:41 to play. Mason finished with seven saves for the Saints while Becky Gillette had three for Cortland. SLU will host RPI Friday at 4 p.m. and Vassar Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in UCAA games this weekend. TURNER SCORES THREE
GOALS Sept. 30:Junior Stacy Turner had a hand in all four Saint goals at Geneseo Saturday afternoon, scoring three and setting up the fourth as the Saints posted a 4-2 victory to improve to 5-2 on the season. Turner, who now has nine goals in seven games, set up the game's first with the first half just over 15 minutes old as she fed senior Tierney O'Meara for O'Meara's fifth of the year. Turner then scored from Amanda Bolton off a penalty corner with 11:19 to go in the first half to snap a 1-1 tie and netted her second from freshman Jen Heffler with 7:23 to go in the first half. Meg New scored Geneseo's first goal with 18 minutes to play in the half. Turner scored her third of the game 3:25 into the second half to give the Saints a 4-1 lead, and while Jill Knopka scored for Geneseo with 13:06 left, goalie Kendra Mason kept the score from getting any closer. Mason and Susan McNeil of Geneseo each finished with seven saves in the game as the Saints had nine penalty corners to seven for Geneseo and had a 20-9 edge in shots.
HEFFLER, TURNER LEAD SAINTS TO WEEKEND SPLIT SEPT. 23: Freshman Jenny Heffler and junior Stacy Turner each had a pair of goals and an assist as St. Lawrence University's field hockey team beat Union 5-2 Saturday afternoon to gain a split in its weekend Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association series. The Saints, now 4-2 overall and 1-1 in UCAA play, scored the only goal of the first half when Heffler scored her sixth goal of the year off a penalty corner from Turner and Lindsay Wormwood with 19:39 to go in the half. The Saints made it a 2-0 game when Heffler scored her third of the weekend unassisted just 3:36 into the second half, but Union cut it to a 2-1 game when Lauren Updegrove scored in a scramble with 26:04 to play. Amanda Bolton scored on a penalty stroke with 11:05 to go in the game to give the Saints a 3-1 lead, but Union cut it to a one-goal game again with 7:07 to play on Yvonne Turchetti's successful penalty stroke. The Saints put it away with a pair of goals in the final two minutes, Turner scoring from Heffler with 1:45 to play and then breaking in for a second goal unassisted just 14 seconds later. Kendra Mason finished with eight saves for the Saints while Jessica Wells had six for Union. SKIDMORE TIPS SAINTS IN OVERTIME IN FIELD HOCKEY SEPT. 22: Sophomore Taryn Howard scored her fifth goal of the season to finish off a three-on-one Skidmore College break with 2:49 to go in overtime, giving the Thoroughbreds a 3-2 victory over St. Lawrence University in an Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association field hockey game Friday afternoon. Skidmore won its fourth straight game and is now 4-1 overall and 2-0 in the UCAA. St. Lawrence is now 3-2 overall and 0-1 in the UCAA. The Thoroughbreds, who scored 24 goals in their last three games, had to come from behind twice to beat the Saints, who got an outstanding game from senior goalie Kendra Mason. Mason finished with 31 saves including 18 in the second half and seven in the overtime and had a save on a penalty shot with the game less than five minutes old. St. Lawrence broke on top when freshman Jen Heffler scored her fifth goal of the season from Cat Bush after a penalty corner with 19:54 to play in the first half. Skidmore tied it just 3:34 later when Lacey French worked through traffic and put a shot past Mason to make it a 1-1 game at the half. Lauren Frye put the Saints in front again, converting from Stacy Turner with 17:56 to go in regulation time, but Carrie Weiner scored her seventh goal of the season for Skidmore with 8:49 to play in regulation time on a penalty shot to tie the game. Skidmore pressured throughout the overtime as the Saints did not get a shot, and finally ended it when Howard took the ball from Jaclyn Flanagan and tucked it into the goal. Skidmore goalie Kristine Osmond finished with 16 saves, 11 of them in the first half.
SAINTS EDGED BY SUSQUEHANNA
The Saints suffered a 3-2 loss to Susquehanna on Sunday in the second round of the William Smith Invitational. The loss marked the first of the season for the Saints, who fall to 3-1-0 overall. Susquehanna is now 3-2-0. The Crusaders got on the board first, when Danielle Wegner set up teammate Jeannine Yarrow for teh game's opening goal 12:00 into the first half. Five minutes later, Saint junior Stacy Turner answered with a goal that was set up by teammate Amanda Bolton. Wenger then set up Katie McKeever to give Susquehanna a 2-1 lead at the half. Bolton evened things up for the Saints early in the second half, scoring on a penalty stroke. But McKeever earned the game winner for the Crusaders with 3:03 left to play. Both teams would go scoreless for the remainder of regulation. Senior goalie Kendra Mason collected 12 saves for the Saints. Susquehanna goalie Kylie Cook stopped nine shots for Susquehanna. FOUR SECOND HALF GOALS
PROPEL SAINTS SEPT. 16: Lindsay Wormwood picked two goals for the Saints on Saturday afternoon as St. Lawrence breezed by Wilkes, 6-2, at the William Smith Invitational. Stacy Turner had a goal and two assists in the game for the Saints. Wormwood broke open the scoring with 15:34 left in the first half on a Nicola Reid assist. Wilkes answered back with 3:17 left on the first half clock, but Tierney O'Meara had enough time to give the Saints the halftime lead, scoring with just over a miute left in the half. Turner wasted little time getting the scoring started in the second half, getting the game-winner with 33:34 left in the game. Wormwood would tack on another and Jenny Heffler and Lauren Frye would each add a goal to give St. Lawrence the run-away win, 6-2. Kendra Mason made 18 saves in net for the Saints. The Saints improve to 3-0 on the season and will face Susquehanna tomorrow at 11 a.m. on the second day of the tournament.
HEFFLER SCORES TWO AS
SAINTS TOP ONEONTA The Saints, now 2-0, opened the scoring 8:23 into the first half when Stacy Turner scored her second of the year off a penalty corner initiated by senior Amanda Bolton. Oneonta came back to tie it with 6:59 to play in the first half when Sarah Hyde put the ball past Saint goalie Kendra Mason from Jess Keller in a scramble in front of the Saint goal. SLU, which dominated play but was kept from building a big lead by Oneonta goalie Erika Szelowski, who had 17 saves in the game, finally broke through when Heffler scored from Bolton off a penalty corner with 15:36 to go in the second half. Heffler then gave the Saints a cushion when she scored her third of the year from Beth Lomanto in traffic in front with 4:55 to play in the game. The Saints, who had 55 shots attempted in the game to 10 for Oneonta, pressured throughout the final ten minutes of the game and had several other excellent chances to add to their lead. Mason finished with five saves for the Saints while SLU had 10 penalty corners to four for Oneonta, which had just one shot on goal in the second half. The Saints will return to action Saturday and Sunday with games against Wilkes and Susquehanna to be played at William Smith. SAINTS LIGHT UP OSWEGO
IN 1ST NIGHT GAME Tierney O'Meara scored three goals to lead the Saint offensive explosion while Lauren Frye had two. Stacy Turner had a goal and an assist, Jen Heffler had a goal and an assist and Nicola Reid had two goals for the Saints. The Saints opened the scoring when O'Meara put a shot past Oswego goalie Terra McCray in a scramble following a penalty corner with 27:32 to go in the first half. Frye then scored from Heffler five minutes later and Turner scored her first of the year from Linsday Wormwood midway through the first half. The Saints picked up right where they left off to start the second half as Frye scored her second of the night early in the half and Heffler scored her first collegiate goal from freshman Nicola Reid, who had two assists in the game, with 28:33 to play. O'Meara scored her second from Reid midway through the second half and then picked up her third, unassisted, with just under 12 minutes to play. Kara Tubbs deflected a shot past Saint goalie Kendra Mason 40 seconds later to break the shutout for Oswego. Mason finished with 10 saves and Amelia Gomez added three for the Saints, Terra McCray had 29 saves for the Lakers. St. Lawrence will host Oneonta at 4 p.m Thursday in its next game. FIELD HOCKEY TEAM PREPS FOR OPENER St. Lawrence University's field hockey team will participate in a series of scrimmages in Stowe, VT this weekend to prepare for the start of the regular season with a 7 p.m. game against Oswego on Saturday, Sept. 9. The Saints, who graduated just one player from last season's 8-8 squad, will host Oswego in the first night game on North Country Field to begin a 15-game regular season schedule. St. Lawrence lost to Ithaca in the quarterfinals of the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association tournament last fall and will be out to make their 14th consecutive post-season appearance at the end of the current campaign. Coach Fran Grembowicz is hoping for improved offensive output this season as the Saints scored just 1.6 goals per game last season. Junior Stacy Turner is the leading returning scorer after a 10 goal, eight assist sophomore season which included three game winning goals. She enters her junior year with 14 goals and 13 assists for her career and was a first-team All UCAA selection in 1999. Lindsay Wormwood, also a junior, chipped in with four goals and four assists last season. Grembowicz is hoping for increased output from senior forward Tierney O'Meara, who had two goals and an assist last year after a four-goal sophomore campaign, plus help from some promising newcomers. Other veteran forwards include junior Lauren Frye (2-1-5) and sophomore Lauren Greene (2-1-5). Nicola Reid, who can play either forward or midfield, is a freshman standout and was a member of the Jamaican Junior National team while freshman forward Jill Cabral was All League and Jen Heffler, the youngest sister of Saint All America men's hockey goalie Eric Heffler and former Saint field hockey player Missy Heffler was both All State and All Western New York at forward. Marygrace Balben, a multi-sport standout from Wayland, MA, will also battle for a regular spot at forward. Junior captain Beth Lomanto, sophomore Val Angelichio and sophomore Julie Zingerline return at midfield and the Saints have a number of players who can play either midfield for back to join them. Senior captain Catherine Bush, sophomore Michelle Circelli, senior Jessica Johnson and sophomore Rachel Kelley all return along with sophomore Mary Amidon, who can play either forward or midfield. Senior Amanda Bolton returns at back and will be joined by freshman candidates Jen Mascavage, a member of the Massachusetts State Champion Greenfield team; Megan Mellow and Page Schmucker, an all-league player from Pennsylvania. Senior Kendra Mason, who was 4-4 with an .803 save percentage last season, gives the Saints experience in goal while freshman Amelia Gomez will push for playing time as the backup. |
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Junior
Stacy Turner (left) was the tournament Most Valuable Player for the
second straight weekend as she scored one goal and assisted on another
in the title game and had two goals and an assist in the semifinal.
She finished the ECAC tournament with four goals and two assists and
regained the national lead in goals, goals per game, points and points
per game. She finished the year with 31 goals, 16 assists and 78 points,
all SLU records.
Junior
Stacy Turner, who was named ECAC Player of the Week after earning
MVP honors in the state tournament, scored her 28th goal of the season
to snap a scoreless tie with 8:02 to go in regulation time as she
deflected a shot by Beth Lomanto (left) past Vassar goalie Jessica
Babb.