5/15/04 - Middlebury (18-0) will make its seventh trip to the NCAA Championship game after a 13-9 win over Amherst in the NCAA semifinals at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y. The Panthers will take on The College of New Jersey (18-0), a 14-9 winner over Salisbury, in the championship game on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. This will be the seventh meeting between Middlebury and TCNJ, with the Lions holding a 4-2 advantage. The teams have not met since a 12-6 Middlebury win in the '02 title game.
The win is the third over the Jeffs this season, while also helping to avenge a loss in the '03 title game. Amherst is the only team to have beaten Middlebury in the last four years.
Middlebury scored six of the game's first seven goals, jumping out to a 6-1 lead with 12:57 left in the first half. Three different players scored the first three goals, all of them coming in a 2:44 span. Following an Amherst goal, Nuala O'Donohoe scored a pair, followed by a free position goal from Kim Walker to give the Panthers a 6-1 lead. Amherst ended the run before the Panthers third three-goal run of the half began. Walker and O'Donohoe netted the first two, while Claire Edelen scored her second of the game with 4:24 left in the half to give Middlebury a 9-3 lead. Amherst found the back of the net with 14 seconds left in the half to make it a 9-4 game at the break.
The teams exchanged the first four goals of the second half, leaving the Panthers with an 11-5 lead, two goals in 59 seconds from O'Donohoe and Elizabeth Renehan gave Middlebury its largest lead of the day at 13-5. Amherst scored four times in the game's last 9:43 to make it a 13-9 final.
O'Donohoe led the Panthers with four goals, while Walker added three. Renehan and Edelen chipped in with two goals apiece. Sarah Grenert made eight saves in goal to get the win.
Lacrosse Box Score (Final)
#3 Amherst College vs #2 Middlebury College (May 15, 2004 at Pittsford, N.Y.)
Amherst College (16-3) vs. Score by period 1 2 Tot
Middlebury College (18-0) -------------------------------
Date: May 15, 2004 Attendance: 200 Amherst College..... 3 6 - 9
Weather: Rainy and low 60s Middlebury College.. 9 4 - 13
Amherst College SCORING: GOALS: Ashley Harmeling 3; Liz Martin 2; Jackie Sargent
2; Scotty Hanley 1; Caitie Parker 1.
ASSISTS: Ashley Harmeling 2.
Middlebury College SCORING: GOALS: Nuala O'Donohoe 4; Kim Walker 3; Elizabeth
Renehan 2; Claire Edelen 2; Schuyler Winstead 1; Caitlin McCormick 1.
ASSISTS: Michele Bergofsky 2; Nuala O'Donohoe 1; Elizabeth Renehan 1.
Shots by period 1 2 Tot
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Amherst College..... 9 14 - 23
Middlebury College.. 20 14 - 34
Ground balls by prd 1 2 Tot
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Amherst College..... 10 12 - 22
Middlebury College.. 11 7 - 18
Turnovers by prd 1 2 Tot
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Amherst College..... 14 6 - 20
Middlebury College.. 9 6 - 15
Face-offs by prd 1 2 Total
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Amherst College..... 0-0 0-0 - 0-0
Middlebury College.. 0-0 0-0 - 0-0
Clears by period 1 2 Total
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Amherst College..... 5-9 6-9 - 11-18
Middlebury College.. 7-7 4-5 - 11-12
Extra-man opps 1 2 Total
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Amherst College..... 0-0 0-0 - 0-0
Middlebury College.. 0-0 0-0 - 0-0
Free-position shots 1 2 Total
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Amherst College..... 0-0 1-2 - 1-2
Middlebury College.. 4-4 0-3 - 4-7
Saves by period 1 2 Tot
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Amherst College..... 3 5 - 8
Middlebury College.. 3 5 - 8
Draw controls by prd 1 2 Tot
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Amherst College..... 7 5 - 12
Middlebury College.. 6 6 - 12
PENALTIES - AMHERST 3/9:00; MID 2/6:00.
Officials: Pat Daley; Mary Jane Schaaf; Lisa Volland; Sandy Goldthorpe.
Middlebury advances to title game against College of New
Jersey on May 16, at 1 p.m. Ashley Harmeling ties the NCAA
record for assists in the tournament with 13 (Kristin Hanley
of Middlebury and Laura Schifter of Amherst in 2003)
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Offical signature
Lacrosse Box Score (Final)
#3 Amherst College vs #2 Middlebury College (May 15, 2004 at Pittsford, N.Y.)
Middlebury College
Pos. ## Player G A Pts Sh SOG GB DC FPS Face T/O CT Pen-Min
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GK 34 Sarah Grenert....... - - - - - 3 - 0-0 - 2 -
3 Schuyler Winstead... 1 - 1 3 2 3 2 0-0 - 3 -
4 Kim Walker.......... 3 - 3 6 4 1 4 1-2 - 2 1
6 Nuala O'Donohoe..... 4 1 5 12 7 2 1 2-4 - 1 - 1/ 3:00
7 Caitlin McCormick... 1 - 1 1 1 1 - 0-0 - - - 1/ 3:00
9 Kate Perry.......... - - - - - 1 1 0-0 - 1 -
11 Michele Bergofsky... - 2 2 2 - 1 - 0-0 - 1 -
17 Becca Brakeley...... - - - - - - 1 0-0 - - 2
19 Elizabeth Renehan... 2 1 3 3 2 2 1 0-0 - 2 4
20 Emily Erickson...... - - - 1 1 - - 0-0 - - 1
21 Channing Weymouth... - - - - - 3 - 0-0 - - 3
28 Claire Edelen....... 2 - 2 3 3 1 2 1-1 - 2 -
---------- Substitutes ----------
8 Lindsey Corbin...... - - - - - - - 0-0 - - -
14 Alison Perencevich.. - - - 1 - - - 0-0 - - -
16 Natalie Shettle..... - - - - - - - 0-0 - - -
18 Beth Seeley......... - - - 2 1 - - 0-0 - 1 -
Totals.............. 13 4 17 34 21 18 12 4-7 0-0 15 11 2/ 6:00
Middlebury College
## Player MIN GA Shots Saves
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34 Sarah Grenert....... 60:00 9 23 8
Legend: Sh=shots SOG-shots on goal G=goals scored A=assists Face=faceoffs T/O=turnovers
CT=caused turnover SC=stick check INT=interception BLK=blocked pass/shot DCH=drawn charge
Lacrosse Box Score (Final)
#3 Amherst College vs #2 Middlebury College (May 15, 2004 at Pittsford, N.Y.)
Amherst College
Pos. ## Player G A Pts Sh SOG GB DC FPS Face T/O CT Pen-Min
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GK 33 Olivia D'Ambrosio... - - - - - 3 - 0-0 - 2 -
3 Margaret Chute...... - - - - - 4 2 0-0 - 3 2
6 Laura Brown......... - - - - - - - 0-0 - - -
7 Jackie Sargent...... 2 - 2 3 2 2 - 1-1 - 1 -
8 Jenna Swan-Gross.... - - - - - 3 - 0-0 - - -
12 Caitie Parker....... 1 - 1 1 1 3 1 0-0 - 3 1
15 Scotty Hanley....... 1 - 1 2 2 - - 0-0 - - -
16 Ashley Harmeling.... 3 2 5 8 5 3 3 0-0 - 1 2
17 Christine Ryan...... - - - - - 3 - 0-0 - 1 - 2/ 6:00
18 Allison Aldrich..... - - - 3 1 - 2 0-0 - 2 -
19 Liz Martin.......... 2 - 2 5 5 1 3 0-1 - 2 1
22 Cate Smith.......... - - - - - - - 0-0 - 2 -
---------- Substitutes ----------
4 Dana Kuper.......... - - - 1 1 - 1 0-0 - 1 - 1/ 3:00
21 Maggie Roth......... - - - - - - - 0-0 - - -
24 Liz Wise............ - - - - - - - 0-0 - - 1
28 Alyssa Briody....... - - - - - - - 0-0 - - -
Totals.............. 9 2 11 23 17 22 12 1-2 0-0 20 7 3/ 9:00
Amherst College
## Player MIN GA Shots Saves
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33 Olivia D'Ambrosio... 60:00 13 34 8
Legend: Sh=shots SOG-shots on goal G=goals scored A=assists Face=faceoffs T/O=turnovers
CT=caused turnover SC=stick check INT=interception BLK=blocked pass/shot DCH=drawn charge
Lacrosse Box Score (Final)
#3 Amherst College vs #2 Middlebury College (May 15, 2004 at Pittsford, N.Y.)
SCORING SUMMARY:
Prd Time Team Type Goal Scorer Assists
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1. 1st 24:56 MID EVEN Caitlin McCormick (6) Unassisted
2. 1st 24:07 MID EVEN Elizabeth Renehan (32) Michele Bergofsky
3. 1st 22:12 MID EVEN Claire Edelen (17) Free position shot
4. 1st 21:26 AMHERST EVEN Ashley Harmeling (73) Unassisted
5. 1st 19:01 MID EVEN Nuala O'Donohoe (63) Free position shot
6. 1st 18:06 MID EVEN Nuala O'Donohoe (64) Elizabeth Renehan
7. 1st 12:57 MID EVEN Kim Walker (26) Free position shot
8. 1st 11:31 AMHERST EVEN Caitie Parker (9) Ashley Harmeling
9. 1st 9:19 MID EVEN Kim Walker (27) Unassisted
10. 1st 5:11 MID EVEN Nuala O'Donohoe (65) Free position shot
11. 1st 4:24 MID EVEN Claire Edelen (18) Nuala O'Donohoe
12. 1st 0:14 AMHERST EVEN Scotty Hanley (13) Ashley Harmeling
13. 2nd 25:58 MID EVEN Kim Walker (28) Unassisted
14. 2nd 22:10 AMHERST EVEN Jackie Sargent (31) Unassisted
15. 2nd 19:51 MID EVEN Schuyler Winstead (28) Michele Bergofsky
16. 2nd 15:25 AMHERST EVEN Ashley Harmeling (74) Unassisted
17. 2nd 13:37 MID EVEN Elizabeth Renehan (33) Unassisted
18. 2nd 12:38 MID EVEN Nuala O'Donohoe (66) Unassisted
19. 2nd 9:43 AMHERST EVEN Liz Martin (65) Unassisted
20. 2nd 6:01 AMHERST EVEN Jackie Sargent (32) Free position shot
21. 2nd 5:37 AMHERST EVEN Ashley Harmeling (75) Unassisted
22. 2nd 5:09 AMHERST EVEN Liz Martin (66) Unassisted
PENALTY SUMMARY:
Prd Player Team Min Offense Time
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1st Christine Ryan AMHE 3:00 Yellow Card 19:23
2nd Caitlin McCormick MID 3:00 Yellow Card 28:59
2nd Christine Ryan AMHE 3:00 RC 11:46
2nd Nuala O'Donohoe MID 3:00 Yellow Card 05:53
2nd Dana Kuper AMHE 3:00 Yellow Card 01:19
