Hartford, Conn. – Senior co-captain attacker
Rachel Romanowsky (Hampstead, N.H.) had two goals
and three assists in the second half to help the Trinity College
Bantams turn a 7-7 tie at the half into a 14-8 victory against the
visiting Bates College Bobcats in New England Small College
Athletic Conference (NESCAC) women's lacrosse action this
afternoon in a steady rain on Sheppard Field. Trinity, ranked
No. 3 in the nation, improves to 13-0 overall and 8-0 in the
NESCAC, while the No. 18-ranked Bobcats drops to 7-6 overall and
3-5 in the league with its second loss in a row. The Bantams
also set a new College record for wins to start the season, and
will play Amherst, ranked No. 15 nationally, at home on Friday
night, April 29 at 6 p.m. with the first-ever undefeated regular
season in the program's history on the line. Trinity
has started 12-0 in 1993 en route to a 13-2 campaign.
Romanowsky opened the second half feeding sophomore midfielder
Megan Leonhard (Summit, N.J.) for the game-winning
goal 2:08 after the break, and added an unassisted tally of her own
at the 24:07 mark to give Trinity a 9-7 lead. Romanowsky
assisted Leonhard and sophomore attacker Hadley Duncan
(Rye, N.Y.) on subsequent second-half scores, and added
her third goal of the game before fellow Trinity senior co-captain
Trinity Alisen Urquhart (Redding, Conn.) capped
off a 7-0 run with her fourth tally of the game and her second of
the spurt with 5:42 on the clock. Bates junior attacker
Joan O'Neill (Westwood, Mass.) scored her
fourth goal of the game in the final minute to avoid a second-half
shutout for the visitors.
Trinity had built an early 4-1 lead 10 minutes into the game
that was matched by a 4-1 spurt by the Bobcats over the following
8:38, and the teams traded scores back and forth over the final
6:22 ending with an unassisted scoring shot by O'Neill with
1:54 left before intermission. Trinity junior goalie
Gina Dinallo (West Hartford, Conn.) replaced
sophomore Olivia Whitney (Danvers, Mass.) after
halftime, and helped keep the Bobcats scoreless until just 27
seconds before time expired.
Trinity outshot Bates, 32-18, and held a 15-to-9 edge on the
draw, while Leonhard matched Urquhart with four goals to go with
one assist, and Romanowsky totaled three goals and four assists for
the Bantam offense. Urquhart also scooped four ground balls,
while Trinity junior midfielder Liz Bruno (Andover,
Mass.) caused a game-high seven turnovers, and Whitney and
Dinallo combined for three saves. O'Neill assisted on
two goals to finish with six points, while rookie SooHee
Yoon (Lexington, Mass.) picked up four groundballs, and
senior co-captain goalkeeper Mara Krueger (St. Louis,
Mo.) made 10 saves for the Bobcats.
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