CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Senior tri-captain attacker Lily Ives (Chappaqua, N.Y.) had five goals, including the 100th of her career, and two assists to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a 22-4 win over the Plymouth State University Panthers in the opening round of the NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Championship Tournament at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Jack Barry Field this afternoon.  Trinity, ranked No. 13 in the nation, improves to 12-5 and will face the No. 23-ranked MIT Engineers in the NCAA Second Round tomorrow at 1 p.m.  Plymouth State closes the year at 12-7.

Trinity never trailed, going ahead, 2-0, early, as Ives scored 1:22 into the game on a free position and fed first-year attacker Alez Lesko (Villanova, Pa.) on a goal just over a minute later.  Julia Donovan scored for Plymouth State at the 11:52 mark, but Trinity scored six more times in the first quarter including two tallies by sophomore attacker Brooke Kurtz (Alexandria, Va.).  Maddie Hunt scored the second Plymouth State goal with 1:39 on the clock.

Ives wasted no time in the second period getting her 100th career goal, beating Panther goalie Margie Black with a quick fake high before bouncing the ball into the goal to make the score, 9-2, just 49 seconds after the first break. Neither team scored for over six minutes before the Bantams put the game away early with seven goals in just over seven minutes.  Ives and junior Natalie Miller (Northport, N.Y.) both scored two of the seven.
Trinity outscored the Panthers, 5-0, in the third quarter, including two goals by Lesko, and each team scored twice in the final frame.  Donovan scored one of the Plymouth State goals in the fourth quarter to finish with two for the game.  Ives led all scorers with seven points, while Miller added four goals, and junior attacker Carloine Lampert (Wayland, Mass.) notched two goals and three assists to go with four ground balls.  Senior Alyssa Vitale (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) and first-year Ali Macdougal (Southbury, Conn.) combined for 10 saves, while Black had 12 for Plymouth State.