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BY DANNY FRIEL

In print | Published April 2, 2009

Women’s lacrosse falls short in late rally against Green Terror

It was too little too late for Garnet women’s lacrosse on Saturday afternoon. Swarthmore (6-2, 0-2 CC) fell 15-13 to conference rival McDaniel (6-3, 2-1 CC) on Clothier Field.

After a balanced first half that left the Garnet with a 7-6 advantage at halftime, the Green Terror kicked off the second period with a 7-0 run that left the Garnet down by a score of 13-7 with seven minutes to play.

The Garnet found a spark when Emily Evans ’11 scored her seventh hat trick of the season by connecting a free position penalty shot at 6:52. After McDaniel answered the Evans goal at 6:01, Swarthmore took off on a 5-0 run to bring the score to 14-13 in favor of the Green Terror with just under a minute and a half to play.

The rally ended prematurely however, as the McDaniel defense kept the scoring frenzy at bay. The visitors added an exclamation point on the victory with a buzzer-beater by junior attacker Sarah Mintz that left the contest with a final result of 15-13.

Evans went on to score four goals on the day, as did classmate Amy Vachal ’11, whose season total of 31 goals is a team-high. Ally Grein ’10 tallied 12 saves in the loss.

The Lady Garnet will return to Clothier Field on Tuesday, when they host Ursinus (1-7, 0-3 CC) at 7 p.m.

Golf second in Swarthmore quad

The Garnet golf team hosted a four-team tournament Monday on home-course Rolling Green Golf Club in Springfield.

Swarthmore was second in a tight contest. They were edged by Neumann, whom they had beaten in a dual match on March 16, by just two strokes.

The tournament was scored by adding the total number of strokes taken by each of the top four entrants from each team.

Paul Weston ’12 topped the 19-person field, finishing with a total of 76 strokes, just five-over-par. Michael Bernasek ’09 and Alex Nichamin ’12 each finished with 82 strokes, while David Lau ’09 tallied 83.

The tournament took place a week after Swarthmore emerged victorious in a five-team tournament hosted at Rolling Green. Weston and Bernasek finished first and second in the five-team field, which Swarthmore handled easily, beating second-place Eastern by 24 strokes.

Swarthmore will take on Philadelphia University in a dual meet on Saturday and will return to Rolling Green on April 11 when they will host Drexel and Ursinus in a 1 p.m. contest.

Track and field competes at Widener’s Curran Invite

The Swarthmore track and field squads kicked off the spring season last weekend at Widener’s Danny Curran Invitational and saw a number of top-ten finishes.

Kathy Feeney ’09 (18:46.41) and Hannah Rose ’12 (18:52.14) were fifth and sixth in the 5K, respectively. Ada Okun ’11 (19:22.07) was tenth in the same race, which fielded 41 athletes.

Bess Ritter ’09 (4:58.72) was tenth in the 1500, while Mariel Feigen ’10 (1:11.78) was eighth in the 400-meter hurdles.

The Garnet women were led in the field events by Nicole Cox ’12, who jumped 1.51m in the high jump, good enough for seventh place.

Dan Ly ’12 was eighth in the men’s equivalent, clearing 1.78m. Ly also placed in the top ten in the triple jump, jumping 12.70m.

Dan Hodson ’09 garnered the highest finish among Swarthmore men on the track, finishing 11th in the 800 in 2:00.75.

The Garnet distance runners will next take to the track on Friday at a distance meet hosted by Princeton, while Swarthmore athletes will also compete Saturday at Richard Stockton College’s Osprey Open.

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