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Reading, Pa. (May 3, 2011) - Fourth-seeded Alvernia University (11-6), playing in its first ever Middle Atlantic Conference Women's Lacrosse playoff game, got multi-goal games from seven different players in a 19-6 win over #5 Lebanon Valley College (8-8) Tuesday afternoon in quarterfinal action at Schlager Memorial Field.
Junior
Sarah George (West Chester, Pa./Bayard Rustin) tallied a team high four goals and Alli Bainbridge (Pottstown, Pa./Pottsgrove) scored three goals and dished out four assists. Five other players scored two goals each,
Felicia Sippel (Philadelphia, Pa./St. Hubert),
Nora Walsh (Hatfield, Pa./Lansdale Catholic),
Hannah Dorsch (Mount Airy, Md./Linganore),
Sam Landis (Watsontown, Pa./Warrior Run), and
Heather Coppola (Fulton, N.Y./G. Ray Bodley).
Junior goalie Jenn Czarnecki (Philadelphia, Pa./St. Hubert) made nine saves in the win--a couple from point blank range to deny the Dutchmen.
Landis opened the scoring for the Crusaders off the opening draw finishing a feed from Dorsch, but the Dutchmen had the answer from scoring leader Hana Kreckel who finished with four. Sippel and Dorsch then scored for a 3-1 lead and the gap hit eight at the break when the Crusaders scored the final five goals of the half for an 11-3 lead. Czarnecki helped keep the lead with a pair of saves in the final 30 seconds, the first on a free position effort.
Bainbridge and George scored the first two goals of the second half to put the Crusaders up 10, and Krechel answered with two for the Dutchmen--the first time the guests were able to put together back-to-back tallies.
Bainbridge scored two more and assisted on another as the Crusaders scored six straight over a 13-minute span to salt away the win--the first MAC playoff win for Alvernia Women's Lacrosse.
The Crusaders will face top-seeded Messiah College on Thursday in Grantham. Third-seeded FDU-Florham will travel to #2 Elizabethtown in Thursday's other semifinal. The final is scheduled for Saturday.
#4 Alvernia 19, #5 Lebanon Valley 6
