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Minutewomen Head To Albany On Saturday Afternoon
March 10, 2006 | Women's Lacrosse
March 10, 2006
Minutewomen Head To Albany On Saturday Afternoon
• UMass heads to Albany on Saturday afternoon for the second game of their four-game road swing. Game time is set for 4:00 p.m. The game was originally scheduled for a 2:00 p.m. start but was moved due to the Albany basketball team hosting Vermont for the America East Conference Championship game.
• The Minutewomen enter the game with a 1-3 record after a tough loss at No. 9/7 Dartmouth on Wednesday. Albany will be playing its first game in a week and is off to a school-record 3-0 start.
• UMass is led by sophomore Kathleen Typadis (Medfield, Mass.) and senior Kerri Connerty (Nashua, N.H.). Typadis leads the team with nine points on nine goals, while Connerty is second with eight points on five goals and three assists. Freshman Kaytlin McCormick (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) is third with six goals and an assist, while fellow freshman Meghan Reddy (Salem, N.H.) has scored a point in every game so far with three goals and two assists. Redshirt junior Lauren McCarthy (Derry, N.H.) has started every game in the cage and has a 13.89 goals against average and has recorded 33 saves.
• A quartet of players lead Albany offensively and have reached double-figure scoring in just three games. Krissy Rajczak leads the Great Danes with 13 points on eight goals and five assists, while Kate Fontana has 11 points on eight goals and three assists. Julie Bush and Sarah Spillett both have 12 points. Bush has six goals and six assists, while Spillett has five goals and seven assists. Jen Daly has started every game in cage for Albany making 23 saves while allowing a scant 5.45 goals per game.
The Series With Albany
• UMass owns a perfect 4-0 all-time record against Albany. The Minutewomen have owned an 18.8-to-7 margin of victory in the four games.
• This will be the third time UMass has played at Albany. In the previous two meetings, UMass won 19-2 on April 19, 2001 and 20-1 on March 20, 2003.
• Last season, Kerri Connerty (Nashua, N.H.) posted a career-high eight points on a career-high six goals and two assists to lead UMass to a 19-10 win over Albany on March 13. Kathleen Typadis scored four goals and added two assists to finish with six points. Lauren McCarthy stopped 13 shots for the win.
• The Great Danes were led by Fontana, Rajczak, Reny, and Spillett who each tallied two goals. Daly made 17 saves in the net facing 45 total shots.
Happy 25th Anniversary!
• It was 25 years ago that UMass won the first ever NCAA Championship in women's lacrosse. The Minutewomen posted a 10-0 record during the 1982 season and defeated Trenton State for the title.
• During their title run, UMass defeated Boston University (18-0), Harvard (5-3), Dartmouth (13-3), New Hampshire (5-4), and Boston College (10-2).
• The Minutewomen followed their NCAA title with a pair of fourth-place finishes in 1983 and 1984.
Connerty Climbing The Charts
• Senior Kerri Connerty (Nashua, N.H.) continues to move up the all-time charts in UMass scoring history. After her three-goal, one assist outburst in the win over Harvard (3/4), Connerty now has 72 goals and 105 career points. She needs just 10 points and 17 goals to move into the all-time top-10 charts of each category, respectively.
• Connerty's 17-game scoring streak came to an end at Dartmouth (3/8). In her career she has tallied 15 multi-point games and seven hat tricks.
Nesbitt Anchors Defense
• Senior Jackie Nesbitt (Springfield, Pa.) has been a mainstay over her career in the defensive back. Saturday will mark her 36th consecutive start for UMass in 54 career games. In that span she has collected 112 groundballs, 53 draw controls and caused 53 turnovers. She has also tallied 12 goals and four assists for 16 points.
• Nesbitt ranks among the all-time top UMass defenders in groundballs, caused turnovers, and draw controls (those became official NCAA statistics in 2001). She ranks third all-time in groundballs, seventh in draw controls, and fifth in caused turnovers.
McCormick Named A-10 Rookie Of the Week (2/27)
• Freshman Kaytlin McCormick (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) was been named the Atlantic 10 Lacrosse Rookie of the Week (2/27) following her performance at Holy Cross. McCormick tallied four goals, three in the second half, on five shots to lead the Minutewomen in her collegiate debut. Despite playing the game in nearly two inches of snow, she also collected four groundballs and caused three turnovers.
• McCormick was a 2005 graduate of Saratoga Springs where she was a two-time U.S. Lacrosse All-American. She also earned the honor for field hockey (2005) and was a First-Team Section 2 honoree in both field hockey and lacrosse (2004, 2005). She became the first female student-athlete at Saratoga Springs to be named a two-time All-American as well as Section 2 MVP.
UMass Among The Atlantic 10
• UMass boasts the second best all-time record in league play among conference members. Temple holds the best record among league rivals at 41-3, while UMass is 28-16.
• UMass finished third in the conferencein 2004 with a 4-3 record.
• The Minutewomen are now 7-0 all-time in their league-opener after defeating La Salle in 2005.
• The Minutewomen were picked to finish second in the conference this year by the league's coaches in a preseason vote.
• In the six years affiliated with the league, UMass has one regular season title and one tournament title to its name (both in 2000).
UMass Picked Sixth In Atlantic 10 Preseason coaches Poll
• The women's lacrosse team was picked to finish sixth in the Atlantic 10 Conference entering the 2006 season as voted on by the league's coaches in a preseason poll. The Minutewomen tied for seventh in the A-10 in 2005 with a 1-6 conference mark.
• Temple was the top pick in the league, followed by the Richmond, George Washington and Duquesne/St. Bonaventure. La Salle and Saint Joseph's were picked to finish seventh and eighth, respectively.
• With the exception of 2005, UMass has finished no lower than third since 1999 in the conference highlighted by a tournament crown in 2000.
No Easy Schedule
• Six of this season's 17 scheduled opponents are ranked or receiving votes in the IWLCA Top-20 Poll: #3 Dartmouth, #9 Boston University, #13 Syracuse, #16 Hofstra, and #20 Temple. Richmond is just three votes shy of being ranked, but the Spiders are receiving votes.