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Melynda Zwick Gives UMass 11-10 Win Over Albany
March 11, 2006 | Women's Lacrosse
March 11, 2006
ALBANY, N.Y. - Sophomore Melynda Zwick (Holland, Pa.) scored with 2:17 remaining in regulation to give the UMass women's lacrosse team an 11-10 win over Albany on Saturday afternoon. The win snapped Albany's perfect 3-0 start to the season. Sophomore Kathleen Typadis (Medfield, Mass.) scored three goals to lead UMass, while senior Kerri Connerty (Nashua, N.H.) added three goals. The Minutewomen head to Syracuse on Wednesday afternoon.
Zwick's game-winner was set-up by Connerty just over a minute after sophomore Jeannette Villapiano tied the game 10-10 on a coast-to-coast strike. Villapiano finished the game with two goals and an assist.
Kate Fontana led Albany with three goals, while Domenica Lo Re finished with three points on one goal and two assists.
Sophomore Krissy Anderson (Baldwin, N.Y.) posted her first career win after entering the game in the first half. She allowed three Albany goals while making six saves, collecting one groundball and causing one turnover in 33 minutes, 17 seconds of work.
Jen Daly made eight saves between the pipes in the loss for Albany.
UMass (2-3) was able to control possession throughout much of the game with a 15-to-9 advantage in draw controls while turning the ball over just 15 times compared to 20 for Albany (3-1).
The game's first half was a shoot-out with Albany taking an 8-6 lead into halftime. Typadis started the scoring with a free position shot just three minutes into play. UMass jumped up 3-1 when Villapiano scored her first goal of the game on a free position shot as well. For the game UMass was 6-for-9 from the eight-meter circle.
The Great Danes fought back tying the game at 6-6 on a Fontana score with 5:20 remaining in the first half. Fontana scored again almost two minutes later to give Albany its first lead of the game.
UMass came out firing after the intermission as freshman Meghan Reddy scored a goal - her fifth-consecutive scoring game - followed by Typadis' third of the day to tie the game at 8-8.
With 13:31 to play in the game Katelyn Primomo tallied to give Albany a 10-9 lead setting up the Villapiano and Zwick heroics.
The loss for Albany was its first at the newly constructed John Fallon Field.
