Students are excited about Spring Break quickly approaching, but it didn’t feel anything like spring weather as the Fairfield women’s lacrosse team fell to Stony Brook, 13-10, March 4 on Alumni Field.
The brisk wind and recently fallen snow left a cold air lingering through the first half, causing the teams to score seven goals altogether. There were eight goals scored in nine minutes during the final period; Fairfield and Stony Brook each netted four goals, before both teams went scoreless for seven minutes in the second half.
“We go through spurts during the game, we had a straight through fire up from the second half of the Lehigh game into the game against Villanova,” said Beth Loffredo ’06. “We didn’t stick to our game plan against Stony Brook and we didn’t execute when we needed to.”
Loffredo led the team with four points on two goals and two assists against Stony Brook. She is second on the team in goals netted with seven. Abbey Goodwin ’09 and Ashley Chappell ’07 had a team-high three goals for the Stags. Goodwin is the first player to be named Rookie of the Week this season. She leads the team in goals scored attempting 11 shots, touching net nine times.
“I don’t think that I have to go out in the game and score every time,” said Goodwin. “There are a lot of freshmen on the team and we are all on the same level, so I just go out there and do what I can for the team.”
Ashley Chappell ’07 was the only player for the Stags to score in the last five minutes of the game. She leads the team with 12 points and seven assists. Stony Brook out-shot the Stags 38-22, despite Fairfield causing eight turnovers and grabbing 12 saves.
“I expected us to be a lot more composed against Stony Brook than we were in the game,” said Head Coach Stacey McCue. “It was a close game against them when we played last year and this game was similar to the one we had last year.”
The Stags lead their opponents in almost every statistical category for the first three games of the regular season. The team scored in double figures all three games and committed 12 less turnovers than their three opponents combined. The two defeats for the Stags this season were by a combined total of four points.
The Stags have attempted 80 shots on goal, touching net four more times than all three of their opponents as a whole. The team is shooting 45 percent on the field attempting 61 goals with an average score of 12 per game.
“The effort and the heart is definitely there from our team,” said McCue. “We just have to clean up our play because a lot of the turnovers we commit in the beginning of the game come back to haunt us.”
The Stags play their last non-conference home game before a four-game road trip and the start of conference play on March 9 against Long Island University.
Splitting the bill
Baseball split a doubleheader against Fordham on Sunday, winning their first game of the season in the night cap.
Despite losing 12-7 in the first game, the Stags were able to persevere and received outstanding individual efforts from first baseman John Scaife ’06 and pitcher Ed Kamintzky ’07 en route to a 10-1 victory.
Kamintzky had a career outing, allowing only one run on four hits with two walks as well as striking out a career-high ten batters.
A Pirates life…
Fairfield softball went 4-2 during the Pirate Classic in North Carolina defeating Longwood, Liberty and St.Francis, PA twice.
Strong efforts from the weekend included pitcher Cagney Rignalda ’07 and catcher Erin Hank ’08.
Outfielder Julia Jac oby ’08 also had an outstanding weekend which led to her MAAC Softball Player of the Week Honor. During the tournament Jacoby batted .478 and recorded 10 runs during 23 at bats.
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