By Victoria Ripple
Elm Staff Writer
Senior Sarah Cannon doesn’t waste any time playing her lead role for the Shorewomen as she scored a career-high 4 goals, matched her career-high of 6 points, and exceeded over 100 career points. It’s obvious to say that she contributed to the Shorewomen’s victory over Virginia Wesleyan, with a score of 16-12 in a non-conference game for their season-opener.
Freshmen, Carly Eisenbrandt, made herself known in her first collegiate game, as she scored the final 3 goals of the half to give the Shorewomen a 4 goal lead. The Virginia Wesleyan Marlins came out after the half with a vengeance as they answered back with 4 straight goals to tie the score up. WC then scored the next 4 goals making it 12-8 with sophomore Corinne Ziccardi scoring with 14:13 remaining. The Marlins answered back again by scoring the next 3 goals, but were still down by 1 with 12:06 on the scoreboard.
Cannon achieved her 100 career points as she scored with 10:57 left in the game. Shortly following, WC scored 3 more as Cannon scored again with 3:12 remaining, giving her 101 career points. Cannon’s four goals established a new career high and earned her title of Shorewomen of the Week.
Along with Cannon’s 4 goals and 2 assists, Eisenbrant and junior Rachel Bartee each had a career-best of 4 goals in the game. Also contributing to the victory, Ziccardi had 2 goals and 2 assists while juniors Kalli Parrish and Ann Eickelberg each had 1 goal. In addition, sophomore goalie Stephanie Seibert made 7 saves in the Shorewomen’s season-opener. The Shorewomen held a 30-22 advantage in shots over the Marlins, while committing 13 turnovers and were 15-for-20 on clears.
In order to get an insider’s perspective on the 2011 season Head Coach Julika Blankenship commented on how she intends to continue improving, especially after following the Shorewomen’s best season in the last six years. “Coming off of a decent 2010 season, we feel as if we are ready to make the next step forward and make the conference tournament. In order to do so we need to win those close, one and two goal games that we lost last year. This group of lacrosse players is definitely capable of reaching this goal but will have to continue to improve at the same rate they currently are in order to do so!!”
The Shorewomen’s next competition is Saturday at 3 p.m. in a non-conference game against the visiting Owls of Rowan University.
March 4, 2011
Volume LXXXI Issue 17