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WILLIAMSTOWN, MA — The Williams College women's lacrosse
team trailed by five goals early on Wednesday, but rallied to
within one in the second half before bowing to conference rival
Middlebury, 13-10, at Renzie Lamb Field.
The Ephs fell to 2-4 overall with the loss, while Middlebury
upped its mark to 5-2.
Senior Katherine Entwisle led the Panthers' scoring attack with
four goals, while Chase Delano added three. Sophomore Tina Nawrocki
led Williams with three tallies while her sister Julia Nawrocki
added two in the loss.
"Obviously I'm not happy with the result," Ephs head coach Chris
Mason said. "Middlebury is a very good team and they played like
they wanted to win. At the same time, I felt encouraged with some
of the improvements we made over some of our most recent games."
Middlbury controlled play throughout the first half, jumping out
to a 5-0 lead over the first 20 minutes of the contest. Entwisle
scored twice in that span while Delano, Lindsay Winstead and Mimi
Schatz eached tallied one goal.
Julia Nawrocki finally got the Ephs on the board with 8:37 left
in the half when she scored on a free position shot, but Middlebury
went into the halftime break up 7-2 as first-year Sally Ryan and
Delano scored in the closing minutes.
The second half was controlled early by Williams as goals senior
Sara duPont (2), Whitney Thayer and Tina Nawrocki cut the visitors
lead to 7-6 after the first 9:16 of the stanza. Caroline Kirkendoll
and Winstead scored goals 35 seconds apart to bump the Middlebury
lead back up to three again.
Julia Nawrocki then scored to make it 9-7, spinning around her
defender on the left side of the net, racing in front of the net
and then jumping up to shoot over two Panther defenders and beat
Middlebury goalie Blair Bowie.
The Panthers would have the answer again in the form of
Entwisle, who scored back-to-back goals 55 second sapart to give
Middlebury an 11-7 lead.
"We still had too many turnovers, we still tried to force some
stuff," Mason said. "We have to clean up our passing. We did do
some good things that I'm encouraged by."
The Ephs stayed in the game in part due to a great effort from
first-year goalkeeper Julia Schreiber, who finished with 22 saves,
many of the spectacular variety, including a half-dozen on
free-position shots.
"Julia has a great game, and she's been struggling with an
injury - she certainly looked full strength today," Mason said.
Middlebury outshot the Ephs, 40-21, and controlled the draws,
16-9. Reid Barren had six draw controls and six groundballs for the
Panthers, both team highs.
