Box Score COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – Playing on the campus of Colorado College the Williams College women's lacrosse team lined up against New England foe MIT.
The Ephs (4-3) scored the first three goals of the game and never looked back in downing the MIT Engineers (4-4) 16-7 this afternoon. With the win the Ephs improved to 4-3 on the year and MIT evened its record at 4-4.
Williams's Jenna Chodos netted the first goal of the contest when she tallied an unassisted goal at 26:18. Forty seconds later the Ephs doubled their margin to 2-0 when Eliza Quigley scored off a pass from Korinna Garfield, which came from a free position opportunity.
At 23:46 Katie Gallop extended the Eph lead to 3-0 when she notched an unassisted goal.
MIT recorded their first goal at 22:01 when Emily Young scored unassisted, narrowing the Eph lead to 3-1.
Eliza Quigley registered her second goal of the contest at 19:18 when she converted off a pass from Caroline Hogan to make it 4-1 in favor of the Ephs.
When the Ephs' Brett Bidstrup scored an unassisted goal at 16:09 to boost the Eph lead to four, 5-1, MIT called a timeout. In the first 13:51 of the half the Ephs had generated a 12-3 margin in shots.
The Eph lead went to five goals after Kara Wollmers netted an unassisted score at 14:40, which MIT answered 61 seconds later when Ana Flooks scored off a feed from Emily Young as the Engineers capitalized on a man-up opportunity. Williams now led 6-2 with 13:39 remaining in the first half.
The duo of Flooks and Young combined to cut the Eph lead to 6-3 with 12:21 to play when Young set up Flooks for her second goal of the contest.
With just under 10 minutes remaining in the half the Ephs Emma Tenbarge scored an unassisted goal to re-establish a 4-goal margin for Williams, 7-3.
Two minutes later Emma Tenbarge scooped up a ground ball after she caused a turnover by MIT goalie Eva Boal and Tenbarge made Boal pay for the mistake by when she beat the MIT goalie with a quick shot to score her second goal of the contest and up the Eph lead to 5, 8-3, with 7:15 to play in the half.
Emma Tenbarge tallied her third consecutive unassisted goal at 3:25 and the Ephs opened up their biggest lead of the game, 9-3, and the Ephs carried that six-goal margin into the halftime break. Tenbarge was not quite done as she netted her fourth goal of the half with 37 seconds remaining in the half, but this time she was assisted by Suzanna Penikis, upping the Eph lead to seven, 10-3.
The Ephs took a 10-3 lead into the halftime break.
Eph goalie Kami Cisneros had four saves in the opening 30 minutes, while Boal stopped 6 Eph attempts. Williams collected 18 ground balls to 11 for MIT. MIT committed 9 turnovers and Williams eight. The Ephs won 7 of 13 draw controls and fired off 21 shots to the Engineers' 11.
MIT's Emily Young opened the scoring the second half when she scored an unassisted goal at 27:42 and the Eph lead was now six at 10-4.
Emma Tenbarge and Brett Bidstrup teamed up for the Ephs' first goal of the second half when Bidstrup keyed a free position opportunity and passed to Tenbarge who scored over Boal's right shoulder. Williams now led 11-4 at 23:46.
Kara Wollmers gave the Ephs an eight-goal lead, 12-4, at 18:21 as she got free racing across the goal from left to right and beat Boal with a high shot.
With 15:42 left in the second half MIT's Emily Young registered her third goal of the day on an unassisted free position effort when she came in on Cisneros from the goalie's right and fired over Cisneros's left shoulder. MIT was now down seven 12-5.
At 13:26 Louisa Belk worked her way inside and deposited a low shot past Boal's left foot and the Ephs were now up 13-5.
Hannah Levy netted the Engineers' sixth goal when she scored on a free position attempt with 7:22 left in the contest.
The Levy goal was answered just about a minute later when the Ephs' Suzanna Penikis scored unassisted at 6:43. The Ephs now led 14-6, but that lead would grow to 15-6 when Caroline Hogan contributed an unassisted goal at 4:19.
With 2:47 remaining the Ephs' Kallie Saudek scored unassisted and the Ephs owned a 10-gaol margin, 16-6. MIT scored just inside of a minute left when Cecilia McCormick scored the final goal of the game off a pass from Ashley Masucci with 57 seconds left to make the final score 16-7 in favor of Williams.
Eva Boal started in goal for the Engineers and Williams started first year Kami Cisneros who hails from Lakewood, Colorado, where she graduated from Mullen HS. This was Cisneros' second start as she also started and played the first half of a NESCAC game vs. Connecticut College that the Ephs won 14-6.
On the day the Ephs out shot the Engineers 39-17 and collected 24 ground balls to MIT's 20. Williams turned the ball over 16 times, while MIT had 18miscures. Williams snared 15 of the 25 draw controls.
In gaining the win Kami Cisneros had six saves, while MIT's Eva Boal made 11 saves.
Emma Tenbarge led the Eph attack netting five goals when she scored the last four goals to close out the first half and the Ephs' first goal of the second half. Emily Young led MIT with three goals and two assists.
"We had a good win today," said Eph head coach Chris Mason. "Kami Cisneros had a very good game in goal. Everyone who is healthy got playing time. Defense played well and in particular Kat Fearey stood out defensively. The scoring was spread out as a lot of people contributed."
Next up for the Ephs will be another game at Colorado College when they take on the host institution March 30 at 8:00 PM EST.
