Friday, May 2
High Point, N.C.
7:00 p.m.
Davidson College Athletics
vs
No. 3 Longwood (semifinals)
Senior tri-captain Paige Logan leads the team with 36 groundballs and 16 caused turnovers.
Photo by: Tim Cowie - DavidsonPhotos.com
Lancers Up Next for 'Cats in Big South Semifinals Friday
5/1/2014 9:31:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse
Gavin McFarlin - Assistant SID
2014 Big South Tournament Notes (pdf)
2014 Big South Tournament Bracket (pdf)
2014 Season Preview
2014 Digital Guide
Live Stats
Live Video on Big South Network
DAVIDSON, N.C. — The Davidson women's lacrosse team continues their quest for a Big South Women's Lacrosse Tournament title with a matchup against third-seeded Longwood Friday evening at 7 p.m. in the semifinals on the campus of High Point.
The Wildcats are winners of 10 of their last 11 games, including rattling off a school-record nine-game win streak from March 22 to April 25. With their win Wednesday, the 'Cats also tied a school-best with their 11th victory on the season.
The Opening Draw Control
Davidson (11-6, 6-1 Big South), fresh off a quarterfinal win against Liberty Wednesday, takes on third-seeded Longwood (9-9, 5-2 Big South) at 7 p.m. Friday in a semifinal contest. The 'Cats went 5-4 on the road during the regular season, including taking a 13-9 win on the Lancers' home field.
The other semifinal game has High Point, the top seed, facing off against fourth-seeded Winthrop at 4 p.m.
Big South Tournament
This is Davidson's second year, and final year, in the recently formed Big South Conference. The Wildcats won the inaugural regular season title last year, but fell in the championship game to High Point. The 'Cats move to the Atlantic 10 next year.
The All-Time Series/Last Meeting
Friday's contest vs. Longwood will be the 17th meeting, with the Wildcats holding a 9-7 record since first facing the Lancers in 1994. They have won the last three straight meetings, scoring a combined 54 goals in those three games. In this year's regular season matchup, Davidson came back from a two-goal halftime deficit on the road by using an 8-0 run to grab an 11-6 advantage and went on for a 13-9 win. The victory gave head coach Kim Wayne her 50th career win at Davidson, and at the time, pushed the 'Cats' win streak to nine straight.
This will be the third time both teams have faced each other in tournament play. The two schools saw each other in the National Lacrosse Conference in 2010 and 2012, with the 2010 matchup coming in the final where Longwood won 17-9. Davidson earned a 19-9 win in 2012 in the quarterfinals before falling to High Point in the semifinals.
Quick Hits...
Record Watch: Career Assist Record Falls, Other Records Insight
The junior Emily Cooke broke yet another record this year, after setting a pair of single-season marks a season ago in points (87) and assists (55). She set the program's all-time assists mark, March 22, in Davidson's home win vs. Elon. The attacker dished out a pair of assists to give her 15 on the year and a new Wildcat record of 78 for her career. She passed Linda Rothmund's mark of 77 set from 1996-99.
Cooke' team-leading 37 assists rank third in the Big South and gives her an even 100 for her career. She is third on the team with 45 points behind Emma Sissman's 49 (team and career-high 48 on goals) and Ann Fucigna's 60 (35 goals, 25 assists).
Senior Ann Fucigna continues to push her program-best of all-time marks in points and goals to 257 and 188, respectively. She also is third all-time with 69 assists. Senior Erin Doherty holds the school career mark for draw controls with 135, with Emma Sissman right behind her at 131 in just two seasons. She is just three away from breaking Doherty's single-season record of 69 draw controls set in 2012. Others closing in on records: Emily Rademacher is also just five draw controls away from matching by Doherty, while Sissman is five goals away from Fucigna's single-season record of 53 set in 2013.
Weekly Honors
Freshman Katherine Rueger won the Wildcats' first Big South weekly award, taking home the Crons Brand Rookie of the Week, March 10. Senior tri-captain Paige Logan won the 'Cats' second weekly award a few weeks later, earning the Big South Defensive Player of the Week, March 24. Taking home her third career Big South weekly award was Ann Fucigna as she collected the Wildcats' first Big South Offensive Player of the Week, March 31. Davidson captured its fourth and fifth weekly awards by taking a pair on April 15 as Emma Sissman was the Offensive Player of the Week and Rueger grabbed her second rookie of the week honor.
National Rankings- Top-35
As of April 28, the Wildcats rank in the NCAA top-35 as a team in: draw controls per game (28th, 13), Points (33rd, 266), scoring defense (29th, 9.06 goals per game given up), scoring margin (34th, 2.19) and winning percentage (28th, .625). Individually, those ranking in the top-35 are: Emily Cooke (37 assists- 7th & 2.31 assists per game- 7th), Emily Rademacher (3.81 draw controls per game- 33rd) and Emma Sissman (43 goals- 35th & 2.69 goals per game-35th).
Nine Wins in a Row Sets New School Record
After suffering a tough 8-6 defeat to Villanova at home, March 16, Davidson was on the winning side for its next nine games in a row to set a school record, topping last year's seven-game win streak. Three of those wins have come down to the wire at home, with the 'Cats netting a 10-9 win vs. Old Dominion, a 9-8 overtime thriller vs. Winthrop and then last Friday, April 8, a 10-9 win against Coastal Carolina. Davidson also had to come back from a two-goal halftime deficit at Longwood to push the streak to nine straight.
During the streak, which ended at High Point to close out the regular season, the 'Cats outscored their opponents 120-64. They collected five of the wins at home and four of the nine overall wins were decided by three goals or less. Leading the way individually was Ann Fucigna and Emma Sissman on offense. Fucigna had a team-best 43 points on 27 golas and 16 assists, while Sissman netted a team-high 30 goals. Defensively, goalie Katy Boyle had a 7.16 goals against average with 49 saves, while defender Paige Logan tallied 19 groundballs, 17 draw controls and 11 caused turnovers. Emily Rademacher had a team-high 43 draw controls to go with 19 goals and seven assists.
Welcome to the 50-Win Club
Head coach Kim Wayne, who earlier this year became the program's winningest coach, won her 50th game when she guided the Wildcats to a 13-9 road win at Longwood, April 25. A few games prior, Wayne had surpassed Mary Schwartz, who collected 46 wins in eight years during 1996-2003.
Rueger Named Big South Freshman of the Year, Six 'Cats Earn All-Conference Honors
Freshman Katherine Rueger was awarded for her solid regular season by being named one of five Big South award winners, garnering freshman of the year honors with the release of the league's all-conference teams as announced by the Big South office Monday, April 28.
Rueger was one of six Wildcats to earn all-league honors as she was also named to the Big South Second Team at the midfielder spot, joining attacker Ann Fucigna and Emily Cooke, who was one of three alternates on the team. Earning a spot on the first team was attacker Emma Sissman, midfielder Emily Rademacher – her second straight year on the team – and defender Paige Logan, who was also named to the Big South All-Academic Team.
For full details on all the honorees, click here.
Last Time Out ...
DAVIDSON —The duo of Erin Doherty and Emma Sissman combined for 10 goals and three assists, and Davidson held off a late Liberty rally to earn an 18-10 quarterfinal win in the Big South Women's Lacrosse Tournament Wednesday evening. Davidson matched the school-record with its 11th win of the year, also set in 2008 and 2013.
The Wildcats (11-6) nearly saw their six-goal second half advantage erased when Liberty (2-16) got to within two twice late in the half, but the pair of Doherty and Sissman made sure the lead would hold by combining to score four goals and assisting on two others in the final eight minutes to secure the win.
Doherty had a career-high eight points on a career-best five goals to go with three assists, while Sissman pushed her career-high goal total to 48 with five of her own goals. The sophomore also pulled in a personal-best 11 draw controls.
Emily Rademacher nearly gave the Wildcats three five-goal scorers, finishing with a personal-best four goals to go with four groundballs, three draw controls and a caused turnover.
Also joining in on the scoring was Ann Fucigna with five points on a goal and a season-high four assists, while Annie Brockett netted her third goal of the season, Lucy Sexton her fourth and Arden Simone the first of her career.
After the Wildcats cruised to an 8-2 lead at halftime and opened the scoring to start the new half, Liberty charged back to get within two twice at 11-9 and 12-10. Then up two, Sissman and Doherty answered by hooking up twice in a seven-minute span, with Sissman scoring three times during the stretch to make it 14-10 with 5:27 left in the game. The Flames had cut the deficit to 12-10 on a Becker goal, but Sissman started a 6-0 Wildcat run with back-to-back goals to finish out the victory.
Last Time Out ...
... LONGWOOD — Junior Kasey Norwood set new career highs with seven goals and 11 total points to help lead the third-seeded Longwood women's lacrosse team to an 18-7 victory against Campbell in the quarterfinal round Wednesday.
The Lancers outscored their opponents, 12-3, in the first half to pull away en route to the decision.
Norwood also added four assists in the contest. Sophomore Katie McHugh registered five goals and one assist for six points, while senior Lauren Prasnicki added one goal and four assists for five total points. Senior Mary Barondess (3 goals, 1 assist) and sophomore Sarah Butler (1 goal, 3 assists) helped fuel the Lancers' offensive effort with four points apiece, while juniors Sarah Arndt and Liz Trainer notched three and one points, respectively.
Coming out of halftime, Norwood cut towards the net to score unassisted before feeding Arndt for the shot on goal to give her squad a 14-3 lead and never looked back.
Season Stats ...
2014 Wildcat Team/Indvidual Statisitcs ... click here for full stats
Opponent Team/Individual Statistics
Longwood Lancers — 216 goals (12.00 per game), 132 assists, 424 shots (23.6 per game), 200 draw controls (11.1 per game), 121 caused turnovers, 301 groundballs, and 20-47 on free-position shots (42.6%)
•Goals - Kacey Norwood (50), Katie McHugh (48), Mary Barondess (35)
•Assists - Lauren Prasnicki (42), Kacey Norwood (30), Sarah Arndt (18)
•Points - Kacey Norwood (80), Katie McHugh (60), Lauren Prasnicki (59)
•Groundballs - Liz Trainer (30), Kacey Norwood (28), Mary Barondess, Shiloh McKenzie and Christian Acker (26)
•Caused Turnovers - Shiloh McKenzie (14), Kacey Norwood (13), Brittany Haun and Liz Trainer (12)
•Draw Controls - Sarah Butler (62), Mary Barondess (38), Liz Trainer (24)
•Saves - Christian Acker (155)
Next Up ...
If the 'Cats advance, they will play Sunday in the championship game at 2 p.m. against the winner of High Point and Winthrop.
2014 Big South Tournament Bracket (pdf)
2014 Season Preview
2014 Digital Guide
Live Stats
Live Video on Big South Network
DAVIDSON, N.C. — The Davidson women's lacrosse team continues their quest for a Big South Women's Lacrosse Tournament title with a matchup against third-seeded Longwood Friday evening at 7 p.m. in the semifinals on the campus of High Point.
The Wildcats are winners of 10 of their last 11 games, including rattling off a school-record nine-game win streak from March 22 to April 25. With their win Wednesday, the 'Cats also tied a school-best with their 11th victory on the season.
The Opening Draw Control
Davidson (11-6, 6-1 Big South), fresh off a quarterfinal win against Liberty Wednesday, takes on third-seeded Longwood (9-9, 5-2 Big South) at 7 p.m. Friday in a semifinal contest. The 'Cats went 5-4 on the road during the regular season, including taking a 13-9 win on the Lancers' home field.
The other semifinal game has High Point, the top seed, facing off against fourth-seeded Winthrop at 4 p.m.
Big South Tournament
This is Davidson's second year, and final year, in the recently formed Big South Conference. The Wildcats won the inaugural regular season title last year, but fell in the championship game to High Point. The 'Cats move to the Atlantic 10 next year.
The All-Time Series/Last Meeting
Friday's contest vs. Longwood will be the 17th meeting, with the Wildcats holding a 9-7 record since first facing the Lancers in 1994. They have won the last three straight meetings, scoring a combined 54 goals in those three games. In this year's regular season matchup, Davidson came back from a two-goal halftime deficit on the road by using an 8-0 run to grab an 11-6 advantage and went on for a 13-9 win. The victory gave head coach Kim Wayne her 50th career win at Davidson, and at the time, pushed the 'Cats' win streak to nine straight.
This will be the third time both teams have faced each other in tournament play. The two schools saw each other in the National Lacrosse Conference in 2010 and 2012, with the 2010 matchup coming in the final where Longwood won 17-9. Davidson earned a 19-9 win in 2012 in the quarterfinals before falling to High Point in the semifinals.
Quick Hits...
Record Watch: Career Assist Record Falls, Other Records Insight
The junior Emily Cooke broke yet another record this year, after setting a pair of single-season marks a season ago in points (87) and assists (55). She set the program's all-time assists mark, March 22, in Davidson's home win vs. Elon. The attacker dished out a pair of assists to give her 15 on the year and a new Wildcat record of 78 for her career. She passed Linda Rothmund's mark of 77 set from 1996-99.
Cooke' team-leading 37 assists rank third in the Big South and gives her an even 100 for her career. She is third on the team with 45 points behind Emma Sissman's 49 (team and career-high 48 on goals) and Ann Fucigna's 60 (35 goals, 25 assists).
Senior Ann Fucigna continues to push her program-best of all-time marks in points and goals to 257 and 188, respectively. She also is third all-time with 69 assists. Senior Erin Doherty holds the school career mark for draw controls with 135, with Emma Sissman right behind her at 131 in just two seasons. She is just three away from breaking Doherty's single-season record of 69 draw controls set in 2012. Others closing in on records: Emily Rademacher is also just five draw controls away from matching by Doherty, while Sissman is five goals away from Fucigna's single-season record of 53 set in 2013.
Weekly Honors
Freshman Katherine Rueger won the Wildcats' first Big South weekly award, taking home the Crons Brand Rookie of the Week, March 10. Senior tri-captain Paige Logan won the 'Cats' second weekly award a few weeks later, earning the Big South Defensive Player of the Week, March 24. Taking home her third career Big South weekly award was Ann Fucigna as she collected the Wildcats' first Big South Offensive Player of the Week, March 31. Davidson captured its fourth and fifth weekly awards by taking a pair on April 15 as Emma Sissman was the Offensive Player of the Week and Rueger grabbed her second rookie of the week honor.
National Rankings- Top-35
As of April 28, the Wildcats rank in the NCAA top-35 as a team in: draw controls per game (28th, 13), Points (33rd, 266), scoring defense (29th, 9.06 goals per game given up), scoring margin (34th, 2.19) and winning percentage (28th, .625). Individually, those ranking in the top-35 are: Emily Cooke (37 assists- 7th & 2.31 assists per game- 7th), Emily Rademacher (3.81 draw controls per game- 33rd) and Emma Sissman (43 goals- 35th & 2.69 goals per game-35th).
Nine Wins in a Row Sets New School Record
After suffering a tough 8-6 defeat to Villanova at home, March 16, Davidson was on the winning side for its next nine games in a row to set a school record, topping last year's seven-game win streak. Three of those wins have come down to the wire at home, with the 'Cats netting a 10-9 win vs. Old Dominion, a 9-8 overtime thriller vs. Winthrop and then last Friday, April 8, a 10-9 win against Coastal Carolina. Davidson also had to come back from a two-goal halftime deficit at Longwood to push the streak to nine straight.
During the streak, which ended at High Point to close out the regular season, the 'Cats outscored their opponents 120-64. They collected five of the wins at home and four of the nine overall wins were decided by three goals or less. Leading the way individually was Ann Fucigna and Emma Sissman on offense. Fucigna had a team-best 43 points on 27 golas and 16 assists, while Sissman netted a team-high 30 goals. Defensively, goalie Katy Boyle had a 7.16 goals against average with 49 saves, while defender Paige Logan tallied 19 groundballs, 17 draw controls and 11 caused turnovers. Emily Rademacher had a team-high 43 draw controls to go with 19 goals and seven assists.
Welcome to the 50-Win Club
Head coach Kim Wayne, who earlier this year became the program's winningest coach, won her 50th game when she guided the Wildcats to a 13-9 road win at Longwood, April 25. A few games prior, Wayne had surpassed Mary Schwartz, who collected 46 wins in eight years during 1996-2003.
Rueger Named Big South Freshman of the Year, Six 'Cats Earn All-Conference Honors
Freshman Katherine Rueger was awarded for her solid regular season by being named one of five Big South award winners, garnering freshman of the year honors with the release of the league's all-conference teams as announced by the Big South office Monday, April 28.
Rueger was one of six Wildcats to earn all-league honors as she was also named to the Big South Second Team at the midfielder spot, joining attacker Ann Fucigna and Emily Cooke, who was one of three alternates on the team. Earning a spot on the first team was attacker Emma Sissman, midfielder Emily Rademacher – her second straight year on the team – and defender Paige Logan, who was also named to the Big South All-Academic Team.
For full details on all the honorees, click here.
Last Time Out ...
DAVIDSON —The duo of Erin Doherty and Emma Sissman combined for 10 goals and three assists, and Davidson held off a late Liberty rally to earn an 18-10 quarterfinal win in the Big South Women's Lacrosse Tournament Wednesday evening. Davidson matched the school-record with its 11th win of the year, also set in 2008 and 2013.
The Wildcats (11-6) nearly saw their six-goal second half advantage erased when Liberty (2-16) got to within two twice late in the half, but the pair of Doherty and Sissman made sure the lead would hold by combining to score four goals and assisting on two others in the final eight minutes to secure the win.
Doherty had a career-high eight points on a career-best five goals to go with three assists, while Sissman pushed her career-high goal total to 48 with five of her own goals. The sophomore also pulled in a personal-best 11 draw controls.
Emily Rademacher nearly gave the Wildcats three five-goal scorers, finishing with a personal-best four goals to go with four groundballs, three draw controls and a caused turnover.
Also joining in on the scoring was Ann Fucigna with five points on a goal and a season-high four assists, while Annie Brockett netted her third goal of the season, Lucy Sexton her fourth and Arden Simone the first of her career.
After the Wildcats cruised to an 8-2 lead at halftime and opened the scoring to start the new half, Liberty charged back to get within two twice at 11-9 and 12-10. Then up two, Sissman and Doherty answered by hooking up twice in a seven-minute span, with Sissman scoring three times during the stretch to make it 14-10 with 5:27 left in the game. The Flames had cut the deficit to 12-10 on a Becker goal, but Sissman started a 6-0 Wildcat run with back-to-back goals to finish out the victory.
Last Time Out ...
... LONGWOOD — Junior Kasey Norwood set new career highs with seven goals and 11 total points to help lead the third-seeded Longwood women's lacrosse team to an 18-7 victory against Campbell in the quarterfinal round Wednesday.
The Lancers outscored their opponents, 12-3, in the first half to pull away en route to the decision.
Norwood also added four assists in the contest. Sophomore Katie McHugh registered five goals and one assist for six points, while senior Lauren Prasnicki added one goal and four assists for five total points. Senior Mary Barondess (3 goals, 1 assist) and sophomore Sarah Butler (1 goal, 3 assists) helped fuel the Lancers' offensive effort with four points apiece, while juniors Sarah Arndt and Liz Trainer notched three and one points, respectively.
Coming out of halftime, Norwood cut towards the net to score unassisted before feeding Arndt for the shot on goal to give her squad a 14-3 lead and never looked back.
Season Stats ...
2014 Wildcat Team/Indvidual Statisitcs ... click here for full stats
Opponent Team/Individual Statistics
Longwood Lancers — 216 goals (12.00 per game), 132 assists, 424 shots (23.6 per game), 200 draw controls (11.1 per game), 121 caused turnovers, 301 groundballs, and 20-47 on free-position shots (42.6%)
•Goals - Kacey Norwood (50), Katie McHugh (48), Mary Barondess (35)
•Assists - Lauren Prasnicki (42), Kacey Norwood (30), Sarah Arndt (18)
•Points - Kacey Norwood (80), Katie McHugh (60), Lauren Prasnicki (59)
•Groundballs - Liz Trainer (30), Kacey Norwood (28), Mary Barondess, Shiloh McKenzie and Christian Acker (26)
•Caused Turnovers - Shiloh McKenzie (14), Kacey Norwood (13), Brittany Haun and Liz Trainer (12)
•Draw Controls - Sarah Butler (62), Mary Barondess (38), Liz Trainer (24)
•Saves - Christian Acker (155)
Next Up ...
If the 'Cats advance, they will play Sunday in the championship game at 2 p.m. against the winner of High Point and Winthrop.
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