Box Score

    NEWBURGH, NY (March 18, 2014) – Three Vassar College women's lacrosse players scored a hat-trick or more in the team's 19-7 win over Hudson Valley foe, Mount Saint Mary College on Tuesday evening at Kaplan Field for the Brewers' (3-1) first game on the East Coast.

    Having just got off the plane from their Colorado trip, the Brewers had two players who added two assists to their three goal efforts. Junior Dara Davis (Guilford, CT/Guilford) and freshman Julia Trudell (Newtown, CT/Newtown) both had the five-point showings. Tuesday's game was a career-high for Trudell by two points, almost doubling her season points with a current 11.

    Senior Phoebe Tzannes (Lexington, MA/Lexington) scored four times in Vassar's third win in a row, including the game-winner off a pass from junior Leigh Anne Baldwin (Simsbury, CT/Westminister School) at 6:16 in the first half. Tzannes scored an unassisted netter just two minutes earlier at 8:03 and then the eighth goal of the 8-0, first half-ending Brewer run.

    Sophomore Isabelle Goldstein (Belmont, MA/Belmont) was the game-high assists leader, tying her career-best of four. She was also added a goal which mimicked her freshman year's career-high performances against Ohio Wesleyan during the Brewers' Florida spring break trip and then again at SUNY New Paltz, immediately following the Sunshine State tour. Both times she had four helpers and one cage-crasher. On Tuesday, Goldstein's four-assists showing totaled that of the Knights' (0-3) entire team.

    "Time of possession was key in this game, we were making nice passes that gave us good opportunities and we capitalized on them," said Head Coach Judy Finerghty.  "We were a little concern that we played three games in five days and just got off the plane yesterday, but we adjusted well and once we got on a roll, we were able to try more things with our offense and got more players into the game."

    In total, the Brewers saw goals from 10 players. Besides Tzannes, Davis, Trudell and Goldstein, sophomore Kim Mulvehill (Sudbury, MA/Chapel Hill – Chauncey Hall) and freshman Brittany Botticelli (Commack, NY/Commack) scored twice and junior Sophia Rosetti (Bethesda, MD/Holton Arms School) and freshmen Sydney Spadinger (Shelton, CT/Shelton), Phoebe Hankins (Belvedere, CA/San Francisco University) and Darby Stahl (Bloomfield, MI/Cranbrook Kingswood) all added one goal each. Hankins' goal was Vassar's first woman-down goal of the season.

    Sophomore goalie Mallory Tyler (Hollis, NH/Phillips Academy) recorded four saves while only allowing two shots to slip by for the Brewers. Junior Hilary McDonnell (Blue Bell, PA/The Springside School) earned the win, playing the whole first half with two saves and four netters allowed.

    Mount Saint Mary's Deirdre Ray earned the loss, playing the full hour and recording seven stops.

    The Brewers outshot the Knights 29-17 and 26-13 on goal aims. The Brewer scavengers out-recovered Mount Saint Mary 19-15 in ground balls with three-apiece performances from Baldwin, Goldstein and junior Jacqueline Palma (Manhasset, NY/Manhasset Junior-Senior).

    The Brewer defense held solid, only allowing the Knights to have two separate two-goal runs in the game while the offense held the ball in Vassar possession for the majority of the game, taking away the scoring threat from the get-go.

    Claire Duffy led the Knights with eight of their 12 draw controls while Davis was the Brewer highlighter with 4-of-16. Tzannes and Spadinger each won three towards the team total with another five Vassar players getting draw controls credited to them.

    The Brewers will next host the Panthers of The College at Old Westbury on Wednesday, March 19 at 4:00 pm on Weinberg Field before traveling to Danbury, CT on Tuesday, March 25 to face the Western Connecticut State University Colonials. The six days with no games is Vassar's first true break since the start of their season.