W. lacrosse pulls away from Loyola, improves to 2-1

Maryland is undisputably the heart of lacrosse in the United States, but recently, central New Jersey has laid claim to be considered the liver.

The men's national championship was held in Piscataway last year and was won by Princeton, and the women's lacrosse team was the second best team in the country.

The women's team, with nine of its 26 players hailing from the Old Line State, headed down I-95 over the weekend for a showdown with Loyola in the city of Lord Baltimore.

The Tigers returned to the land of jughandles and diners with a 10-6 victory, improving their record to 2-1 on the season.

Sophomore midfielder Theresa Sherry, a Baltimore native, scored three goals in the win. Sherry, who leads Princeton in scoring, added two assists.

She scored the first goal of the afternoon just 42 seconds into the game. The Greyhounds tied the game up a few minutes later and took a 3-2 lead with about six minutes left in the opening stanza.

But the New Jerseyans were just gettting started.

Princeton scored five straight goals to take a commanding 7-3 lead.

Mile high

Senior midfielder Mimi Ham-merberg, a Denver native, had two of the Tigers' goals during the run of five unanswered goals. Whether the Princeton attack had its origins in the Rockies or the Inner Harbor, it was too much for the Greyhound defense Sunday afternoon.

After Princeton pushed the lead to four goals, Loyola scored twice to make it a game, but the Tiger attack was relentless. Junior Whitney Miller had one of Princeton's goals in a return to her home state. The Greyhounds would score another goal, but the Garden Staters had three in the meantime.

Loyola never really threatened after the ten-minute mark of the second period.

Beside the always attacking Tiger offense, the Greyhounds had to deal with their lack of discipline. Loyola was called for 18 fouls while Princeton was only whistled for three.

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While the Greyhounds had some problems keeping their cool, freshman goaltender Sarah Kolodner froze them out from the Tiger net. The netminder had three saves and played the full 60 minutes of the game.

Two attacks — junior Charlotte Kenworthy and senior Lauren Simone — also got involved in the scoring for the Tigers.

Both Kenworthy and Simone, a New Jersey native and this year's captain, have been mainstays on the Princeton scorecard for the last few years.

Simone closed out the scoring in the game with a free position goal with 1:11 left in the game. The final was 10-6, matching Princeton's biggest lead of the afternoon.

The Tigers have now won two games in a row after dropping their season opener to Georgetown in double overtime. Princeton will face Virginia this weekend in Class of 1952 Stadium.