Connecticut College Sports Roundup

Connecticut College powered past Springfield College for a women's lacrosse win on Thursday, while the men's tennis team lost to Wesleyan University. The following information was provided by William Tomasian, sports information director at Connecticut College:

Women's Tennis: Conn College 11, Springfield 9

Senior Abby Hill scored four goals to go with one assist and junior Katelyn Driscoll found the back of the net with four goals as Connecticut College defeated Springfield, 11-9, on a windy Thursday afternoon at Stagg Field.

The Pride drop to 9-5 on the year, while the Camels improve to 5-8.

Allie Davis scored four goals for Springfield, while Meghan Flanagan added a pair of tallies. Both Jackie Moscardelli and Meagan Dobson produced a goal and an assist. Anne Versprille had a tremendous showing between the pipes as she tallied 11 saves. Izzy Marx dished out two assists and added five draw controls for the Camels. Caitlin Cataldo earned the win in goal, recording two saves for the visitors.

For the game, Connecticut College held a 29-18 advantage in shots and dominated the draw controls, winning 17 of 22, including 13 in the opening half.

Davis opened up the scoring 2:51 into the contest after she dodged to her right and ripped an unassisted goal for Springfield. Bolstered by wins on the six draw controls, Connecticut College responded with the game's next five goals to take a 5-1 lead with 21:55 on the clock. Hill and Driscoll each found the back of the cage twice in the run, with Hill's second tally forcing Springfield into a timeout.

Out of the break, the Pride poured in three straight strikes, including two by Davis, to make it 5-4. Flanagan's free-position goal with 9:44 left in the half got Springfield within one, the closet the Pride would get for the remainder of the opening 30 minutes of play.

The Camels recorded the game's next three goals, as a pair of Hill tallies assisted by Marx and an unassisted marker from Brianna Miller helped the visitors regain their three-goal cushion with 5:56 remaining.

Springfield would start to build some momentum heading into the half as goals from Moscardelli and Davis made it an 8-6 ball game as the teams went to the locker rooms.

Dobson got things started for Springfield in the second after she stuffed in a shot on the crease following a great look from Moscardelli just over four minutes into the half to make it a one-goal game.

However, Connecticut College pumped in three unanswered goals to open up another four-goal cushion at 11-7. Driscoll notched two goals, before a Libby Nichols goal with 15:15 forced Springfield into another timeout.

The Pride clawed their way back in as goals from Nicole Soucie and Flanagan just 49 seconds apart made it 11-9 with 12:24 left. However, that was as close as Springfield would get as Connecticut College held on for the non-conference win.

Driscoll has amassed 71 goals and 24 assists in her three-year career and needs just five points to reach the 100 point plateau.

Men's Tennis: Wesleyan 5, Conn College 4

The Connecticut College men's tennis team took two out of three doubles points at Wesleyan University but it was not quite enough as the host Cardinals were able to outlast the Camels in a 5-4 victory.

Wesleyan improves to 8-8-1 with the win, while the Camels fall to 10-9 in the setback.

Senior Trevor Prophet (Nashua, N.H.) and sophomore George King (Concord, Mass.) joined forces for an 8-3 victory at #1 doubles. At second doubles, Craig Stanton (Warwick, R.I.) and junior Jeff Weisberger (Wayne Hills, N.J.) posted an 8-6 win for the Camels.

Weisberger continued to build on his torrid stretch of singles play, notching a 6-2, 6-3 triumph at #2 singles. King displayed his resilience at #3 singles, battling back from 6-4 deficit in the first set to win the point with a tie-breaker in the third set, 10-7.