NCAA Tournament History 2008 NCAA Tournament – First Round #1 Northwestern 15, #10 Notre Dame 7 May 11, 2008 • Evanston, Ill.
The Notre Dame women's lacrosse team ran into a second-half Northwestern buzz-saw that saw the Wildcats snap a 5-5 halftime tie and outscore the Irish, 10-2, on the way to a 15-7 win in the first-round NCAA Tournament game at Lakeside Field. Northwestern's Hannah Nielsen scored five of her six goals and teammate Hilary Bowen got five (2g, 3a) of her game-high eight points (5g, 3a) in the second half to pace the Wildcat attack. Sophomore Gina Scioscia led Notre Dame with three goals in the contest while senior Heather Ferguson had two goals and an assist. Juniors Alicia Billings and Jane Stoeckert each scored once while junior Shannon Burke had the first twoassist game of her career. The loss ended 10th-ranked Notre Dame's season with a 12-7 record. Northwestern, ranked first in the IWLCA poll improved to 18-1 on the year. Ferguson and Bowen traded goals to start the game and it would remain 1-1 until the 19:29 mark when Ferguson converted a feed from Burke, whipping a shot over Morgan Lathrop's right shoulder for a 2-1 Irish lead. Notre Dame's lead would go to 3-1 when Scioscia scored her first goal of the game at 10:35. The teams traded goals when Nielsen got her first of six at 8:56 only to see Stoeckert score 29 seconds later for a 4-2 lead. Northwestern knotted the score with goals from Bowen and Matthews to make it 4-4 with 3:42 left in the first half. Billings put the Irish ahead 5-4 at 3:19 but Bowen tied the game with nine seconds left in the half for a 5-5 score. The second half belonged to the Wildcats as they ran off the first four goals of the stanza to take a 9-5 lead with 20:50 remaining and cruised to the 15-7 final score. The win was the seventh consecutive win for Northwestern in the all-time series with Notre Dame and was the second time that the Wildcats have eliminated the Irish in NCAA Tournament play as they also did it in 2004.
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Scoring (goal-assist) Notre Dame: Scioscia (3-0); H. Ferguson (2-1); Burke (0-2), Stoeckert (1-0); Billings (1-0). Northwestern: Bowen (5-3); Nielsen (6-1); Dowd (2-0); Donohue (1-1); Matthews (1-0); Frank (0-1). Goalkeepers (min.; goals against; saves) Notre Dame: Goodman (60:00, 15 goals, 9 saves) Northwestern: Lathrop (60:00, 7 goals, 8 saves) Team Statistics Total Shots Free Position Shots Shots on Goal Draw Control Ground Balls
ND 19 3 15 13 13
NU 33 4 24 11 22
2009 NCAA Tournament – First Round #6 Notre Dame 19, #12 Vanderbilt 13 May 10, 2009 • Notre Dame, Ind. The Notre Dame women's lacrosse team put its high-powered offense on display as they ran past the Vanderbilt Commodores, 19-13, in the opening round of the NCAA women's lacrosse tournament at Alumni Field. Three Irish players - Kailene Abt, Jillian Byers and Gina Scioscia - had five-point games with Abt and Byers scoring four goals with one assist and Scioscia getting three goals with a pair of assists. Shaylyn Blaney added four goals of her own in helping the Irish advance to NCAA Quarterfinals. Jackie Doherty scored twice while Ansley Stewart and Maggie Tamasitis each got on the scoresheet with one goal each. Vanderbilt was lead by Carter Foote with five points (1g, 4a) while Ally Carey and Sarah Downing had three goals each. Cara Giordano and Allie Frank scored twice for the Commodores while Katherine Denkler and Laura Keenan had one goal each.
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All-Time Notre Dame NCAA Statistics Player GP G A PTS GB DC CT Jillian Byers 6 Crysti Foote 4 Caitlin McKinney 4 Gina Scioscia 3 Heather Ferguson 4 Meredith Simon 3 Kailene Abt 3 Kassen Delano 3 Natalie Loftus 2 Jackie Doherty 3 Shaylyn Blaney 3 Danielle Shearer 2 Kaitlin Keena 3 Eleanor Wielle 2 Ansley Stewart 2 Mary Carpenter 3 Jane Stoeckert 4 Kaki Orr 3 Alissa Moser 3 Abby Owen 1 Lauren Fischer 3 Shannon Burke 6 Brittany Fox 1 Kristen Gaudreau 1 Maggie Tamasitis 2 Alicia Billings 4 Meghan Murphy 3 Kate Scarola 2 Becky Ranck 4 Kerry Van Shura 4 Meaghan Fitzpatrick 4 Kristin Hopson 3 Beth Koloup 3 Andrea Kinnik 3 Rachel Guerrera 3 Kelly McCardell 2 Lena Zentgraf 2 Maureen Henwood 2 Tina Fedarcyk 2 Lauren Fenlon 2 Kathryn Lam 2 Anne Riley 2 Maggie Zentgraf 2 Elizabeth Knight 2 Megan Sullivan 2 Kate Newall 2 Lindsay Schaffer 1 Mary McGrath 1 Jess Mikula 1 Bridget Higgins 1 Bridget Bowers 1 Megan deMello 1 Katie Killeen 1 Lindsay Ferguson 1 Kelly Driscoll 1
16 12 9 7 7 5 6 5 3 3 4 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 9 2 3 2 4 1 1 2 2 0 1 3 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 21 11 10 9 9 7 6 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 7 5 1 3 8 2 6 6 9 2 2 3 2 0 5 3 7 4 1 3 8 0 2 0 5 2 1 3 2 5 7 5 4 1 1 1 5 6 6 5 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 5 2 0 2 3 6 2 1 5 4 1 4 1 0 4 5 6 3 1 0 10 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 1 0 3 2 1 0 2 0 2 1 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 2 1 0 3 2 1 0 2 3 3 3 1 3 0 0 1 4 2 1 0 6 0 1 0 1 1 0 7 1 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Goalkeepers Player
GP
W-L-T GA SVS SV% GAVG GB
Jen White Carol Dixon Erin Goodman
2 4 3
1-1-0 2-2-0 1-2-0
18 41 44
19 28 23
.514 9.00 4 .406 10.25 9 .343 14.67 11