Women’s lax finishes year with no defeats

Dan Elson Sports Editor

The Riverhawks women’s lacrosse team finished the 2023 regular season undefeated for the first time in 16 years.

With the Riverhawks winning all seven games, head coach Jim Griffiths said the team has “set the bar higher” for the playoffs.

“It’s hard to not get complacent when all of your wins have been pretty lopsided,” Griffiths noted. “I think I’m afraid we’re getting a little bit complacent. But overall, I was happy with it. There were moments [where] it was really good. And there were moments we just [needed] to clean up.”

In the 2007 campaign, the Riverhawks finished 190, which includes regular season and playoff victories. The team won the National Junior College Athletic Asso- college sports went smoothly.

“I mean, basketball is basketball,” Townsend, a first-year transfer studies student, said. “It is different. [There are] more games, and it’s more aggressive.”

Townsend noted she was surprised by how many Riverhawks fans showed up for home games.

“It was actually better than I thought,” Townsend, who has played basketball for eight years, noted. “Some games were really good. Others were OK, but there wasn’t ever a terrible turnout.”

Smith said college volleyball is better than she expected.

“It definitely wasn’t as I thought it would be,” Smith said. “I thought it would be much more strict, but it was a lot more lenient and relaxed and just more fun.”

Second baseman John Greenawalt said he’s having a “great” time playing Riverhawks baseball.

“We’ve been playing pretty well,” Greenawalt, a first-year transfer studies student, noted. “Overall, there’s definitely things we could still improve upon. … But I think this season, we’re very productive.”

More than 90 first-year students played their rookie season for the Riverhawks. Some second-year students played their first season with the college this year because of COVID-19 or injury.

Reporter Micah Smith contributed to this story.