LACROSSE LOSES 7-3 TO SYRACUSE IN NCAA QUARTERFINALS

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5/22/2010 5:56:00 PM | Lacrosse

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HARRISONBURG, Va., May 22, 2010 -- Syracuse (15-6) held James Madison (17-3) scoreless in the second half while scoring five goals to pull away for a 7-3 win in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Tournament on a rainy Saturday afternoon at the JMU Lacrosse Complex.

The Orange will face Maryland in the May 28 NCAA semifinals in Towson, Md. The top-seeded Terrapins topped Penn 15-10 in another quarterfinal-round game Saturday. Syracuse is the only unseeded team in the 16-team field to make it to the semifinals.

In other quarterfinal-round play Saturday, second-seeded Northwestern beat number seven seed Duke 18-8, and third-seeded North Carolina topped sixth-seeded Virginia 17-7.

The Dukes trailed 2-0 after Syracuse scored twice in the opening 5:44, but JMU ran off three straight goals to take a 3-2 lead into halftime.

A thunderstorm extended the 10-minute halftime break to 23 minutes before the second half began.

In the second period Syracuse struck quickly, as senior Halley Quillinan (Glenmont, N.Y./Bethlehem) scored the second of her game-high three goals just 1:29 into the period to tie the game at 3-3.

Quillinan then fed a pass to junior Tee Ladouceur (Slingerlands, N.Y./Bethlehem), who put the Orange ahead 4-3 when she scored at 26:30.

The pair teamed up again just over nine minutes later, with Ladouceur's pass finding Quillinan, whose goal at 17:14 pushed Syracuse's lead to 5-3.

Another Ladouceur pass to freshman Michelle Tumolo (Mullica Hill, N.J./Clearview Regional) resulted in Syracuse goal and a 6-3 advantage at 7:17.

Senior Jackie DePetris (Radnor, Pa./Archbishop Carroll) completed the scoring as she netted a goal off a feed from Tumolo with 4:12 to go.

JMU's last shot of the game, by redshirt freshman Casey Ancarrow (Jarrettsville, Md./John Carroll), came with 15:52 left and hit the post. In the remaining minutes Syracuse took 11 shots, scoring on two of them. JMU senior goalkeeper Morgan Kelly (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's) stopped four of those attempts, and the other five sailed high or wide of the cage.

JMU possessed the ball for a total of 80 seconds following Ancarrow's shot at 15:52. In that time frame, the Dukes had five possessions and turned the ball over five times. JMU's longest possession in that span was 34 seconds.

In addition to Quillinan's three goals and an assist, Tumolo finished with two goals and an assist and Ladouceur had a goal and two assists.
Sophomore Ariel Lane (Vero Beach, Fla./Vero Beach) scored two of JMU's three goals, and sophomore Annie Brophy (Berwyn, Pa./Archbishop Carroll) added the third goal.

Syracuse junior goalkeeper Liz Hogan (Victor, N.Y./Victor) had 12 saves, while JMU's Kelly finished with eight saves.

"I'm really proud of my team for showing tremendous heart and tremendous fight to get this program back on top. They really are truly to be commended, and I can't thank them enough for allowing us to complete in the elite eight today," said JMU coach Shelley Klaes-Bawcombe. "I think that ultimately in the end of the game, we just didn't take care of the ball in the second half when we needed to."

The loss ended a 10-game JMU winning streak. The Dukes finished the season with a school-record 17 wins, and their .850 winning percentage broke the former JMU record of .800 by the 16-4 team of 2004.