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Wooster Senior Quartet Find Spots on All-West Region Team

Carly Carey After capturing the 2009 North Coast Athletic Conference championship and seeing seven of its members named to the all-conference squad, The College of Wooster kept the postseason accolades rolling in, landing four players on the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association All-West Region Team, as announced by the organization.

Highlighting Wooster's quartet of selections are seniors Carly Carey (Cummington, Mass. / Academy at Charlemont), Hillary Darragh (Evanston, Ill. / Evanston Township), and Romy Eberle (New Haven, Conn. / Hopkins), who found spots on the first team, while classmate Taryn Higgins (Marblehead, Mass. / Marblehead) took up a spot on the second team.

Carey, recently named the North Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Year, picked up her third first-team all-region honor. The Fighting Scots' most potent offensive threat this year, she poured in a team- and career-high 53 goals. She finished tied for second on the team with 12 assists for 65 total points, while starting all 16 games. Carey tallied a hat trick 11 times this season, highlighted by back-to-back six-goal games against Ohio Wesleyan University on April 15 and Adrian College on April 18, and also collected 18 groundballs during her final season.

Like Carey, Darragh saved her best season for last en route to earning all-region accolades for the first time. A starter in all 16 games, she netted 41 goals and assisted on another 12 for a career-best 53-point campaign to finish second on the squad in scoring. Darragh, who tied her career-high with seven points on seven goals against Wittenberg University on April 25, was a standout in other areas as well, posting 17 groundballs and 22 draw controls.

Eberle's third all-region citation comes after two second-team selections. A four-time all-conference selection again proved to be one of the top defensive players in the league, anchoring a backfield that held opponents to 9.57 goals per game. She started all 16 contests, and statistically, totaled 29 groundballs, ranking third on the Scots, including a season-high six against Allegheny College on April 8. Additionally, Eberle collected 15 caused turnovers.

Taryn Higgins Hillary Darragh Higgins, a midfielder and two-time all-region pick (second-team honoree in 2007), was a key component to Wooster's success, providing a variety of intangibles as a midfielder. She once again led the Scots in two categories – groundballs (40), and caused turnovers (18), and was second in draw controls (45). Her average of 2.50 groundballs per game tied atop the conference statistics. Scoring wise, she registered 30 points on 25 goals and five assists, highlighted by a career-high five goals versus Kenyon College in Wooster's 15-14 triple-overtime win on April 4.           

As a team, the Scots won their fifth NCAC title, earning the top seed for the league tournament via a 6-0 regular season NCAC record, and then knocked off the No. 4 seed Denison University by a 13-10 in the semis and No. 2 seed Kenyon 11-6 in the finals. That gave Wooster the NCAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Div. III Tournament, in which it lost a first-round game at St. John Fisher College 17-12, capping the Scots' season at 12-4.