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.
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.
Wooster Senior Quartet Find Spots on All-West Region Team
Posted: May 21, 2009