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| Eliza Perry |
The College of Wooster women's lacrosse team was awarded four spots on the All-North Coast Athletic Conference Team, including three first-team selections, as Eliza Perry, Ellie Hudson-Heck, and Molly Sennett were voted in at attack, midfield, and defense, respectively, while attacker Shelby Stone was named honorable mention, the league office announced Thursday.
Perry, a senior, has had all-NCAC credentials in the past, but picks up her first all-conference certificate this spring after leading the Fighting Scots' offense with 48 points. Her point total, which ranked tied for 13th in the NCAC, came on 20 goals and 28 assists, with the latter good for fourth-most in the league. Perry was consistent, as she totaled three or more points in nine of 13 games, with a season-high seven (2 goals, 5 assists) coming in a key win over Kenyon College on April 19. She saved her best scoring performance of the season for last, when she notched a four-goal game against archrival Wittenberg University in the NCAC Tournament semifinals. Overall, Perry will graduate with 174 career points (100 goals, 74 assists), with her 74 assists ranking fourth in program history in that category.
Hudson-Heck has now been named to the all-NCAC First Team in each of her first two seasons, this time by producing 47 points (39 goals, 8 assists) from the midfield position. She scored at least once in every game, with three goals or more in eight games, which gives her 15 hat tricks in her career (31 games). Hudson-Heck kicked it into another gear during the Scots' late-season push for a conference tournament berth, as she scored 23 goals in just six games to close out the year, with a season-high six tallies against Denison University on April 15. She also ranked first on the team in draw controls (36) and second in groundballs (33).
Sennett is a three-time all-conference pick, having earned first-team honors as a freshman and second-team as a sophomore. As Wooster's top defender over the last three years, Sennett has shown the ability to cause turnovers in bunches, including 30 this spring, which has her tied for second in the NCAC. She also finished among the top-10 in the league in groundballs with 41, with a season-high seven coming at St. Vincent College on March 29. Sennett was asked to do less offensively this year, but she still chipped in four goals, including one in both games against archival Wittenberg.
Stone, a junior, had as much to do with Wooster's success late in the season as anyone. After scoring just three goals in the team's first five games, she went on to score 23 goals over the next eight, en route to a 44-point campaign (26 goals, 18 assists). With the fourth and final spot in the NCAC Tournament hanging in the balance, Stone scored a career-high five goals in a must-win game against Oberlin College (April 26). She also added matching six-point efforts (4 goals, 2 assists) against both Hiram College (April 5) and Ohio Wesleyan University (April 23).