Coming off its fifth North Coast Athletic Conference championship
and trip to the NCAA Div. III Tournament, seven members of The
College of Wooster women's lacrosse team landed on the
all-conference team, as announced by the league office on Tuesday.
Highlighting this year's selections was senior Carly Carey
(Northfield, Minn. / Academy at Charlemont (Mass.)), who was
selected as the 2009 NCAC Offensive Player of the Year.
Wooster players joining Carey included fellow seniors Hillary
Darragh (Evanston, Ill. / Evanston Township) and Taryn Higgins
(Marblehead, Mass. / Marblehead) on the All-NCAC First Team,
sophomore Nina Dine (Tuckahoe, N.Y./ E.C. Fieldston School) and
seniors Romy Eberle (New Haven, Conn./ Hopkins) and Jamie
Dannenberg (Framingham, Mass./ Framingham) on the All-NCAC Second
Team, and junior Britta Harman (Hudson, Ohio / Western Reserve
Acad.), who was tabbed honorable mention.
Carey earns her third all-conference honor and second-straight
first-team nod after serving as Wooster's top attacker,
including a team-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.
Darragh, a repeat first-team honoree and four-time all-conference
performer at midfield, continued to be a force for the Scots in
2009. A starter in all 16 games, she netted 41 goals and assisted
on another 12 for a 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.
Higgins, who moved up to the All-NCAC First Team after being a
second-team recipient the last two springs and an honorable mention
selection her freshman year, 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.
Dine followed a solid first campaign with a more productive spring,
finishing as the team's third-leading scorer with 50 points.
An attacker who has started all 32 career contests, Dine tossed in
33 goals, highlighted by the game-winner during Wooster's
NCAC tournament 13-10 semifinal victory against Denison University
on May 1, and passed out a league-high 17 assists. Also noteworthy,
she notched a career-high eight-point performance (5 goals, 3
assists) against Gwynedd-Mercy College on March 19, and recorded 17
groundballs on the season.
Eberle, 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.
A three-year starter between the pipes for Wooster, Dannenberg
racked up her second all-NCAC award following a solid senior
campaign. She led the NCAC with her 9.57 goals against average, and
her .482 save percentage ranked second. The fourth-year Scot racked
up 145 saves on the campaign, including a season-best 17 saves
during Wooster's 15-14 triple-overtime thriller against
Kenyon on April 4, and held opponents to 10 goals or fewer in 13 of
Wooster's 16 contests.
Harman started all 16 games for Wooster. She made a significant
impact for a defense that limited opponents to 10 or less goals in
13 of the 16 contests, producing the second-highest amount of
groundballs with 31, and the third-most caused turnovers on the
squad with 12, to go with 13 draw controls. Recently, Harman earned
a spot on the all-NCAC tourney 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.
Carly Carey Named Offensive Player of the Year, Seven Scots All-NCAC Selections
Posted: May 15, 2009