PITTSBURGH – The Duquesne lacrosse team got seven points from Katie Rekart and Ashley Wood while Meghan Frederick added six in the Dukes 20-10 victory over Bucknell Wednesday afternoon at Rooney Field. DU had a 43-shot onslaught led by Wood's 13 and Shannon Hadaway's 10.

Sara Beckstead and Caitlin Carducci split time between the pipes combing for three saves.

Duquesne led from start-to-finish as Frederick found the back of the net less than a minute into the match. Wood's free position shot at 25:37 gave the home team a 2-0 advantage before Bucknell got on the board with a goal from Julia Braun.

Rekart and BU's Bonnie Buechel exchanged goals 45 seconds apart before the Dukes opened up the match with four consecutive goals in two-and-a-half minutes from Wood, Hadaway, Cailin Colegrove and Rekart to give the Dukes a 7-2 lead.

Buechel would score her second goal at 16:38, but Rekart and a pair of goals from Wood put DU up 10-3 at the 11:04 mark.

The Bison would strike back scoring three of the next four goals to cut DU's deficit to four at 11-7. Sarah Cates closed out the first half scoring with Duquesne leading 12-7.

DU came out the gates in the second half scoring three in a row from Hadaway, Alicia Krause and Frederick to build their lead to 16-7.

Frederick set up three consecutive goals – two by Wood and one by Rekart to give Duquesne their largest lead of the game, 11 goals at 20-9 with 3:33 remaining in regulation. Bucknell's Carol Donahue scored the final goal of the game at 2:21.

With the victory, the Dukes have won two matches in a row, outscoring the opposition 29-15. Next up is first-year program Detroit Mercy on Sunday in the Motor City. Match time is 1:00 p.m.

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PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Ashley Wood scored seven goals to lead a red-hot Duquesne offense in a 20-10 women's lacrosse victory over Bucknell on Wednesday afternoon at Rooney Field. Julia Braun (Tomkins Cove, N.Y./North Rockland) scored three goals for the Bison, who fell to 4-2 on the season.

Bucknell scored on most of its settled possessions, as it found the net 10 times on 15 shots. Those possessions were few and far between, however, as Duquesne won two-thirds of the 30 draws in the game and outshot the Bison by a whopping 43-15 margin, including 22-4 in the second half.

In addition to Braun's hat trick, Bonnie Buechel (South Orange, N.J./Columbia), Carol Donohue (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) and Chelsea Peters (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y./Cold Spring Harbor) scored two goals apiece, while Laura Van Schaack (Winnetka, Ill./New Trier) chipped in a goal and an assist.

Katie Rekart had four goals and three assists, Meghan Frederick two goals and four assists, and Shannon Hadaway three goals for the Dukes, who improved to 2-4 on the season with their second straight win. Duquesne's four losses came against a tough early schedule in No. 1 Northwestern, No. 11 Notre Dame, Denver and Cincinnati.

Duquesne cracked open a 3-2 game with a 7-1 run in the latter stages of the first half, and the Dukes needed only 18:56 to reach the 10-goal plateau against a Bucknell team that was giving up only 9.8 goals per game coming in.

Three straight goals by Braun, Peters and Donohue trimmed a 10-3 deficit to 10-6, but the Dukes scored twice more before the half, the last with nine seconds left, and led 12-7 at intermission.

The hosts then put the game away with four straight goals to start the second half, and they would eventually lead by as many as 11 at 20-9.

Bison goalie Alyssa DeLorenz (Garland, Texas/Plano East) made 10 saves while allowing 19 goals. Sara Beckstead and Caitlin Carducci combined to make only three saves for Duquesne.

For Bucknell, this non-league contest was sandwiched between two key Patriot League road games. The Bison passed the first test with a 12-11 overtime win at Lehigh this past Saturday, and now they will travel to American this coming Saturday looking to make it a 2-0 start in league play.

2009-03-11