No. 20 Women’s Lacrosse Edges Delaware, 12-11, To Remain Undefeated – Ohio State Buckeyes
3/25/2002 12:00:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse
March 25, 2002
Stats
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State (6-0, 1-0 American Lacrosse Conference) women’s lacrosse squad defeated Delaware (2-4), 12-11, with a Tracey Bounds (Jr., Ellicott City, Md.) goal with 3:14 left in the game in a match played at Notre Dame. Bounds had a team-high four goals in the game with Alexia Vogler (Jr., Ellicott City, Md.) adding three and Megan Mirick (Sr., Burke, Va.) two. Corinne Shuck (Sr., Annapolis, Md.) scored a game-high six goals for Delaware with Michelle Campolettano (So., Massapequa Park, N.Y.) adding four.
Ohio State opened the game with three goals. Bounds scored on an assist from Regina Oliver (Fr., Pottstown, Pa.) at 2:16. Goals by Bounds (6:00) and Mirick (7:10) followed. Delaware’s Shuck score her first goal at 8:40. OSU pushed the lead to 5-1 with a Vogler goal at 12:15 and a Kylee Reade (Sr., London, Ontario) goal, assisted by Vogler, at 12:34. Shuck countered with a score at 17:07 to make it 5-2. Ohio State made it 8-2 with goals by Vogler (Bounds) at 20:38, Bounds (Mirick) at 26:12 and Lauren Cochran (So., Coatesville, Pa.) (Vogler) at 3:16. Delaware rallied with Shuck’s third goal, assisted by Erin Edell (Fr., Glenelg, Md.), at 27:18 and a Nikki Kurcharski (Jr., Englewood, Colo.) score, assisted by Becky Rausa (Fr., Forest Hill, Md.), at 28:59 to make it, 8-4, Ohio State at halftime.
Delaware started the scoring in the second half with four straight goals to tie the game at eight. Shuck tallied the first three goals of the half at 33:12, 27:14 and 37:49. Campolettano’s goal at 40:27 tied the game. Mirick’s second goal of the game gave OSU a 9-8 lead at 41:06. Campolettano tied the game at nine with a score at 47:42 and gave Delaware a 10-9 lead at 52:07. Oliver’s goal, assisted by Bounds, tied the game at 10 at the 52:31 mark. Vogler’s goal at 54:00 returned the lead to Ohio State at 11-10. Delaware’s Campolettano, scoring her fourth goal of the game, tied the game at 55:53. OSU’s winning goal, by Bounds, came at 56:46 to complete the scoring.
OSU’s Erin Forquer (Fr., Shaker Height, Ohio) had nine saves in the game while Laurie Tortorelli (Sr., Havertown, Pa.) recorded 22 saves for Delaware.
Ohio State continues on the road next weekend with a neutral site match against third-ranked North Carolina (5-2) at 5 p.m., Friday, March 29. The match will be played at the University of Maryland. The Buckeyes then face seventh-ranked Maryland (2-3), at Maryland, at 11 a.m., Sunday, March 31.
