WHITTIER, Calif. – Lauren Bibby totaled
12 points on nine goals and three assists, Carolyn
Mukai chipped in with seven scores and Conny
Joel made nine saves as the Whittier College women's
lacrosse team snapped its four game skid with a 25-10 win over
SCIAC foe Pomona-Pitzer on Wednesday evening.
Whittier scored a season-high 15 first half goals and broke the
20-goal plateau for the first time this season. WC's previous
high score for a game was 16 goals scored in a 16-12 win over
Occidental.
Carolyn Mukai scored the first goal of the game on a
free-position shot at 29:21 and Bibby gave the Poets an early 2-0
lead with her first scoring strike on an FPS at 28:22. Carolyn
Mukai sandwiched her second goal of the game in between a pair of
Pomona-Pitzer scoring strikes but Bibby sparked a 4-0 WC run with
three consecutive goals.
Bibby's first of her three straight came at 22:31. She
scored her second of the run at 18:28 and needed only 31 seconds to
put Whittier up 6-2.
Trillium Santin made the score 7-2 as she
finished a feed from Bibby at the 14:59 mark.
Pomona-Pitzer cut the lead to 7-4 with back-to-back goals but
Emily Mukai and Carolyn Mukai extended the purple
and gold lead to 9-4. The Sagehens were able pulled within four
goals with 8:22 to play in the half, however, the Poets ended the
first frame on a 6-0 run to take a 15-5 lead into the break.
Casey Connorton opened the second stanza with
her first goal of the game and after two Pomona-Pitzer goals the
Poets scored eight of the next nine to hold a 24-8 lead with 2:30
to play.
The Sagehens tacked on two goals at 1:10 and 0:41 and
Alex Holtz ended the dominating effort by the
Poets with the final goal of the game with just 10 ticks left.
Connorton, Holtz, Santin and the Mukai sisters all had one
assist in the win.
Santin and Holtz finished with three goals while Emily Mukai,
Connorton and Kaitlin Fithian had one score.
Whittier corralled 34 ground balls to Pomona's 20, outshot
the Sagehens 47-25 and won 22-of-37 draws.
Santin and Emily Mukai each finished with a team-high four
caused turnovers, Bibby and Carolyn Mukai led the Poets with six
ground balls apiece and Carolyn had a game-high seven draws.
The Poets will return to action next Wednesday evening as they
hit the road to face Redlands in a critical SCIAC game.
