March 11, 2009

Box Score

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.

MATCH NOTES

• Wood's 13 shots tied her career-high from last season vs. Stony Brook
  
• Hadaway set a new high with her 10 shots, her previous was nine also last season vs. Stony Brook
  
• Duquesne's 20 goals was two short of tying a team single-game record. The Dukes scored 22 at Canusius on 3/28/99
  
• Cates tied her career-best with six ground balls