On Sunday Northwestern destroyed North Carolina, 21-7, to clinch its fifth-straight NCAA title. They're still two titles away from tying Maryland's streak from 1995-2001. The game saw a record for margin of victory in a championship game, as well as a tie for most total goals. Katrina Dowd finished with four goals for Northwestern, pushing her record for most goals in a tournament to 22.
Here's a very interesting write up of the game by Michael Wilbon. For those that don't know, the Washington Post writer and ESPN personality is a Northwestern alum and has a cousin/goddaughter on the Wildcats lacrosse team. For him, seeing NU win the national championship Sunday was the first time he'd ever seen his alma mater win a championship in any sport.
As for Penn, they earned two All-Tournament selections, Katie Mazer and Ali DeLuca. It should be noted, that in each of the previous two years senior defense Hilary Renna was an All-Tournament selection. However, this year she was declared ineligible for the Final Four.
Tags: ncaa tournament, W. Lax
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May 26th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Did we ever get an explantion as to why Hillary Renna was declared
ineligible for the game?
May 27th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
No
May 28th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Did we ever ASK for the explanation?
May 29th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Yes, Penn Athletics does not comment on eligibility issues.
May 30th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Which of the sycophants told you NO COMMENT?
And what is your speculation as to what happened?
You are a journalist - dig for the truth.
May 30th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
FOJL is correct, it is significant news, and is going unreported!
EN
May 31st, 2009 at 10:23 am
Story is going unreported, because the term is over. Sadly.
We need to know what happened. We need the journalists
at the DP to roll up their sleeves, investigate, speak to
coaches, maybe go off the record.
Perhaps there was a mistake made by DRIA. And we need to
know why