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Five Seahawks Earn All-NEC Women's Lacrosse Honors, Highlighted By Major Award Winners Ednie And Alliegro
Northeast Conference Championship
Saturday, May 5, 1:00 p.m.
Smithfield, RI – The second-seeded Wagner women's lacrosse team will meet top-seeded Bryant in the Northeast Conference (NEC) Championship game on Saturday, May 5 at 1:00 p.m. with the and the winner gaining automatic entry into
2018 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship.
This marks the fifth consecutive season that the Seahawks and the Bulldogs will meet in the league title game.
Bryant edged No. 4-seeded Mount St. Mary's 9-8 in Thursday's semifinal matchup while No. 2-seeded Wagner knocked off the third seed, Robert Morris, by a 13-9 count in the other semifinal, setting the stage for round five between these programs.
With the win over RMU, Wagner improved to 12-5 on the season, setting a program record for most wins in a season, breaking the previous single-season mark of 11 that we held by the 2002 (11-6) and 2016 (11-7) teams.
For a recap of the Seahawks' semifinal round win over Robert Morris, click
HERE.
In the April 29 regular season matchup between these teams on Grymes Hill, it appeared for a long while that Wagner was destined to host this year's NEC Tournament but the Bulldogs rallied with two goals in the game's final 1:17 to pull out an 11-10 win.
After falling to the Bulldogs in the 2014 and 2015 NEC Title games, the Seahawks, under then first-year head coach
Katie Rowan, and led by a 10-person senior class, broke through in 2016,
claiming the program's first-ever NCAA bid with an 11-7 victory behind Tournament MVP Tori McGrath.
In the 2017 regular season meeting between the teams on April 30, the Bulldogs posted a 16-6 win.
While the NCAA Championship was new territory for Wagner in 2016, it marked the 10th consecutive season that Rowan had been a part of the NCAA's as either a player or coach. She previously made the NCAA's three times during an All-American playing career at Syracuse, and has now reached seven NCAA's as a coach - four as an assistant at Syracuse, two as an assistant at Albany. On Saturday, she goes for her second at Wagner.
Wagner-Bryant All-Time Series (Bryant Leads, 10-4)
4/27/18 Staten Island, NY L. 11-10
5/7/17 Smithfield, R.I. (NEC Championship) L, 16-7
4/30/17 Smithfield, R.I. L, 16-6
5/8/16 Smithfield, R.I. (NEC Championship) W, 11-7
4/10/16 Staten Island, N.Y. L, 7-4
5/3/15 Smithfield, R.I. (NEC Championship) L, 15-10
4/24/15 Smithfield, R.I. L, 8-4
5/4/14 Smithfield, R.I. (NEC Championship) L, 14-6
4/4/14 Staten Island, N.Y. L, 7-6 (2 OT)
4/14/13 Staten Island, N.Y. L, 12-8
3/30/12 Smithfield, RI W, 14-13
4/20/11 Staten Island, NY L, 14-11
4/3/10 Smithfield, RI W, 15-14 (2-OT)
3/6/9 Staten Island, NY W, 11-8
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