Women's Lacrosse to Play for MAAC Championship on Sunday
The ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ women’s lacrosse team will play for the 2015 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Championship this Sunday in Buffalo, N.Y. The second-seeded Stags will be in action at noon live on ESPN3 against tournament host and top seed Canisius. ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ defeated Monmouth, 8-7, in Friday's semifinal round.
Under the guidance of Head Coach Mike Waldvogel, the Stags are 13-4 overall and 7-1 against MAAC opponents this season. ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ's lone MAAC loss was an 11-10 defeat at the hands of Canisius on April 11 at Rafferty Stadium.
The Stags’ attack is fueled by a pair of Second Team All-MAAC selections, Alex Fehmel ’17 and Riley Hellstein ’17. Fehmel is ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ’s leading scorer with 27 goals and 13 assists, while Hellstein has scored 19 goals and added 37 draw controls in the midfield.
The ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ defense has been led this spring by First Team All-MAAC honorees Chesley Sidaras ’16 and Meghan Reda ’15 and Second Team All-MAAC performer Melissa Laible ’16. Sidaras currently leads the nation with a .535 save percentage and owns a MAAC-best 6.62 goals-against average.
Fans who are unable to make the trip to Buffalo this weekend can find links to follow all of the action live at .
Also this weekend, ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ men’s lacrosse is hosting the 2015 Colonial Athletic Association Championship at Rafferty Stadium. The Stags, who are the regular season champions of the CAA, were clipped by a score of 9-8 by the University of Massachusetts on Thursday evening in the semifinal round. Towson won the championship with a 9-8 win over the Minutemen on Saturday.
The 2015 season for ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ men's lacrosse has seen the club enter the national rankings for the fourth consecutive season and knock off a nationally-ranked opponent (No. 20 Villanova on March 21) for the seventh straight year – a streak that spans the tenure of Head Coach Andy Copelan, the 2015 CAA Coach of the Year. Eleven student-athletes received All-CAA recognition in the Stags’ first season in the conference, including Rookie of the Year Will Fox ’18 and First Team All-CAA selections Max Buchanan ’15, TJ Neubauer ’16 and Tristan Sperry ’15.
