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Posted: Apr 07, 2009

Southern N.H. Clips Franklin Pierce in OT, 17-16

Southern N.H. Clips Franklin Pierce in OT, 17-16
Box Score

Sophomore Jordan Baillargeon finished with four goals and an assist for five points and helped lead the Ravens comeback to force overtime.

Rotolo nets three goals, including gamewinner in OT, as Penmen survive

Boxscore 

RINDGE, N.H. (April 7, 2009) - Southern New Hampshire University scored 1:12 into overtime and made it stand over the final 4:48 of extra time to claim a 17-16 victory over Franklin Pierce University in Northeast-10 Conference women's lacrosse action at Sodexo Field tonight.

Senior attack Laura Rotolo (Waltham, Mass./Waltham) was one of three Southern New Hampshire players with three goals, netting the gamewinner 1:12 into the first of two three-minute overtimes, as the Penmen notched their third-straight win. Senior Libby Parent (Hinesburg, Vt./Champlain Valley Union) and freshman Emily Mongeau (Westborough, Mass./Westborough) also finished with three goals on the night.

Seniors Julie Kraus (Derry, N.H./Pinkerton Academy) and Jennifer Parro (Ipswich, Mass./Ipswich) each led SNHU with five points, with Kraus posting a goal and four assists and Parro dishing a game-high five helpers. Junior Carole Lee (Derry, N.H./Pinkerton Academy) chipped in with two goals and an assist for three points.


Senior May Stoffer collected her 23rd career assist tonight, matching the program record.

Sophomores Lauren Stille (North Quincy, Mass./North Quincy) and Jordan Baillargeon (Westfield, Mass./Westfield) led Franklin Pierce with five points each. Stille scored a game-high five goals, going a perfect 4-for-4 on free-position attempts, while Baillargeon finished with four goals and an assist. Classmate Ashley Moirano (South Burlington, Vt./South Burlington) added three goals, including two-straight to force overtime, and an assist for four points.

Senior May Stoffer (New Hartford, Conn./Watkinson) chipped in with a goal and assist for Franklin Pierce. The assist, on the Ravens opening goal by Baillargeon 3:27 into the contest, was the 23rd of her career; matching the program record set by former teammate Celine Stamets from 2005-2008.

Senior Katie Clark (Norwich, Conn./St. Bernard) posted six saves in goal for Southern New Hampshire over the first 50:29, before giving way to freshman Hannah Moriarty (Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford) who finished without a stop over the final 15:31. Freshman Jillian Bolduc (Atkinson, N.H./Timberlane) posted 14 saves for Franklin Pierce, including eight in the second half to help the Ravens force overtime. 


Sophomore Lauren Stille netted a game-high five goals, including four on free-position shots.

Rotolo's winning goal came after Franklin Pierce had won the opening draw to start overtime, but turned the ball over. After the SNHU senior's 13th goal of the season, the Penmen won the ensuing draw and maintained possession for the rest of the first half of the extra session. Kraus controlled the draw to start the second half of overtime and SNHU milked all three minutes off the clock to take home the victory. 

Franklin Pierce erased a four-goal (14-10) deficit in the final 16 minutes of regulation to force overtime. The rally was capped by a second-straight goal from Moirano, assisted by freshman Brianna Nash (Oceanside, N.Y./Oceanside), with just 34-seconds on the clock. After Kraus controlled the ensuing draw for SNHU, Franklin Pierce senior Kayleigh Jaksina (Townsend, Mass./North Middlesex) forced a turnover with ten seconds to play, but the Ravens couldn't get the ball to the other end before time expired.

Sophomore Alyssa Johnson's (Nashua, N.H./Nashua South) goal with 16-minutes to play was SNHU's second goal in a 20-second span that gave the Penmen their second four-goal lead (14-10) of the half. Freshman Mary Kate Stille (North Quincy, Mass./North Quincy) and older sister, Lauren, each scored to pull Franklin Pierce back within two (14-12) with 12:43 to play.


Sophomore Ashley Moirano added three goals, including two-straight in the final five minutes of regulation to force overtime.

Trailing by three (16-13) after a SNHU goal from freshman Jade Antonangeli (Bourne, Mass./Bourne) with 9:31 to play, Franklin Pierce scored the final three goals of regulation. The rally started 25-seconds after the Penmen goal, when Baillargeon scored her fourth marker of the day (and second-straight for the Ravens), assisted by Mary Kate Stille, with 9:06 left. Moirano capped the rally with her back-to-back goals.

Southern New Hampshire finished with a 42-29 advantage in shots for the match, including 31-22 on goal. Both teams committed 31 turnovers, but SNHU also enjoyed a 26-11 edge on draw controls.

Franklin Pierce (3-6, 1-4 NE-10) is back in action on Thursday when it hosts 9th-ranked Stonehill College at 4 p.m. At halftime, all 130 members of the Franklin Pierce Student-Athlete Honor Roll for the Fall 2008 semester will be recognized as part of National Student-Athlete Day. Southern N.H. (7-3, 4-1 NE-10) visits Saint Anselm College on Thursday at 4 p.m.