Women's Lacrosse

Ranked Ivies Set to Challenge Top 5 Opposition

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Following come-from-behind victories in League play, Penn freshman attacker Zoe Belodeau and Brown senior goalie Mikaela Karlsson earned the Ivy League’s weekly awards. 

LEAGUE NOTES
  • Two of the Ivy League’s three ranked teams face off against top-five opposition in non-conference play this week. No. 19 Princeton hosts No. 2/3 Maryland at 6 p.m. Tuesday—live on ESPNU, while No. 17 Dartmouth visits No. 3/2 Boston College at 4 p.m. Wednesday—live on ACC Network Extra. 
  • No. 9 Penn and No. 19 Princeton are ranked in this week’s IWLCA Division I Coaches Poll. No. 10 Penn and No. 17 Dartmouth are listed in this week’s Inside Lacrosse Women’s Division I Media Poll, while Princeton and Brown received votes. 
  • Penn won the battle of Ivy League unbeatens last week—13-11 over Dartmouth—and now sits alone atop the League standings (9-2, 3-0 Ivy). 
  • The Quakers own four wins over ranked opposition this season, with their two losses to then-No. 2/4 Maryland, 13-7 on March 22, and then-No. 12/11 Northwestern, 12-11 in overtime on April 1. 
  • Harvard’s Julia Glynn sits second nationally with 4.36 goals and 6.27 points per game. Crimson teammate Keeley MacAfee ranks seventh in NCAA Division I with 5.45 points per game.  
  • Yale’s Izzy Nixon continues to pace the nation with 9.33 draw controls per game. 
  • Columbia’s Lindsey Ewertson sits sixth in NCAA Division I with 2.75 caused turnovers per game.
  • The Ivy League is home to the nation’s most efficient scorer—Columbia’s Alexandria Absey (.700 shot percentage). 
  • Penn goalie Mikaila Cheeseman paces all Ivies and ranks 18th in NCAA Division I with a 9.40 goals-against average and 13th with a .508 save percentage. 
  • All four of this week’s conference games will be broadcast on the Ivy League Network, now available on Apple TV, Roku and the ILN app for Apple and Android devices. The network can be found at IvyLeague.tv and IvyLeagueNetwork.com.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Tuesday, April 10
No. 2/3 Maryland at No. 19 Princeton, 6 p.m. [ESPNU]
 
Wednesday, April 11
No. 17 Dartmouth at No. 3/2 Boston College, 4 p.m. [ACC Network Extra]
Harvard at UMass Lowell, 6 p.m. [AmericaEast.TV]
 
Saturday, April 14
Columbia at No. 9/10 Penn, 12 p.m. [ILN]
No. 17 Dartmouth at Cornell, 1 p.m. [ILN]
Brown at Harvard, 1 p.m. [NESNplus] [ILN] 
Yale at No. 19 Princeton, 3 p.m. [ILN]

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Penn freshman attacker Zoe Belodeau led the then-No. 11/11 Quakers with six points in a 13-11 victory over fellow Ivy League unbeaten Dartmouth. 
 
The Potomac Falls, Md., native had a hand in 4-of-5 Penn goals as the Quakers turned a 10-8 deficit into a 13-11 win over the final 20:50. Belodeau tallied a pair of goals over the final 6:40 to break an 11-11 tie and propel the Quakers to the top of the Ivy League standings. Overall, the freshman registered four goals, two assists, two ground balls and three draw controls in the battle of Ivy League unbeatens. 
 
Belodeau earns the second Offensive Player of the Week nod of her freshman campaign, having previously received recognition on March 19. Her brother, Jack Belodeau, is as junior defender on the NCAA Division III University of Mary Washington men’s lacrosse team. 
 
Belodeau’s Statistics for the Week
4 G, 2 A, 2 GB, 3 DC, .571 Shot % at Dartmouth



DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Brown senior goalie Mikaela Karlsson entered the game off the bench and helped the Bears turn a 13-8 deficit into a 14-13 victory over then-No. 23 Cornell. The win was Brown’s first over the Big Red since 1999. 

The Framingham, Mass., product held the Big Red scoreless over the final 18:37, saving all five shots she faced in relief of sophomore goalie Maggie Bigelow. During that span, the Brown offense netted six unanswered goals, capped by a Caroline Zaffino game-winning tally with 2:18 remaining. 
 
Karlsson makes it back-to-back Defensive Player of the Week awards for Brown after Bigelow snapped a three-year drought for the Bears last week. Bigelow received the nod following back-to-back non-conference wins over Louisville and Sacred Heart. 
 
Karlsson’s Statistics for the Week
1 GP, 18:37 Mins., 0 GA, 5 Svs., 1.000 Sv. % vs. Cornell


 
HONOR ROLL
Caroline Zaffino, Brown (Jr., M – Darien, Conn.) 
2 G, 10 DC, 1.00 Shot % vs. Cornell

Lindsey Ewertson, Columbia (Jr., A – Montclair, N.J.) 
2 G, 1 A, 6 GB, 4 DC, 6 CT, .286 Shot % at Yale

Fallon Quinn, Columbia (So., M – Wayne, Pa.) 
3 G, 1 A, 1 GB, 3 DC, .500 Shot % at Yale

Joey Coffy, Cornell (Sr., D/M – Norwalk, Conn.)
1 G, 1 GB, 7 DC, .500 Shot % at Stony Brook
2 G, 1 A, 3 GB, 2 CT, 2 DC, .667 Shot % at Brown

Taylor Reed, Cornell (Sr., M – Honeoye Falls, N.Y.) 
2 GB, 2 DC at Stony Brook
4 G, 1 GB, 1 CT, 3 DC, .571 Shot % at Brown

Campbell Brewer, Dartmouth (Jr., A – Richmond, Va.) 
3 G, .600 Shot % vs. Penn 

Julia Glynn, Harvard (Sr., M – Manhasset, N.Y.) 
6 G, 2 A, 7 DC, .750 Shot % at Boston University
5 G, 3 A, 9 DC, .625 Shot % vs. Princeton

Erin Barry, Penn (So., M – Manhasset, N.Y.) 
3 G, 1 A, 3 GB, 4 DC, 2 CT, .429 Shot % at Dartmouth

Sam Fish, Princeton (Fr., G – San Diego, Calif.) 
1 GP, 1 GS, 60:00 Mins., 15 GA, 13 Svs., .464 Sv. % vs. Harvard
 
Elizabeth George, Princeton (Jr., M – Lutherville, Md.) 
5 G, 3 DC, .625 Shot % at Harvard
 
Izzy Nixon, Yale (Jr., A – Greenwich, Conn.) 
10 DC vs. Columbia