Eight (8) northwest
post-collegiate and college club teams traveled to
Palo Alto, CA to participate in the annual Western
States Tournament the weekend of April 5th & 6th.
Seattle Womens made it to the finals of the Division
1 bracket once again. According to Coach Marisa
Bassett the outcome of the game wasn't what our
veteran group of fine athletes wanted but they were
satisfied that they gave it their all.
According to Bassett..."Seattle Women's Lax had a
powerful showing this past weekend at Stanford for
the Western States Tournament. We played a fantastic
two days of lacrosse under mostly sunny CA skies! We
miraculously came up with a full team with one or
two subs for each of our six games except for one
half of our first game of the tournament whereby the
fact that we were playing down one completely threw
off our opponents! For the quick recap, we
made it to the Div. 1 club championship where we
played a fast, super-skilled San Francisco North
club team (same team we played against in the final
last year) with the addition of powerhouse former
Seattle club and Harvard goalie Sarah Leary. Rumor
had it that Seattle was the team to beat! They came
out strong with a 2-0 lead on us with a pair of
sweet crease roll no look flip shots. We came
back from a 2-0 first half deficit to go to 5-3 at
halftime. At some point, with goals from Marisa and
Sue Haviland, we tied the game at 6-6. Marisa had 3
more shots with about a minute to go which Leary
managed to stop. So then we went to sudden death
overtime with a draw at the center. SF North won the
draw and scored in less than 30 sec. We were so sad,
but were proud to have made it to the championship
and to have almost won! It was really that close. We
will regain our title next year for sure."
Seattle Womens Scores for the weekend:
Sat:
vs. Cal
Lax Co. 10-2
vs. UCLA
A 6-4
vs. West.
Wash. Univ. 10-2
Sun:
vs. Cal
Poly 10-0
vs. UCLA
A 9-1
vs. SF
North 6-7
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