March 25, 2006

Final Stats

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Behind a hat trick from senior Courtney Gibbons the St. Bonaventure women's lacrosse team remained unbeaten with a 12-9 win at Brown Saturday afternoon.

The win improves the Bonnies' record to 5-0 while the Bears fall to 3-4. St. Bonaventure is one of seven Division 1 teams who are still undefeated.

Gibbons finished with four points on the afternoon and in the process surpassed Emily Lilyea for fourth place on the all-time scoring list. Gibbons now has 122 career points on 86 goals and 36 assists.

The Bonnies got off to a fast started behind back-to-back goals from Senior Nicole Motondo in the first 7:35 to take a 2-0 lead. After a Brown goal made it 2-1, Gibbons notched her first goal of the game off a pass from junior Katie Hurley to push the Bona lead back to two.

The Bears knotted the game at four with a 3-1 spurt that ended with11:07 left. Playing for the first time in two games, sophomore Kimberly Ross brought the brown and white back with a pair of goals to give St. Bonaventure a 6-4 advantage.

The half ended with a wild final minute as each team tallied a goal, including sophomore Stephanie Jordan's score with seven tics left making it 7-5 at the break.

After the Bears climbed to within one, 9-8, with 11:10 remaining, goals by Gibbons and sophomore Brenna Houghton gave the Bonnies their largest lead of the game, 11-8, with 5:11 on the clock, to put away Brown.

The Bears outshot the Bonnies 31-24 in the game, including 22-8 in the second half. St. Bonaventure committed a season-low 16 turnovers and put 21 of its 24 shots on goal.

Sophomore Eboni Preston improved to 2-0 in goal this season, stopping nine shots on the day.

"We did a good job of taking care of the ball and our shot selection was excellent," said head coach Tony Zostant. "The defense responded well to their second half push and Eboni was excellent in the cage."

Motondo, Houghton, Ross and freshman Katelyn Faas each scored twice. Houghton also dished out a pair of assists to finish with four points and has passed out 11 helpers in the last three games.

St. Bonaventure will return to action at Big 4 rival Canisius on Monday, March 27. Gametime is scheduled for 4 p.m.