Burke, Bussinelli Surpass Milestones in 17-0 Shutout
Natalie Burke, Lauren Smith and Sam Bussinelli each reached career plateaus in the Pacers' win

Burke, Bussinelli Surpass Milestones in 17-0 Shutout

Women's Lacrosse - 3/29/2017 6:07:00 PM

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La Plume, Pa. – Natalie Burke and Sam Bussinelli both surpassed career milestones in Marywood University's 17-0 shutout of Keystone College Wednesday in Colonial States Athletic Conference women's lacrosse. Lauren Smith and the Pacers' defense recorded the second clean sheet in program history.

Burke's game-high five points with two goals enabled her to become the eighth member of the 100 Point Club. Her three helpers moved her into a tie for the program's career assists record. She sits even with Kathy DiGiacomo '14 at 55 assists. Burke also manufactured four ground balls.

Bussinelli tallied four goals to make her the sixth player to reach 100 goals in Marywood history. The junior attacker has a career 100 goals and 141 points. She also added game-best five ground balls and four caused turnovers.

Along with help from her upstart defense, Smith made nine saves to keep the Giants off the scoreboard. It is the first Marywood shutout since the team blanked Cedar Crest 16-0 on March 23, 2010.

Ashley Valway inched her way to joining Burke and Bussinelli with a hat trick. She stands six points shy of the 100 Point Club.

Erin Healy added two goals and two assists. Gwyneth Gleason tallied a goal and an assist to couple her four draw controls and three caused turnovers. Gina Babcock matched a season-high two goals.

Defensively, Michaela DiLorenzo caused three turnovers, in addition to three ground balls.  

Keystone had four draw controls from Emily Hawkins and 16 saves by Daphne Leenas.

Sixty-six seconds into regulation, Burke scored the first goal of the game and reached 100 points on an assist to Healy for the third goal of the game at 24:40 in the first period. She tied the assists record when she fed Bussinelli a goal with 26:30 left in the game to make it 12-0. Bussinelli tallied her 100th with 4:37 left for the Pacers' penultimate goal.

Valway set the running clock with 3:21 remaining in the first half.

Marywood looks to etch more rows into the record books Saturday when it hosts Notre Dame (Md.) at 1:00 pm. It will be the team's Senior Day for Burke, Smith and Katie Henry. 
 
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