THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010 SPORTS 15 “Lax” continued Pryor reaches milestone as Royals roll from page sixteen one more goal before the end of By Kevin Dermody regulation. Staff Writer Junior attacker Sean Coleman scored one goal, freshman attack- Caroline Pryor, a junior attack- er Taylor Nelson scored two goals er for the women’s lacrosse team, and junior midfielder Sean Milde reached an offensive milestone by contributed two more for the Roy- breaking the 100-point mark for als. her career in the Royals’18-7 victo- Sophomore Mike Rufo and ju- ry over visiting Moravian College. nior Keenan Dowd each added a Pryor scored four goals in the goal and an assist, while sopho- game. Now, she has 81 goals and more Daniel Slade gave the Royals 20 assists in her career, good two goals and one assist. enough for 13 all-time scorer on Senior midfielder Doug Homan the Scranton scoring list. and freshman attacker Oliver Nu- Pryor is only four goals shy of gent both contributed two assists moving into the top 10 in Scran- in the victory. ton scoring history and has three Scranton’s 16-3 victory moved remaining regular season games the Royals to 2-3 in the Landmark in which to accomplish the feat. Conference and 5-8 on the sea- Also, she has another year on the son. team to try to become the all time The Royals carried the momen- leading scorer for the program. tum from the Moravian game and The team then took on Drew scored 18 goals against Penn State- University, losing the contest by a Abington. score of 17-6. Cefalu once again started the Drew University started the scoring with a record-breaking game by scoring six straight goals goal. Five seconds into the match, against Scranton in the first seven Cefalu broke his own record for File photo minutes of play. the quickest goal in NCAA Divi- JUNIOR KRISTEN Pickell (18) takes a shot against Moravian in the Royals’ 18-7 win April 17 at sion III history to give the Roy- The Rangers held a 12-4 lead at Fitzpatrick Field. The Royals are currently tied for the fourth and final playoff spot. halftime and cruised to victory in als an early lead. The team never the second half. They were lead man midfielder; both scored two conference play, while Scranton is vor, as they own the head-to-head looked back. by Lyndsay Rossi, who scored a goals for the Royals. 6-8 overall. tiebreaker. Scranton lost to the Scranton scored eight straight game-high five goals, with four of The loss to the Rangers comes This loss puts the Royals in Gophers April 10 by a final score goals before Penn State-Abington them coming in the second half, right in the middle of Landmark the fourth and final spot for the of 15-6. responded with its only goal of to seal the victory. Conference play and puts Scran- Landmark Conference tourna- The Royal’s final two games are the game in the second period. Scranton was led on offense by ton at 1-3 in the conference. Drew ment, tied with Goucher College. at Rowan University today at 4:30 Despite its comfortable lead, the Pryor and Leslie Connelly, a fresh- University is 8-1 overall and 2-1 in The tie breaker is in Goucher’s fa- p.m. Royals never let up and won the game, 18-1. The win moved the Royals to 6-8 on the season. Women’s tennis beats Moravian, first time since ‘99 Scranton will attempt to go on its first three-game winning streak By Rose Driscoll “Hearing them cheer made it a the first set, Ehly insisted that “she be possible,” Wentworth said. of the season in its last Landmark Staff Writer lot easier for me to keep playing wasn’t going down without taking “That enthusiasm really carried Conference game. after four long hours,” Wentworth [Moravian’s Brianna Kavanagh] to through to our singles matches, The Royals will face Catholic Sophomore Kirsten Wentworth said. at least a third set.” which helped us to pull out the University at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at said that after the girls’ tennis With her win, Wentworth was She succeeded and won the last win.” Fitzpatrick Field. The Royals need team’s 9-0 loss to Wilkes College named the Landmark Confer- two sets 6-3, 6-2. The singles’ victories did ul- to win in order to have a shot at April 19, the team had nothing ence Player of the Week, an honor Although Wentworth’s and timately win the match, but the getting into the Landmark Confer- to lose and everything to gain the which she said gives her “more Ehly’s victories demonstrated the pressure was high as Moravian ence playoffs. next day as it faced Landmark confidence in [her ability] to stay Royals’ strength, it was not the took a 4-2 lead by winning the Conference powerhouse Moravian calm and pa- Royals’ match first three singles matches. “SoftBall” continued College at the Poly Hi Courts. tient during to win from In addition to Wentworth and She was right and the team be- matches.” The last time the the very start. Ehly’s victories, sophomore Elisha from page sixteen lieved her. Sophomore Moravian took Connell defeated McKinley in the The team edged Moravian in Cait Ehly also Royals beat Moravian: an early lead as third set, seizing the last two sets Kelly Zaccheo also had two hits a nail-biting 5-4 match, securing responded to the - U.S. President: Bill Clinton it won second 6-4 and 6-2 after losing the first for the Royals. a spot in the Conference playoffs high pressure of doubles when 4-6. It was Connell’s seventh win In the nightcap, Scranton fell and ending Moravian’s three-year the match. - Top Movie: Star Wars: Anna Meola of the season. behind early, 3-2, before first year winning streak and 11-year win- “Everything Episode I - the Phantom and Chlsea Ott The Moravian victory has been infielder Kristen Williams helped ning streak in matchup’s against just ‘clicked’ dur- Menace defeated the one of the Royals’ most impressive break open a three- fifth in- the Royals that dates back to Oc- ing the Moravi- Royals’ junior of the season, and even one of the ning with a two-run single. Kait- tober 19, 1999. an match,” Ehly - Billboard Top Song: “No Kelly Costello last few seasons. According to lyn Smith hit her fourth After the back and forth vic- said. Scrubs,” by TLC and sophomore Ehly, the team has a new feeling of the year in the sixth and even- tories for each team, Wentworth Ehly contrib- Moira McGinn, of pride and confidence. tually scored on a wild pitch be- found herself with the match tied uted to a dou- - This year’s graduating 8-1. “[It feels] incredible to be a part fore Regan hit a sacrifice fly that at 4-4 and the fate of the game in bles victory and class was in sixth grade. The Roy- of the team that brought this feel- scored infielder Tia Dimou. her racquet. also secured her als responded ing back out to the women’s ten- Zeleniak also had an RBI dou- Wentworth lost the first set to first singles win strongly, as se- nis team,” Ehly said. ble in the first inning to extend Moravian’s Elizabeth Endy but, in of the season. She teamed up with nior Deirdre Wylie and Danielle The team will next face Gouch- her hitting streak to 15 games. typical Royal fashion, seized both freshman Lindsay Ward to defeat Wylie defeated Moravian’s Jami er College May 1 at noon in Mary- She is now in fourth place on the the second and third sets 6-4 to Moravian’s Stephanie Cox and Fein and Kerry McKinley, 8-4. land, where the team will look to Royals’ all-time list with 123 and is secure not only her own person- Alex Van Buskirk. According to Wentworth, these continue its winning ways. now five hits away from securing al win but also the win for the It was Ehly’s singles match that victories were probably the most Most likely, the team will face second place. team. changed the momentum in the crucial of the match. Moravian one more time this The Royals will finish out con- She said that overall the team’s Royals’ favor. According to Ehly, “After finishing the doubles season and, according to Wenth- ference play against Drew Univer- support was a big contribution to she felt as though she had some- matches with a 2-1 lead, we real- worth, the team is “excited to see sity May 1 and United States Mer- her win. thing to prove. Although she lost ized that a win would definitely how that will play out.” chant Marine Academy May 2. After ’s mega-deal, Brewers’ Prince Fielder has much to gain By Phil Rogers with him. Brewers to pay $25 million-plus a Like the Red Sox, the White Sox ent for one season of his mashing. McClatchy Newspapers The homer-hitting first base- year to keep him when three fac- have the parts to do a deal if they If the Brewers are interested in man must play for the Red Sox or tors are considered: they are 25th decide they’re not going to re-sign Alex Rios, who is signed through The Phillies announced Tues- someone else by the end of July, in the majors in revenue, accord- . 2014 at a level just beyond what day that they are rich. The twice- maybe even the White Sox. ing to Forbes; they have the equal- Consider Fielder to the White they have paid Fielder, then trad- defending cham- Attanasio would love to keep ly productive signed Sox for a package built around ing for a veteran is easier than pions made that proclamation Fielder long term, but assuming through 2014; and they have only pitching and -A first base- signing a proven player through by signing Ryan he keeps hitting the way he did been a .500 team the last couple of man Dayan Viciedo. John Danks free agency. Howard to a five-year, $125 mil- from 2007 to 2009 (an average of years thanks to a pitching short- certainly would get Melvin’s atten- If Rios went to the Brewers in lion contract extension, moving .286-33-123 with 95 walks), he will age. tion. Gavin Floyd might to a lesser the deal, the White Sox might be quickly so wouldn’t be in line for a bigger deal than The Padres’ Adrian Gonzalez, degree, and both Daniel Hudson able to sign Fielder to a Teixeira/ set the bar. Howard. At 26 in May, he’s four yet another run-producing first and have a ton of Howard contract long term. After The shrewd deal Brewers owner years younger and, as a five-plus baseman, generated a ton of trade value. Hudson gives the White Sox 2010, he would replace Konerko Mark Attanasio and general man- arbitration guy, he can compare talk the last year, most of it coming the flexibility to deal a big-league and Rios on the payroll, with An- ager Doug Melvin put together for numbers with anyone in the game out of Boston. But, unlike Fielder, starter, assuming he doesn’t have druw Jones (if the White Sox can Prince Fielder two years ago ends next winter, including Pujols, Mark he’s signed to a team-friendly con- to be in the package himself. keep him) or Jordan Danks in cen- after this season. He can’t go to a Teixeira and Howard. Then he can tract through 2011. It seems more It’s hard to see the White Sox ter. free agency until after 2011, but demand his own supersized long- likely Fielder, not Gonzalez, will be having the will to keep Fielder Fielder to the White Sox is prob- the Brewers can’t wait that long term deal as a free agent. the biggest name available before long term, however, which makes ably a long shot. But so is Fielder to decide what they’re going to do It does not make sense for the the July 31 deadline. it a huge risk to give up young tal- staying put. Want to write for the sports section? [email protected]