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GNAC Women's Lacrosse Report: Week 7

Simmons' Julia Chausse helped guide Simmons to a 2-0 week, registering three goals and 10 assists for 13 points.

GNAC Women's Lacrosse Report: Week 7
April 18, 2022

FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 11 - 17

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Lydia Dexter, Saint Joseph's (Maine) (GR, A - Oakland, Maine) - Dexter led the Monks to a pair of convincing victories with 20 total points (11 goals, nine assists) in wins over Elms and Regis last week. With seven goals and three assists versus the Blazers, Dexter became the first playing in program history to surpass the 100-point mark in a single season. In a 19-4 victory over Regis, the grad student tallied four goals and six assists to become the sixth player in team history to score at least 200 career points. 

GOALKEEPER OF THE WEEK

Emma Walsh, Elms (Senior, GK) - Walsh stopped 26 of the 54 shots she faced, including a .636 mark (14/22) in a 14-8 victory over Anna Maria.

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK

Julia Chausse, Simmons (Sophomore, A - East Freetown, Mass.) - Chausse helped guide Simmons to a 2-0 week, registering three goals and 10 assists for 13 points, while tallying four caused turnovers, three draw controls and two ground balls over the course of the two-game week. Early in the week, she tied her career single-game best registering eight points (3 Goals, 5 Assists) in a convincing 22-2 victory over Regis College. Chausse concluded the week dishing out another five assists (one shy of her career single-game best) in a 19-3 win over Albertus Magnus on Saturday afternoon. 
 
GNAC HONOR ROLL
 
Ashley Rufo, Anna Maria (Sr., M - Pittsfield, Mass.) - Rufo tallied seven goals, one assist, nine ground balls and nine caused turnovers for the week.
 
Anna-Elise Pikul, Elms (Junior, M) - Pikul had seven goals and four assosts for 11 points and seven ground balls and 12 draw controls in a 1-1 week, including a 14-8 win over Anna Maria. 
 
Chandra Franca, Emmanuel (Mass.) (Sr, M - Woburn, Mass.) - Backed by 14 goals, Franca put together a 16-point week to power Emmanuel to a 2-0 mark in GNAC action while extending the Saints winning streak to five. The senior opened the slate with seven goals in a 15-7 road win at USJ, scoring her 100th career goal in the action to become just the fourth player in EC history to reach the milestone. The captain followed it up with a nine-point outing at Dean, netting seven goals to go along with two assists in Emmanuel's 17-11 victory. Franca added six groundballs and one caused turnover and finished the week going 5-for-6 on free position shots.
 
Maris DiBeneditto, Johnson & Wales (RI) (So., M - Southbury, Conn.) - DiBeneditto scored eight goals over and two assists over two victories this past week. She had six goals and one assist in an 11-2 victory over Lasell before scoring two and assisting on one more in a win over Colby-Sawyer. She also grabbed six ground balls, one raw control, and caused two turnovers. 
 
Emma O'Neill, Norwich (Sr., A - Hamburg, N.Y.) - O'Neill had nine points on the week in a pair of victories for Norwich. O'Neill had three goals in a matchup against Colby-Sawyer on Wednesday and five goals and one assist with a Senior Day victory on Saturday against Lasell. O'Neill had a caused turnover and nine ground ball on the week.
 
Makenzie Dinger, St. Joseph (Conn.) (Jr., A/M - Hingham, Mass.) - Dinger continued her dominant junior season for USJ and had another solid week with 13 goals and a pair of assists for 15 points across a pair of GNAC games where the Blue Jays went 1-1. Dinger opened the week with a hat trick, netting three goals on Tuesday at home versus Emmanuel, before erupting for a career-high game on Saturday at Rivier. The Hingham, Massachusetts product found the back of the cage a career-best 10 times for the Blue Jays, including going 4-for-5 on free position attempts, and assisted on two more goals for a career-high 12 points as USJ defeated Rivier, 18-15, in a critical conference showdown in Nashua over the weekend. Dinger currently remains the leader in the league in goals for the 2022 season and has upped her total to 77 through 15 games. She is just eight goals away from the 100-goal milestone for her career.
  
Abby Stoller, Simmons (Grad Senior, A - Wayland, Mass.) - Stoller guided Simmons a to a 2-0 week, registering 14 goals, 13 draw controls, five ground balls and four caused turnovers in wins over Regis and Albertus Magnus. Early in the week against the Pride, Stoller broke the Simmons single-season mark for goals as she tied her career single-game high, scoring eight goals Tuesday evening. She closed out the week, registering six goals in a 19-3 victory over the Falcons where she tied her career single-game best with four caused turnovers. 
 
GNAC WEEKLY ARCHIVE
WEEK PLAYER GOALKEEPER

ROOKIE
1 Lydia Dexter, SJC Sarah Burt, ANM Heather Hanson, CSC
2 Abby Stoller, SIM Emma Walsh, ELMS Isabella Beane, REG
3 Lydia Dexter, SJC (2) Nicole Elliott, SIM  Heather Hanson, CSC (2)
4 Lydia Dexter, SJC (3) Jada Fields, DEAN Heather Hanson, CSC (3)
5 Lydia Dexter, SJC (4) Nicole Elliott, SIM (2) Julia Chausse, SIM
6 Taina Gamory, JWU Devin Zambruno, LAS Sophia Kuhlthau, CSC
7 Lydia Dexter, SJC (5)   Emma Walsh, ELMS Julia Chausse, SIM (2) 

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