DC Metro Wins at USL WNT
By Brian Logue
Five years ago, the US Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament changed format to narrow the geographic regions in which teams draw. And for the fi fth consecutive year, a different champion was crowned in the Onondaga Division.
Olivia Mikkelsen scored with just 38 seconds remaining to lead DC Metro 1 to an 8-7 victory over Long Island Metro 1 in the championship game of this year’s tournament, presented by Harrow Sports and the Heather Leigh Albert Foundation, at Lehigh University. Kelly Myers led DC Metro with three goals while Kylie Ohlmiller had three for Long Island Metro. “It’s really exciting because everyone thinks of us as not as strong an area,” said DC Metro coach Kathy Jenkins. “This is a great group of girls. I thought they came out here and played hard. I thought they played really well together.” Myers was named the winner of the
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Heather Leigh Albert Award following the championship game. The award has been presented to the top player in the Schoolgirls’ Division since 1994. The other fi nalists for the award were: Samantha Apuzzo (West Babylon HS), Shelby Fredericks (Babylon Junior), Jennifer Giles (Mt. Hebron HS), Kenzie Kent (Nobles), Marie McCool (Moorestown HS), Kylie Ohlmiller (Islip HS), Nikki Ortega (Centereach HS), and Corinne Wessels (Osbourn Park HS). Seven other division champs were crowned: Long Island Metro
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DC Metro 1 became the fifth new Onondaga Division champion in five years at the US Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament.
3 (Seneca), New Hampshire/Vermont 1 (Oneida), North Carolina 1 (Tuscarora), Washington State (Mohawk), Southern Ohio (Cayuga), Georgia 2 (Iroquois), Forest (Seniors’ Only). In Seniors’ Only, Bairre Reilly scored the game- winning goal with one second left in overtime to lead Forest to a 15-14 win over Navy.
Reilly had four goals and won the Beth Stone Award as the top player in the division. LM
Jim Berkman, Quinn Carney Burke, Michele DeJuliis, Sue Heether, Bill Miller, Tracy Stumpf, Ryan Wade, and Michael Watson comprise this year’s eight-person National Lacrosse Hall of Fame class, as approved by the US Lacrosse Board of Directors. It’s a star-studded group. Berkman this year completed his 25th season as head coach at Division III Salisbury. He is the all-time winningest head coach in NCAA men’s lacrosse history, with a 428-48 career record.
Carney, a two-time All-American and four-time national champ at Maryland, holds the record for most goals scored in World Cup play (37) by a U.S. player. Fellow Terp Stumpf was a two-time fi rst-team All- American in 1985 and 1986. DeJuliis was a four-time All-American at Penn State and 2009 World Cup team captain, and Heether was a three-time U.S. World Cup member and IWLCA goalie of the year at Loyola in 1990. Miller won the USILA’s Division III Player
of the Year award in 1990 and 1991 while helping lead Hobart to four D-III national titles in his career. Wade, a three-time All- American at North Carolina, was a member of three U.S. national teams. Watson, whose likeness appears in Major League Lacrosse’s logo, was the USILA Attackman of the Year in 1996 and a four-time All- American at Virginia.
The class will be inducted in a ceremony, sponsored by Bollinger Sports Insurance and the Markel Insurance Company, on Oct. 26 at The Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley, Md. Tickets are available starting Aug. 1 at
www.uslacrosse.org/HOF.
— C.M.
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