Donohue Becomes Bucknell's All-Time Points Leader
from press release
LEWISBURG, Pa. -- Carol Donohue (West Babylon,
N.Y./West Babylon) broke the Bucknell women's lacrosse career
records for both points and assists as part of a nine-point
afternoon, and Julia Braun (Tomkins Cove, N.Y./North Rockland) also
scored a career-high nine points to help the Bison get back in the
win column with a 21-8 rout of Howard on Sunday at Graham
Field.
Braun logged five goals and four assists to push her over the
100-point plateau for her career, and Donohue had the reverse with
four goals and five assists to lead the season-high 21-goal
outburst. Michelle Milot (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge) added three
goals and an assist and Becca Devine (Arlington, Va./St. Stephen's
& St. Agnes) handed out a career-high four assists.
Ten different Bison registered a point and seven had multiple
points, but the day belonged to Donohue, who worked hard to get
back on the field after suffering an Achilles tendon tear at the
end of the fall season. Donohue was within 10 points of the
Bucknell career scoring mark by the end of her junior year, and in
just her third start and fourth appearance since coming back, she
shattered both the points and assists records on the same day.
In her career, Donohue now has 180 points on 105 goals and 75
assists. The previous career mark for points was 173, set by
Suzanne Raffaele from 2000-03. Melissa Montefusco (1999-2002) held
the career assists standard with 72. Donohue also ranks sixth in
school history in career goals.
This is the third time in her career that Donohue has tallied
nine or more points in a game. She had a school-record 13 against
Wagner in 2008 and also recorded nine against Lafayette that
season. Braun had never scored that many in a game before. The nine
points are tied for sixth-most in a game in program history, while
Donohue's five assists are also tied for sixth on the Bucknell
single-game list.
Paige Cobbs (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's), Alison Heffernan (Malvern,
Pa./Agnes Irwin School) and Ryan Gribbon (Alexandria, Va./St.
Stephen's & St. Agnes) tallied twice apiece for the Bison, who
broke open a 6-5 game with a 13-0 run.
The bright spot for Howard (2-12) was a six-goal game by scoring
whiz Desiree Cox. The junior entered the game ranked No. 2 in the
nation in goals, and her six-goal game now gives her 57 on the
season.
Cox scored only 12 seconds into the game to put Howard up 1-0, and
after the Bison rallied to go up 6-3, Cox scored twice in a
58-second span to cut it to 6-5. Less than a minute after that,
Braun finished a free-position attempt to restore Bucknell's
multi-goal cushion. Donohue scored unassisted with 6:25 left in the
half and then assisted on goals by Cobbs and Braun to make it a
10-5 game at the half.
In the second period Bucknell won draw after draw, allowing them to
keep possession of the ball for almost the entire half. Bucknell
tallied twice in the first 26 seconds, four times in the first four
minutes and nine times in the first 13:50 to pull away.
Cobbs equaled Cox's standard by scoring only 12 seconds into the
second half off an assist from Braun, and only 14 seconds after
that Heffernan won the draw and streaked to the goal to make it
12-5. Donohue's record-setting assist was a pretty one to Braun on
the doorstep for a goal at 28:09, then Milot scored twice in
succession to send Bucknell on its way.
Bucknell outshot Howard 37-21 and was dominant on draw controls,
22-9, even after Howard claimed four of the first five. Bucknell
won 13 of the 15 second-half draws. Jenna Lotkowictz (Skaneateles,
N.Y./Skaneateles) was a stalwart on draws, winning a game-high
five, while Heffernan and Milot had three apiece.
Defensively, Ashley St. John (Wayne, Pa./Conestoga) recorded three
ground balls and three caused turnovers, while Alyssa DeLorenz
(Garland, Texas/Plano East) made 10 saves.
Braun reached the 30-goal level for the second straight season, as
she now has a career-high 32 with two games remaining. Braun's 84
career goals now rank 11th in program history, and she needs just
one more to join the top 10. Her nine points on Sunday give her 103
in her career.
With the victory, Bucknell snapped a 12-game losing streak and
improved to 2-13 on the season. The Bison host Colgate on Senior
Day next Saturday at 1 p.m.
