Choma Leads Notre Dame Over Louisville
Kasey Choma scored five goals and No. 5 Notre Dame led from start to finish in a 15-11 victory over Louisville. The Irish won their second straight game to improve to 8-5 and even their ACC record at 5-5. Louisville is now 5-10, 1-8.
Caroline Blalock opened the second half with back-to-back goals to pull Louisville within 7-5, but Notre Dame answered with six straight goals to put the game out of reach.
Louisville outshot Notre Dame 33-28, but put just 22 of those on goal and Notre Dame goalie Bridget Meehan made 11 saves.
Andie Aldave had four goals and 12 draw controls for Notre Dame, which also got big days from Maddie Howe (3g, 2a) and Jackie Wolak (1g, 3a). Blalock and Nicole Perroni each scored three for Louisville.
Notable
• No. 6 Stony Brook won a battle of the top two teams in America East, beating Albany 17-10 behind five goals from Ally Kennedy. The Seawolves won their eighth straight game to improve to 10-2 overall and 6-0 in the league.
• No. 16 Stanford survived a scare from archrival Cal, edging the Bears 9-7 to remain undefeated. Cal led 5-4 with less than 10 minutes to play and the game was tied 6-6 after Cal’s Olivia Day scored with 4:49 to play. Jacie Lemos scored just 20 seconds later to ignite a three-goal Stanford spurt that led to the win. Mikaela Watson led Stanford (2-0) with two goals and Ali Baiocco had a goal and two assists.
• Freshman Dymin Gerow had a career-high 10 points (7g, 3a) and sophomore Claire Bockstie also had a career-high with seven goals as UMBC poured in 27 goals, just three away from the school record of 30 set against St. Francis in 2002, to beat Binghamton 27-16.
• Emily Vervlied had 10 points on four goals and six assists as Boston University outlasted Colgate 15-14
• Robert Morris maintained control of the Mid American Conference with a 20-10 victory over Central Michigan. Twin sisters Mackenzie Gandy (6g, 1a) and Melanie Gandy (3g, 5a) combined for 15 points as the Colonials won their sixth straight game to improve to 11-2 and 7-0 in the league.
• The Big Ten Tournament schedule has been finalized. Penn State will host all of the games and Northwestern earned a first-round by after winning the regular season title. All six games will be carried by the Big Ten Network, beginning on Thursday.
• No. 1 North Carolina will host the ACC Tournament, which gets underway on Wednesday.
Nike/US Lacrosse Division I Top 20 Scoreboard
No. 3 Syracuse, 16, No. 4 Boston College 7
No. 5 Notre Dame 15, Louisville 11
No. 6 Stony Brook 17, Albany 10
Virginia Tech 20, No. 8 Virginia 15
No. 15 Johns Hopkins 20, No. 20 Michigan 13
No. 16 Stanford 9, Cal 7
Other Scores
Akron 16, Detroit Mercy 12
Army 19, Bucknell 8
Boston University 15, Colgate 14
Bryant 22, Central Connecticut 3
Campbell 19, Longwood 8
Canisius 18, Iona 8
Fairfield 17, Marist 9
Furman 20, Delaware State 4
High Point 17, Presbyterian 4
Mercer 18, Kennesaw State 9
Navy 20, American 13
Niagara 14, Quinnipiac 12
Robert Morris 20, Central Michigan 10
Sacred Heart 9, Merrimack 7
UC Davis 27, Fresno State 14
UMass-Lowell 18, Hartford 10
UMBC 27, Binghamton 16
Vermont 13, New Hampshire 9
Wagner 19, Saint Francis 4
Winthrop 21, Gardner-Webb 11