MORAVIAN WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM PICKED TENTH IN MIDDLE ATLANTIC CONFERENCE PRESEASON POLL

ANNVILLE, PA --- The Moravian College women’s lacrosse team has been picked to finish tenth of the 11 schools that participate in the Middle Atlantic Conference in a preseason poll of the conference’s coaches released Thursday.

The Greyhounds received 17 points. Messiah College was selected first in the poll with 99 points and nine first-place votes while Lycoming College was second with 86 points and two first-place votes. The remainder of the poll included Drew University, the University of Scranton, Elizabethtown College, FDU-Florham, Susquehanna University, King’s College, Widener University, Moravian and Wilkes University.

Fourth year head coach Kate Miller expects the Greyhounds to show the continued improvement with ten letterwinners and five starters returning.

Returning to lead Moravian on the field is senior attack Lindsey Lustrino (Spring Lake, NJ/Manasquan HS), who led Moravian in scoring with 52 goals and four assists for 56 points last spring, and she added 28 caused turnovers, 53 ground balls and 26 draw controls last season. Lustrino scored the 100th goal of her career during the season.

Junior attack Jessica Bodine (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown HS) had five goals and two assists to go with ten draw controls, five caused turnovers and 27 ground ball while junior attack Casey Simpson (Laporte, PA/Sullivan County HS) netted eight goals with ten draw controls, five caused turnovers and 12 ground balls.

Junior midfielder Robyn Klem (Allentown, PA/Allentown Central Catholic HS) scored four goals and added 36 ground balls, nine draw controls and 14 caused turnovers while sophomore midfielder Georgia Castellano (Cherry Hill, NJ/Cherry Hill West HS) had five goals, 14 ground balls and six draw controls.

Senior defender Jenna Abramson (Bangor, PA/Bangor HS) added 28 ground balls, 12 draw controls and six caused turnovers.
Senior defender Nicole Dodd (Hackettstown, NJ/West Morris Central HS) had five ground balls in five matches and junior midfielder Erica Spatz (Pennsauken, NJ/Pennsauken HS) won a pair of draw controls in the season opener before injuries sidelined the pair for the remainder of the season. Spatz was nationally ranked in draw controls as a freshman and looks to return to form this season.

Moravian will begin its 2006 season on Saturday, March 10th in a non-conference home match versus Swarthmore College on the HUB Quad.

2007 Middle Atlantic Conference Women’s Lacrosse Preseason Poll