Loras falls short on Senior DayDuhawks (4-11, 1-6 MWLC) late rally falls short against Benedictine

by Bill Barry | sportswriterThe womens lacrosse team headed into the

final stretch of the season with their last two home games at the Rock Bowl this weekend. The Duhawks dropped a pair of games to Aurora Uni-versity and Benedictine University to drop to 4-11 on the season.

In Saturdays matchup against Aurora, a bal-anced attack led the Duhawk offense to seven goals in front of the home crowd.

Sophomore Hailey Frederick and junior cap-tain Kaitlyn Kutsch each poured in two goals.

Other goals were scored by sophomore Anna Schwalbe, freshman Katie Kulas and senior Gina Dacy. Auroras offense proved too much, howev-er, as the Duhawks fell, 18-7.

Playing on our own turf in the Rock Bowl al-ways helps our team, Dacy said. Its so great to be at home in front of our friends and classmates. It always provides that extra boost of motivation that we need. Playing on the Rock Bowl is tru-ly an amazing experience every time were out there.

The Rock Bowl is such a fun place to play, said first-year goalkeeper Ashley McGee, who tallied double-digit saves for the fifth time this season. I think it does benefit the team having an on-campus field and knowing that during the day if we have a break we are able to go shoot around alone or get a group together to go pass around as well.

Sundays Senior Day matchup against the Ea-gles of Benedictine recognized Duhawk seniors Gina Dacy and Eliza Slanker for their dedication

and effort theyve put forth for the lacrosse pro-gram.

After a 6-0 start by Bendictine, the Duhawks crawled back to a one point loss. Kutsch led the Duhawks with three goals, while Shwalbe, sopho-more Hannah Nelson, and first-years Sarah Han-son and Nia Stompanato each added a goal.

With the end of our season coming this week-end we hope to make a name for the program and end on a high note, said Mcgee. We hope to finish strong. This doesnt always mean with a win, but we want to see progress from Fall ball to now. Were still a young program closing in on our third season, so being able to see progress excites all of us for the future and helps us strive for con-tinuing to grow the program.

The Duhawks will travel to Kansas City, MO, for their final regular season game against Rock-hurst College (4-7) .

As we wrap up our season, one of our main goals is to continue working together as a team and with a positive attitude, said Dacy. Its been our focus the past week at practice and it has helped us to continue to come together and grow as a team. Were working to carry that through to our final game at Rockhurst and into the 2016 season.

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Close, but no cigarLoras (0-13, 0-5 IIAC) falls just short of its first win of the season with a 5-4 loss to Buena Vista

by Dustin Dawson | sportswriterThe Duhawks hosted the Buena Vista Beavers

this past Saturday and had their best chance to date to get their first win of the year. They were able to take two of the three doubles matches, but couldnt finish the job in singles competition. The Beavers were able to pick up four singles wins to secure the victory, 5-4.

We really put a lot of emotion and heart into Saturday, said head coach Ryan Troge. A lot of guys took it pretty tough. We just really want that first win.

The success in doubles for the Duhawks was once again led by senior Brian Falvey. He, along with his partner first-year Zach Atzen, were able to get the first win of the day by a close margin, 8-6. The Duhawks were able to keep the ball roll-ing with their next doubles match, as first-year Justin VanWambeke and junior Ulises Hernan-dez also grabbed an 8-6 win. Sophomore Jason Derby and se-n i o r J a c k O B r i e n dropped the third dou-bles match, 8-5.

Falvey started out t h e s i n g l e s m a t c h -u p s w i t h a v a l i a n t e f f o r t , b u t f e l l t o Chris Habermann in straight sets 6-4, 7-5. Derby and Hernandez grabbed the two victo-ries for the Duhawks.

Derby was able to defeat Grant Wright 6-4, 6-2, while Hernandez showed his dominance defeat-ing Will Connelly 6-0, 6-0. However, it was not enough as the Duhawks were not able to crack through for the first win of the year.

Sport is like life, said Troge. Of course you want to win, be successful and so forth. No one

wants to fail. The differ-ence between life and sport is a sport gives you an opportunity to s tart over again and change your approach. Life doesnt always give you that opportunity.

The men got another opportunity Wednesday against Iowa Confer-ence foe Luther College. For the late result, visit Duhawks.com.

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photo by Katherine eDwarDsSophomore Justin VanWambeke returns the serve during the Duhawks heartbreaking 5-4 loss to Buena Vista. The duo of VanWambeke and fellow sophomore Ulises Hernandez teamed up to win their No. 2 doubles match, 8-6.

Buena Vista 5, loras 4(Saturdays results)

Singles Results1. Chris Habermann (BV) def. Brian Falvey (L) 6-4, 7-52. Jesse Brace (BV) def. TJ Esporas (L) 6-1, 6-13. Ulisses Hernandez (L) def. Will Connelly (BV) 6-0, 6-04. Kyle Weeden (BV) def. Zach Atzen (L) 6-3, 6-15. Robert Steffes (BV) def. Neil Kane (L) 6-2, 6-36. Jason Derby (L) def. Grant Wright (BV) 6-4, 6-2Doubles Results1. Brian Falvey/ Zach Atzen (L) def. Chris Habermann/ Kyle Weeden (BV) 8-62. Ulisses Hernandez/ Justin VanWambeke (L) def. Will Connelly/ Robert Steffes (BV) 8-63. Jesse Brace/ Grant Wright (BV) def. Jason Derby/ Jack OBrien (L) 8-5

sport is like life. of course you want to win, be successful and so

forth. no one wants to fail. the difference between life and sport

is a sport gives you an opportunity to start over again and change

your approach. life doesnt always give you that opportunity.

Ryan Trogemens tennis coach,,

Midwest womens lacrosse Conference standings(Through Sundays games)

Team ........................... MWLC Ovl. G GA1. Concordia (WI) ..................... 6-0 8-6 13.21 7.862. Aurora .................................... 5-1 8-6 12.43 9.933. Beloit ......................................5-2 8-6 11.21 8.014. Illinois Tech ..........................3-3 5-9 6.50 13.465. Wartburg ................................3-3 4-10 5.14 11.466. Benedictine (IL) .....................2-3 3-11 6.50 12.517. Loras ............................. 1-6 4-11 6.87 12.758. Cornell ...................................0-7 1-14 5.67 13.95