NEW HAVEN, Conn. – An already historic season for the Yale women's lacrosse team added one more major accomplishment on Saturday at Reese Stadium – just in time for Senior Day. The Bulldogs' 18-5 win over Columbia earned them the outright Ivy League Championship, as they finished the regular season with a 7-0 record in league games. This was the first outright title and first 7-0 Ivy season in school history.
Yale (13-2, 7-0 Ivy League) had clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title with a 21-8 win at Cornell last Saturday. This Saturday, playing for the outright title knowing that second-place No. 18 Princeton had finished the season with a 6-1 league record, the Bulldogs seized control with a 6-0 second quarter and never looked back. Columbia (4-11, 0-7 Ivy League) scored only two goals in the second half.
STATISTICAL LEADERS
- Junior attacker Jenna Collignon scored a game-best five goals, shooting .714 (5-for-7). That included her 40th goal of the season. Junior midfielder Sky Carrasquillo added four goals, and first-year attacker Karina Herrera added a hat trick.
- Collignon (5-0-5) had a game-best five points, followed by Carrasquillo (4-0-4) and senior attacker Chloe Conaghan (1-3-4).
- Conaghan had a game-best (tied) three assists.
- Carrasquillo had a game-best nine draw controls.
- Junior midfielder Taylor Lane had a game-best three caused turnovers.
- Junior midfielder Caroline Burt had a game-best three ground balls.
- First-year goalkeeper Laura O'Connor and junior goalkeeper Cami Donadio made two saves each. Junior goalkeeper Caitlin Brown made one save – the first of her Yale career.
TURNING POINT
- After Columbia scored with 2:25 left in the first quarter to pull within 6-3, Yale held the Lions scoreless for the next 19:17 while building a 12-3 lead.
KEY STAT
- Yale outshot Columbia 33-13. That was the third time this season the Bulldogs have held an opponent to 13 or fewer shots.
NOTES
- Yale honored its senior class after the game:
- Eleven Bulldogs had at least one point, and seven scored goals.
- This was Yale's first outright Ivy League title, and first 7-0 Ivy League season, in school history. The Bulldogs had shared the Ivy title in 1980 (4-0-2 in Ivy League play, shared title with Penn) and in 2003 (6-1 in Ivy League play, shared title with Dartmouth and Princeton).
- The Bulldogs' 13 overall wins are tied for sixth-most in school history. The school record is 14 wins, achieved five times.
WHAT'S NEXT
- Yale has earned the No. 1 seed in the Ivy League Tournament for the first time in school history. The Bulldogs will host the tournament, which includes semifinal games on Friday May 3 (4:00 p.m. No. 2 seed Princeton vs. No. 3 seed Penn and 7:00 p.m. No. 1 seed Yale vs. No. 4 seed Harvard) and the championship game on Sunday May 5 (12:00 p.m.). All games will be streamed on ESPN+. Ticket information is available by clicking here. The winner of the Ivy League Tournament gets the league's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament. The NCAA Tournament field will be announced at 9:00 p.m. on Sunday May 5 on ESPNU.
