May 5, 2006

Washington, D.C. - The 2006 BIG EAST Champion Georgetown University women's lacrosse team plays its final regular-season game this Saturday, May 6, at No. 12 Johns Hopkins. Georgetown carries a No. 4 national ranking into the contest with game time set for 1 p.m. on Hopkins' Homewood Field.

Georgetown was crowned BIG EAST Champion and earned an automatic bid to the 2006 NCAA Championship last weekend after defeating Loyola 9-8 in overtime. It is the sixth straight season the Hoyas have won the league crown. GU succeeded in keeping two unbeaten streaks alive with the win, a 34-0 all-time record against conference foes and a 7-0 home record in 2006. The fifth overtime game of the season was won by senior Paige Andrews (Newtown Square, Pa./Archbishop Carroll), who netted her second score of the game with 13 ticks remaining in the second overtime.

Hopkins is where Hoya Head Coach Ricky Fried spent his first nine years of coaching before coming to the Hilltop in 2003. The Blue Jays have amassed a 12-3 mark this season but have gone 2-2 in their last four contests with both losses coming on the road, at Northwestern and at Penn State. JHU is 7-1 at home and defeated Towson 16-11 on Tuesday.

The Series with Hopkins...Georgetown and Johns Hopkins rekindled their rivalry for the first time in 15 years last season with JHU winning 14-10 in D.C. The series is owned by JHU, 6-1, with the Hoyas lone win coming in 1990, 18-8. Georgetown is 0-3 all-time in Baltimore against the Blue Jays.

On the Hoyas...Coco Stanwick (Baltimore, Md./Notre Dame Prep) and Stephanie Zodtner (Wayne, Pa./Conestoga) were named BIG EAST Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively as announced by the league office on May 1... Georgetown played its fifth overtime game of the season against Loyola and is 4-1 in OT affairs...GU's 7-0 home record is a first in program history...In Head Coach Ricky Fried's two season's Georgetown is 12-6 on the road, including 5-3 this year...Sara Zorzi (Timonium, Md./Roland Park Country School) dished out three assists last week and now has eight goals and a team best 22 assists, which ranks second in the BIG EAST...Stephanie Zodtner's 18 caused turnovers gives her 84 for her career, placing number five on the all-time list...Goalkeeper Maggie Koch (Philadelphia, Pa./Springside School) has posted double-figure saves in seven of the team's 15 games and has 177 saves for her career, ranking ninth on the all-time list, three away from #8...Paige Andrews has started all 15 games and ranks third on the squad in goals with 17...Seniors Stephanie Zodtner, Paige Andrews, Lucy Poole (Lutherville, Md./Towson) and Kristin Smith (Berwyn, Pa./Conestoga) have amassed 49 wins and just 17 losses over their four seasons (.742)...The Hoyas next await the NCAA Selection show to find out their next opponent in the 2006 NCAA Championship.

On the Blue Jays...JHU Head Coach Janine Tucker is just the 12th coach all-time to reach the 150 win plateau and just the sixth active coach with 150 wins...Tucker owns a 157-59 all-time mark in 13 seasons...Junior attacker Mary Key became Hopkins' Division I career points leader in JHU's 16-11 win over Towson... Key has 259 career points on 164 goals and 95 assists...Key is the nation's leader in points per game (6.57) and ranks second in assists (2.93) and fourth in goals (3.64)...The Blue Jays are 23-5 (.815) at home since April 25, 2003...Since moving to Division I in 1999, the Jays are 52-20 (.718) at home.