HARTFORD, Conn.— First-year Molly McGuckin (Darien, Conn.), junior Caroline Lampert (Wayland, Mass.), and senior Lily Ives (Chappaqua, N.Y.) combined for 10 goals and five assists as No. 14 Trinity College defeated Babson College, 18-10, Tuesday evening in non-conference women's lacrosse action at Sheppard Field.

With the loss, Babson dropped its second straight game and fell to 2-5 overall while Trinity won for the third time in its last four outings to improve to 6-2 overall.

Senior Erin Jayne (Merrimac, Mass.) scored three goals and added an assist for the Beavers while graduate student Emily Curtis (Walpole, Mass.) tallied five points on two goals and three assists. Senior Anna Katherine Sypniewski (Vero Beach, Fla.) added two goals, classmate Claudia Dodge (Pelham, N.Y.) chipped in with a goal and an assist, and sophomores Amelia Novitch (Dover, Mass.) and Kathryn Blake (Medfield, Mass.) scored once each in the setback. Sophomore Clare Connolly (Hanover, Mass.) collected a game-high nine draw controls and sophomore Kathleen Murphy (Scarborough, Maine) made nine saves in goal.

McGuckin finished with four goals and two assists, Lampert was good for four goals and Ives contributed two goals and three assists for the Bantams, while junior Natalie Miller (Northport, N.Y.) chipped in with three goals and Casey Ward (Norwell, Mass.) added two goals and an assist. Junior Quincy Connell (New Canaan, Conn.) led the defense with four caused turnovers and junior Alyssa Vitale (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) and first-year Ali Macdougall (Southbury, Conn.) combined for seven saves in the Bantams goal.

After Curtis set up Jayne and Sypniewski for the first two goals of the game for Babson, Trinity scored eight of the next nine goals to pull away to an 8-3 lead with 2:20 to go in the first quarter. Ives and McGuckin had two goals each in the Bantam rally. The Beavers got one back when Dodge set up Curtis for a goal with 20 seconds left in the opening frame.

The teams alternated five goals in the first six minutes of the second quarter, Sypniewski and Blake scoring for Babson but Trinity tallied three unanswered goals, including two from McGuckin, to take a 13-6 margin into halftime.

Defenses tightened to start the third quarter as the teams were scoreless until Jayne scored for Babson nearly seven minutes in. Miller answered for Trinity two minutes later and Dodge fired in a goal with a minute to go in the third as only three goals were scored in the third stanza.

Curtis opened the scoring in the fourth quarter to pull Babson to within 14-9 but Miller stopped the Beaver momentum and Lampert tacked on two more to make it 17-9 with just over two minutes remaining.

Trinity finished with a 32-22 advantage in shots while Babson had a 14-11 margin in ground balls and 20- 11 lead in draw controls. The Bantams were 8-for-14 on free position shots while the Beavers were just 1-for-7.

The Beavers play another non-conference road game Thursday at Framingham State beginning at 4:30 p.m. Trinity hits the road on Sunday for a non-conference affair at St. Lawrence at 11 a.m.

GAME NOTES
• Babson is now 2-6 all-time against Trinity in a series that dates back to 2002.
• The Green and White are 0-3 against teams from the NESCAC this season, as all three opponent were nationally ranked (No. 1 Middlebury, No. 10 Wesleyan and No. 14 Trinity). The Beavers will also host No. 17 Williams on April 5.
• Curtis extended her streak of multi-goal games to six and Jayne extended her points streak to 36 games dating back to the start of last season.
• Connolly has grabbed at least four draw controls in 16 of her last 18 outings going back to last season.