https://www.mascac.com en-us https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/Renauld-Gamache_SouthCoast When Grace Gamache was in high school, her options for local lacrosse training were limited. The 2016 Dartmouth High graduate would travel 45 minutes to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, to compete on a club team. Mon, 30 Jul 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/Renauld-Gamache_SouthCoast https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/IWLCA_Academic_Honors Five MASCAC teams and 14 student-athletes have been named to the 2018 Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Zag Sports Division III Academic Honor Squads and Honor Roll as announced by the organization Monday. Tue, 24 Jul 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/IWLCA_Academic_Honors https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/Spring_All-Academic_18 A total of 758 student-athletes have been honored by the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference with selection to the league’s Spring 2018 All-Academic Team that was released earlier today by Commissioner Angela Baumann. Tue, 10 Jul 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/Spring_All-Academic_18 https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/Spring_Champ_Recap With the conclusion of the spring season, we wanted to take a look back at all the exciting happenings around the MASCAC during the spring. Tue, 05 Jun 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/Spring_Champ_Recap https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/Spring_Sportsmanship 34 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) student-athletes have been recognized for their outstanding sportsmanship as members of the 2018 Spring Sportsmanship Teams. Thu, 31 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/Spring_Sportsmanship https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/CoSIDA_At-Large_All-District Bridgewater State's Elizabeth Ettridge and Worcester State's Michaila Parent were named to the 2017-18 Google Cloud Academic All-District Women's At-Large First Team, as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Tue, 29 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/CoSIDA_At-Large_All-District https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_IWLCA Framingham State's Grace Gamache and Westfield State's Maria Woodall were named to the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Berkshire All-Region Second Team as announced by the organization. Thu, 24 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_IWLCA https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/Final_Howard_C_Smith_Cup For the fourth year in a row, Westfield State received the most points out of the eight institutions to claim the Howard C. Smith Cup following the completion of the spring season. The Smith Cup is awarded annually to the member institution which compiles the most points based on the placement of each of its programs competing in the 15 league championship sports. Tue, 15 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/Final_Howard_C_Smith_Cup https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_5-14 Alexa Tonelli of Westfield State earns the final MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week honor after helping her team to a first round victory in the NCAA Tournament on Saturday. Mon, 14 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_5-14 https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/Westfield_vs_Gettysburg Westfield State's sensational women's lacrosse season came to an end on Sunday, as the Owls fell to defending national champion Gettysburg College, 19-4 at Clark Field in Gettysburg, Pa., in the second round of the NCAA Division III women's lacrosse tournament. Sun, 13 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/Westfield_vs_Gettysburg https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WES_WLAX_NCAA Westfield State got three goals and three assists from junior attack Alexa Tonelli as the Owls topped the Morrisville (N.Y.) State College Mustangs, 17-12 at Clark Field in Gettysburg, Pa., in the opening round of the NCAA Division III women's lacrosse tournament. Sat, 12 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WES_WLAX_NCAA https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_All-Conference Junior Maria Woodall of Westfield State has been named the 2018 Women’s Lacrosse Player of the Year and headlines this year’s all-conference team in a vote taken of the eight coaches from around the league. Tue, 08 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_All-Conference https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_NCAA Westfield State women's lacrosse will play SUNY-Morrisville in the upcoming NCAA tournament, it was announced on Sunday night on NCAA.com. Mon, 07 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_NCAA https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_5-7 Maria Woodall of Westfield State grabs the MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week honor after earning the Tournament MVP award on Saturday. Alissa Marino of Framingham State is the Rookie of the Week. Mon, 07 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_5-7 https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_Champ Led by junior goalkeeper Maria Woodall, the tournament MVP, top-seeded Westfield State University captured the 2018 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) Women's Lacrosse Tournament championship with a 17-10 victory over second-seeded Framingham State on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Field. Sat, 05 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_Champ https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_SF Framingham State and Westfield State will meet on Saturday in the MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Tournament championship game after winning their semifinal games on Thursday night. Thu, 03 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_SF https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_QF After winning their respective quarterfinal games on Tuesday, Bridgewater State and Worcester State are moving on to the MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Tournament semifinals on Thursday Tue, 01 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_QF https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_4-30 Alexis Vecchiarelli of Worcester State and Alissa Marino of Framingham State are the MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Player and Rookie of the Week award winners. Mon, 30 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_4-30 https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_Tourney_Preview After going a perfect 7-0 in conference play, the Westfield State Owls have earned the top seed in the 2018 MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Tournament which begins on Tuesday with the quarterfinals. Sun, 29 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_Tourney_Preview https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/MMA_WLAX_Team_Impact On Thursday, the Massachusetts Maritime Academy women's lacrosse team added its newest member, Team IMPACT's Arianna Gilmore. The Draft Day was sponsored by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Arianna signed an official Letter of Intent before her family and friends, cheered on by more than one hundred Buccaneer athletes. Tue, 24 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/MMA_WLAX_Team_Impact https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_4-23 Maria Woodall of Westfield State and Casey Sullivan of Massachusetts Maritime are the MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Player and Rookie of the Week honorees. Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_4-23 https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_4-16 Grace Gamache of Framingham State and Maria Woodall of Westfield State are the MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Co-Player of the Week while Emily Hiller of Bridgewater State is the Rookie of the Week. Mon, 16 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_4-16 https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_4-9 The Framingham State duo of Nicole Pacheco and Hanna McMahon are the MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Player and Rookie of the Week honorees. Mon, 09 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_4-9 https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/South_Coast_Gamache Grace Gamache scored 48 goals in 13 games for Framingham State last season. But she says she didn't play a college game at full health until Feb. 28 of this year. Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/South_Coast_Gamache https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_4-2 Bridgewater State's Victoria McDonough and Massachusetts Maritime's Casey Sullivan take home the MASCAC Player and Rookie of the Week honors. Mon, 02 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_4-2 https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/MASCAC_Made/Palombo_WLAX He had never coached before. His career was in the family lobster business in Sandwich, Mass. It wasn’t until his daughters began to play women’s lacrosse that Marc Palombo realized his love of the game into a career opportunity. Fri, 30 Mar 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/news/2017-18_News/MASCAC_Made/Palombo_WLAX https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_3-26 Worcester State's Alexis Vecchiarelli and Massachusetts Maritime's Anna Deely claim the MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Player and Rookie of the Week accolades. Mon, 26 Mar 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_3-26 https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_3-19 Framingham State's Grace Gamache and Fitchburg State's Sarah Napolitano grab the MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Player and Rookie of the Week honors after competing over spring break. Mon, 19 Mar 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_3-19 https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_3-12 Bridgewater State duo of Victoria McDonough and Emily Hiller are the MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Player and Rookie of the Week award winners. Mon, 12 Mar 2018 04:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_POW_3-12 https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_Weekly_Report_3-5 The Bridgewater State duo of Elizabeth Ettridge and Mackenzie Manning are the first MASCAC Women's Lacrosse Player and Rookie of the Week honorees of the year. Mon, 05 Mar 2018 05:00:00 GMT https://www.mascac.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/WLAX_Weekly_Report_3-5