Mount Ida junior midfielder Brooke Scahill was named as the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Corvias Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week on Monday afternoon after netting 33 points and setting a pair of school records in a trio of Mustang victories last week.
A native of Gales Ferry, Conn. and a graduate of Ledyard High School, Scahill scored 14 goals and added 19 assists in the three contests, including a school-record 13 point performance that included five tallies and a school single-match mark eight assists in a 23-12 win over Wheelock last Thursday evening. Brooke collected six goals and six helpers for a 12-point effort in last Tuesday’s 18-9 victory over Emmanuel, and she capped off the week with a hat trick and five assists for eight points in last Saturday’s 15-10 triumph over Lasell.
Scahill has netted 38 goals and 29 assists for 67 points in just nine outings to date for Mount Ida, as she ranks fifth nationally in NCAA Division III play in both points (7.44) and assists (3.22) per game and is ranked second in free position goals at 2.33 per contest. After collecting 75 total points in 19 matches a year ago, Brooke is just eight points shy of reaching that mark halfway through the 2018 campaign and enters the week seven goals shy of reaching the century mark for her career.
Scahill becomes the second straight Mustang to earn GNAC Player of the Week accolades, as junior midfielder Alyssa Kelly (Lee, Mass./Lee) copped the honor last Monday. Kelly netted 22 goals and 26 points in the three contests played this past week and leads Mount Ida in scoring with 54 goals and 26 assists for 80 points, as she is ranked third in NCAA Division III play in points per game (8.89) and fourth in goals per game (6.00). Scahill and Kelly have combined for 92 goals and 55 assists for 147 points this season, accounting for 62 percent of the Mustangs’ total offense.
Head Coach Nicole Poli’s squad, which stands at 8-1 overall and is tied atop the GNAC standings with Johnson & Wales at 4-0, brings a school-record tying seven-match winning streak into Tuesday night’s home conference clash with Simmons at Alumni Field that begins at 6:00 pm EDT.