March 23, 2006
Box Score
EVANSTON, Ill. - Senior Lindsey Munday (Sr., Mountain Lakes, N.J./Mountain Lakes) became Northwestern's all-time assist leader this afternoon as the top-ranked Wildcats made California its 28th straight victim in the 16-5 win today in Berkeley, Calif. Munday came into the game needing three to break the record and topped that with a four-goal, four-assist effort.
The win improves NU to 7-0 on the season while Cal falls to 4-4.
Munday passes Maureen Mullen who tallied 92 assists from 1986-89. She also became just the fourth Wildcat to record 200 career points.
Kristen Kjellman (Jr., Westwood, Mass./Westwood) also had four goals to go with two assists while Laura Glassanos (Sr., Hingham, Mass./Thayer Academy) added three.
It was all Wildcats from the get-go. After Cal's Madeleine Dale tied the game at 1-1 five minutes in, NU scored five straight goals in the span of 10 minutes, including three straight from Munday. Westwood, Mass. natives Meredith Frank and Kjellman added the other two goals as the Wildcats led 6-1 with 12 minutes left in the first.
California hung tough, scoring two more goals before halftime, but consecutive goals by Glassanos and Aly Josephs (Jr., Reiterstown, Md./Franklin) in the final two minutes gave NU a 10-3 lead at halftime.
It wasn't until the second period that Munday started finding her teammates as she tallied all four of her assists after halftime. She found Kjellman for the first goal of the half just over seven minutes in. She later assisted on a goal by freshman Hannah Nielsen (Fr., Adelaide, Austrailia/Brighton Secondary) to tie the record before breaking it with 11:55 left when she assisted on Kjellman's third goal of the game. She then added her fourth just over a minute later on Kjellman's fourth tally.
Josephs, the reigning ALC Player of the Week, finished with two goals and one assist while Nielsen, Frank and Lindsay Finocchiaro (Jr., Fairfield, N.J./West Essex) all had one.
Morgan Lathrop (Fr., Briarcliff, N.Y./The Hackley School) recorded 12 saves and allowed five goals in her 55:49 of action before giving way to Abby Bangser (So., West Hartford, Conn./Conrad) who tallied two saves in the final four minutes.
Dale led the Bears with two goals and Hilary Lynch had 10 saves between the pipes.
The Wildcats remain in the San Francisco area and will face 18th-ranked Stanford at 3 p.m. CT Saturday in Palo Alto, Calif.
Game Notes: NU's 28-game win streak is the longest current streak in the country ... NU has outscored Cal 34-11 over the last two meetings ... Kjellman's two assists ties her for third all-time on the all-time assists list with 61 ... In only her junior season, Kjellman is now two points away from becoming the fifth Wildcat all-time to record 200 points ... NU has now outscored the opposition 120-48 on the year.