Some MAC Magic

Cinnaminson's Makowski Is MAC Women's Lacrosse Player of Week

SELINSGROVE, (Pa.)— Susquehanna University junior attack wing Dana Makowski of Cinnamnson, N.J. (Cinnaminson High School) is the Middle Atlantic Conference Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week as she scored 16 points on six goals and 10 assists in the team's 3-0 week.

Five of those points came Saturday on two goals and three assists as the Crusaders won for a school-record ninth-straight time with a 12-7 win at Philadelphia Textile. That win also allowed this year's squad to break the school record for wins in a season, making them now 10-1 (Old Record: 9-7, 1997). Makowski also had two goals and three assists in an 18-11 win at MAC rival Messiah last Tuesday, and two goals and four assists in a 14-9 home win over Muhlenberg last Thursmday.

Last week's output allowed Makowski to regain the team lead in assists this season with 15 - ranking fifth in the MAC (1.36 per game) - leaving her just two shy of breaking her own single-season school record set last year with 16. She is third on the team in scoring, also recording 19 goals for 34 points (3.09 per game).

An MAC All-Star in each of her first two seasons, Makowski presently holds Susquehanna's school record for career assists with 32. She is also fourth in career goals and the school with 57, ranking third all-time in scoring with 89 points. The records in both goals and scoring are held by senior teammate Sandy Jenkin (Millersville, Md./Severna Park H.S.), who has 105 goals and 130 points respectively.

"I am so happy for Dana. She did a great job last week finding her teammates with some excellent passes for assists. She also scored some big goals herself when we needed them," said second-year Susquehanna head coach Gina Lucido, who has guided the team to its back-to-back school record seasons. Lucido has gone 19-8 (.704) the last two seasons since inheriting a Crusader program which went just 11-59 (.157) with no winning seasons during its first eight years.

Makowski is a human resource management major and the daughter of Alan and Mary Ann Makowski.

Also 4-0 and tied for first in the conference, the Crusaders will try and secure a spot in the MAC Championship Game when they host Lycoming (4-4, 1-3 MAC) Tuesday at 4 p.m. Susquehanna will host co-leader and five-time defending champion Drew (7-4, 3-0 MAC) in a potential showdown for the regular-season title Saturday at 1 p.m.

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