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Six Women's Lacrosse Players Earn Northeast-10 All-Conference Recognition

Six Women's Lacrosse Players Earn Northeast-10 All-Conference Recognition

WALTHAM, Mass. – Six student-athletes from the Bentley University women's lacrosse team earned Northeast-10 All-Conference recognition, it was announced on Thursday.

Maeve Johnson (Duxbury, Mass./Duxbury), Caroline Affolter (Newburyport, Mass./Central Catholic) and Kathryn Slattery (Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford) were each named second team All-Conference.

Sydney Lynch (Bedford, N.H./Bedford) and Kenzie Lupton (Canandaigua, N.Y. / Canandaigua Academy) were voted third team All-Conference and Natalia Dutkewych (Harvard, Mass./Bromfield) was picked to the All-Rookie team.

Johnson had a huge regular season for the Falcons. She led the team with 46 goals and was tied for second in assists with 13. Her 59 points led the squad and she also pulled down 58 draw controls to rank third on the team.

Johnson was named to the NE10 Weekly Honor Roll four times. She recorded her 100th career point on April 26 against Saint Anselm, in just her 31st career game, and she notched 10 points on March 5 against Southern Connecticut. That was just one shy of the program single-game record.

Affolter earned second team recognition as a midfielder. She ranked fourth on the team with 26 goals and fifth in points with 32. She led the Falcons with 64 draw controls and ranked third with 15 caused turnovers.

Slattery was a defensive anchor for the Falcons and was named to the second team for the second straight season. She started all 16 regular season games and tallied 16 caused turnovers and 25 ground balls.

Lynch, a midfielder, displayed her all-around game by scoring 17 goals and snagging 63 draw controls and 17 caused turnovers. She led the team in CTs, was second in draw controls and second in ground balls with 27.

An attacker, Lupton exploded in her senior season with 38 goals which far surpassed her previous career high for a season and was the second most on the team. She also notched nine assists for 47 points during the regular season. Lupton was named to the NE10 Weekly Honor on April 24 after she scored four goals in Bentley's road win over Adelphi on April 18.

Dutkewych had nine goals and five assists in 15 regular-season games as a freshman. A midfielder, she also collected 18 draw controls, 10 ground balls and six caused turnovers. She was named the NE10 Rookie of the Week on March 27 after she scored the overtime goal in Bentley's 14-13 win over Assumption.

Bentley went 10-6 in the regular season and 8-4 in the NE10 to earn the No. 4 seed. They suffered an 11-10 defeat to Saint Anselm in the NE10 quarterfinals on Tuesday.