'MANSFIELD, CONN. 4/21/07 - The Keene State College women's lacrosse team dropped a 10-4 Little East Conferecne game to Eastern Conn. State Universityy in Mansfield, Conn. on Saturday. With the victory, Eastern (10-4, 5-0 LEC) clinches the top seed in next month's Little East Conference playoffs and will finish with at least a share of its first conference regular-season title.

Keene State (5-5, 3-2 LEC) got single goals from Michelle Mazzotta (Cromwell, Conn.), Lauren Cooper (Danbury, Conn.), Stephanie Georgevits (Concord, N.H.) and Meagan Moran (Derry, N.H.).

With Eastern trailing for the only time in the match, 3-2, Jenna Faiola tied the match on an assist from Kara Bradley midway through the first half, and put Eastern ahead for good 18 seconds later on a free-position goal. Faiola had three goals for Eastern.

"Although we lost, I thought we played well," said KSC Coach Michelle Mason.  "I saw a lot of improvement today."

Jen Gearing (Westfield, Mass.) finished the gave with 11 saves for the Owls.  Erin Calkins stopped 12 shots for ECSU.  

Jenna Faiola scored three times to give her a team-best 39 goals this year and move her to within one of her second straight 40-goal season.

For Keene, Merrill Simone  (West Hartford, Conn.) had nine ground balls, Melissa Gagnon (Saco, Me.) and Georgevits adding four each.

Keene State is at Castleton State on Thursday (4 p.m.)

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