MOUNT VERNON, Iowa -- With 11 different players figuring in the scoring, the Augsburg College women's lacrosse team clinched a berth in the Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference playoffs with a 17-3 win at Cornell College on Friday evening at Ash Park Stadium.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 17, Cornell (Iowa) 3
LOCATION: Ash Park Stadium, Mount Vernon, Iowa
RECORDS: Augsburg 10-6 overall (5-3 MWLC), Cornell 1-14 overall (1-8 MWLC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Augsburg scored the first seven goals of the game and led 8-1 at halftime. Cornell scored the first goal of the second half, but Augsburg then scored eight straight goals to take a commanding lead.
• In its first season in MWLC competition, the Auggies clinched a berth in the four-team MWLC playoffs, to be held at Concordia-Wisconsin next weekend.
• Helena Nguyen (SO, Maple Grove, Minn.) scored three goals and added an assist, while Ashley Pettipiece (SO, Mounds View, Minn./Irondale HS) scored three goals.
• Sheala Osborne (FY, West St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall HS) scored two goals with an assist, four ground balls and a draw control. Christina Nelson (FY, Bloomington, Minn./Kennedy HS) scored two goals with three ground balls, three draw controls and two caused turnovers, and Rachel Frantz (JR, Mounds View, Minn./Irondale HS) scored two goals with an assist, ground ball, caused turnover and two draw controls.
• Izzy Snow (FY, Golden Valley, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong HS) scored a goal with two assists, a ground ball, caused turnover and two draw controls. Jesse Heusinkveld (SO, Mound, Minn./Mound-Westonka HS), Rosalyn Zirngible (SR, Eau Claire, Wis./Eau Claire North HS), Shelby Brion (SR, Clearwater, Minn./Monticello HS) and Lexi Halvorson (JR, Lakeville, Minn./Lakeville South HS) also scored goals, with Dezera Sieracki (JR, Wyoming, Minn./Centennial HS) adding an assist. Heusinkveld added three ground balls, two draw controls and a caused turnover.
• Goalie Marissa Guillou (SO, Burnsville, Minn./Apple Valley HS) had five saves and four ground balls.
• Augsburg outshot Cornell by a 30-13 margin, had 27 ground balls to Cornell's 20, and had 13 draw controls to Cornell's nine. Augsburg also converted 19-of-24 clearing attempts, compared to 13-of-21 for Cornell.

FOR THE FOES
• Raisa Ebner scored two goals with four ground balls, and Sydney Cooper scored a goal with four draw controls.
• Vaughn Zittle had five ground balls and two draw controls.
• Dana Kuenzi had eight saves in goal for Cornell.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg finishes its regular season on Saturday (4/30) at 2 p.m. with an MWLC game at Loras (Iowa).