Women's Lacrosse | 4/21/2017 3:19:00 PM

Greeneville, Tenn.----The Wingate University women's lacrosse team finishes the 2017 regular season when they face the Tusculum College Pioneers in South Atlantic Conference women's lacrosse action from Pioneer Field Saturday. First draw control is slated for a 12 noon start. The Bulldogs look to bounce back and enter the post-season on a strong note after falling to eighth-ranked Queens University of Charlotte Wednesday night.
 
Wingate is 11-4 overall and 5-2 in the SAC, while Tusculum is 5-10 and 3-4 in league play. The Bulldogs currently sit in a three-way tie for second place in the league standings with Coker and Lenoir-Rhyne. Regular season champion Queens remains is 13-3 overall and 7-0 in conference action.
 
WU senior attack Brittany Andrews (Bel Air, Md.) leads the team with 71 total points (57 goals, 14 assists). Andrews is second in the SAC and seventh in the nation with her 2017 goal total. She also ranks sixth in the nation with 4.07 goals per contest.
 
Bulldogs senior midfielder Paulena Dempsey (Jarrettsville, Md.) is second on the WU team charts with 59 points (37 goals, 20 assists). Dempsey's assist total ranks fourth overall in the SAC standings. Redshirt junior attack Shannon O'Neal (Severna Park, Md.) is second on the Bulldogs with 42 goals, while posting back-to-back four-goal performances versus Brevard and Queens.
 
Wingate freshman attack/midfielder Kendall Wells (Elkridge, Md.) has tallied 19 goals, while freshman midfielder Casey Roux (Rochester, N.Y.) has contributed 12 tallies. Freshman attack Joanna King (Lancaster, Pa.) ranks third on the team with 11 total assists, along with adding six total goals.
 
WU sophomore goalkeeper Arion Pierre (Haymarket, Va.) has started 15-of-15 games in the cage, posting 126 total saves which ranks fourth in the league. Pierre is first in the league and eighth in the nation with a 50.6 save percentage. Pierre is also third in the SAC with 9.29 goals-against average. She posted 12 saves in the previous contest versus Queens.
 
Tusculum junior midfielder Madison Malone (Maple Grove, Minn.) leads the Pioneers with 64 total points (20 goals, 44 assists). Malone leads the SAC with her assist total. Junior attack Savannah Elliott (Oshawa, Ontario) tops the Pioneer scoring charts with 40 total tallies.
 
Pioneer sophomore attack Rachel Holmes (Norcross, Ga.) has tallied 26 scores, while fellow sophomore attack Hayley Bartlett (Peterborough, Ontario) contributes 23 total goals on the season. Malone and freshman midfielder Emily Gleason (Brentwood, Tenn.) have posted 20 goals each.
 
Wingate ranks third in the SAC with 203 goals scored as a team, while Tusculum is seventh with 171. Tusculum is third overall with 87 team assists and Wingate fifth with 78 total assists. The Bulldogs are listed at third in the league with 13.53 goals per game.
 
WINGATE UNIVERSITY
 
Wingate University, consistently ranked as a top 10 "best value" in the South by U.S. News & World Report, serves more than 3,200 students on three campuses in Wingate, Charlotte and Hendersonville, N.C. Founded in 1896, the University offers 35 undergraduate majors, 35 minors, 12 career concentrations, nine pre-professional programs, master's degrees in accounting, business, education, physician assistant studies and sport management and doctorates in education, pharmacy and physical therapy.
 
With a 14 to 1 student/teacher ratio, Wingate students gain the tools and support needed to excel in academics and apply that learning toward an extraordinary career and life. To view current news, video and story ideas, visit www.youtube.com/wingateuniversity. 
 
In addition to a robust intramural athletics program, Wingate student athletes compete in 22 NCAA Division II sports. The University has won the South Atlantic Conference Echols Athletic Excellence Award for the past 10 years. For more information, go to www.wingate.edu.
 
Wingate is first among NCAA Division II Academic All-America®-producing colleges in the 2000's with 88 selections. Among North Carolina's colleges and universities, Wingate is number one in this millennium with 88 Academic All-America® honorees. Wingate is tops among all SAC schools with 97 lifetime Academic All-America® picks. For more information on WU athletics, go to www.wingatebulldogs.com.
 
(Wingate University athletic media relations/sports network student assistant Jackson Kaplan contributed this article. A sophomore from Raleigh, Kaplan is a Communication Studies major at Wingate.)