INDIANAPOLIS – Ursuline and Findlay both collected a share of Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Lacrosse Players of the Week honors for the seventh week of the season on Tuesday.
 
As winners of seven straight, Lake Erie (7-2, 5-0 G-MAC) has prime position at the top of the league standings to potentially host the conference championship. Findlay (9-2, 5-1 G-MAC) is a half game back of the Storm and only an overtime setback separates UF and LEC from first and second.
 
Both of the Oilers’ defeats have been by just one goal this spring. Walsh improved to 7-4 (4-2 G-MAC) over the past week while Ursuline (4-5, 2-2 G-MAC) scored a win over defending tourney champ Alderson Broaddus to maintain its current spot of fourth in the standings.
 
Offensive Player of the Week
Cydney Bartlett
Ursuline
Midfield
Senior
Portland, OR (Clackamas HS)
 
Bartlett tallied 17 points in a pair of Arrows’ wins as the conference’s career leading point scorer added to her impressive totals.
 
Bartlett now has 139 goals and 48 assists since her sophomore year in 2016, the first year of the sport’s existence within the Great Midwest. The 187 total points places her at the top of the record books in all three career statistical categories.
 
She also went over the 150-goal career milestone earlier this spring.
 
Bartlett scored six goals and had three assists against Davis & Elkins and scored seven times with one more assist against Alderson Broaddus.
 
On the week, she had 13 goals on 22 shots and 19 of those shots were on goal. Ursuline outscored both league opponents by a combined tally of 41-21.
 
Bartlett’s season totals are now up to 35 goals and 14 assists for the season. Her 49 points is tied for the league lead with Lake Erie’s Anna Spin
 
Defensive Player of the Week
Brittany Stephens
Findlay
Defense
Sophomore
Owen Sound, Ontario (West Hill HS)
 
Stephens racked up her second conference weekly honor on the defensive field as the Oilers blanked Ohio Valley and defeated Walsh in the conference schedule.
 
Findlay only permitted three total goals combined in both contests as the offensive outscored OVU and Walsh by a combined score of 32-3.
 
Stephens accumulated nine ground balls and caused seven turnovers in the pair of Findlay wins.
 
She has started all 11 possible games for the Oilers and has 29 ground balls and 18 caused turnovers this year.
 
Findlay has allowed only 59 goals scored against the defense this spring, tops in the conference, along with league-leading numbers of caused turnovers per game (13.55).