The Syracuse women’s lacrosse team made it through a weekend in California unscathed, as it recorded wins over No. 17 Stanford and California.The Orange topped Stanford, 15-10, Friday behind the strength of a second-half hat trick by junior attack Christina Dove. She finished with four goals, leading all scorers and moved into second place on the all-time SU scoring list, finishing the game with 129 goals in her career. After going into halftime with the score tied at eight, the Orange outscored the Cardinal, 7-2, in the second half to secure the win.Sunday, the Orange ventured 40 miles north to take on California. Syracuse scored eight goals in the first nine minutes and was never challenged as it went on to win, 18-2. SU senior attack Katie Rowan led the way with eight points and five goals. Seven different Syracuse players scored in the game.The Orange is now 3-0 on the season. It will take that record back to the Carrier Dome when it hosts No. 4 Virginia on Friday.

Track and FieldSyracuse men’s track and field finished the Big East championships in fourth place, the team’s best finish in 16 years. The women’s team finished in 13th place.On the men’s side, junior Michael LeBlanc led the way by winning the 60-meter dash. LeBlanc ran a 6.77, six hundredths of a second off of the meet record he ran in 2007. Sophomore Shamel Lewis was right behind, finishing in second place with a 6.82. The Orange placed four sprinters in the top eight of that event.Ramon Sosa also recorded a Big East title, winning the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.87 seconds. Syracuse had two more runners-up on the men’s side: Jon Buice in the heptathalon, compiling 5,399 points, and distance runner Kyle Heath in the 3,000-meter run.For the women, Flings Owusu-Agyapong finished second in the 60-meter dash and Uhunoma Osazuwa placed fourth in the pentathalon.

Swimming and Diving

Syracuse swimming and diving wrapped up its regular season by breaking seven school records at the Big East swimming and diving championships. As a team, Syracuse did not finish in the top six on either the men’s or the women’s side (full results were not available).SU sophomore Kuba Kotynia qualified for the NCAA championship meet by swimming a 1:57.75 in the 200-yard breaststroke. The time qualified for the championships as an NCAA ‘B’ cut and broke the Syracuse school record set in 2006 by Luk Boral. Kotynia is the lone SU swimmer who will venture to NCAA’s, which start on March 26. He finished in fourth place at the conference meet.Kotynia also set the school record in the 100 breaststroke with a NCAA ‘B’ of 56.17. Catrina Roth broke her own 100 backstroke record and teamed up on a record-breaking 400 medley relay. The men’s team set the school record in the same event, while the Orange women set records in the 800-yard freestyle relay and the 200 medley relay.

– compiled by Kyle Austin, sports editor