ELMIRA, N.Y. -- Senior student-athletes
Lindsay Wargo '17 of the women's lacrosse team and
Emily Carlin '17 of the softball team were named Elmira College Athlete of the Week following their record performances last week.
Wargo capped off her collegiate career by breaking the EC women's lacrosse career saves record, which was set 10 years ago by Malorie Stockwell '07. The Madison, Connecticut, native made a combined 15 saves in two starts against St. John Fisher College and Houghton College, bringing her four-year total to 383, eclipsing Stockwell's total by two.
In the final home game of her Elmira career on April 26 against the Cardinals, Wargo registered 11 saves, marking the seventh game of the 2017 season in which she has reached double figures. Then on April 29 in Houghton, New York, the 5-foot-5-inch goalie made four saves in an overtime loss to the Highlanders.
This season the senior netminder accumulated 131 saves, a figure that ranks sixth in the program's all-time record book. Wargo will leave Elmira with two of the top-six single-season save totals, as the 155 rejections she made as a sophomore in 2015 ranks fourth. Wargo's name has been solidified in several other categories as well, as she finishes her career fifth in wins (11) and sixth in goals-against average (13.65).
Carlin repeats as an EC Athlete of the Week honoree following a stellar performance in the final week of the softball team's 2017 season. The Purple and Gold went 2-2 in their final four games, which included an 11-2 victory and a 6-5 walk-off win in a sweep of Empire 8 Conference rival Houghton on April 26. For the week, the fourth-year standout utility player batted .417 (5-for-12) with a team-leading five RBIs and a .667 slugging percentage. She was also spotless on defense, as she posted a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage on 17 total chances. In the pitcher's circle, Carlin earned both wins against the Highlanders and she finished the week with team bests in ERA (4.61), innings (13.2) and strikeouts (3).
The Riverside, California, native had a day to remember in EC's 11-2 victory over Houghton in the opening game of the twin bill. She drove in a pair of runs with a base knock in the second inning, and then in the fourth she launched a three-run bomb over the fence in left field. In addition to establishing a new career high with five RBIs in the game, Carlin's home run moved her into a two-way tie with Erin Pruess '12 for first-place all-time in program history with 13 career homers. Carlin tossed a complete game for the Soaring Eagles in the matinee, scattering seven hits across 5.0 innings of work while surrendering two unearned runs. She then pitched 2.2 relief innings in the nightcap, recording the game's only strikeout en route to the win.
In the final series of the season at Lycoming, Carlin hurled a six-inning complete game with two strikeouts in game one, while going a combined 2-for-5 with a walk at the dish. Her two-hit effort in the late game allowed the senior to end her collegiate career on a 19-game on-base streak, the longest such streak by a Soaring Eagle in over a dozen years. Along with her home run record, Carlin will graduate this summer fifth all-time in slugging percentage (.522), seventh in on-base percentage (.390), and 10th in runs driven in (51).
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