Keely Laughlin’s standout final month of the regular season has been recognized by equestrian’s national body with the senior being named the National Collegiate Equestrian Association’s Rider of the Month for fences in March.
Laughlin becomes just the second Aggie ever to win an NCEA month award. Macey Newkirk was the last to do it in February 2021 for reining.
Competing in some of her final collegiate equestrian meets, Laughlin went 2-0 in fences in March and set her two highest career marks in the event in UC Davis two March competitions. She won 90-89 over Baylor on March 5 to set a new career-best and won 88-79 and was named MOP on March 12 against Fresno State.
Laughlin’s three fences MOPs this season is a program record in the event and she finishes her career with an overall event record of 17-14. Her five fences wins this season matches the program-best mark and she’ll leave UC Davis as the winningest fences rider in program history.
Laughlin will lead the Aggies at the ECAC Championships in Delaware, as they face South Dakota State in Thursday’s opening action.
UC Davis women’s beach volleyball
The UC Davis women’s beach volleyball team dropped a pair of duals to No. 8 Stanford on Monday afternoon at the UC Davis Beach Volleyball Courts. The Aggies fell by identical, 4-1 scores.
In the first match, Ashlee Goycoochea and Rose Holscher earned the lone Aggie win in thrilling fashion, downing Taylor Wilson and Emmy Sharp, 21-16, 14-21, 17-15.
In the second match, Tabitha Mitchell and Kylie Miller teamed up to down Maddie Dailey and Jordan McKinney, 21-23, 14-21, 10-15.
UC Davis will head to Long Beach for six matches this weekend, beginning with a dual against Hawai’i on Friday.
Aggie women’s lacrosse
BETHLEHEM, Penn. – UC Davis (4-4) scored six unanswered goals in the second half to turn around a one goal deficit and defeat Lehigh 13-11 on Tuesday.
Trailing 6-5 with 13:36 to go in the third quarter, the Aggies scored the next five goals in the third quarter and the first of the fourth to lead 11-6 with 11:59 remaining.
All but one of UC Davis’ goals during the stretch were unassisted. Grace Gebhardt scored her second and third goals of the game, Alex Agnew scored twice and assisted on a Regan Arkless power play goal. Ella Brislin scored her second of the game during the run.
Lehigh responded with two straight goals after which Brislin completed her hat trick to push the lead to 12-8. Another Lehigh goal was answered by Agnew’s third goal to again make it a four-score game at 13-9 with 5:30 to go. The Mountain Hawks scored twice more before the final horn but Brislin won the draw on the latter goal and later drew a foul and free position attempt to run off valuable time.
Agnew has now assisted in every game this season and has at least three assists in five of UC Davis’ eight games. Kendall Seifert took over the team lead with 17 goals on the season and has scored in every game with multi-goal efforts in all but one.
Following Saturday’s game at Villanova, the Aggies come home to take on Oregon on Saturday, April 9 at noon.
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