Ersek, who also captained the field hockey team in the fall, nabbed second-team all-Ivy honors last season by netting 15 goals and scooping up 26 ground balls.

Joslin, a three-sport athlete, was the third leading scorer in 1987 with 32 goals and 11 assists. Her performance placed her second in the voting for Ivy League Rookie of the Year.

Everling and De Horatius also had impressive rookie campaigns scoring 15 and four goals, respectively.

Junior Katie McAnaney and sophomore Maggie Vaughan will lead the defense. McAnaney, who was an All-America Honorable Mention, and Vaughan, who claimed first-team All-Ivy and the Rookie of the Year honors, should be helped by the experienced play of junior Lisi Balliere and sophomore Julia French.

"Attack is our strength, but the defense is also strong," Kleinfelder said.

Junior Kelly Dermody anchors the team for the third year in the Crimson cage. Dermody allowed only 19 goals in four Ivy League contests last spring.

So far this year, the team seems ready to pick up where it left off. Two weeks ago, the team went to Virginia to compete in the William and Mary Tournament. There, it played 11 games, each 25 minutes long, where the purpose was not to win, but rather to get some playing experience before the official opener against Penn.

"We started off slow, but finished strong," said Kleinfelder.

The experience the team gathered in that tournament should be helpful, since the Crimson did not have much time to relax after the weekend.

"The first four or five games are really big," said Groome.

Saturday, the women went to Penn and defeated the Quakers, 7-5.

The team plays host to Princeton, this Saturday, before the team heads off to Baltimore, the hotbed of lacrosse, to play Loyola College. Five days later, the squad faces Temple, the second-best team in the nation last year.

While the Owls may be unbeatable in basketball this year, the Crimson has a pretty good shot at pulling an upset over Temple.

"They are not as strong as they have been in the past," Groome said. "Penn played them twice already and lost once by a goal and tied the second time."

Harvard will also face Maryland--a solid lacrosse program--this year before closing out its season with Dartmouth 1988 WOMEN'S LACROSSE SCHEDULE

March Sat. 26  PRINCETON Tue. 29  at Loyola

April Fri. 1  at Trenton State Sat. 2  at Temple Sun. 3  BOSTON COLLEGE Tue. 12  at Vermont Fri. 15  UMASS Sun. 17  CORNELL Mon. 18  SOUTH AUSTRALIA Wed. 20  BROWN Sat. 23  at Yale Sun. 24  MARYLAND Tue. 26  at Dartmouth Sat. 30  at UNH

May Fri. 6  ECAC Sat. 7  ECAC