If there were a most valuable player award in lacrosse, it would be hard to find anyone who is more valuable to their team than Siena Gore. And despite the loss to Butler, that was in full effect on Saturday. She had an absurd 24.8% play share, winning 11 draws and adding 2 ground balls to her 9 goals on 14 shots. 7 of the 9 goals were unassisted.

The issue is that she took over half of their shots and as a team, they committed 19 turnovers. When someone is far and away the most valuable player on your team, that’s typically not the best thing for a well-rounded offense.

She was back at it again against Yale. 7 goals plus a season-high 14 draw controls. And just one turnover.

The interesting thing for the BC offense is that North’s play share is still just 12.4% for the season, which is the lowest mark in her three years with the team. Her teammates are doing more and she’s having to shoulder less of the burden. The net effect is that she’s been more efficient and the offense has been better than last year.

Big game against UNC this weekend to settle who is #1, at least temporarily.

45 goals! You don’t often see a team score 18 and lose as decisively as SDSU did against Princeton. This is now back-to-back weeks that Balsama has gone off with her 2nd consecutive 8-goal game, this time on just 10 shots.

When I look at her 2022, ball security is the thing that stands out.

There is no doubt that Cordingley has had one of the best seasons of any Terp in recent memory so far.

UConn has reached [No]20 in the most recent LaxElo ratings. With an 1858 rating, this appears to be the peak Elo rating that program has ever achieved.

And Watson wasn’t the only Husky to make the list this week. LaPrise makes her first even appearance on the weekly top-EGA list with a career-high 9 point effort. And it was a very efficient performance; those 7 goals came on just 9 shots. She did have 2 turnovers, and that’s been the issue for her this year. She’s averaging 2.43 TOs / game. That puts her in the 8th percentile nationally for ball security.

With the strides she’s made this year with respect to shooting accuracy, you’d love to see her take better care of the ball and become a true partner-in-crime with Watson.

Always fun to see freshmen show up on this list. So far in 2022, she’s behind just Sophie Student for the team lead in play share. And here’s a fun stat for you. Vergano has taken 51 shots and 49 of them have been on goal. Not 49%. 49. That’s a 96% SOG rate.

And on Tuesday against Furman, it was more of the same. 6 goals on 10 shots. Keep an eye on Vergano in the coming years.

Wofford’s defense is ranked 113th. Still 25 goals against anybody is impressive. And Liquori was the most productive of the bunch for UML. 4 goals on 7 shots plus 2 assists was a full stat sheet.

The question for the team is how do you replicate that against better defenses. Quinnipiac made her more one-dimensional and she ended up committing 5 turnovers in that loss. Adaptability is as important as skills/production.

So far in 2022, O’Donnell’s player efficiency (usage-adjusted-EGA) has seen one of the largest jumps of any qualified player in Division I Women’s lacrosse. She ended 2021 with a 32 (out of 100) efficiency rating. This year? 77.

You love to see it.

There are 2 metrics that go into the model that produces this list: total EGA and usage-adjusted-EGA. Most of the time, a player will have scored a ton and maybe had some turnovers, but not enough to keep them off the list. In almost every instance, the EGA value is higher than the uaEGA. Despite incorporating efficiency into the model this year, this list is still normally about overall production.

Kelsey Huff broke the mold. Her uaEGA rating for this game was 5.46. That is the 19th highest uaEGA of any player, men’s or women’s this year in a game with at least 4 points scored.