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EAST STROUDSBURG - Senior midfielder Chessie Rahmer was named to the All-PSAC women's lacrosse first team for the second straight year and is joined by two freshmen on the first team, attack Krista Mitarotonda - named PSAC Freshman of the Year - and defender Kayleigh Pokrivka, leading six East Stroudsburg University representatives on the 2018 all-conference squad released Thursday.

ESU (13-2, 11-1), the defending PSAC champion, has won nine straight games entering this weekend's PSAC Final Four at West Chester. The Warriors face Mercyhurst in the semifinals on Friday at 4 p.m.

The trio of first-team selections are accompanied by junior midfielder Emma Rufolo, last year's PSAC Athlete of the Year, on the second team and sophomore midfielder Hana Cicerelle and sophomore goalkeeper Tatyana Petteway on the third team. Petteway was named first team goalkeeper and Freshman of the Year last spring.

ESU is the PSAC's No. 2 seed, with its only conference loss to unbeaten West Chester (17-0). The Warriors won the PSAC regular season title last year with an identical 11-1 conference record and had eight all-conference selections.

Rahmer (Salfordville, Pa./Souderton), returning IWLCA All-America third team from last year's team that went 17-3 with the first PSAC championship and NCAA Division II Tournament appearance in program history, becomes the seventh Warrior named two-time first team All-PSAC.

Rahmer has 39 goals and six assists, including 22 goals in the last six games (and 13 in the last three games), and ranks tied for sixth at ESU in career goals (136) and 10th in points (164) entering the postseason. She also ranks second on the Warriors in caused turnovers (30) and draw controls (58) and third in ground balls (47) after ranking second in all three categories as a junior, when she led ESU with 50 goals and 60 points.

Mitarotonda (Rockaway, N.J./Morris Knolls) ranks fourth in the PSAC in goals (3.67 per game) and has shattered ESU freshman records for goals (55) and points (63). She is closing in on the PSAC freshman record of 69 goals set by Shippensburg's Cameron Colbert in 1999.

Mitarotonda has scored at least three goals in 10 of her 15 games with three six-goal games, including ESU's 19-14 win vs. Mercyhurst on April 21. She has scored at least four goals in seven of the Warriors' 12 PSAC games, and also leads ESU and ranks fifth in the PSAC in draw controls per game (81 - 5.07).

Pokrivka (York, Pa./York Catholic) is a first team All-PSAC defender as a freshman, ranking second in the PSAC in caused turnovers per game (43 - 2.87) and eighth in ground balls per game (54 - 3.60). She had seven caused turnovers and seven ground balls in a 9-7 win at Slippery Rock on March 31, the first victory in the current nine-game winning streak, and had five caused turnovers in the first match-up vs. Mercyhurst.

Rufolo (Woodstock, Md./Chapelgate Christian Academy) is second team All-PSAC after being named Athlete of the Year last spring, her first at ESU after transferring from Gardner-Webb. She has 29 goals and eight assists following a 34-goal, 17-assist season in 2017 and continues to rank among ESU's leaders in ground balls (1st - 55), caused turnovers (3rd - 24) and draw controls (3rd - 25).

Two standout sophomores in Cicerelle and Petteway are on the third team.

Cicerelle (Broadway, N.J./Warren Hills) is ESU's second-leading goal scorer and point producer with 39 goals and 15 assists in a breakout season. She has six games of four-plus goals, including five in a 17-12 win vs. Lock Haven and four in a 14-7 loss at West Chester. She produced 26 goals and 13 assists in 20 games as a freshman on last year's PSAC championship team.

Petteway (Nanuet, N.Y./Albertus Magnus) is second in the PSAC and fourth in DII in save percentage (.543) - a better mark than the .532 percentage that ranked second in DII last year, when she was IWLCA All-America third team as a freshman.

Her standout games include nine saves and three goals against in the 9-7 win at Slippery Rock, 18 saves in a 14-7 win at Gannon for a .720 save percentage, 12 saves in a 17-5 win at Bloomsburg and 11 saves in ESU's 17-7 win at No. 7 LIU Post last Saturday.

ESU has three first team All-PSAC selections for the third straight year - the first time since 2000 (under a single-division format) that the Warriors have had three on the first team.

The Warriors are 42-10 in their third season under head coach Xeni Barakos-Yoder - who was third team All-PSAC at defender as a senior in 2011 - including 30-5 the last two years, and 22-2 in PSAC regular season action (24-2 vs. PSAC overall).


2-time All-PSAC 1st team
Chessie Rahmer - 2017-18
Molly O'Hara - 2010-11
Michelle Mangiaruga - 2009-10
Renee Maniscalco - 2006-07
Kristin Restivo - 1999-00
Megan Macauley - 1998, 2000
Ann Clifton - 1985-86

Rookie of the Year
2018 - Krista Mitarotonda
2017 - Tatyana Petteway
2002 - Leah Quigley
1997 - Kristin Restivo
1994 - Mary Cahill


2018 All-PSAC Awards
Athlete of the Year - Emily Bitka, Slippery Rock
Freshman of the Year - Krista Mitarotonda, ESU
Coach of the Year - Ginny Martino, West Chester


1st Team
A - Ally Burrows, IUP
A - Taylor Izzo, Mercyhurst
A - Sabrina Fusco, Millersville
A - Krista Mitarotonda, ESU
M - Kristin Anderson, Mercyhurst
M - Sami Barnett, West Chester
M - Chessie Rahmer, ESU
M - Maggie Stella, West Chester
D - Valerie Hertz, Shippensburg
D - Kira Kolb, Mercyhurst
D - Kayleigh Pokrivka, ESU
D - Molly Reinhart, West Chester
GK - Emily Bitka, Slippery Rock

2nd Team
A - Tatum Altman, West Chester
A - Kristen Butzner, Millersville
A - Adriana Greco, IUP
A - Hayley Killian, Lock Haven
M - Leilani King, Gannon
M - Alex O'Herrick, Lock Haven
M - Emma Rufolo, ESU
M - Tia Torchia, Slippery Rock
D - Tiffany Diachynsky, Bloomsburg
D - Mollie Gallagher, IUP
D - Rachel Shaw, Slippery Rock
D - Natalie Sukanick, Millersville
GK - Angela DiPasquale, Bloomsburg

3rd Team
A - Katie Costanza, Lock Haven
A - Callie Kavanaugh, Millersville
A - Dana Laulis, Lock Haven
A - Tara Morrissey, West Chester
M - Hana Cicerelle, ESU
M - Ashley Gochenaur, Lock Haven
M - Katie Martyn, IUP
M - Drew McKinney, West Chester
D - Devon Fitzpatrick, Kutztown
D - Jasa Lorah, Millersville
D - Brenna Lynch, West Chester
D - Abby Nocito, Bloomsburg
GK - Tatyana Petteway, ESU