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Lindsay Finocchiaro and Jaclyn Murphy share a special bond.

Friends of Jaclyn Step Up to Raise Funds, Awareness

3/22/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse

March 22, 2007

Northwestern Lacrosse Visits Maria Fareri Children's Hospital - Photos

Northwestern's and Massachusetts' women's lacrosse teams will take the field Friday. The defending champions will be heavy favorites over a rebuilding UMass team that picked up its first national ranking since 1999 last week.

But even though the game is still days away, we already know who the winner will be: Jaclyn Murphy, a 12-year-old who was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a childhood brain cancer, at the age of 10.

Click here for the full story on ESPN.com.

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