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WILTON -- Sammi Blicht wasn't sure whom she liked better -- Benjamin Franklin or John Marshall.

So she chose both.

The Wilton High School senior girls lacrosse defender announced that she had applied to, and was accepted to Franklin & Marshall University in Lancaster, Penn.

Blicht will also play girls lacrosse for the team, which is ranked No. 5 in the country in Division 3 heading into this spring.

"It's funny because that was a question on the (2011 application) supplement -- if you could sit down and have dinner, who it be with? Benjamin Franklin or John Marshall?" Blicht said. "I don't know who I would have picked."

Blicht -- who is the fifth Wilton girls player to publically announce their choice of school -- selected Franklin & Marshall because of the small school environment she found on her visit.

"It was like a big family and the whole school was like that, too," Blicht said. "When I went to one of the classes, the teacher knew everybody's name, so I liked the fact that you're not just a number."

Once she knew F&M was the school for her, she looked into the women's lacrosse program. When the women's lacrosse program looked into Blicht, the interest was mutual.

"I had to choose it for the school and not the sport, but I loved the atmosphere," Blicht said. "I was lucky enough to be recruited by them and I met the team and that was nice, too."

The challenge of playing at a higher level also excites the fleet-footed Wilton defender, who is expected to play midfield in college, albeit a defensive-minded one.

"They fix my academics and they have a good lacrosse program," she said. "I'm excited to make it to the higher level of play."

Blicht joins classmate Elizabeth Reda, who has decided to attend Endicott College as a lacrosse player instead of a soccer goalkeeper, in playing at the next level.

Also, juniors Casey Pearsall (Notre Dame), Tegan Helms (Columbia) and Megan Boepple (Loyola-Maryland) have all verbally committed to play at the Division 1 level, as well.

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