DURHAM, N.H.  – The No. 16 Stony Brook women's lacrosse team earned its seventh-straight America East regular-season title on Sunday afternoon, taking down New Hampshire by a score of 17-5 to go a perfect 7-0 in conference play.
 
The league sweep marks the fifth year in a row that the Seawolves have gone undefeated in conference play and earns the program its eighth-ever regular-season championship.
 
QUOTING HEAD COACH Joe Spallina
"You come into the season with goals and expectations and we spoke about how hosting and being the top seed is a goal and very much an expectation as we prepared for this game. Our team handled today's game which was for first place with tremendous professionalism and focus. We spoke about having to win today for our seniors to have more games at home in LaValle. Overall, we came out focused and jumped all over a good New Hampshire team. We'll enjoy today but all of our focus has already turned to UMBC and playing another one in LaValle."
 
HIGHLIGHTS

• Stony Brook shut out New Hampshire in the first half, taking a 16-0 lead heading into the locker room.
• The Seawolves' first 11 goals of the contest came in the first 14 minutes of action.
• Taryn Ohlmiller (Islip, N.Y.) paced the squad with five points from two goals and a trio of assists.
• Ally Kennedy (North Babylon, N.Y.) led all players with four goals on the day to tally 68 on the season.
• Siobhan Rafferty (Long Beach, N.Y.) and Sarah Pulis (Baldwin, N.Y.) each netted hat tricks in the first half with Pulis' three scores and four total points marking a career high.
• Keri McCarthy (Hauppauge, N.Y.) had a pair of goals herself and Rayna Sabella (Mount Sinai, N.Y.), Sabrina Tabasso (Lower Merion, Pa.) and Kasey Mitchell (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.) all got on the board as well.

NOTES

• Kennedy has scored in all 17 games this season and Rafferty has notched at least one point in each contest.
• This marks the 14th game this year that Kennedy has scored at least three goals in.
• She is now tied for seventh in program history in single-season goals (68), third in single-season draw controls (101), and sixth in career draw controls (172).
• McCarthy is now eighth in single-season draw controls (65) and Haley Dillon (Mount Sinai, N.Y.) is tied for seventh in single-season caused turnovers (28).
• Anna Tesoriero (Huntington, N.Y.) is tied for 10th in career ground balls (115).
• Kennedy (8), McCarthy (6) and Mackenzie Burns (West Sayville, N.Y.) (5) all split the team's 19 draw controls.
• Stony Brook outshot New Hampshire 30-7, with the Wildcats only taking two total shots in the first half. 
• The Seawolves also had the advantage in ground balls (12-8) and draw controls (19-5).
• Stony Brook is 14-7 all-time against New Hampshire, winning its last 12 matchups.

NEXT UP
Stony Brook is set to host the America East tournament this Thursday and Saturday. The No. 1-seeded Seawolves take on No. 4-seeded UMBC at 11 a.m. on Thursday at LaValle Stadium.