ELON, N.C. – The Stony Brook women's lacrosse team (6-2, 2-0 CAA) featured nine different goal scorers en route to the dominant 17-5 victory over Elon (4-7, 0-2 CAA) on Saturday.
Junior midfielder
Ellie Masera paced the Seawolves' offense with six goals. Senior attackers
Kailyn Hart and
Morgan Mitchell followed behind Masera recoding a hattrick and a pair of goals, respectively.
Stony Brook wasted no time attacking the cage as graduate attacker
Jolie Creo struck first for the squad within the first minute of the contest. One minute later, Masera found the back of the net twice for back-to-back goals off assists from Hart and Mitchell which gave the Seawolves an early 3-0 lead.
The first quarter belonged to the team from Long Island as the squad saw four more goals from senior midfielder
Charlotte Verhulst (1), Hart (2) and Mitchell (1) to increase their lead to 7-0 heading into the quarter break.
Just like the first, the second quarter was dominated by the hot-scoring Seawolves offense. Masera recorded her third goal on the day for her seventh hattrick of the season off an assist from Creo with 13:43 left to play in the second quarter. Stony Brook held a 12-0 lead, its largest lead of the day, until Elon's Anna Hackett found the back of the net for the Phoenix's first goal of the game.
The Seawolves went on to add four more goals in the second half to ultimately runway with the 17-5 win and secure their second conference win.
STATS AND NOTES
- Masera paced the Seawolves' offense with six goals and added a ground ball, a caused turnover, and won five draw controls.
- Hart recorded her fourth hattrick of the season and dished out four assists for the third time during the 2023 season, tallying a career-high seven points.
- Mitchell added to her dominant week, tallying a pair of goals and a pair of assists.
- Creo found the back of the net and added a season-high three helpers to register a season-high four points.
- Jaden Hampel, Alexandra Fusco, Casey Colbert and Verhulst all added a goal in the contest.
- Freshman midfielder Payton Bloedow recorded her first career goal and first career points.
- Graduates Hailey Duchnowski and Shanna Hecht and junior Aaliyah Jones all stood tall in the cage. Jones registered a career-high five saves while Duchnowski tallied three and allowed no goals against her.
- The five goals scored by Elon are the least amount the Phoenix have scored this season.
QUOTES FROM THE SEAWOLVES
"The team stepped up and played inspired. It's always good to get up early and we were very happy with the way our entire roster played. It started with the draw, that was the difference today," said head coach
Joe Spallina.
NEXT UP
The Seawolves return home to Kenneth P. LaValle stadium to host the Drexel Dragons on Sunday, April 2. Face-off is slated for 1 p.m. and the game will be broadcast live on FloLive.
