Hughes nets career-high seven goals, Rudden records 100th career point for Skyhawks
Rudden surpassed 100 career points with her two goals and three assists (PHOTO BY Mary Gettens) |
EASTON, Mass. (April 5, 2022) – Stonehill College, ranked No. 16 in both the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) and USA Lacrosse Magazine Division II polls, grabbed a ten-goal lead midway through the second quarter and made it stand the rest of the way in posting a 21-10 victory in the first-ever meeting with The College of Saint Rose, ranked No. 19 in the USA Lacrosse Magazine poll and No. 25 in the IWLCA Division II poll, in Northeast-10 Conference women's lacrosse action on Timothy J. Coughlin, '80 Memorial Field at W.B. Mason Stadium tonight.
Scoring
Stonehill
Goals: Molly Mae Hughes 7, Emma Sullivan 4, Kayla Conway 4, Lydia Rudden 2, Abigail Moynihan 2, Kendall Fressle 2.
Assists: Lydia Rudden 3, Emma Sullivan 2, Abby Ahearn, Kayla Conway, Molly Mae Hughes, Abigail Moynihan.
Saint Rose
Goals: Katy McPeak 5, Daria Bock 2, Ashley Burns, Julia Lasher, Claudia Agostino.
Assists: Daria Block 2, Katy McPeak 2, Kaitlyn Jolly.
Goalkeeping
Stonehill: Sarah Faley – 4 saves (60:00).
Saint Rose: Dorothy Gaffney – 5 saves (60:00).
More Leaders
Stonehill
Caused Turnovers: Emma Sullivan 4.
Draw Controls: Emma Sullivan 11.
Ground Balls: Four with 3, including Sullivan.
New Haven
Caused Turnovers: Marina Skelly 2.
Draw Controls: Gianna Caprioli 6.
Ground Balls: Justine Doyle 4.
Hughes scored a career-high seven goals to finish with a career-best eight points (PHOTO BY Mary Gettens) |
How it Happened
- Stonehill sandwiched a pair of three goal runs in the opening quarter around a Saint Rose goal to grab a 6-1 lead after 15 minutes of play on its way to a ten-goal cushion by the midway point of the second quarter.
- Senior preseason All-American Emma Sullivan had a role in Stonehill's first three goals, scoring a pair and adding an assist, on her way to a six-point night with four goals and two assists.
- Freshman Katy McPeak got Saint Rose on the scoreboard with her first of five goals on the night with 10:26 to play in the first quarter.
- Stonehill followed with goals from three different players, while Sullivan assisted on one to open a five goal (6-1) lead after a quarter when junior Kayla Conway scored her second of the frame, having also dished out an assist.
- The three markers to cap the opening quarter extended to an 8-0 run overall that produced a ten-goal lead (11-1) after junior Abigail Moynihan's second goal of the game with 8:35 to play in the first half.
- Rudden scored twice over the first eight minutes of the second quarter to record her 100th career point, while senior Kendall Fressle added a pair as well during that stretch.
- Stonehill's lead was still ten (12-2) after the teams traded goals, but Saint Rose was able to close the gap to seven (12-5) at the intermission, netting three goals, including a pair by sophomore Daria Bock, in the final 48-seconds of the half.
- McPeak opened the second half scoring to draw Saint Rose back within six (12-6) two minutes in, but Stonehill responded with six-straight goals, including two by Sullivan, capped by three-straight tallies by sophomore Molly Mae Hughes to open a game-high 12-point lead (18-6) after Hughes' sixth of the night 38-seconds into the fourth quarter.
- Saint Rose tried to mount another rally, with McPeak keying a three-goal push with two goals and an assist, that pulled the Golden Knights within nine (18-9) with 6:48 to play.
- Stonehill closed the game out from there, scoring three of the final four goals of the game, including two by Hughes, over the closing 4:22.
Sullivan collected a career-high 12 draw contrils and also contributed four goals and two assists (PHOTO BY Mary Gettens) |
Noteworthy
- Lydia Rudden finished with five points, surpassing 100 career points in the process, with two goals and three assists. She has now totaled 37 goals and 66 assists for her 103 points in just 23 career games, cracking the program's career top ten with her assist total.
- Rudden's NE10-leading 37 assists this season is tied for fourth on the program's all-time single season list with her sister, Brooke '15 who reached that total in 2014.
- Hughes finished with a career-high seven goals, adding an assist for a career-best eight points, having recorded multiple goals in three-straight games.
- Sullivan secured double-digit draw controls for the third-straight game, collecting a career-high 12, to go with two caused turnovers and three ground balls, with four goals and an assist for five points.
- Sullivan has now scored 97 goals in 41 career games, adding 26 assists for 124 points. Her team-high 81 draw controls this spring is tied for fourth on the program's single-season list, while her 166 career draws rank fifth all-time.
- All six Stonehill goal-scorers had multiple tallies with Conway joining Sullivan with four goals, adding an assist, to notch five points for the third-straight game and fourth with five-plus points this season and her sixth-straight multi-goal game.
- Freshman Mallory Crispens registered season-bests with three caused turnovers and six ground balls.
- Freshman Sarah Faley finished with four saves in goal for Stonehill, adding a caused turnover and three ground balls, while sophomore Dorothy Gaffney totaled five stops for Saint Rose.
- McPeak led the Golden Knights with seven points on five goals and two assists, adding five ground balls.
- Stonehill is off to a 6-1 start in NE10 play for the first time since winning the first nine in the Conference in 2015.
- Tonight marked the first meeting all-time between Stonehill and Saint Rose, which is in its third season.
- Stonehill moved up two spots to No. 16 in this week's IWLCA Division II poll slipped two spots to No. 16 in the USA Lacrosse Magazine poll
- Stonehill, in the midst of a stretch of four-straight games against teams ranked inside the IWLCA Top 25, improving to 4-1 this spring against those teams.
Up Next
Stonehill (8-2, 6-1 NE10) returns to action on Saturday, when it hosts No. 19 Saint Anselm College for an NE10 matchup and Mental Health Awareness Game, produced by Stonehill's chapter of Hope Happens here, at W.B. Mason Stadium at 2 p.m. Saint Rose (7-3, 3-3 NE10) visits Franklin Pierce University on Saturday at 4 p.m.
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