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School Record Falls As No. 7 Skyhawks Beat Owls 26-4
New Haven, Conn. - Senior Michelle Kelly (Mendham, N.J.) dished out a school record eight assists as the seventh ranked Skyhawks improved to 2-0 with a 26-4 drubbing of Southern Connecticut St. on Thursday afternoon in New Haven.
Kelly recorded three assists in the first half and dished out five more in the second, with the final one coming on a Sam Lynott (Holbrook, N.Y.) score with just under a minute remaining. The senior All-American broke the school record set of seven set by Jenny McGrath in 2006 against Southern New Hampshire.
Stonehill scored just 31 seconds in the game as Michelle Salmon (East Islip, N.Y.) put home her first goal of the season on an assist from Kelly. The Skyhawks added five more goals including a pair form Kelly and one each from Jackie Ladino (North Dartmouth, Mass.), Mary Maloney (Great River, N.Y.) and Leyla Kuz-Dworzak (Norwalk, Conn.), before the Owls finally got on the board ten minutes into the game.
Maloney upped the lead to six and the Skyhawks had seven different people score nine goals during the final twenty minutes of the half. Southern Conn. St. managed to put two more past senior Justine Ferland (Portsmouth, N.H.) as Stonehill went into the half with a 16-3 lead.
Stonehill started where they left off in the second, with freshman Madison McCabe (Lowell, Mass.) opening up the second half scoring with her first career goal three minutes in. The Skyhawk defense held tight as well, not allowing a goal through the first 15 minutes of the half.
Over that same time period, Stonehill scored five more times on goals by Kelly, Kuz-Dworzak, Maloney, Devin O'Leary (Framingham, Mass.) and Kathryn Dziurzynski (Mystic, Conn.) to give them a 22-3 lead. The Owls finally broke through at the 14:01 mark, but it was all they would get as the Skyhawks scored the final four goals for the 26-4 victory.
Ferland made six saves in net, while Kelly added three goals to her eight assists for a career high 11 points. Ladino and Kuz-Dworzak each had a team high four goals as fifteen different players scored for Stonehill.
The Skyhawks look to run their unbeaten streak to three games when they return to action tomorrow to take on Dowling at W.B. Stadium at 3:00 p.m.