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Balanced Scoring Attack Leads No. 7 Skyhawks Past Penmen
Manchester, N.H. - The seventh ranked Skyhawks had four different players record hat tricks and controlled play in the second half as they took down Southern New Hampshire 18-7 on Monday afternoon in Manchester to improve to 4-1 on the season and 4-0 in NE-10 play.
Mary Maloney (Great River, N.Y.) tied a career high with five goals to lead a balanced scoring attack while senior goalie Justine Ferland (Portsmouth, N.H.) stopped a career 12 shots for the victory.
The Skyhawks wasted little time getting on the board in the first, as junior Jackie Ladino (North Dartmouth, Mass.) scored 31 seconds into game to give Stonehill the quick one goal lead.
Freshman Leyla Kuz-Dworzak (Norwalk, Conn.) increased the Skyhawk lead to 2-0 just over a minute later, but then Penmen responded at the 25:23 mark with a goal from Maura Murphy to cut the lead in half.
Stonehill countered, scoring three straight goals over the next ten and a half minutes. Mary Maloney (Great River, N.Y.), Michelle Kelly (Mendham, N.J.) and Liza Gross (Loundonville, N.Y.) each netted one goal and pushed the Purple and White lead to 5-1.
Southern New Hampshire came back once again, as Emily Mongeau scored twice in a minute and a half span to bring the Penmen within two at the ten minute mark.
Neither team could break through again until freshman Sarah Galligan (West Newbury, Mass.) scored her first goal of the game with only 54 seconds remaining for the 6-3 lead. Southern New Hampshire grabbed the ball off the faceoff and scored just 16 seconds later, but Galligan's second goal of the game with 18 seconds left in the half put the Stonehill lead at 7-4.
The Penmen were the first to break through in the second, scoring just 1:16 in to cut the least to 7-5. However the Skyhawks fired back, scoring three times in a five minute span on goals by Kelly, Kuz-Dworzak and Michelle Salmon (East Islip, N.Y.) for the 10-5 advantage.
The Skyhawks continued to pour it on over the next nine minutes, outscoring Southern New Hampshire 4-1 and getting goals from Gross, Galligan, Kuz-Dworzak and Maloney. Libby Parent scored at the 10:14 mark to cut the lead to 14-7 but Kelly upped the lead back to eight ten seconds later on her third goal of the game.
Stonehill scored three more times over the last ten minutes to clinch the 18-7 victory. Galligan and Kuz-Dworzak each had their second hat trick of the season, while Kelly had three goals and three assists. On defense, Jackie Craig (Rocky Point, N.Y.) picked up a team high six ground balls and helped hold Southern New Hampshire to just three second half scores.
The No. 7 Skyhawks return to action on Wednesday when they travel to take on Assumption at 7:00 p.m.