Conway scored three of her game-high four goals in the fourth quarter during a game-deciding Skyhawks run (PHOTO BY Crystal Ayn Photography) |
Conway scores three of her team-leading four goals in the fourth to seal win
WEST HAVEN, Conn. (April 2, 2022) – Stonehill College, ranked No. 14 in this week's USA Lacrosse Magazine Division II poll and No. 18 in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division II poll, outscored the University of New Haven, ranked No. 21 in the IWLCA poll, 7-2 in the fourth quarter to bounce back from a mid-week setback with a 14-10 triumph in Northeast-10 Conference women's lacrosse action at Kathy Zolad Stadium this afternoon.
Scoring
Stonehill
Goals: Kayla Conway 4, Molly Mae Hughes 2, Lilly Leach 2, Kendall Fressle 2, Emma Sullivan 2, Victoria Butler, Emma Keene-Reinhard.
Assists: Molly Mae Hughes 3, Lydia Rudden 2, Kayla Conway, Lilly Leach.
New Haven
Goals: Reagan Bailey 3, Annie Acquavita 3, Marina Skelly 2, Julia Astram, Cameryn Antler.
Assists: Julia Astram 2, Cypress Levitt 2.
Goalkeeping
Stonehill: Sarah Faley – 9 saves (60:00).
New Haven: Gabby Buscemi – 14 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.
How it Happened
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Stonehill opened the fourth quarter with a six-goal run to take control after trailing by one (8-7) after three quarters of play, led by junior Kayla Conway who scored three of her team-leading four goals during that stretch, adding an assist.
Hughes contributed five points, matching her career-high. (PHOTO BY Crystal Ayn Photography) - New Haven grabbed a 4-2 lead after a quarter of play, scoring the final three goals of the frame after Stonehill had grabbed a 2-1 edge on markers from senior preseason All-American Emma Sullivan and Conway over the first five minutes of the game.
- Three different Chargers scored during that run to close the opening quarter with senior Julia Astram's third goal of the season with 49-seconds left.
- The two teams scored two goals each in the second quarter with New Haven maintaining its two-goal cushion (6-4) after junior Annie Acquavita netted her first of three goals with two-seconds to go before the intermission.
- Acquavita's second goal restored New Haven's two-goal lead (7-5) two and a half minutes into the third quarter, but Stonehill rallied with the next two goals by senior Kendall Fressle and junior Victoria Butler over a three-minute span to pull even (7-7) with 4:29 left in the third.
- Freshman Reagan Bailey gave New Haven the lead (8-7) heading to the fourth quarter with her second of three goals on the day with five-seconds left in the third.
- Conway reversed the lead with back-to-back goals, both assisted by junior Lydia Rudden, 51-seconds apart that would put Stonehill in front for good (9-8) and spark the game-deciding 6-0 run for the Skyhawks.
- Conway's third of the quarter followed a free-position goal from Fressle and was assisted by sophomore Molly Mae Hughes with 10:13 to play gave the Skyhawks a three-goal lead (11-8) and then Conway turned provider on Hughes' first of two goals down the stretch two minutes later for a four-goal lead.
- Sophomore Lilly Leach's second of the day extended Stonehill's lead to five (13-8) with 5:57 remaining.
- New Haven made a late run with goals from Bailey and Acquavita to draw back within three (13-9) with 2:18 left, but it was too late as Hughes quelled the run with her second of the game with 1:16 to play, assisted by Leach, for the game's final goal.
Noteworthy
- Freshman Sarah Faley made five of her nine saves in the second quarter to keep Stonehill within reach, while sophomore Gabby Buscemi finished with 14 saves in the New Haven goal.
- Conway (4 goals and an assist) and Hughes (2 goals, 3 assists) led Stonehill with five points. It matches a career-high for Hughes for the third time this season, while Conway notched five points for the second-straight game marking her fourth game with five-plus points this season and her fifth-straight multi-goal game.
- Leach recorded her third-straight multi-goal game with two goals and an assist.
- Sullivan secured double-digit draw controls for the second-straight game, collecting a career-high matching 11, to go with four caused turnovers and three ground balls, with two goals.
- Sullivan has now scored 93 goals in 40 career games, adding 25 assists for 118 points. Her team-high 69 draw controls this spring ranks fifth on the program's single-season list, while her 154 career draws rank fifth all-time.
- Rudden dished out two assists, marking her seventh-straight game with multiple assists and eighth in nine games overall. She has now totaled 98 points with 35 goals and 63 assists in 22 career games.
- Rudden's NE10-leading 34 assists this spring is tied for sixth on Stonehill's all-time single-season list.
- Bailey and Acquavita led New Haven with three goals each as four Chargers recorded multiple points.
- Stonehill rebounded from its first NE10 loss of the season against No. 19 Assumption University (18-17) on Wednesday night, and is now off to a 5-1 start in NE10 play for the first time since winning the first nine in the Conference in 2015.
- Stonehill snapped a four-game skid in the all-time series with New Haven dating back to a 12-8 win at W.B. Mason Stadium in 2015.
- Stonehill moved up six spots to No. 18 in this week's IWLCA Division II poll after returning to the national poll for the first time since 2018 last week. The Skyhawks moved up two spots to No. 14 in the USA Lacrosse Magazine poll.
- Stonehill is now 3-1 this spring against teams ranked inside the IWLCA Division II Top 25.
Up Next
Stonehill (7-2, 5-1 NE10) is right back in action on Tuesday, when it hosts The College of Saint Rose in the first ever meeting between the two programs, at W.B. Mason Stadium at 7 p.m. New Haven (6-3, 2-3 NE10) hosts No. 14 Pace University on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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