Faley's nine saves anchors strong Skyhawks defensive effort
Sullivan matched her career-high with five goals for the sixth time this season (PHOTO BY Mary Gettens) |
EASTON, Mass. (April 27, 2022) – Stonehill College, ranked No. 8 in this week's USA Lacrosse Magazine Division II poll and No. 9 in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division II poll, notched its seventh-straight win behind a stout defensive effort in posting a 16-6 decision over Southern New Hampshire University, among team's receiving votes in the IWLCA 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: Emma Sullivan 5, Molly Mae Hughes 3, Lydia Rudden 2, Kendall Fressle 2, Kayla Conway, Abby Ahearn, Lilly Leach, Victoria Butler.
Assists: Lydia Rudden 2, Abby Ahearn, Kayla Conway, Kendall Fressle, Abigail Moynihan.
SNHU
Goals: Skylar Renaud 2, Angelina Graziano 2, Madison Keating, Erin Gorton
Assists: Madison Keating, Madison Peredna, Skylar Renaud
Goalkeeping
Stonehill: Sarah Faley – 9 saves (60:00).
SNHU: Caela McCartney – 11 saves (60:00).
More Leaders
Stonehill
Caused Turnovers: Lydia Rudden 3.
Draw Controls: Victoria Butler 4.
Ground Balls: Lydia Rudden 5.
SNHU
Caused Turnovers: Layne Walther 2.
Draw Controls: Shelby Cole & Alexis Delucia 4.
Ground Balls: Layne Walther 4.
Fressle registered two goals and an assist for the Skyhawks, notching her 100th career point. (PHOTO BY Mary Gettens) |
How it Happened
- Sophomore Molly Mae Hughes scored Stonehill's first three goals as the Skyhawks grabbed a 3-1 edge after a quarter of play. She scored the first two goals of the game in the opening three and a half minutes and then capped her first quarter hat trick, assisted by junior Kayla Conway, with 44-seconds remaining in the frame after senior Erin Gorton had cut the Stonehill lead in half with her goal with 1:51 to play.
- Junior Angelina Graziano scored 24-seconds into the second quarter to pull SNHU back within a goal (3-2).
- After nearly ten scoreless minutes, Stonehill produced a four-goal flurry over a three-minute span to break the game open (7-2) at the intermission with goals from four different players.
- Senior Kendall Fressle assisted on the first Stonehill marker, by sophomore Abby Ahearn, with 5:09 left in the half to mark the 100th point of her career.
- Senior preseason All-American Emma Sullivan and junior Victoria Butler followed with goals eight seconds part, before Conway capped the first half scoring with 1:54 remaining.
- SNHU stayed close through the third quarter, trading goals by Fressle and Sullivan with a pair of Penmen goals heading to the fourth frame.
- Sullivan's second goal of the game with 7:42 to play in the third sparked a four goal Skyhawks run, in which she scored three times, that broke the game open (12-4) after Sullivan's fourth of the afternoon, assisted by Rudden, five minutes into the fourth quarter.
- SNHU sandwiched a goal by Stonehill sophomore Lilly Leach with a pair of goals 91-seconds apart that trimmed the Penmen's deficit to seven (13-6) with 7:14 remaining, but the Skyhawks closed out the win with a pair of goals from junior Lydia Rudden in the final 2:22 after Sullivan's fifth of the night just 24-seconds earlier.
Faley made nine saves for the Skyhawks. |
Noteworthy
- Freshman Sarah Faley posted nine saves to anchor the Stonehill defensive effort., also chipping in three ground balls. Senior Caela McCartney finished with 11 stops in the SNHU goal.
- Fressle, who has now scored 85 career goals after her two markers tonight, recorded her 100th career point with an assist on Stonehill's fourth goal of the game. She has now tallied 85 goals and 17 assists in 43 career games and joined Rudden and Sullivan in reaching the milestone this spring.
- Sullivan's five goals was tops in the game, leading a list of eight goal-scorers for the Skyhawks, matching her career best for the sixth game this spring. She has totaled 14 multi-goal games this spring.
- Rudden finished with two goals and two assists, giving her multiple points in all 15 games, with multiple assists in 13-straight games.
- Rudden leads the NE10 with 62 assists this season - just four shy of Stonehill's single-season record of 66 by Jenny McGrath '06 in 2006. Rudden is also just four points shy of recording only the third 100-point season in program history and first since McGrath posted a program-record 110 points in 2006.
- Rudden has totaled 51 goals and 91 assists for 142 points in just 28 career games, ranking seventh in program history for career assists.
- Junior Skylar Renaud led SNHU with two goals and an assist for three points, while Graziano netted a pair of goals.
- Stonehill has won 11 NE10 matches for the first time in program history, surpassing ten wins on six occasions.
- Stonehill has reached 13 wins for the first time since finishing 15-5 in 2015, having won 13 of 15 for the first time since opening the 2015 season with 13 wins over its first 14.
- Stonehill and Adelphi remain tied atop the NE10 standings heading into the final weekend of the regular season – two games in the loss column ahead of Le Moyne (8-3) and Pace (8-3).
- Stonehill held at No. 2 in this week's NCAA Division II East Region rankings released on Wednesday afternoon.
- Stonehill moved up five spots to No. 9 in this week's IWLCA Division II poll and up three spots to No. 8 in the USA Lacrosse Magazine poll.
Up Next
Stonehill (13-2, 10-1 NE10) is right back in action on Friday, when it hosts No. 23 Saint Anselm College for Senior Day to cap the regular season schedule at W.B. Mason Stadium at 3:30 p.m. SNHU (9-5, 7-5 NE10) hosts No. 10 Le Moyne College on Saturday at 2 p.m.
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