North Andover, Mass. – Junior attacker
Erica Geremia (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee) registered a season-high nine points to lead the third-ranked Le Moyne College women's lacrosse team to a 15-2 victory at Merrimack College on Saturday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at Martone-Mejail Field.
Geremia is the 12th player in the program's history to record at least nine points in a game and the third to do so in the last 24 days. She finished the game with four goals and five assists to increase her season numbers to a nation-best 94 points on 50 goals and 44 assists. With her sixth point of the day, Geremia moved into second place on the program's single-season points list, while she became the sixth Dolphin to net at least 50 goals in one season. Sophomore midfielder
Molly McGuane (Marcellus, N.Y./Marcellus) scored a career-high four goals, while senior attacker
Julia Suriani (Buffalo, N.Y./West Seneca East) scored twice to increase her season total to 48, which is tied for the eighth-most in the program's history.
The Dolphins scored all nine of the first half's goals. Geremia started the scoring with an unassisted goal with 26:05 to go. Just under six and one-half minutes later, she finished off a feed from junior attacker
Maggie Monnat (Baldwinsville, N.Y./C.W. Baker). Geremia put the Dolphins up by three with an unassisted tally at the 17:22 mark.
Sophomore midfielder
Amari Pollard (Baldwinsville, N.Y./C.W. Baker) registered her 32nd goal of the campaign with 14:38 left by converting a free-position shot, while Monnat found the back of the net for the 22nd time three minutes later.
Le Moyne then scored four times in a span of 80 seconds. McGuane ignited the run with a free-position goal with 8:33 left. Suriani got into the scoring column 23 seconds later after taking a pass from Geremia. Senior midfielder
Laura Hoffman (Canandaigua, N.Y./Canandaigua) gave the Dolphins an 8-0 lead with 7:36 remaining off a feed from Geremia, while McGuane capped the scoring in the stanza 23 seconds later with her ninth goal of the year after collecting a pass from Geremia.
Suriani got the Dolphins into double digits with 24:25 remaining in the second half off a pass from Geremia. Freshman attacker
Abbie McEntee (Cazenovia, N.Y./Cazenovia) then netted a free-position shot with 20:43 left for her 13th goal of the year.
Hunter McCarthy got the Warriors on the scoreboard with an unassisted goal with 17:32 to play.
Le Moyne scored the next four goals over a stretch of 7:07. McGuane scored the first off a pass from Geremia with 15:35 left, while then making a free-position shot for a 13-1 lead. After Geremia registered her 50th goal of the season, senior
Catie McKay (Penfield, N.Y./Our Lady of Mercy) completed Le Moyne's scoring with a free-position goal with 9:28 remaining.
Kelly Metzger scored for the Warriors with 2:33 remaining to deliver the final margin.
Senior goalkeeper
Molly Marbut (Edgewater, Md./South River) recorded four saves (against one goal) over 54:10 between the pipes to earn her 14th victory of the season. Alexa Petzold made six saves in the loss for Merrimack.
Le Moyne (14-1, 11-0 NE-10), which has won 11 straight games, closes out the road portion of its conference schedule on Wednesday at Assumption College at 7:00 p.m.