Rindge, N.H. – Junior attacker
Bryanna Fazio (Watertown, N.Y./General Brown) and sophomore midfielder
Nicole Delany (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee) each scored a career-high six goals to lead the fourth-ranked Le Moyne College women's lacrosse team to an 18-8 win over Franklin Pierce University on Tuesday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at Sodexo Field.
Freshman attacker
Erin McMullen (Syracuse, N.Y./Westhill) started the game's scoring just 51 seconds into the contest with her 15th goal of the season.
Franklin Pierce answered with a pair of goals in a span of 17 seconds. Sarah Waldrep scored with 24:33 left and Caitlin Sweeney followed with her 18th goal of the campaign.
Le Moyne countered with four in a row to take the lead for good. Junior midfielder
Monica Sanna (Pittsford, N.Y./Pittsford) evened the score only 31 seconds later after taking a pass from freshman attacker
Emily Altland (North Bennington, Vt./Mount Anthony Union). Fazio won the ensuing draw and put the Dolphins in front 30 seconds later for a 3-2 advantage. Delany picked up her first goal of the contest with 18:39 to play and then finished off a feed from Sanna 15 seconds later.
After Anna Wilbert got the Ravens within 5-3 with 17:14 left off a pass from Sweeney, the Dolphins answered with five straight goals to get into double digits. Delany started the run with 13:31 left off a pass from freshman midfielder
Sydney Meagher (Fairport, N.Y./Fairport). She followed at the 9:26 mark with her fourth consecutive goal after collecting a feed from Sanna. Fazio pushed the margin to 8-3 with 7:28 to go off a pass from Meagher. Fazio scored again with 5:47 left and completed the scoring run with 5:01 remaining off a feed from Sanna.
Sweeney found the back of the net with 1:52 to go, while Delany capped the half's scoring with an extra-player goal with one second left for an 11-4 lead at halftime.
Le Moyne scored the first four goals of the second half to take a 15-4 lead. Freshman midfielder
Lauren Ferris (Syracuse, N.Y./West Genesee) ignited the run with her first career goal just 15 seconds into the half. McMullen picked up her second tally of the contest with 25:29 left off a pass from Altland. Freshman midfielder
Grace Bang (Manlius, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius/UAlbany) netted her first career goal with 22:26 left to give the Dolphins a double-digit lead. Delany capped the streak with her 19th goal of the season with 20:50 left off a pass from senior attacker
Jacqueline Pardee (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee).
The Ravens answered with back-to-back goals to get back within single digits. Morgan Riley tallied her fifth goal of the year with 17:01 left off a pass from Sweeney. Briana Sweeney followed with her ninth goal of the year with 15:28 remaining to make it 15-6.
McMullen pushed the margin back to 10 only 25 seconds later, but Briana Sweeney scored again at the 13:30 mark.
Fazio completed her team's scoring with the final two goals. After picking up a loose ball, she found the back of the net for the fifth time in the game with 11:53 remaining. She scored her 18th goal of the year with 8:10 to play after collecting a feed from Pardee.
Briana Sweeney capped the game's scoring with 1:53 remaining.
Sophomore goalkeeper
Hannah George (Johnson City, N.Y./Maine-Endwell) registered six saves, including four in the first half, in the victory. Madison Murray made 13 saves, including eight in the first half, in her first loss of the year.
Le Moyne (6-0, 2-0 NE10) plays its first home NE10 contest of the season on Friday at 4:00 p.m. against 12th-ranked Pace University.