Syracuse, N.Y. – Freshman attacker
Erin McMullen (Syracuse, N.Y./Westhill) tied the program's freshman record with eight points to lead the fourth-ranked Le Moyne College women's lacrosse team to a 20-4 victory over 14th-ranked University of New Haven on Wednesday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at Ted Grant Field.
The Dolphins started the game's scoring just 29 seconds into the game and scored the first seven goals of the contest. McMullen got the Dolphins on the scoreboard just 29 seconds in with her 18th goal of the year. Sophomore midfielder
Nicole Delany (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee) doubled the lead at the 28:05 mark after taking a pass from junior attacker
Bryanna Fazio (Watertown, N.Y./General Brown), the reigning Northeast-10 Conference and IWLCA Player of the Week. Delany scored again 32 seconds later off a feed from junior attacker
Madison Pritchard (Syracuse, N.Y./West Genesee/Onondaga C.C./Canisius). Fazio pushed the lead to 4-0 and forced a New Haven timeout with an unassisted tally with 26:17 left. Junior midfielder
Monica Sanna (Pittsford, N.Y./Pittsford) registered her ninth goal of the year four minutes later after collecting a pass from McMullen. Almost five minutes later, sophomore attacker
Sidney Hall (Adams Center, N.Y./South Jefferson) scored her 23rd goal of the campaign. McMullen capped the streak with 15:06 remaining with an unassisted marker.
The teams traded goals over the final nine minutes of the half. Mackenzie Reh got the Chargers on the scoreboard with 8:55 to go off a pass from Jessica Mazliah. Fazio pushed the Le Moyne lead back to seven with her 25th goal of the year with 6:57 left after taking a feed from Hall. Mazliah countered with 4:15 remaining by converting a free-position shot. McMullen answered back with 3:01 to go, while Mazliah trimmed the margin back to six with 2:14 remaining off a pass from Reh. Hall finished off the scoring in the half with an unassisted goal with 23 seconds left for a 10-3 lead.
New Haven scored the first goal of the second half, but that was its only goal of the period as the Dolphins netted the final 10. Emily Holland scored in an extra-player situation 64 seconds into the half after taking a pass from Mazliah.
McMullen started Le Moyne's 10-0 run to end the game at the 27:48 mark with an unassisted goal. Fazio followed 46 seconds later by converting a free-position shot, her team-best sixth of the year. Hall put the Dolphins up 13-4 with 24:35 left off a pass from McMullen, while Delany gave the team a double-digit lead with 23:58 to play. Fazio registered another free-position goal with 21:42 remaining in the contest. After five minutes of scoreless play, freshman attacker
Brittney Pollack (Fairport, N.Y./Fairport) scored her first career goal after taking a feed from freshman midfielder
Grace Bang (Manlius, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius/UAlbany). Fazio followed two minutes later with her team-best 28th goal of the campaign. Hall found the back of the net with 9:45 left after collecting a pass from McMullen, who then scored with 6:16 to play off a feed from Pollack. The goal marked McMullen's eighth point of the game, which ties her with Fazio's performance on April 23, 2016 for the most points by a freshman in a game in the program's history.
Sophomore attacker
Claire Herrmann (Hamburg, N.Y./Hamburg) completed the game's scoring with 1:39 remaining after taking a pass from freshman attacker
Julia Alberici (Bridgeport, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse).
Sophomore goalkeeper
Hannah George (Johnson City, N.Y./Maine-Endwell) registered nine saves, including five in the first half, in between the pipes to earn the victory. Gianna Guerra took the loss after yielding 15 goals and making nine saves in 38:18 of action.
Le Moyne (8-0, 4-0 NE10), which has defeated seven ranked teams this season, returns to action on Friday at Southern New Hampshire University at 3:30 p.m.