Saturday’s Women’s Lacrosse Results
UMass 18, Akron 10
Youngstown State 15, Detroit Mercy 7
Robert Morris 8, Kent State 5
Eastern Michigan 14, Central Michigan 9
Stories Courtesy of MAC Athletic Communications Departments
UMass 18, Akron 10
Box Score
AMHERST, Mass. – The Massachusetts women's lacrosse team outscored visiting Akron 7-2 in the second quarter to take a 10-5 halftime lead, on the way to an 18-10 win on Saturday afternoon at a sunny Garber Field. Five different Minutewomen recorded hat tricks in a balanced team effort. With its sixth straight win, UMass improves to 10-2 on the season and 4-0 in the MAC. Akron falls to 8-4 and 3-1 in the conference.
Norah Prizzi and Kassidy Morris each had six points to lead the offense, each tallying three goals and three assists. Prizzi's six points doubled her previous career high of three. Katie Peterson added four goals and an assist while Dylan Lyons had three goals and an assist. Katie Onderdonk scored three goals for her first-career hat trick.
Defensively, Heather Clark and Cat Lucus each caused three caused turnovers while Sienna Diglio caused two. Cate Marshall tied a career high with 16 draw controls.
Akron jumped out to a 1-0 lead and after the Minutewomen opened a 3-2 advantage at 2:31 of the first, the Zips responded with goals at 1:47 of the first, then 13:59 of the second, to retake a 4-3 advantage.
UMass responded in a big way, scoring six straight goals in the span of 6:09. There were six different goal scorers, beginning with a Lyons score at 12:19 and ending with a highlight-reel Morris goal on a roll dodge in front of the goal to give UMass a 9-4 lead. The Minutewomen led 10-5 at the half.
Massachusetts scored three straight to begin the third, making it a 10-1 run bridging the end of the second quarter. Prizzi found Onderdonk for the second time in the game at 10:58 then less than 90 seconds later, Prizzi finished a feed from Morris in an unsettled situation, to give UMass a 13-5 advantage with 9:29 left in the third.
Akron would chip away, scoring the next two goals and five of the next eight to pull within 16-10 with 9:05 remaining. But the Minutewomen scored the only two goals the rest of the way, from Peterson and Lyons, for the 18-10 final.
Final shots were even at 28, while the Minutewomen held a 16-14 edge in groundballs. Eighteen UMass turnovers hurt, compared to 15 for Akron. Bayley Duffy made nine saves across Akron's Adrianna Califano who tallied five.
Youngstown State 15, Detroit Mercy 7
Box Score
Detroit, Mich. – A high-powered offensive attack carried the Youngstown State women's lacrosse program to its second victory of the season over Detroit Mercy, 15-7, on Saturday afternoon at Titan Field.
Three Penguins notched hat tricks during the contest, as Claire Baenziger, Molly Brooks, and Ally Garrett each had three goals. Gwen Bogash and Maya Griffin kept up at that pace as they each scored twice.
The Penguins set a season-high with six assists as a team, led by Gwen Bogash, who had three, the highest total in her two seasons at YSU. Ava Kreutzer had two assists, while Mackenzie Flannigan dished out one.
Flannigan's day will be remembered more for her defensive efforts. She led the Penguins with seven ground balls and five caused turnovers. Not only do her seven ground balls tie a season-high, but they also bring her season total to 44, setting a new single-season program record. The previous record was 42, set by Tori Bustamante last season. Her season total in caused turnovers now rises to 26, which currently sits at fourth in the single-season record book.
Alyssa Edwards had a strong day in the cage, collecting seven saves while allowing just five goals.
After the Titans got on the board first at the 12:46 mark of the first quarter, YSU was able ot settle in and take firm control. The 'Guins scored the final three goals of the first quarter, the first two coming from Ally Garrett, and the last coming off the stick of Maya Griffin with 4:47 left in the quarter, giving the Penguins a 3-1 lead through 15 minutes of action.
Griffin picked up where she left off to begin the second period, pushing the lead to three. After the Titans scored at the 5:22 mark of the quarter, ending a 22-minute-plus scoreless drought, Garrett secured a hat trick at the 3:46 mark, followed by a Claire Baenziger goal two minutes later, giving the Penguins a 6-2 lead heading into halftime.
The third quarter was one of the best offensive quarters of the season for the Penguins, who came out of the break on fire. Kendyll Jerry found the back of the cage off a pass from Gwen Bogash to push the lead to a five-goal advantage for YSU at 7-2 just over 90 seconds into the quarter. UDM would answer at the 10:40 mark of the quarter before YSU would reel off four goals over five minutes, the first from Baenziger, the next two from Brooks, and the final from Bogash as the 'Guins lead was up to eight goals at 11-3 with 2:31 left in the quarter.
The Titans would end the run, but not long after Ava Kreutzer would join the scoring party as the Penguins took advantage of being a player-up just one minute into the final frame. The teams would trade goals for much of the quarter, as YSU would add on scores from Bogash, her second of the day, as well as Baenizger and Brooks, who each secured hat tricks within the final 6:14 of the game.
YSU set multiple season-highs as a team, including points (21), goals (15), free-position goals (5), assists (6), shots (36), shots on goal (26), and turnovers (13).
Robert Morris 8, Kent State 5
Box Score
KENT, Ohio – The RMU women's lacrosse team got back in the win column with an 8-5 conference win over Kent State on Saturday afternoon to move to 4-8 overall and 2-2 in MAC action.
FIRST HALF
Kent State opened up the contest with goals at 8:36 and 5:53 to take a 2-0 lead before freshman Julia Foley got the Colonials on the board with 2:44 to go on an unassisted goal to make the score 2-1 in favor of the Golden Flashes after one quarter.
The Colonial offense came out hot to start the second quarter, scoring three unanswered goals to take a 4-2 lead. Mia Berthoff started the streak at 14:16, scoring off a pass from Lea Otts to tie the contest up before the Colonials took the lead on a Gabi Puzevic goal, assisted by Otts, to go up 3-2 with 13:38 left in the half. With 8:07 on the clock, Jenna Evans put RMU up by two, scoring off an assist from Samantha Brothers.
The Golden Flash would end the run with 7:34 on the board as Morgan Halli scored an unassisted goal to cut the Colonials' lead down to just one.
RMU's Taylor Cadeau would make up for the goal given up as she scored a woman-up goal off an assist from Amanda Dolis to end the second quarter scoring, with the Colonials up 5-3 at the end of the first half.
SECOND HALF
RMU picked up two more goals in the third quarter with Mia Berthoff and Gabi Puzevic both scoring unassisted goals to make it 7-3 before Kent State's Halli cut the lead back down to three with her second goal of the game, making it 7-4 at the end of the third quarter.
A goal by the Golden Flashes with 11:00 remaining in the fourth quarter would be all that Kent State would get, as RMU's Samantha Brothers put the game out of reach with a goal at 1:55, off an assist from Otts, her third, to make the final score 8-5, ending a three-game skid for the Colonials while moving to a perfect 6-0 on the road against the Golden Flashes
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
Gabi Puzevic and Mia Berthoff each scored a pair of goals while Julia Foley, Jenna Evans, Taylor Cadeau, and Samantha Brothers rounded out the goal scorers in the 8-5 win. Lea Otts tied her season-high with three assists on the afternoon. Along with her goal, Evans led the team in groundballs, posting a career-high eight ground balls. Alison Utter led the Colonials in draw controls with three on the afternoon.
Lucy Carney moved to 3-3 on the season in the net for the Colonials, recording 11 saves, her second double-digit mark of the season, while allowing just five goals. Carney has now recorded 61 saves on the season.
For Kent State, Morgan Halli led the Golden Flashes with two goals on the night. Sydney Davis took the loss in goal, allowing eight goals while recording 10 saves.
Eastern Michigan 14, Central Michigan 9
Box Score
YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) -- Emerson Henry recorded a double hat trick with four goals and three assists to pace the offense while Maddy Porter recorded 11 saves on defense to help the Eastern Michigan University lacrosse team score a 14-9 home Mid-American Conference win over visiting Central Michigan University, April 4, at Scicluna Field in Ypsilanti, Mich. The win for the Eagles (8-5, 3-1 MAC) marked its first against the Chippewas (2-10, 1-3 MAC) in five all-time meetings while tying for the single-season wins record with the 2025 squad.
How It Happened
Eastern Michigan came out firing as Mackenzie Blackwell (North Beach, Md./Northern) opened the scoring just 29 seconds in. Moments later, Henry (Ashburn, Ontario/Donald A. Wilson) doubled the lead, giving the Eagles a fast 2-0 advantage with only one minute played. After a CMU goal, Amber Alderman () found the back of the net off a feed from Henry to make it 3-1 before Central Michigan countered with a three-goal surge, capitalizing on a trio of woman-up opportunities, to claim a 4-3 lead after the first quarter.
The Chippewas extended their margin to 6-3 midway through the second, but the Eagles responded with urgency and precision. Roya Khaleeli (Rancho Palo Verdes, Calif./Palos Verdes Peninsula) sparked a vital 4-1 run that saw Eastern claim a 7-6 lead at the break. After a CMU goal made it 6-4 for the visitors with 5:52 to play, Henry scored on a free-position shot before Blackwell tallied her second, this time on an assist by Tracy Grollman (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis Area Christian School) to tie the score. With just 13 seconds left in the half, Grollman scored to put EMU on top 7-6 heading into the break.
Following intermission, Eastern seized control in the third quarter. Henry converted a woman-up opportunity to start the surge, and Kendall Nagle (Sudlersville, Md./Queen Anne's County), Grollman (twice, including a woman-up goal assisted by Kelsea Dague (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield)), and Kyleigh Dill (Dover, Del./Dover), who was assisted by Henry, each found the back of the net. The Eagles outscored the Chippewas 5-2 in the frame to stretch the lead to 12-8 through three.
In the final period, Stella Burke (Peterborough, Ontario/St. Peter's Catholic Secondary) added an insurance goal and Henry capped her career day with her fourth tally off a pass from Blackwell. Porter (Montrose, N.Y./Hendrick Hudson) and the EMU defense limited Central Michigan to just one fourth-quarter score, locking down a defining rivalry win.
