BUZZARDS BAY, MA -- Women's lacrosse hosted Worcester State in a battle of Undefeated teams in the MASCAC on Friday evening at Clean Harbors Stadium. At the end of 60 minutes, the Lancers came out on top, 16-7. Prior to the game the Buccaneers honored longtime Academy employee Mary Mulgrew and brought awareness to cancer by wearing pink warm ups, pink headbands and using pink stick tape. The team, along with SGA held a bake sale that raised over $200 for the Mary Mulgrew Scholarship Fund formed by the Academy in MAry's name.

The Basics

Final: Lancers 16, Buccaneers 7

Records: Worcester (7-5, 2-0)

              Maritime (7-4, 1-1)

Between The Pipes

Maritime: Aviva Beringhause (L, 7-4): 16 GA | 60 Min | 13 Sv | 29 SH

Worcester: Sofia Perivolotis (W, 7-5): 7 GA | 60 Min | 7 Sv | 14 SH

In The Field

Maritime

• Allie Dickinson led all the Bucs with two goals. 
• Cassie Llewellyn, Nora McLaughlin, Alyssa DiScipio, Lindsy Durgin, and Paige Albertson all scored one goal apiece.
• Llewellyn added two helpers in the loss, led all players with eight grund balls, picked up a game-high seven draw controls and caused two turnovers.
• Durgin was also credited with two caused turnovers. 
• MAritime picked up 30 ground balls, were successful on 16 of 22 clears, won 13 draw controls, scored on three of nine free position attempts, and took 21 total shots.

Worcester

• Clare Conway led all scorers with six goals.
• Shea Jarvis scored four times with Hanna Erickson scoring three. 
• Lily Gendron, Ashley Hurley and Julie Ravenelle all scored once.
• Ravenelle and Abby Lauzon tallied three assists each. Conway and Emily Pavoni both had one helper.
• Lauzon picked up a team-high seven ground balls. Gendron won a game-high seven draw controls.
• Lauzon led all players with six caused turnovers.
• Worcester picked up 25 ground balls, were successful on 19 of 24 clears, won 14 draw controls, scored on five of eight free position attempts and took a total of 27 shots.

How It Happened

Worcester scored the first two goals of the game, the first came two minutes in from Conway. The second game halfway through the quarter from Erickson, a man-down, to make it 2-0. The Bucs cut the Lancer lead to one with a McLaughlin goal with a Worcester player in the sin bin. Worcester added a third goal with 4:48 left in the quarter and took a 3-1 advantage to the second quarter.

In the second, Worcester went on a five goal run over seven minutes to open their lead to 8-1. Ravenelle scored the first of the quarter at 12:12, Conway scored the last of the five goals, six goal run, with 7:23 left before half. DiScipio scored her lone goal with 3:22 left to make it 8-2. With 45 second left in the quarter, Jarvis scored on a free position to give the Lancers a 9-2 lead at the half.

The Buccaneers opened the third quarter by grabbing the momentum and scoring two unanswered goals, one from Llewellyn, the other from Albertson, both in the first 5:30 of the quarter. Worcester then rattled off three goals in three minutes, two of which came with one of their players on a yellow card. The Lancers led 12-4 with 3:45 left in the third. The Bucs closed out the third quarter scoring on Dickinson's first with 1:03 left. The teams went to the fourth with a 12-5 score.

In the fourth, the Bucs again scored the first goal of the quarter, a Durgin goal, unassisted. Worcester scored three in a row again, this time over seven minutes, to take a 15-6 lead and shut down the Bucs in their offensive end. Maritime scored once more, from Dickinson, with 2:28 left in regulation. Hurley scored her goal to cap off the game with a minute left. The Lancers took their second MASCAC win back to Worcester, 16-7.

What's Next

The Buccaneers will be back home for their next game on Tuesday, April 12th at 7pm against Mitchell College in non-conference play.