In the twenty-eight year history of the Siena women’s lacrosse program, nothing has ever been able to top this fine day at Hickey Field.
Not rain, sleet, snow or, for that matter, MAAC newcomer Rider as the Sandy sputtered through one of their worst western journeys in many years and returned to the east coast with 4 wins in 22 games for a new all-time club-record victory margin.
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Twice before the largest margin of victory (17) had been enjoyed. With 3 seconds left, Sarah Irish’s goal made the lead 18 to guarantee a new record.
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When it scored 22 goals in a game against Hartford on March 13, 2019, that total also broke a program record.
Siena (6-3, 1-0 MAAC) prevailed on almost every count. In particular, the team dominated in the draw control area. They won 26 of 30 times they contested for a draw as a group – quite an achievement.
Individually, senior Taryn Asselin set a new single-game program history for most draw controls in a game with 15.
Asselin tied the record again in a win against Le Moyne on March 2, and in a win against Army West Point s # 18 back on February 17, had 12 points then also.
Women’s lacrosse, just 1 year old on the Rider campus, has the top draw control player in the MAAC as well as one of its best scorers: Katie Walsh.
Walsh had been averaging 3.13 goals a game and more than seven draw controls per outing. But versus the Saints, she didn’t get a single draw control and one goal.
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In addition, junior Grace Dobrzynski topped the stat sheet with an eight-point day (two goals and six careers high for assists) and junior Kelly Logue also surpassed 100 points in her career: she netted three goals, assisted on another three.
Freshman Olivia Nicholson scored two goals for Siena at Siena lead 7-1 after the first quarter’s end and senior Rebecca Gilhooley also notched a pair.
Keeping the Broncs on the defensive, the Saints outscored them 6-2 in the second quarter to go into halftime with a 13-3 lead.
Siena kept pounding away in the second half as they outscored the Broncs 9-1 the rest of the way.
Twelve different Saints contributed to the point’s column, including a trio who had hat tricks-Logue, Nicholson and Gilhooley.
Graduate student Jenna Colabufo led her team with four caused turnovers and boosted her career total for Siena to 50.
Rider was held to just nine shots, six of which were on goal, in yet another defensive gem from coach Preville’s troops.
Siena won its fourth straight game Wednesday afternoon and for the fifth time in six starts over the past two weeks all while keeping an offense to single digit points during each of those victories.
