Staten Island, NY - Sophomore Alexa Mattera tallied a career-high six points on a career-best five goals, while senior Carlee Ancona added a career-high four goals to lead the Hofstra Women's Lacrosse team to a 15-10 win over Wagner on Tuesday afternoon at Hameline Field. 

The win moves the Pride to 2-0 on the young season, while the Seahawks fall to 0-2 in 2018. Sophomore Alyssa Parrella tied Mattera for game-high honors with six points on four goals and two assists. She also added a game-high five draw controls. 

Wagner got on the board first in the game just 1:50 into the contest before Hofstra scored seven straight goals to open up a commanding 7-1 advantage with 13:38 left before intermission following an unassisted tally from Parrella. The Pride had four different goal scorers during the run with Parrella (2), Ancona (2) and Mattera (2) all getting multiple goals during the run. The Seahawks closed the gap to four at the break, though, as the home squad scored three of the final four goals in the opening stanza. 

With Hofstra ahead 10-5 with just over 25 minutes left in regulation after another Mattera goal, the Seahawks scored three straight goals to close to within 10-8 following a free-position goal from Erin Kerstetter with 15:16 to play. That would be as close as Wagner would get, though, as the Pride scored five of the final seven goals in the game to earn the victory. 

Senior Drew Shapiro and Mattera led Hofstra with three ground balls, while Mattera and senior Amanda Seekamp posted two caused turnovers each to lead the Pride. Kerstetter had three goals to lead Wagner, while Ally Alliegro had four draw controls, two assists and a goal for the Seahawks. 

Junior Maddie Fields posted nine saves in net for the Pride. 

Hofstra is back in action on Saturday when it hosts Fairfield at 3 p.m. 

NOTES
- Hofstra is 2-0 all-time against Wagner. Both meetings have occured in the last two seasons. 
- The Pride is 2-0 for the second straight season and the third time in the last four years. 
- Mattera's previous career-high of four goals came in Hofstra's season-opening win over Bucknell. 
- Ancona's previous career-high of two goals came on several occasions, last against James Madison on April 14, 2017.