Providence, RI - Graduate student
Katie Whelan tallied five goals, junior
Taylor Mennella added three goals and an assist, and senior
Jess Smith posted 12 saves as the Hofstra women's lacrosse team captured a dominating 12-7 win over Brown on Tuesday afternoon at Stevenson-Pincince Field.
The victory was the second of the season for Hofstra, which improved to 2-1 with the win. Brown slips to 1-1 on the year with the loss.
Hofstra got on the board first in the game as Mennella scored off a free-position shot in the opening minute. After Brown evened the score at one, the Pride closed the first quarter with three straight goals to lead 4-1 at the break in action. The Hofstra goals came off of three different sticks as Whelan scored the first and the run was aided by additional goals from senior
Amanda Guerra and graduate student
Arianna Esposito.
Each team would score once in the second quarter with Whelan tallying her second of the game and the Pride would take a 5-2 lead into the halftime intermission.
Hofstra broke the game wide open in the third quarter as the Pride scored five straight goals to open the second half to earn a commanding 10-2 lead with just over four minutes left in the third. It was all Whelan and Mennella during the run as Whelan posted the first three goals during the 5-0 spurt and Mennella finished the run with two of her own.
The lead grew to as many as eight, 12-4, as sophomore
Kerry Walser found the back of the net and Guerra scored her second of the game before Brown tallied the game's final three goals to account for the final score.
Graduate student
Shannon Boyle had three ground balls and a pair of caused turnovers for Hofstra, while senior
Anna Kaufmann picked up a pair of ground balls. Juniors
Katie Kelly and
Courtney Carollo led the Pride with three draw controls each. Smith has now reached double figures in saves in all three games this season.
Jackie Mason and Leah Caputo each had two goals for Brown, with Caputo adding an assist. Erin Tucker posted 11 saves for Brown.
Hofstra will finally play its first home game of the season on Saturday when it hosts Fairfield at 12 p.m. The game will air on FloLive.
NOTES
- Hofstra closed the gap in the all-time meetings as Brown now leads the series, 8-4. Today's game was the first meeting between the schools since an 11-7 Pride win in 2009.
- Smith has now reached double figures in saves 21 times in her career.
- The hat trick was the 14th in Whelan's career and the third of Mennella's career. Both have two this season.
- Whelan now has 99 goals in her career. She is looking to become only the 14th player in program history to reach 100 career goals.
- Smith now has 399 saves in her career. She moved into sixth place all-time at Hofstra, passing Kelsey Gregerson (396 from 2012-15).
