Box Score

EDINBORO – Senior Molly O'Hara tied her career-high with six goals, scoring three in each half, to lead East Stroudsburg University to a 13-6 win at Edinboro in PSAC lacrosse on Saturday afternoon in northwestern Pennsylvania.

O'Hara also added an assist for seven points after putting together a five-goal, one-assist effort in a 13-11 loss at Slippery Rock on Friday as the Warriors (9-6, 6-4) split their two-game trip and closed in on their second PSAC playoff berth in three seasons.

Senior Jamie Wesztergom added two goals and an assist, senior Michelle Mangiaruga had a goal and three assists and senior Christine Bradley and junior Maure Perrymond both had a goal and an assist as part of an offense that hit double figures in goals for the seventh time in eight games.

Junior Amanda Simms tied her season-high with 11 saves in goal and ESU allowed just three goals in each half. The Warriors clamped down after Edinboro (4-10, 0-9) closed within 6-5 early in the second half by scoring seven of the final eight goals to pull away.

ESU led 5-3 at halftime on three goals by O'Hara and goals by Wesztergom and Mangiaruga, and O'Hara added three more following intermission after Perrymond and Bradley opened the second-half scoring for the Warriors. Junior Ali Green and freshman Sarah Studdiford also scored in the second half and freshman Nicole Miller added an assist on Green's goal.

O'Hara, last year's PSAC East Player of the Year, has 48 goals and 14 assists to go over the 60-point mark for the second straight season. She had 12 goals and five assists in three games this week, including an 11-8 win at Philadelphia University on Monday, after Mangiaruga poured in 10 goals and seven assists in two games to earn PSAC East Player of the Week honors last week. Mangiaruga has 35 goals and a team-high 24 assists this season.

ESU hosts Bloomsburg, which is also 6-4 in the PSAC, in its final conference game of the season on Thursday at 4 p.m. at Whitenight Field. The Warriors can clinch a playoff spot with a win and are still alive with a loss, depending on other outcomes around the PSAC.


Warriors Notes
* O'Hara has 210 career points (170 goals, 40 assists) – 18 away from Kristin Restivo's school record. She had her 35th career hat trick and 10th career game with at least five goals.
* O'Hara and Mangiaruga can become the third set of ESU teammates to go over 60 points in the same season, joining Michelle Cottiers and Antonia Giannopoulos in 2002 and Restivo and Megan Macauley in 2000.
* Wesztergom went over 20 goals for the second straight season, with 21 this year and 28 last season. She has 95 career points and can join O'Hara (210), Mangiaruga (196) and Bradley (137) to give the Warriors four seniors with 100 career points.