Box Score

EAST STROUDSBURG - Senior attack Lauren Green had three goals and four assists to lead a quintet of three-goal scorers for East Stroudsburg University as the Warriors posted an 18-9 win over Gannon in PSAC women's lacrosse on Saturday afternoon at Whitenight Field.

ESU (6-2, 2-1) scored the first six goals of the game, and had four runs of at least three straight goals, in its first action since a 12-10 setback at Slippery Rock last Sunday.

Sophomore attack TJ Jefferis (3 goals, 3 assists), sophomore midfielder Emma Rufolo (3 goals, 2 assists), junior midfielder Chessie Rahmer (3 goals) and sophomore attack Brooke Fritz (3 goals) joined Green with hat tricks for the Warriors.

Freshman midfielder Hana Cicerelle had four points on two goals and two assists. Senior midfielder Emily Fitzsimmons also scored.

Senior defender Bethany Cunningham, who made her 54th career start, had her first career assist. Freshman midfielder Juliane Fitzsimmons also notched an assist.

Freshman goalkeeper Tatyana Petteway had 12 saves to keep the Warriors comfortably in front.

Leilani King had three goals and two assists to lead Gannon (2-6, 0-4).

ESU's first six goals were all scored within the opening 10 minutes, with Fritz scoring a pair assisted by Jefferis, and Rahmer with a pair assisted by Green.

After two Gannon goals, ESU extended its lead to 9-2 with a three-goal run. Green scored as the first half expired to give the Warriors a 10-3 edge going to the locker room.

Rahmer opened the second half scoring, and following two goals by the Golden Knights, Green scored her third and Rufolo had two straight to make it 14-5.

Gannon scored the next three to close the margin to 14-8 with 12:38 left, but ESU scored four of the last five goals to win going away, including two goals and an assist by Cicerelle in that stretch.

Green's seven points are one off her career-high of eight that she set as a sophomore. She recorded her 100th career point on Sunday at Slippery Rock and leads active Warriors in career goals (83) and assists (25).

Seven Warriors have scored between 10 and 17 goals, and have between 14 and 25 points, after Saturday's effort - Green (14 goals, 11 assists), Rahmer (17g, 7a), Jefferis (14g, 10a), Fritz (15g, 7a), Rufolo (14g, 6a), Emily Fitzsimmons (12g, 3a) and Cicerelle (10g, 4a).

ESU held a 35-22 advantage in shots and both teams had 14 draw controls. The Warriors held slight edges in turnovers (23-20) and ground balls (23-17).

Cunningham posted four caused turnovers and freshman defender Madison Mulligan and Rufolo both had five ground balls. Rahmer and Jefferis both had three draw controls.

Charla Tate made eight saves for Gannon.

ESU travels to Lock Haven (6-3, 3-1), ranked No. 16 in this week's IWLCA Division II poll, for a 4 p.m. game on Tuesday afternoon. LHU posted a 20-6 win vs. Edinboro on Saturday following a 13-10 loss vs. No. 2 Lindenwood earlier in the week.