Box Score

GREENSBURG - Sophomore midfielder Emma Rufolo scored four goals, senior midfielder Emily Fitzsimmons added three and East Stroudsburg University posted its second road win vs. a nationally-ranked team this week with a 12-11 victory at No. 18 Seton Hill in PSAC women's lacrosse on Saturday afternoon.

ESU (9-2, 5-1), which won its fourth straight game, won 10-7 at No. 16 Lock Haven on Tuesday and notched a 15-6 win at Edinboro on Friday to complete a 3-0 road swing.

Rufolo, who scored the first three goals of the second half in the win at Edinboro, scored three goals in the first half and an important one to end a Seton Hill run in the second half. She also had team-highs with five draw controls and four ground balls.

Fitzsimmons had all three of her goals in the second half, her three-goal game of the season and the third of her career.

Sophomore attack Brooke Fritz had a goal and two assists, freshman midfielder Hana Cicerelle had a goal and an assist and junior midfielders Chessie Rahmer and Alicia Stratten and sophomore attack TJ Jefferis also scored for the Warriors.

Freshman goalkeeper Tatyana Petteway had eight saves. She had 22 saves vs. ESU's two nationally-ranked opponents this week, with 14 saves and just seven goals allowed in the win at Lock Haven Tuesday.

Christine Palmeri scored three goals and Charlotte Cunningham had two goals and four assists to lead Seton Hill (6-6, 4-4).

Neither team led by more than three goals in the contest, with ESU opening leads of 9-6 and 11-8 before holding off the Griffins on their home field.

Seton Hill jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the first eight minutes, but the Warriors responded with four straight, including two by Rufolo, for a 5-3 edge with 10:48 left in the first half.

SHU scored the next two, with Cunningham scoring after setting up a goal, to tie it at 5-5, before Stratten and Rufolo scored to give the Warriors a 7-5 lead at halftime.

Palmeri and Rahmer traded free position goals to start the second half and Fitzsimmons scored her first, assisted by Fritz, for a 9-6 lead with 24:04 remaining.

Seton Hill had two straight from Palmeri and Cunningham, but ESU answered with the next two goals from Rufolo  and Fitzsimmons as the Warriors led 11-8 at the 16-minute mark.

ESU withstood two more SHU goals, as the Griffins closed the margin to 11-10 with 11 minutes left.

Fitzsimmons scored a man-up goal after a Seton Hill yellow card for a 12-10 lead with 3:23 remaining. SHU scored man-down with 54 seconds left, but freshman attack Cassidy McKenna won the ensuing draw control. ESU ran all but the last 16 seconds off the clock before a turnover, but Seton Hill never attempted the game-tying shot.

ESU held a 27-23 advantage in shots, assisted by margins in draw controls (14-11) and turnovers (18-16). ESU had 10 caused turnovers, including two each by Rahmer and Rufolo.

The Warriors will go after their fifth straight win on Wednesday as they host Shippensburg at 4 p.m. at Whitenight Field. The afternoon will mark ESU's second annual Alyssa Oxenford Memorial Game, honoring former Warriors defender Alyssa Oxenford, who was diagnosed with leukemia in May 2014 following her junior season and passed away in August 2015.