Box Score
EDINBORO, Pa. – Junior
Hana Cicerelle became the 19th player in team history to reach 100 goals for her collegiate career, and she had a team-high eight points overall during a dominant 20-3 victory for No. 8 East Stroudsburg University at Edinboro on Saturday.
Cicerelle had five goals and three assists for the Warriors (6-2, 3-0 PSAC), who increased their winning streak to four games. The milestone goal was her last of the afternoon, an unassisted strike with 6:24 remaining in regulation.
ESU started on an 11-0 run to quickly put the contest out of reach. Senior
TJ Jefferis and sophomore
Shannon Dent each totaled two goals and three assists, junior
Juliane Fitzsimmons supplied three goals for her first collegiate hat trick, and sophomore
Gianna LeDuc added two goals and two assists.
The Warriors finished with a 36-11 shots, and they forced the Fighting Scots (0-7, 0-3 PSAC) into 28 turnovers. Junior
Tatyana Petteway played the first half in goal before giving way to junior
Michelle Dyck and freshman
McKenzie Gaghan for the final 30 minutes. Gaghan made four saves without allowing a goal in just over eight minutes of game action.
Cicerelle's eight-point game was her second of the season and her third overall at ESU. She leads the Warriors with 42 points (28 G, 14 A) through eight games this year, and she has an even 150 points (100 G, 50 A) in her collegiate career.
Eleven different players had at least one point in the victory. Junior
Cassidy McKenna supplied a pair of goals in the opening half, while freshmen
Brooke Babbitt and
Brooke Rickey each scored their first collegiate goals after the intermission. Dent's five points and LeDuc's four were each new career scoring highs.
Senior
Emma Rufolo led the way defensively, picking up a career-high eight ground balls to go along with five caused turnovers and five draw controls. Sophomore
Krista Mitarotonda won seven of ESU's 15 draws on the afternoon.
The Warriors' 20 goals were their most in over two years, and the 17-goal margin of victory was their largest since a 22-4 win over Wilmington on March 22, 2016.
ESU returns home for a key PSAC tilt on Wednesday, hosting No. 4 West Chester in a 4 p.m. matchup at Whitenight Field. The Warriors topped the previously-unbeaten Golden Rams by a 16-14 final in last year's Atlantic Region final, clinching the program's first-ever Division II Final Four appearance.