Lacrosse Earns Home Triumph Over Delaware State

The Central Connecticut State lacrosse team won for the second time in as many games, defeating Northeast Conference foe Delaware State 20-10 Saturday on Arute Field.  The Blue Devils improve to 2-9 overall and 2-3 in NEC play, while the Hornets fall to 1-10 overall and 0-4 in league play.

The Blue Devils are back in action on April 12^th when they host Wagner in NEC play. The game, set for 1:00 pm, is the regular season home finale for the Blue Devils and will be preceded by Senior Day.

KEY MOMENTS

• Kylee Payne go the scoring going, netting a pass from Abbey Cannon 3:50 into the game as the Blue Devils jumped out to a 5-0 lead when Alexa Efron scored with 4:29 to play in the first period
• London Downing found the back of the net 19 seconds later for the Hornets first tally
• The Blue Devils scored the next four goals, two from Katie Hurlbut, to push the advantage to 9-1 88 seconds into the second quarter
• Delaware State scored consecutive goals, 14 seconds apart, to make it 9-3 at the 12:54 mark of the second quarter
• The teams alternated goals the rest of the half to give CCSU a 12-5 lead at the break
• The Hornets scored the first two goals of the second-half, cutting their deficit to 12-7 with 4:30 to play in the third quarter
• The Blue Devils responded with two goals in 54 seconds to end the third and the first two goals of the fourth quarter to open a 16-7 advantage and led by at least eight goals the remainder of the game

NOTES & NUMBERS

• The 20 goals scored are the most for the Blue Devils since March 10, 2017 and the 36 goals in a two-game span is the most since scoring 39 in a two-game stretch in 2011 versus Howard and Liberty
• Cannon led on the offensive side with seven points, netting her first hat trick as a Blue Devil
• Hurlbut finished with five points, scoring four times
• Jadyn Jones earned the win, making two saves in 30 minutes in goal, and picking up three ground balls to lead the team in that category with Emily Martinez
• Bella Santos also scored four goals for her second consecutive hat trick, to go along with two draw controls
• Makayla Winegar finished the game with eight draw controls and added an assist
• Efron had a hat trick in the win, while Guadio and Payne both scored twice as well
• Maeve Tobler made six saves in her 30 minutes in cage in the second-half
• The Blue Devils caused nine turnovers, with Krista Mazariegos, Ellie Gusitsch and Jenny Flynn each recording two CT's