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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Kennesaw State women's lacrosse team scored the game's first six goals and never looked back on the way to a 22-9 road victory at Wofford on Saturday afternoon. With both their highest goal total and largest win margin of the year, the Owls improved to 3-3 overall while the Terriers dropped to 1-3.
KEY PLAYERS: Siena Gore was just one score off matching her jersey number, as the senior midfielder notched a game-high six goals while adding an assist.
Zoe King, a junior with one career goal before Saturday's game, posted her first career hat trick.
Mia MacKenzie and
Chesslyn Lamar both posted two goals each.
THE RUNDOWN: Five different Owls all scored during the opening 6-0 run for KSU. After the Terriers finally got on the board with 4:48 to close within 6-1, King and Gore posted the next two scores to put KSU back up 8-1. Wofford made a pair of rallies, the first a 3-0 run to make it an 8-4 game. The Owls then scored five of the next six to go back up 13-5. KSU was then held to just one goal in the third while Wofford scored two and added two more to begin the fourth to make it a 14-9 score. KSU closed out the game by scoring the next eight goals of the afternoon.
QUOTEABLE: "I thought we gave it a great team effort today. Having 13 different goal scorers and people subbing in and keeping the intensity going gave us a big spark. In the backfield, we held them to nine total goals, while last season they had nine goals on us at halftime. That shows a large improvement from our defenders and goalie. I think this is a game that we can build momentum off of. I'm proud of the good things I saw today."–
KSU head coach Laura Maness.
NOTES
-The 13-goal win margin is the largest for the Owls since a 25-3 win at Howard on April 28, 2019.
-KSU is now 4-0 all-time against Wofford.
-The Owls held the advantage on draw controls 21-14.
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Julia Weiss (five goals allowed, three saves) and
Errin Crowe (four goals allowed, seven saves) split the time in goal for KSU.
-Also scoring for the Owls on Saturday was
Jaxsyn Schonewille,
Payton Gregory,
Natalie Welch,
Caroline Farley,
McKenzie Jackson,
Shea Murphy,
Devon Webb,
Hannah Barth and
Hannah Davis.
NEXT TIME OUT: The Owls are back home at Fifth Third Bank Stadium for a Tuesday, March 8 contest against Radford at 12 p.m.
