NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – The State University of New York at New Paltz women's lacrosse team will travel to Cazenovia, N.Y. to take on the SUNY Oswego Lakers for their first State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) game on Tuesday, March 31 at 4 p.m.
RECORDS: New Paltz enters Tuesday 1-3 overall and 1-3 away… Oswego is 4-4 overall and 0-1 in the SUNYAC.
SCOUTING THE HAWKS (1-3, 0-0):The Hawks are coming off a four-game trip to California and ended on a high note with their first win of the season against the Whittier Poets, 12-9... New Paltz got off to a strong start, leading 8-1 at halftime and hung on to win through a strong rally by the Poets in the second half... Senior attacker
Kelsey Healy led the team with four goals and sophomore attacker
Nicole Stackpole followed with three goals... Sophomore attacker
Melissa Wagner scored two goals... Junior midfielder
Alexa Vitale, senior midfielder
Carissa Citro and senior midfielder
Lianne Valdivia each added one goal in the win... Valdivia also recorded four ground balls and three caused turnovers... Freshman attacker
Caitlyn Morris drove the offense with three assists... Senior goalkeeper
Jackie Ulanoff earned her first win of the year, making four saves... The Hawks overpowered the Poets in shots (36-21) and held Whittier to 13 successful clears on 22 attempts... New Paltz completed 12-of-13 clear attempts.
STATISTICAL LEADERS: Valdivia and Wagner lead the team with nine goals respectively... Valdivia stands alone leading the team with 12 points, while Wagner and Healy are tied with 10 points... Wagner holds the top shooting percentage at 52.9 percent, Stackpole is shooting 50.0 percent, and Healy is shooting 47.1 percent... Healy is close to perfect in her shots-on-goal percentage at 94.1 percent (16-of-17) and Wagner holds a shots-on-goal percentage of 88.2 percent (15-of-17)... Valdivia has a shots-on-goal percentage of 80.0 percent (16-of-20)... In the groundball category, Ulanoff has 13 and Valdivia has 12... Citro has 13 draw controls and Valdivia has 11.
TEAM STATISTICS: The Hawks are averaging 9.75 goals per game and have tallied one woman-up score... 23 of the team's 39 goals have come off assists... New Paltz is 41-of-67 on clear attempts (61.2 percent).
SCOUTING THE LAKERS (4-4, 0-1): The Lakers lost their first SUNYAC game to the Oneonta Red Dragons 16-9 at a neutral site on March 28… Junior attacker Emily Lange tallied two goals, four ground balls, one caused turnover, and three draw controls… Junior attacker Erannan Shattuck recorded two goals and three assists… Shattuck secured her third-straight game with five or more points… Senior midfielder Mackenzie Kjerstad added one goal, picked up five groundballs, and forced three turnovers… On defense, junior defender Melissa Bulman scooped up five groundballs and caused four turnovers… Oswego was perfect on clear attempts (20-of-2), had two more caused turnovers than the Red Dragons (12-10), and nine more ground balls (20-11).
STATISTICAL LEADERS: Shattuck leads the team with 18 goals, 18 assists, and a shots-on-goal percentage of 81.0 percent (34-of-42)…Lange closely follows Lange with 17 goals and a shots-on-goal percentage of 80.5 percent (33-of-41)… Sophomore attacker Briana Kimble helps fuel the offense with 16 assists… Freshman goalkeeper Angela Ponto leads the team in groundballs with 29… Kjerstad has 20 groundballs… Junior midfielder Esther Gabriel and freshman defender Nicole Granteed have 10 caused turnovers respectively… Gabriel leads the team in draw controls with 44.
TEAM STATISTICS: In the SUNYAC, Oswego is ranked first in goal margin (+1.9), shot percentage (35.8 percent) groundballs (206), and caused turnovers (99)… The Lakers rank second in assists per game (6.56), shots per game (31.33), groundballs per game (22.89), and caused turnovers per game (11.00).
LAST MEETING: The Hawks fell to the Lakers 16-10 when these two programs last met on April 22, 2014.
WHAT'S NEXT: New Paltz hosts Buffalo State for their second SUNYAC competition on Saturday, April 4 at 1 p.m.…Oswego travels to SUNY Fredonia on Friday, April 3 at 4 p.m.
