Women’s Lacrosse Wins Fifth-Straight Following 17-11 Victory at Dean

THE BASICS 

Score: 
Emmanuel 17 – Dean 11

Records: 
Emmanuel College Saints (8-5, 8-3 GNAC)
Dean College Bulldogs (3-9, 3-7 GNAC)

Location: Franklin, Mass. – Grant Field

Date: Saturday, April 16, 2022

THE LEAD – Saints senior Chandra Franca (Woburn, Mass.) scored seven goals for a second consecutive game while senior Jessica Borduas (Woodbury, Conn.) matched a career-high with five goals, helping lead the Saints to a 17-11 win over the Dean Bulldogs on Saturday morning in Great Northeast Athletic Conference play.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Saints and Bulldogs played to a 5-5 tie, early in the second quarter, but a five-goal run for EC would help the Saints start to pull away. Franca and first-year Rachel Canedy (Woodstock, Conn.) combined for all five goals, including a man-up and free position goal for each, helping Emmanuel to a 10-5 lead. EC and DC would each add a goal to finish the half, giving the Saints an 11-6 edge at the break.
• Borduas (Woodbury, Conn.) and Bulldogs junior Jazzy Sztyler-Magee (Burlington, Conn.) accounted for the two goals for each side in the third quarter, setting up EC with a 13-8 lead with 15 minutes to go.
• The Bulldogs could only get within four in the final quarter, as Emmanuel outscored Dean 4-3 over the final 15 minutes, en route to ECs fifth-straight win.
• Borduas started the scoring 2:26 into the game, but that goal was answered 19 seconds later by Bulldogs junior Maire Brown (Huntington, N.Y.), tying the game at 1-1. Later in the quarter, EC scored back-to-back free-position goals 38 seconds apart, thanks to Franca and junior Megan Steele (Auburn, Maine) to lead 3-1. Dean closed the gap to 3-2, before Franca finished the scoring in the quarter to send Emmanuel into the second with a 4-2 lead.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

• Franca's seven-goal day makes her the second player in women's lacrosse program history to have back-to-back games with at least seven goals, joining Kristen Tuleja, who accomplished the same feat in 2016.
• Borduas's five goals are a season-high and moves her to 96 career points, just four shy of becoming the 13^th player in program history to reach 100 career points.
• Steele and Canedy each scored a pair while first-year Abby Brown (Saco, Maine) scored her third of the season.
• Senior Emma Crowley (Peterborough, Maine) made 14 saves, improving to 8-5 this season.
• Sztyler-Magee and first-year Nina Medeiros (Fairhaven, Mass.) each had four goals for Dean. Brown added a hat trick, her seventh game of three goals or more this season.

UP NEXT

• The Saints ride a five-game winning streak into arguably their hardest test to date, returning Wednesday, April 20 to face the No. 10 Tufts Jumbos for a 7:00 p.m. faceoff at Tufts.
• Dean is back on Tuesday, April 19, continuing GNAC play at Regis, with faceoff set for 7:00 p.m.