Lakewood, N.J. – Morgan Cassiliano scored four goals, including her 100th career goal for the Post University women's lacrosse team, but the Eagles had their four-game winning streak snapped in an 18-8 loss to Georgian Court in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) play on Saturday afternoon.
Cassiliano's milestone goal came at the 22:13 mark on a pass from Gabriella Koehler, which made it an 11-7 Georgian Court lead at the time. It was Cassiliano's third goal of the game.
Cassiliano becomes the third player in program history to achieve the feat. The others are 2015 graduate and assistant coach Miranda Polaski with 152 and 2014 graduate Meghan Diggett with 102.
Post (5-2, 5-2 CACC) jumped out to an early two-goal lead in the first half as freshman Hailey McHenry took a pass from Cassiliano at the 27:29 mark to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead before Cassiliano scored on a free position shot to make it a 2-0 game.
After the Lions scored three straight goals, the two teams would exchange the next five goals, with Lauren Chambers scoring two and Molly Dobratz scoring the third on an assist from Chambers to make it a 5-5 game with 8:46 remaining.
The Lions would go on to score the final three goals of the first half and the first two of the second half to give themselves a 10-5 lead.
Cassiliano and Georgian Court's (8-2, 5-0 CACC) Madison Heck swapped the next two goals before Cassiliano's milestone moment.
After Heck's goal, Koehler won the scramble for the draw control, passed it to a streaking Cassiliano, who picked up the ball and put it past Lions goalkeeper Alexis Hahn to make it an 11-7 game.
However, the Lions scored the next seven goals – four of them from Heather Devaney – to take an 18-7 lead. Cassiliano added one more goal with 32 seconds left for her fourth of the game.
The Eagles led in draw controls, 18-9 with Cara DiStefano leading the way with seven and Megan Diamond with six.
Christina Badaracco finished with 12 saves on the day.
Up next the Eagles take on Jefferson on the road on May 1 at noon in their final regular season game before the CACC tournament.
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