NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Bookend six-goal quarters for Southern Connecticut State University helped them take control of a rescheduled matchup with Post University Women's Lacrosse on Friday morning, taking a commanding 18-5 win over the Eagles who fell back to .500 at 4-4 on the season with the loss.  

THE BASICS

Post University 5, Southern Connecticut State University 18

Post University (4-4)

Southern Connecticut State University (7-3)

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Owls would score the first seven goals of the affair through the first 16 minutes and change before graduate attacker Gabrielle Fiora netted the first of the day for the Eagles. Freshman midfielder Roksana Debicka would put Post on a brief 2-0 run and the deficit would fall briefly to five goals after graduate midfielder Cara DiStefano's score with 6:06 left in the half, 8-3.

Heading into the half, Southern Connecticut would hold a seven-goal lead after scoring twice in the final 3 ½ minutes to take a 10-3 edge. Senior defender Lotanna Nwabadu scored a pair of goals, a new single-game career-high, but those would be matched by two from the Owls as well who maintained their seven-goal lead into the fourth en route to an 18-5 win after another 7-0 run from the end of the third through the end of the game.

DiStefano finished with a team-high five draw controls as Post finished with 10 draw controls overall while Southern Connecticut finished with 17. Nine different players recorded a goal for the Owls, including two hat tricks from freshman attacker Anna Meserve and senior attacker Kirsten McIntire and 11 total would record at least one point.

Nwabadu had the team lead with two goals while DiStefano, Debicka, and Fiora all had one goal apiece. In net, senior goalie Lauren Bain made seven saves while allowing 10 goals in the first half. In the second half, sophomore goalie Niky Johnson relieved Bain in the second half, allowing eight goals and making five saves in her 30 minutes of playing time.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Lotanna Nwabadu's two goals in today's game were a new single-game career-high and gave her four goals on the season which also ties her career high for a season
• With five draw controls won today, Cara DiStefano now has 210 in her career, moving her 27 back of tying Mirando Polaski (2012-15) for most all-time at 237 draw controls
• Post is 0-4 this season when allowing 10-plus goals and 4-0 when allowing less than 10 goals so far this year
• Post University falls to 0-9 all-time against Southern Connecticut State University and has not scored more than 10 goals in a game against the Owls since their matchup back in 2013

WHO'S NEXT
Post University closes out its four-game road trip with a matchup against the University of Bridgeport set to take place in 11 days on Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 PM. It has been 13 years since the Eagles have beaten the Purple Knights, last doing so in 2011 when they won on the road, 13-10. Since then, Post has lost 12 straight games against Bridgeport, including a 21-16 defeat at home last season.