Score: UAlbany 4, #25 UConn 15
 
Location: John Fallon Field | Albany, N.Y.
 
Records: UAlbany (1-5, 0-0 America East), UConn (5-2, 0-0 Big East)
 
Short Story: The University at Albany women's lacrosse program fell to the No. 25 UConn Huskies 15-4 on Saturday afternoon.
 
Key Stats:

• Ava Poupard led UAlbany with two goals.
• Both Mikaela Mooney and Dylana Williams scored a goal each.
• Mooney tallied a team-high two assists and three points.
• Between the pipes, Quinn McCarthy recorded five saves.
• Kennedi Landrigan picked up four ground balls, the most of any Great Dane.
• Emma Torkoff led the Purple and Gold with four caused turnovers, followed by Delilah Mile with three.
• UAlbany recorded 20 shots to UConn's 23.
• The Huskies tallied 20 turnovers while the Great Danes tallied 17.

How it Happened:

• UConn managed to score the opening goal on a successful free-position attempt a minute and a half into the game to make it 1-0.
• Less than a minute later, the Huskies scored again to make it 2-0.
• UAlbany got on the board with 11:13 left in the first when Ava Poupard scored on an assist from Courtney Rowe.
• Mikaela Mooney evened the score at 2-2 less than a minute later.
• UConn countered with a goal from Emma Dacey to make the score 3-2 with 10:13 to go.
• The Huskies' Rayea Davis found the back of the net with 6:50 left to make it 4-2.
• Two minutes later, Davis scored her second of the day to put UConn up 5-2.
• In the final minute of the quarter, the Huskies' Jenna Giardina scored to make it 6-2.
• The second quarter started slow, with neither team able to score for nearly six minutes. Eventually, UConn broke the stalemate with a goal to make it 7-2.
• A minute later, Karsyn Burnash of the Huskies scored to extend the lead to 8-2.
• Davis scored her third of the match with 7:43 left in the half to make the score 9-2.
• Anna Zimmerman of UConn found the back of the net to push the score to 10-2.
• With just over a minute left in the half, Eliza Bowman put the Huskies up 11-2 at the half.
• UConn started the second half with a goal less than a minute in to make it 12-2.
• The Great Danes were able to score with 8:50 to go in the third when Poupard netted her second of the game on an assist from Mooney to make the score 12-3.
• With under a minute to go in the third, Davis scored her fourth of the game to push the score to 13-3.
• To start the fourth quarter, Giardina netted her second of the game to make 14-3.
• After more than 10 scoreless minutes, UAlbany's Dylana Williams found the back of the net to make it 14-4.
• With just under a minute left, Lucia Smigiel of UConn scored the final goal of the game to make it 15-4.

 
UP NEXT: UAlbany's women's lacrosse will take on No. 1 Boston College on Wednesday, March 12. The first draw is scheduled for 3:00 pm at John Fallon Field.
 
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