Women's Lacrosse | 4/2/2017 4:35:00 PM

WEST HAVEN, Conn. – The No. 12 New Haven women's lacrosse team (7-0, 5-0 NE10) scored six of the final seven goals to remain unbeaten in 2017 with an 18-13 win over the visiting Franklin Pierce Ravens on Sunday afternoon.

Leading the Chargers offense overall was graduate student Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) who finished with six goals, a high for the attack in a New Haven uniform. Included in Cietek's total was the go-ahead goal which broke a 12-12 stalemate and began the late six-goal rally for the Chargers.

Joining her in leading the Blue and Gold was sophomore MacKenzie Reh who scored a career-high four goals, including two on free position shots. Overall, seven Chargers scored in the contest with Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford), Nicole Belanger (Kinnelon, N.J./Kinnelon) and Hailey Rattigan (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity) all adding multiple scores to the effort.

Cietek would add an assist to her stat line, finishing with a game-high seven points, followed by O'Brien who chipped in five points with a team-high three assists. Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) added two assists to go along with a goal for three points. Rounding out the New Haven offense was Samantha Galler (Marshfield, Mass./Marshfield) who finished with one goal.

Freshman Erica Rinsky (North Caldwell, N.J./West Essex) started between the pipes for the Chargers, playing just over 49 minutes and allowing 12 of the Franklin Pierce goals while making four saves. Classmate Gianna Guerra (Thiells, N.Y./North Rockland) closed out the contest, playing the final 10-plus minutes allowing one goal while earning her fifth victory of the season.

SCORING

·         29:16 1st – UNH :: Samantha Galler (Marshfield, Mass./Marshfield) (1) from Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) (1)

·         27:32 1st – FPU :: Julia Miller from Caitlin Sweeney

·         27:01 1st  – FPU :: Briana Sweeney unassisted

·         21:54 1st – FPU :: Anna Wilbert; Free Position

·         18:31 1st – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (1), Free Position

·         17:06 1st – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (2) unassisted

·         14:32 1st – FPU :: Caitlin Sweeney; Free Position

·         12:36 1st – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (3) unassisted

·         10:43 1st – UNH :: Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) (1), from Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (1)

·         10:05 1st – UNH :: Mackenzie Reh (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue Medford) (1); Free Position

·         7:56 1st – FPU :: Caitlin Sweeney unassisted

·         6:15 1st – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (4); Free Position

·         28:41 2nd – FPU :: Julia Miller from Briana Sweeney

·         25:52 2nd – UNH :: Nicole Belanger (Kinnelon, N.J./Kinnelon) (1); Free position

·         25:10 2nd – UNH :: Mackenzie Reh (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue Medford) (2) from Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) (2)

·         24:03 2nd – FPU :: Briana Sweeney unassisted; Man-up

·         23:54 2nd – FPU :: Briana Sweeney unassisted

·         21:01 2nd – UNH :: Mackenzie Reh (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue Medford) (3) unassisted

·         18:57 2nd – FPU :: Caitlin Sweeney from Briana Sweeney

·         17:55 2nd – UNH :: Mackenzie Reh (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue Medford) (4); Free Position

·         16:48 2nd – FPU :: Julia Miller from Caitlin Sweeney

·         15:58 2nd – UNH :: Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) (1) from Hailey Rattigan (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity) (1)

·         12:38 2nd – FPU :: Anna Wilbert from Briana Sweeney

·         10:38 2nd – FPU :: Leana Richards; Free Position, Man-up

·         9:54 2nd – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (5) unassisted

·         7:40 2nd – UNH :: Nicole Belanger (Kinnelon, N.J./Kinnelon) (2) from Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) (3)

·         6:42 2nd – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (6) unassisted

·         5:28 2nd – UNH :: Hailey Rattigan (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity) (1) from Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) (1)

·         4:42 2nd – UNH :: Hailey Rattigan (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity) (2) from Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) (2)

·         2:00 2nd – UNH :: Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) (2); Free Position

·         1:42 2nd – FPU :: Anna Wilbert from Briana Sweeney

HIGHLIGHTS

·         New Haven opened up the game scoring on the opening possession with Galler scoring her fifth of the season off a feed from O'Brien.

·         The Ravens responded by rattling off three straight goals before New Haven answered with back-to-back from Cietek to knot the game at three.

·         Following an answer from Franklin Pierce, the Chargers again went to work, this time scoring three straight to take a two-goal advantage with 10 minutes remaining. All three goals in the run came from different players with Cietek netting her third and O'Brien and Reh each tallying their first.

·         Cietek closed out the half adding one more goal, her fourth of the day, to regain a two-goal advantage with 6:15 remaining as neither team would score the remainder of the half.

·         The two squads would play back-and-forth for the first 20 minutes of the second half with the largest lead in that span, a three goal, 9-6, advantage for New Haven. That lead came courtesy of back-to-back Chargers goals with Belanger scoring on a free position attempt and Reh tallying her second of the day thanks to a pass from O'Brien.

·         Franklin Pierce would manage its own back-to-back scores that resulted in the second tie of the afternoon at 12-12. New Haven rallied after that stalemate by scoring the next six goals to put the game out of reach.

·         Cietek tipped off that rally with her first score of the half, her fifth of the day, scoring unassisted. After a goal from Belanger just over two minutes later, Cietek struck again to record her most goals in a Blue and Gold uniform, again working by herself for the tally.

·         The rally would continue as the rookie attack Rattigan and junior Mazliah connected on back-to-back scores that came just 46 seconds apart. The final goal in the run for New Haven came on a free position attempt from O'Brien with two minutes remaining.  

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