WEST HAVEN, Conn. – With her second goal of the day, senior Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) became the newest member of the 100 Goal Club at New Haven, the 15th player overall and the second to reach the summit in as many games. O'Brien finished with three goals, leading the No. 12 New Haven women's lacrosse team in a 14-11 loss to No. 3 Le Moyne on Saturday at Kayo Field.

O'Brien was one of two players to for New Haven who finished with a multi-goal outing, joined by graduate student Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) who led the Chargers offense overall with five points on four goals and an assist. Overall, New Haven's 11 goals came from six different players, including freshman Zoe Wilkins (Watchung, N.J./Mount Saint Mary Academy) who went coast-to-coast in the second half for her first collegiate goal. Junior Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) also finished with three points on the afternoon with a goal and two assists.

Overall, New Haven and Le Moyne finished in a deadlock with 24 shots apiece, with the Chargers earning five shots on free position attempts. Three of New Haven's goals came on free position runs, two from Cietek and one from rookie Hailey Rattigan (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity). The Chargers also led Le Moyne in draw controls with an 18-9 edge led by O'Brien who pulled in eight of those controls.

The Blue and Gold relied on all three of its keepers in the contest with Gianna Guerra (Thiells, N.Y./North Rockland) earning the start and suffering the defeat between the pipes. She would finish with one save while allowing five goals in just under 16 minutes. Fellow freshman Erica Rinsky (North Caldwell, N.J./West Essex) gave up eight goals and did not record a save in 18:30 while Alexa Carbone (Cheshire, Conn./Cheshire) played the final 25:34 and finished with a pair of stops while allowing one goal.

SCORING

·         28:27 1st – LEM :: Vicki Graveline unassisted

·         26:46 1st – LEM :: Sidney Hall unassisted

·         25:01 1st – LEM :: Vicki Graveline unassisted

·         17:40 1st – LEM :: Vicki Graveline unassisted

·         14:56 1st – LEM :: Nicole Delaney from Signey Hall

·         14:04 1st – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (1); Free Position

·         9:26 1st – UNH :: Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) (1) from Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland)

·         8:14 1st – LEM :: Nicole Delaney from Signey Hall

·         7:50 1st – LEM :: Sidney Hall unassisted

·         6:45 1st – UNH :: Hailey Rattigan (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity) (1); Free Position

·         6:12 1st – LEM :: Vicki Graveline unassisted

·         2:22 1st – LEM :: Nicole Delaney from Anna Mazurkiewicz

·         1:47 1st – LEM :: Nicole Delany from Vicki Graveline

·         0:10 1st – LEM :: Maddie Knapp from Monica Sanna

·         28:04 2nd – UNH :: Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) (2) from Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) (1) (100th Career Goal)

·         26:49 2nd – LEM :: Vicki Graveline unassisted

·         25:34 2nd – LEM :: Alexis Garbarino from Sidney Hall

·         24:58 2nd – UNH :: Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) (3) unassisted

·         21:42 2nd – UNH :: Zoe Wilkins (Watchung, N.J./Mount Saint Mary Academy) (1) unassisted

·         19:36 2nd – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (2); Free Position

·         18:38 2nd – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (3) unassisted

·         17:39 2nd – UNH :: Smantha Galler (1) from Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) (2)

·         14:33 2nd – UNH :: Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) (1) from Nicole Belanger (Kinnelon, N.J./Kinnelon) (1)

·         12:46 2nd – LEM :: Jacqueline Pardee from Vicki Graveline; Man-up

·         12:21 2nd – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (4) unassisted

HIGHLIGHTS

·         Le Moyne came out of the gates and put New Haven in a 5-0 deficit over the first 15 minutes that the Chargers were unable to recover from. Captain's Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) and Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) put a stop to that early Dolphins run when they went back-to-back for the Chargers first two points of the day. Cietek's goal came on a free position attempt, while she would provide O'Brien with a pass that led to the second goal of the afternoon.

·         Freshman Hailey Rattigan (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity) would convert a free position attempt inside of seven minutes remaining in the opening half before Le Moyne closed out the stanza scoring the final four goals to take an 11-3 lead into the intermission.

·         Coming out of the break, the Chargers would strike first with O'Brien connecting on her second of the game, which was also the 100th of her career. This time around she connected with junior Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) who registered her first of two helpers on the day.

·         After surrendering two more goals to the Dolphins over the next 2:30, New Haven's offense kicked into gear scoring six straight to cut the deficit to three, 13-10. O'Brien would score the first in that stretch, breaking what was the largest deficit of the day for New Haven.

·         Following O'Brien's third of the day, freshman midfielder Zoe Wilkins (Watchung, N.J./Mount Saint Mary Academy) scored her first in a Blue and Gold uniform as she went end to end for the tally.

·         Cietek would then net two straight goals, the first off a free position and the second unassisted, both coming in less than a minute span.

·         Samantha Galler (Marshfield, Mass./Marshfield) provided the fifth goal in the run as she connected with Mazliah who provided her second assist of the day. Mazliah would then be rewarded just over three minutes later when she took a pass from Nicole Belanger (Kinnelon, N.J./Kinnelon) and fired into an open net as the goalkeeper had come out to play Mazliah. That score was the final in the run for New Haven and pulled them within three for the first time since five minutes into the action.  Overall, the Chargers six goal run came in just over 10 minutes of action

·         The Chargers then answered the run breaking man-up goal by the Dolphins with their final score of the day as Cietek secured her fourth goal unassisted with 12:21 remaining. That goal would prove to be the last for either team.

NEXT ON TAP
The Chargers begin a stretch where five of their next six games come away from the friendly confines of Kayo Field. First on the docket away from West Haven is a visit to Garden City, N.Y. as the Chargers are set to meet No. 1 Adelphi on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. on the Panthers Motamed Field.