WASHINGTON - The win streak continues for the American University lacrosse team (7-3, 2-0 PL) as the Eagles picked up their fifth consecutive victory on Saturday with a dominant 19-7 performance against Holy Cross (3-6, 0-2 PL).

BY THE NUMBERS

• Five Eagles scored at least three goals, including three with four each starting with senior Stefanie Walsh.
• For the third time this season, freshman Maddy Spratt paced AU's offensive efforts, tying her career-high with six points off a career-high four goals alongside a pair of assists.
• Classmate Becca Frank also scored a career-high four goals while fifth-year seniors Emma Vinall and Kendall Goldblum earned a hat trick each with three goals. Goldblum also pitched in two assists for five points.
• Sophomore Emma Fiore added another goal on the day.
• Sophomore goalkeeper Mary Alice Collins posted a massive performance, picking up 14 saves including four in the fourth quarter as Holy Cross made one final push.
• Walsh also led with four caused turnovers followed by two from Collins, and Fiore and Spratt led with three ground balls each. Goldblum added a team-high seven draw controls followed by five from Fiore, and four from Vinall.
• Jenna Giardina and Jolie Creo scored two goals each to lead the Crusaders. Grace Flink picked up three saves in her 37 minutes before Tori Cini came in to close the day with four saves in 23 minutes.
• American led with 18 draw controls to Holy Cross' 11, and caused 10 turnovers to eight from the Crusaders.
• With seven games remaining in the regular season, AU is now only four away from tying the 2003 Patriot League Champions for most single-season wins in program history (11-8).

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Eagles and Crusaders traded goal-for-goal throughout the first quarter and were tied at 3-3 by the break. 
• American took control early in the second quarter, though, as Walsh posted back-to-back goals to send AU on a 6-1 run through the stanza, broken up only by a goal from Holy Cross' Giardina less than four minutes in. 
• Vinall added two more followed by one each from Frank and Spratt to give AU a 9-4 lead at the half.
• American's run extended to eight unanswered goals with a 5-0 run to open the second half before Holy Cross was able to get back on the board with a free position goal from Lauren Drillock. Included in that run were two from Goldblum and one each from Frank and Walsh to pick up each of their hat tricks.
• Walsh and Goldblum added one more each to close the third quarter before Spratt picked the run back up in the fourth quarter with two more of her own. Frank scored the Eagles' final goal with seven minutes remaining in the game and Holy Cross got on the board one final time with just under four minutes left.

NEXT UP
American will be back on the road for the next two games, starting with a visit to Army West Point on Saturday, April 2, followed by a game at Lehigh on Saturday, April 9. The Eagles will be back at Jacobs on Wednesday, April 13, for a 4 p.m. start against Loyola Maryland.




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