ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – Senior
Emma DiPatri scored her 100th career point and the Drew University women's lacrosse team continued its red-hot offensive stretch, defeating Elizabethtown College 24-11 on the road for its second-straight Landmark Conference victory Saturday afternoon.
Nine different players scored for the Rangers (6-6, 2-2 LC), who also scored 24 goals three days earlier in a victory at Wilkes University.
DiPatri reached her milestone with her final point of the day, a third-quarter assist that gave her team a 20-7 lead. She finished the game with two goals and two assists and now has 62 goals and 38 assists for her career.
Senior
Ella Champigny paced the Rangers with six goals and two assists while classmate
Lizzy Barrett poured in four goals. Sophomore
Aubrey Welch contributed three goals, one assist, and a career-high 10 draw controls while senior
Mary Kate Davidson also scored three goals while posting four DCs and four ground balls.
Freshman
Grace Patane (two goals, two assists), senior
Rachael West (two goals, one assist), and freshman
Madi Strong (one goal, four assists).
Freshman
Paige Shaw played the opening 53 minutes in goal for Drew and made four saves while senior
Carly Smith stopped one shot over the final seven minutes.
The Rangers never trailed and bolted to a 10-1 lead after the first quarter. Barrett scored three of her goals in the period while Welch also struck twice.
Drew edged the Blue Jays 5-4 in the second quarter, when Davidson scored twice, and led 15-5 at the intermission.
The Rangers settled any doubt with a six-goal third quarter. Champigny went on a scoring spree late in the period, reeling off four consecutive goals in just under five minutes to put the game out of reach as Drew carried a 21-7 advantage into the final stanza.
The Rangers continue their season on Wednesday, when they visit the University of Scranton in another Landmark Conference affair starting at 4 p.m.