SALISBURY, Md. - The third-ranked Salisbury University women's lacrosse team closed out the regular season with a perfect 13-0 record with a 17-8 victory over the 25th-ranked Roanoke Maroons on Saturday.
HOW IT HAPPENED
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Roanoke's Emerson Foster scored two goals in a row to give the Maroon's the early 2-0 lead.
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Salisbury answered the pair of Foster goals with a five-goal run with tallies from Julie Talbert, Alexis Strobel, Riley Hartman, Lauren Valenti and Erin Scannell to give the Sea Gulls a three-goal lead, 5-2.
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Foster completed the first-half hat trick as she ended the Salisbury run with a free position goal to bring the score within two, 5-3, with 10:28 remaining in the half.
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To answer the Foster goal, Valenti netted two goals to complete the hat trick both off assists from Strobel.
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Ellie Armstrong scored the final Roanoke goal of the half off a free position shot to bring the score within three, 7-4.
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Talbert, Valenti and Lydia McNulty rounded out the first-half scoring with strikes to extend the Salisbury lead 10-4 going into the second half.
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Two minutes into the second half, Lilly Blair scored off a pass from Molly Kasemeyer to cut the Sea Gull lead to 10-5.
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Valenti and Scannell scored for the Sea Gulls to push the lead to 11-5 seven minutes into the second half.
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Foster and Blair tallied two consecutive goals to end the Roanoke scoring with 16:40 remaining in the game.
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Salisbury secured the win with a six-goal flurry to close out the win. McNulty scored four of the last six goals of the game, including three consecutive goals in a span of two and a half minutes.
SALISBURY GAME NOTES
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Lauren Valenti and Lydia McNulty led the Sea Gull offense with five goals each.
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Alexis Strobel and McNulty both tallied a game-high six points.
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Carrie Hesen and Valenti each won a team-high five draw controls.
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Delaney Hill and Kate Lamberti paced the Sea Gull defense with three caused turnovers each.
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Mary Claire Hisle recorded four saves in the net while also picking up three ground balls.
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Salisbury edged Roanoke in 14-13 draw controls and 19-13 in ground balls
ROANOKE GAME NOTES
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Emerson Foster scored a team-high four goals for Roanoke.
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Lilly Blair, Nicole Harrison and Foster all picked up three draw controls.
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Natalie Mason scooped up a team-high three ground balls
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Caryl Schoudel recorded eight saves and three ground balls for Roanoke.
UP NEXT
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As the No. 1 seed in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) Tournament, Salisbury will host the No. 4 seed St. Mary's Seahawks conference semifinals on Wednesday, April 28.
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The game is set to begin at 4 p.m.