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Western New York's Premier Division II Team
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10
Daemen DAEMEN 6-7, 1-2
13
Winner D'Youville D'YOUVIL 8-5, 3-0
Daemen DAEMEN
6-7, 1-2
10
Final
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D'Youville D'YOUVIL
8-5, 3-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Daemen DAEMEN 2 0 5 3 10
D'Youville D'YOUVIL 5 4 2 2 13

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse | | CONTACT: Tom McDermott, Director of Athletics Communications | tmcdermo@daemen.edu

Second Half Rally Falls Short; Wildcats Drop 13-10 Decision To Saints

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Freshman Sam Newlin scored five goals and sophomore Brinn Stworzydlak made 14 saves to lead the D'Youville University women's lacrosse team to a 13-10 victory over Daemen University this evening at Dobson Field on the D'Youville campus.
 
Daemen dropped to 6-7 overall and 1-2 in the East Coast Conference. The 2023 campaign marks the inaugural season for Daemen, which officially announced it was adding women's lacrosse as a varsity sport in June of 2021. D'Youville ran its winning streak to seven-straight games and improved to 8-5 overall and 3-0 in the league.

Junior Dana Bacher (Hamburg, N.Y.) scored three goals for Daemen, while sophomore Camryn Day (Hamburg, N.Y.) added two goals and two assists. Bacher has now scored a team-high 38 goals. Graduate student Casey Decatur (Apollo Beach, Fla.) and freshman Avery Castner (Penn Yan, N.Y.) both contributed two goals for Daemen. Decatur has now totaled 29 goals, a league-high 33 assists and a team-high 62 points.

Daemen outscored the Saints 8-4 in the second half, as the Wildcats tried to battle back from a 9-2 halftime deficit.
 
Daemen held a 2-1 lead late in the first quarter, but D'Youville scored four times over the final 6:27 of the first quarter and then scored twice in the first minute of the second quarter to open up a 7-2 lead. The Wildcats were held scoreless in the second quarter and D'Youville took a 9-2 lead into halftime.

The teams traded goals early in the third quarter and D'Youville held an 11-4 lead when the Wildcats began their comeback. Daemen scored three unanswered goals over the final 9:25 of the third quarter and cut the D'Youville lead to three goals, 11-8, after Day scored just 54 seconds into the fourth quarter. The Saints scored an extra-man goal with 12:16 left to regain a four-goal lead, but freshman Ella Bouley (Auburn, N.Y.) answered for the Wildcats two minutes later to make it 12-9 D'Youville. The Wildcats would come no closer down the stretch, as Newlin netted her fifth of the game with 8:30 left, before Decatur closed out the scoring with 6:43 left.

Freshman Blair Pfohl (Lockport, N.Y.) went the distance in net for Daemen and made six saves. Stworzydiak, who earned second-team All-ECC honors last year as a rookie, made six of her 14 saves in the third quarter has now totaled a league-high 126 saves on the year.

Day and Bouley both totaled a team-high five draw controls for Daemen. Day and has now totaled an ECC-best 87 draw controls on the year. Graduate student Hayley Latvala (Grand Island, N.Y.) and freshman Jenna Havert (Newark, N.Y.) both collected a team-high three ground balls for the Wildcats, while Havert also recorded two caused turnovers.

Daemen outshot the Saints 15-6 in the third quarter and the Wildcats finished with a 37-26 advantage in shots overall. The Wildcats also finished with an 15-11 edge in draw controls.

Daemen returns to action Saturday (April 15) when it plays an ECC game at St. Thomas Aquinas College.
 

Daemen University features the premier NCAA Division II athletics program in the Buffalo-Niagara region, sponsoring 17 intercollegiate teams. For the latest information on Daemen Athletics, follow the Wildcats via social media on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, or sign up to receive customizable news alerts, e-mail newsletters and weekly schedule alerts.
 
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