All-Around Effort Leads Mercer To 19-4 Win Over Butler

Sunday, March 5

Macon, Ga.

12:00 PM

Mercer University

3-1

Butler

0-5

Butler

Mercer

Photo courtesy of Judy Stapleton

Photo by: Judy Stapleton

All-Around Effort Leads Mercer To 19-4 Win Over Butler

3/5/2017 3:34:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

Box Score Final Stats

MACON, Ga. – Seven Bears scored and 16 players set or tied season and/or career highs as Mercer dominated up and down the field to defeat Butler 19-4 on Sunday afternoon. Kate Leone led Mercer with season highs of five goals and seven points.

Three additional Bears notched hat tricks as Erica Coyne, Meghan Segreti and Lindsey Zeltwanger each found the back of the net three times. Zeltwanger added three assists to finish second with six points.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Bears had another strong start as they surged to a 5-0 lead and Leone secured a hat trick in the first 11 minutes of the game. After a pair of goals for the Bulldogs, which sandwiched two Bear goals, Mercer closed out the first half with another 5-0 run to take a 12-2 lead and send the game to running clock before intermission.

Leone scored her fifth goal of the day to open the second half and spark another 6-0 scoring spurt for the Bears. With 10 minutes remaining, Mercer led 18-2. Butler scored a pair of goals in the final minutes and Mercer added another to move the score to 19-4.

PLAYER OF THE GAME
Audrey Robertson had a banner day for the Bears. The sophomore set career highs with two goals, two points, five ground balls and five caused turnovers. Her five caused turnovers also set a program single-game record for Mercer.

STAT OF THE GAME
Mercer set program single-game highs of 38 ground balls and 19 caused turnovers.

NOTABLES

Kate Leone scored a season-high five goals and added two assists for a season-high seven points. She also had a career-high-tying two caused turnovers and a ground ball.
Lindsey Zeltwanger had three goals, three assists, a season-high four ground balls, a draw control and a caused turnover. With her three assists, Zeltwanger moved up to fourth place on Mercer's single-season assist leaderboard with 15.
Erica Coyne tallied three goals, two ground balls, one draw control and one caused turnover.
Meghan Segreti notched three goals, five draw controls, two ground balls and a caused turnover.
Audrey Robertson set a program single-game record with five caused turnovers to go with her career highs of two goals, two assists and five ground balls.
Kendall Garrett tied her career highs of two goals and two points and scooped up two ground balls.
Nawal Alami contributed a goal, a career-high-tying three ground balls and a draw control.
Catie Snee dished out her first career assist and set career highs with seven ground balls and two caused turnovers.
Michaela Lucas also had her first career assist and added a career-high two caused turnovers and a ground ball to go with it.
Gabby Goldberg recorded an assist and a draw control, tying career highs in both.
Lily Morin set career highs with three ground balls and two caused turnovers, while also grabbed a draw control.
In goal, Haleigh Wurzel made three saves in 51 minutes of play. Both Wurzel and Holmes allowed a pair of goals.
Mercer led in shots, 38-10, ground balls, 38-17, and draw controls, 14-10.
The Bears were 10-of-13 on clears, while Butler was just 6-of-20.

COACH EUSTACE'S TAKE
"We were a new program not too long ago and Butler and Cecil (Pilson) are starting that at Butler. For us, it was about being able to go out and try to dominate all the different aspects of the game. That was our goal today and I think we were able to do that."

RECORDS UPDATE

Mercer: 3-1, 0-0 ASUN
Butler: 0-5, 0-0 Big East

UP NEXT

Mercer: Hosts Radford on Thursday, March 9 at 12 p.m.
Butler: At Gardner-Webb on Wednesday, March 8 at 5 p.m.

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