Mercer Handles Presbyterian At Home, 20-4

Wednesday, April 26

Macon, Ga.

4 PM

Mercer University

14-2, 8-0Big South

Presbyterian

6-10, 3-5Big South

Presbyterian

Mercer

4/26/2023 8:41:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

Box Score

Seventh 20-goal game this season for Mercer

MACON, Ga. – The Mercer women's lacrosse team won its final regular season home game in convincing fashion in a 20-4 win over Presbyterian on Wednesday evening.

With the win, the Bears move to 14-2, (8-0 Big South) and will look to win outright the Big South regular season championship at Campbell on Saturday.

For the second consecutive game, 11 different Mercer players scored, including three with hat tricks and two with their first career goals.

Chloe Schaeffer led the Bears with four goals and Abby Grimaldi and Maya Maldonado scored their first career goals. Maddi Koury led the Bears with six points (3G, 3A).

Mercer had a 30-12 shots on goal advantage and won the draw control battle 20-6.

Lyndsey Lewis secured her 100^th career draw control and Kayla Soltys led the Bears with eight draw controls on the evening.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Presbyterian tied the game at one after Gabby DiVirgilio scored the first of her three goals to open the game.

Mercer would then score the next 11 goals to take a 12-1 lead with more than eight minutes to play in the second quarter.

The Bears led 13-2 at halftime with first half hat tricks from DiVirgilio, Koury, and Schaeffer.

The first four goals of the second half were scored by the Bears with freshman Caroline Glus scoring the last of the four goals for her ninth goal of the season to give Mercer a 16-2 lead.

Sophomore Abby Grimaldi and freshman Maya Maldonado scored their first career goals in the final five minutes of the game to cap off a 20-4 win for Mercer.

NOTABLES

Mercer finishes 7-2 at home during the regular season, going 5-0 vs Big South opponents
Urey's 2 goals give her 69 on the season to lead the Big South and is second in the country in goals.
Lyndsey Lewis won her 100^th career draw control and had six for the game.
DiVirgilio has scored three goals in four consecutive games to give her 21 on the season.
This was the third 6-point game of the season for Koury.

UP NEXT
Mercer will look to win outright the Big South regular season championship on Saturday at Campbell.

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