Mercer Defeats Longwood 18-5 To Secure 10th Win Of Season

Saturday, April 8

Farmville, VA

12 PM

Mercer University

10-2, 4-0Big South

Longwood

3-8, 1-3Big South

MER

Longwood

Mercer Defeats Longwood 18-5 To Secure 10th Win Of Season

4/8/2023 2:41:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

Box Score

Four different Mercer players scored hat tricks in win

FARMVILLE, Va. – Four different Mercer players scored hat tricks and Mercer's defense was once again stout as Mercer women's lacrosse defeated Longwood 18-5 in Farmville, Virginia Saturday afternoon.

With the win, the Bears move to 4-0 in conference play and have limited each conference opponent to less than 10 goals.

Mercer outshot Winthrop 40-12 including a 32-7 shots on goal advantage. The Bears also doubled up the Lancers 18-9 in draw controls.

The Bears got hat tricks from Shannon Urey, Chloe Schaeffer, Lyndsey Lewis, and Kayla Soltys. As a team, Mercer had 11 assists in the game, a season-high.

Soltys and Erin Degnan each had seven draw controls on the afternoon.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Bears gave up the opening goal of the game for the second consecutive game, but again responded with a 4-0 scoring run to take early control of the game at 4-1. Four different goal scorers for the Bears gave them the 4-1 lead.

Longwood made it 5-3 with more than 12 minutes to play in the second quarter, but Mercer would score the remaining seven goals in the second quarter to take a 12-3 lead into halftime.

The goal scoring run in the quarter included two goals from Soltys six seconds apart for her hat track. Lewis also got her hat trick with just over five minutes to play in the first half.

Urey and Schaeffer earned their hat tricks in the third quarter and Mercer led 15-5 after the third quarter.

Maddi Koury scored the only two goals in the fourth quarter for either team.

NOTABLES

The Bears have opened Big South play with four straight wins in which they've outscored their opponents 84-23.
This was the first game this season in which the Bears have had at least four different players score hat tricks.
Mercer held Longwood to seven shots on goal for the game, the least amount of shots on goal for a Mercer opponent this season.
Koury eclipsed the 20-goal mark for the season with her 20^th and 21^st goals of the year – a career high for her.
Urey's three goals give her 50 on the season as she continues to lead the Big South in goals after entering the day fourth the country with 47 goals.

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