DETROIT (4/22/2022) -- Senior
Charlotte Dale had a season-high three goals, but a big early run was too much to overcome as the University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team was topped, 20-8, at Youngstown State on Saturday.
Senior
Marina Butler had two goals and an assist, while senior
Annie Gilbert and junior
Abby Schillinger registered a goal and an assist. Freshman
Ysa Pakowski had the only other goal and sophomore
Meredith Leavell posted 14 saves.
Youngstown State (6-10, 4-3 MAC) started the game with six-straight goals until Gilbert got the Titans on the board with a free-position shot with 8:12 left.
The Titans (3-9 overall and 2-4 MAC) got to within five again, 7-2, late in the first as Butler took a pass from freshman
Alyssa Jarvis and beat the keeper.
Dale and Bluer would score back-to-back late in the second to make it a 12-4 game at the break. Dale and Schillinger would tally two in a row in the third to cut it to 14-6 and Pakowski and Dale had back-to-back markets to end the game.
Sophomore Maddie Camm had two caused turnovers, three draw controls and a ground ball, while sophomore
Leah Bodnar pulled down a team-high four draw controls.
Detroit Mercy returns home to face Kent State on Wednesday, with first face-off set for 5:00 p.m.
Game Notes:
- Youngstown State leads the overall series, 4-1, and are 2-1 at home
- Leavell has posted double-digit saves in seven games this season and in nine of her 23 career games, with her career-best 17 saves against Butler at home earlier in the year
- Butler has notched a goal in 19 of her last 32 games
- Gilbert has now scored a goal in 20 of her last 26 games, with markers in seven straight
- Dale's career-high in goals is four versus Kent State last season.
- Schillinger's only other goal was at Marquette earlier this season
- Pakowski's only other marker was at Xavier
- Meek now has 42 career draw controls
