Box Score ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. (Mar. 13, 2016) - The Molloy College women's lacrosse team built a 9-4 lead at halftime, then did enough to hold off a pesky Holy Family squad in a 16-14 victory on Sunday (Mar. 13) at John A. Darcy Field. The win bumps the Lions' record this season to 4-2 and puts the maroon and white on a two-game winning streak. The loss drops Holy Family to 0-6 on the season.
Junior attacker
Alexa Watson (North Massapequa, N.Y.) scored the game's first goal with just 53 seconds gone by in the contest, but Holy Family responded as defender Ursula Coyle (Philadelphia, Pa.) equalized the contest less than a minute later. The Tigers went ahead 2-1 on a goal by Erin Harmer (Philadelphia, Pa.) with six-and-a-half minutes played, but the Lions woke up from slumber to score four straight goals in the next five minutes. Watson led the charge to tie the game at two-all before senior
Katie O'Brien (Oyster Bay, N.Y.), sophomore
Jessica Markowitz (Baldwin, N.Y.) and graduate student
Meghan Orlando (Hicksville, N.Y.) scored in succession to get the Lions ahead by a 5-2 score. Holy Family scored the next two markers to cut the deficit to one goal at 5-4 midway through the opening half. The maroon and white proved that momentum favored the hosts, though, as the team scored six goals in an 18-minute stretch that spanned both halves of the game. Along the way, several players got their chance at stardom as senior attacker
Ariana Cavallone (Glen Cove, N.Y.) came off the bench to score her first goal of the season and her first marker since Apr. 2, 2015. Meanwhile, freshman attacker
Michaela Siegler (Levittown, N.Y.) netted her first career collegiate goal to end the first half on a positive note for the maroon and white.
The second half started well for the Lions with Orlando and
Cooper Sesselman (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) scoring to put Molloy up 11-4 with 25 minutes to play. Sesselman and
Brianna Wilson (Levittown, N.Y.) each scored their second goals of the game in the second half, and the Lions' bench emptied to give all the players a shot to score and play in the contest. Junior midfielder
Laura Rice (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) took advantage of the opportunity to score her first two goals of the season (her first goals since Apr. 2, 2015, as well) while sophomore
Angela Bollettieri (Plainview, N.Y.) scored her first career goal on a free-position attempt to close Molloy's scoring account at 16 for the day; the 16-goal output set the benchmark for the season and was the most markers scored by the Lions since Senior Day 2015 (Apr. 25) when Molloy put up 21 goals against Mercy.
Six players---O'Brien, Orlando, Rice, Sesselman, Watson and Wilson---tallied two goals in the win; Wilson added two assists, four caused turnovers and seven draw control victories for the Lions. Orlando, meanwhile, distributed four assists and senior defender
Kelsey Dougherty (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.) scooped up a team-high five ground balls. Red-shirt junior goalie
Caroline Winters (Baldwin, N.Y.) made one save in the opening half and earned the win, while freshman goalie
Alyssa Chetti (West Babylon, N.Y.) made eight stops in her first 30 career minutes of collegiate lacrosse action in the second and final half of the game.
Molloy comes off of the recent four-game homestand, winning three contests at Darcy Field. The Lions will now embark on a six-game, five-state, one-district tour of the East Region of lacrosse; the road trip will start Tuesday (Mar. 15) in New Jersey when the maroon and white face Caldwell University at 3 p.m.
