Box Score OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Top-ranked Salisbury closed the game with a big scoring run in the second half to pull away for a 15-5 victory over the Stevenson women's lacrosse team on Saturday afternoon.
Stevenson (0-1) leveled the game at five with the initial goal of the second half before Salisbury (1-0) closed the game with 10 unanswered markers.
Stevenson went back and forth with Salisbury early following a pair of markers from Caroline Murphy, which leveled the score even at two. The Sea Gulls added the next two goals for a 4-2 edge in the opening frame. The Mustangs added one more in the quarter as Murphy found the back of the net for the third time. With the Mustangs down one, Stevenson held the 8-6 edge in shots following the first quarter.
Sophie Shucosky turned aside a pair of shots going into the second quarter and made another key save on a free-position attempt for Salisbury, keeping the score at 4-3. Murphy continued guiding the Mustang offensive attack with an unassisted goal that knotted the score at four before the Sea Gulls regained the lead at 6:37 in the second.
Stevenson kept pace with Salisbury, which took a 5-4 lead into the intermission. McKenna Blick posted her first career goal in a Stevenson uniform, coming at an opportune time and knotting the game at five to begin the second half. From there, Salisbury started to pull away with the next five goals of the third quarter.
The Sea Gulls took over from there, posting the final five goals of the third and all five goals in the final quarter.
GAME NOTES
- Both teams participated in a Game Hair Havoc contest in an effort to raise funds for the Headstrong Foundation. It was also a special day across the Stevenson athletic department as all four home teams raised funds for the #MadiStrong initiative.
- Murphy accounted for all three of the goals for Stevenson in the opening quarter, picking up right where she left off in her junior season.
- Two of the Sea Gulls' five goals came off the free position, helping the visitors build the narrow one-goal margin at the half.
- Mary Marc scooped up three ground balls and Tayla Wibecan added two caused turnovers for the Mustangs.
- Shucosky has made eight stops or more seven times during her Stevenson career.
- Erin Scannell and Delaney Hill scored three goals each for the visiting Sea Gulls.
UP NEXT
- Stevenson: The Mustangs will embark on its first road contest of the season, visiting Gettysburg on Saturday, February 19.
- Salisbury: The Sea Gulls head to Catholic on Saturday, February 19.
