Schafer Records 100th Career Point in 17-6 Win vs. UVM

Saturday, April 7

Durham, NH

7 PM

University of New Hampshire

6-6, 4-0AE

University of Vermont

4-9, 0-4AE

VERMONT

New Hampshire

Photo by: Audrey Powell

4/7/2018 10:38:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

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DURHAM, N.H. – Krissy Schafer (Longmeadow, Mass) scored five goals and recorded her 100^th point to propel the University of New Hampshire women's lacrosse team to Saturday night's 17-6 victory against the University of Vermont at Bremner Field.

Schafer entered the game with 98 career points and reached the century milestone with her second goal of the game at 26:15 of the first half. She matched her career highs in both goals (five) and points (five) to increase her career totals to 99 goals and 103 points.

Rebecca Sennott (Westford, Mass.) tallied a career-high three assists and scored a a goal for a personal-best four points. Julia Neyland (Boxborough, Mass.) scored a career-high three goals and also had an assist for a personal best of four points.

Catherine Sexton (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Michele Smith (Wantagh, N.Y.) and Carly Wooters (White Plains, N.Y.) each scored two goals for the Wildcats. Wooters also recorded a game-high five draw controls, three ground balls and two caused turnovers, while Sexton collected four GBs.

UNH starting goalie Kate Clancy (Barrington, R.I.) finished with six saves and exited the game with New Hampshire leading 14-5 at 20:01 of the second half. Amanda Gottlieb (Canton, Conn.) was credited with one save and yielded one goal.

Vermont was led offensively by Jenna Janes (four goals, one assist). She also corralled four draw controls. Maddy Kuras made 10 saves and also went to the sidelines at 20:01 of the second half. Catherine Green stopped 3 of 6 shots on goal the rest of the way.

UNH won its third consecutive game to improve to 6-6 overall and 4-0 in America East. Vermont is now 4-9, 0-4.

Saturday night's game was dedicated to One Love Foundation. You can support the team's fund raising effort by making an online donation: CLICK HERE.

UP NEXT

UNH returns to action April 11 (4 p.m.) at Boston University and travels to No. 1-ranked Stony Brook University on April 15 (12 p.m.).
New Hampshire's next home game is Senior Day on April 21 (1 p.m.) against the University at Albany.

THE DIFFERENCE

Leading 5-4 midway through the first half, UNH scored nine consecutive goals to build a double-digit lead, 14-4, with 23:48 remaining.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Schafer gave New Hampshire an early 1-0 lead with the first of her five goals at 28:27.
Twenty-five seconds later, UVM's Bailey Saneman converted Janes' pass into a goal and a 1-1 tie.
Wooters and Schafer scored 30 seconds apart – at 26:45 and 26:15 – to give the home 'Cats a 3-1 lead. Schafer's goal was her 100^th career point.
The Catamounts rallied to tie the score, 3-3, on goals by Janes (at 23:30) and Elise Koehl (22:11).
Elizabeth Blanding (Pittsford, N..Y.) put UNH back in front, 4-3, 47 seconds later and the visitors never pulled even the rest of the way.
Sennott finished a feed from Northrup to extend the lead to 5-3 at 16:23.
Janes netted her 20^th goal of the season to trim the deficit to 5-4 at 14:51.
Northrup's unassisted goal reestablished a two-goal lead of 6-4 at 13:45 and ignited UNH's 9-0 run.
Schafer scored her 32^nd goal of the year, and seventh of the game for the Wildcats at 10:12.
Sexton's unassisted goal made the lead 8-4, Wildcats, at 8:23.
Neither team scored for more than six minutes until Schafer netted her fourth of the game at 1:59 to send UNH into the half with a 9-4 cushion.
The Wildcats scored three quick goals in the second half to push the margin to 12-4. Sennott, who had set up Schafer's last goal of the first half, also assisted on the opening goal of the second half by Smith at 29:00. Neyland scored an unassisted goal at 28:18 and Smith struck again, this time off a feed by Caroline Hernon (Hampton, N.H.) at 27:37.
Another unassisted goal by Neyland at 25:08 was followed by Wooters' 26^th goal of the year at 23:48 to extend the lead to 14-4.
Janes scored back-to-back goals at 20:01 and 16:27 to narrow the gap to 14-6.
Neyland responded with her third goal of the night 36 seconds later and Schafer netted her 99^th career goal at 8:08 to reestablish a double-digit lead of 16-6.
Sexton capped the game scoring at 4:05.

UNH NOTEBOOK

Schafer extended her goal and point streaks to 10 games; she has 29 points, all on goals, during the streak. She has scored a goal in 11 of 12 games overall this season.
Wooters extended her goal and point streaks to nine games; she has 24 goals and four assists for 28 points in that time.
Wooters has 75 career goals and 92 career points.
Sexton has a goal in seven consecutive games (8g, 4a).
Northrup has a four-game assist streak with 10 points (2g, 8a) in that span.
Sennott also has recorded an assist each of the past four games with 10 points (4g, 6a) during this streak.
New Hampshire improved to 32-8 lifetime against Vermont and has won three straight in the Battle of the 'Cats.

UNH is now 6-0 on the season when scoring in double-digits.
The last time UNH was 4-0 in conference play was 2006.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

UNH matched is season high of 17 goals established March 31 at the University of Hartford.
The Wildcats led 9-4 at halftime with a 20-12 shot advantage, as well as the edge in both draw controls (8-7) and ground balls (15-2).
New Hampshire ended with sizable advantages in both shots (36-19) and ground balls (26-6); the Wildcats also committed fewer turnovers (12-22).
UVM had the 13-12 edge in DCs.
UNH was a perfect 14-for-14 on clear attempts in comparison to Vermont's 9 of 19.