Wooters, Schafer Record Two Points Apiece in 13-4 Loss to UMass

Friday, March 10

Durham, NH

2 PM

University of New Hampshire

0-6

Massachusetts

3-3

UMASS

New Hampshire

Photo by: Joey Walker

Wooters, Schafer Record Two Points Apiece in 13-4 Loss to UMass

3/10/2017 7:07:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

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DURHAM, N.H. – Krissy Schafer (Longmeadow, Mass.) and Carly Wooters (White Plains, N.Y.) recorded two points apiece and Kate Clancy (Barrington, R.I.) made seven saves, but the University of New Hampshire women's lacrosse team was defeated 13-4 by the University of Massachusetts in Friday afternoon's non-conference game at Wildcat Stadium.

Schafer scored two goals while Wooters tallied a goal and an assist as well as three draw controls and two ground balls. Devon Croke (Norwell, Mass.) scored the Wildcats' other goal and recorded a game-high nine shots. Hope Kissick (Cohasset, Mass.) finished with three caused turnovers, two draw controls and a ground ball.

UMass was led offensively by Hannah Burnett (5g) and Hannah Murphy (3g, 2a) with five points apiece; Murphy was also credited with 10 draw controls. Goalie Lauren Hiller made 11 saves and Taylor Fischer had a game-high four ground balls.

UNH moves to 0-6 and UMass is now 3-3.

NEXT GAME: Monday, March 13 at Southern Cal, 7 pm (Eastern)
NEXT HOME GAME: Tuesday, March 21 vs. Hofstra, 4 p.m.

GAME INFORMATION
Date: March 10, 2017 (2 p.m.)
Location: Wildcat Stadium
Attendance: 66
Score: University of Massachusetts 13, University of New Hampshire 4
Updated Records: UNH (0-6), UMass (3-3)

GOALS:
UNH (4) Krissy Schafer (2), Devon Croke, Carly Wooters
UMass (13) Hannah Burnett (5), Hannah Murphy (3), Kaitlyn Cerasi (2), Holly Turner, Callie Santos, Kiley Anderson

ASSISTS:
UNH (2) Catherine Sexton, Carly Wooters
UMass (6) Hannah Murphy (2), Holly Turner (2), Cassidy Doster, Callie Santos

SAVES:
UNH Kate Clancy 4-3–7 (x13 GA) {60:00} [loss]
UMass Lauren Hiller 4-7-11 (4 GA) {60:00} [win]

GAME RECAP

Callie Santos scored 26 seconds into the game and Kaitlyn Cerasi struck 14 seconds later to quickly give UMass a 2-0 lead.
The Minutewomen extended the advantage to 5-0 seven minutes into the game.
Schafer finished a feed from Catherine Sexton (Niskayuna, N.Y.) to trim the deficit to 5-1 at 14:02.
UMass closed the first half on a 4-1 run to take an 8-2 lead into halftime.
The rest of the stats were relatively even at the half, as the visitors held the slight edge in shots (13-10), ground balls (11-8), draw controls (6-5) and turnovers (9-11).
Kiley Anderson opened the second-half scoring at 29:06 and Burnett netted her third goal of the game 23 seconds later to push the cushion to 10-2.
The Wildcats responded with tallies 58 seconds apart to quickly close within 10-4. Wooters netted an unassisted goal at 28:22 and Croke scored on a free position at 27:24.
Neither team scored again for nearly 17 minutes. Murphy's third goal of the day ended the scoreless stretch at 10:33.
Burnett closed the scoring with tallies at 6:22 and 19 seconds.

'CAT NIPS

Schafer has scored a goal in 5 of 6 games this season and has a team-high 14 goals.
Wooters has tallied a point in 5 of 6 games with four two-point efforts.
Croke extended her goal and point streaks to three games; she has scored a goal in 5 of 6 games.

SHOTS
UNH: 10-13–23 … UMass: 13-11–24

GROUND BALLS
UNH: 8-7–15 … UMass: 11-13–24

DRAW CONTROLS
UNH: 5-4–9 … UMass: 6-4–10

TURNOVERS
UNH: 11-13–24 … UMass: 9-11–2-

NEW HAMPSHIRE LEADERS
Points (2): Krissy Schafer, Carly Wooters
Goals (2): Krissy Schafer
Assists (1): Catherine Sexton, Carly Wooters
Shots (9): Devon Croke
Ground balls (3): Amy LeBel, Lizzie Suschana
Draw controls (3): Carly Wooters
Caused Turnovers (3): Hope Kissick