Homestand Continues March 23 vs. Binghamton

2019 UNH Women's Lacrosse
Binghamton (0-8, 0-0 AE) at New Hampshire (5-3, 0-0 AE)
Saturday, March 23 • Wildcat Stadium • Durham, N.H. • 12 p.m.
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The Matchup vs. Binghamton

UNH has a 16-1 lifetime record against Binghamton University, but the Bearcats' one win was last year, 13-7, in the regular-season finale at the Bearcats' Sports Complex.
In that game, Binghamton's 5-1 run the opening 8:12 of the second half transformed a 4-3 halftime lead into a 9-4 advantage. • Recap • Box
The last time these teams met in Durham (March 22, 2017), UNH prevailed 11-6 at Wildcat Stadium. • Recap • Box
In that game, UNH scored four consecutive goals overlapping the first and second halves to take a 6-3 lead and the Wildcats outscored the Bearcats 4-1 the last 12 minutes to secure the win.
These programs have met annually since Binghamton joined America East in 2002.

The State of New Hampshire

UNH, led by seventh-year head coach Sarah Albrecht, has a 5-3 overall record that includes 1-1 at home.
This is UNH's best record through eight games since the 2011 team was also 5-3; that squad lost the next two and ended the year at 8-9.
New Hampshire is coming off last Sunday's 15-8 home win against Iona College.
New Hampshire had a three-game win streak spanning Feb. 22 to March 1.
UNH is averaging 12.50 goals per game on a .415 shooting percentage; opponents are at 11.12 gpg with a .418 shooting percentage.
Eight Wildcats have started all eight games.
Two 'Cats have scored a goal every game; they are Devan Miller and Catherine Sexton. They are also the two Wildcats with a point every game.
New Hampshire's 26-player roster is comprised of three grad students, four seniors, four juniors, five sophomores and 10 freshmen.
Senior defender Elise Chandler is the lone captain of the 2019 squad.

Streaking

Devan Miller has an eight-game goal and point streak, and seven consecutive games with multiple goals (and all eight multiple points).
Catherine Sexton has an eight-game goal and point streak.
Rylee Leonard has a seven-game goal and point streak, including five straight games with multiple goals (and all seven multiple points).
Teagan Northrup has a seven-game point streak and a four-game goal streak.
Julia Neyland is the other Wildcat with a point streak – two games (also a two-game assist streak).

Last Time Out: March 17 vs. Iona

With the score tied 4-4, UNH scored five consecutive goals overlapping the first and second halves to build a 9-4 lead en route to a 15-8 win against Iona College at Wildcat Stadium. • Recap • Box
The Wildcats recorded the edge in every statistics: shots (33-27), shots on goal (26-18), ground balls (19-15), draw controls (15-10) and turnovers (14-16).
Rylee Leonard scored two goals and matched her career high of three assists for a personal-best five points. She also established benchmarks in both ground balls (three) and draw controls (three).
Devan Miller scored a career-high four goals.
Issy Torres tallied double digits in saves for the third time this season with 10 against the Gaels.
Elise Chandler tallied a career-high four caused turnovers and matched her personal best of four ground balls.
Caroline Hernon tied her career highs in goals (two), points (two) and draw controls (six).

For Openers

Saturday's game vs. Binghamton is UNH's America East conference opener.
New Hampshire won last year's conference opener, 11-9, at UMBC.
The Wildcats have a 2-4 record in conference openers under head coach Sarah Albrecht.
The last time UNH played Binghamton in its America East opener was 2012, when the Wildcats won 16-9 at home.

Senior Scoring

Senior attacker Catherine Sexton is UNH's leader in both assists (nine) and points (27); she ranks second in goals (18).
Sexton has scored 18 goals on 25 shots for a team-high .720 shooting percentage that ranks No. 2 in the nation.
Sexton tallied five goals and two assists at Central Connecticut State (March 1) to finish with career highs in both goals and points (seven).
She tallied two assists in three consecutive games spanning Feb. 23–March 3.
Sexton has recorded multiple points 7 of 8 games with five multiple-goal efforts.
Also of note, Sexton ranks fourth in ground balls with 10.

Back With a Vengeance

Both senior Devan Miller and junior Rylee Leonard were sidelined by injury in 2018 and both have been significant point producers this season – they are tied for second in points with 26.
Miller leads the team in goals (21) and is fourth in assists (five).
Miller recorded three points each of the first five games of the season before increasing that total to a career-high five points at Kennesaw State; her four goals also marked a personal best, which she matched last Sunday vs. Iona.
Miller has scored multiple goals each of the past seven games.
Miller has a team-high 42 shots.
Leonard is tied for the team lead in assists (nine) and ranks third in goals (17). In other stats, she is second in shots (40) and tied for third in draw controls (nine).
Leonard has a seven-game goal scoring streak with five straight multiple-goal games, including a career-high four at Kennesaw State (March 10).
Leonard recorded a career-high five points (2g, 3a) last Sunday vs. Iona.
Leonard established a personal best of three assists at UConn (Feb. 24).

Immediate Impact

Senior attacker Mickenzie Larivee, a transfer from Boston University, has made an immediate impact on the 'Cat attack.
Larivee ranks fourth in both goals (12) and points (15). She has multiple points in 5 of 8 games with two multiple-goal efforts.
Larivee recorded a point each of her first five games as a Wildcat.
Larivee netted her 100^th career goal – 11^th as a Wildcat – March 3 at Fairfield.
Larivee scored three goals in her UNH debut vs. Harvard on Feb. 16. She reached the career 100-point milestone with the last of those three tallies.
Larivee fueled UNH's second-half surge at Sacred Heart with five goals.

Getting Possession

Freshman defender Meghan Doyle leads the 'Cats in ground balls (21) and is second in caused turnovers (10).
Senior captain Elise Chandler has a team-high 14 caused turnovers and ranks second in ground balls (18).
Sophomore Caroline Hernon is atop UNH's leaderboard in draw controls (30); she is also third in both ground balls (15) and caused turnovers (nine).
Freshman Delaney Pratt is second in draw controls with 23.

Defensive Spotlight

Freshman Meghan Doyle has been consistent despite her youth with multiple ground balls every game and a caused turnover in 7 of 8. She recorded four GBs and one CTO in her collegiate debut vs. Harvard. Doyle has corralled three ground balls three times and has tallied a high of two caused turnovers three times, most recently vs. Iona.
Senior captain Elise Chandler has produced solid numbers. She finished with a career-high four caused turnovers and matched her personal best of four draw controls vs. Iona. Chandler recorded three caused turnovers in the opener vs. Harvard and matched that at Vanderbilt. She established a career-high four ground balls at UConn.
Chandler has at least one GB every game with five multiple-GB efforts. She has a caused turnover in 6 of 8 games.
Senior Jessica Lee made her season debut March 1 at Central Connecticut State. In five games, she has nine ground balls and three caused turnovers. Lee recorded a career-high five ground balls at CCSU.
Freshman Abby Cranney had a breakout weekend Feb. 22 & 24. She recorded three ground balls both games against Sacred Heart and UConn. She also had four draw controls, one caused turnover and a goal at SHU. In eight games (two starts), Cranney has nine ground balls, nine draw controls and two caused turnovers.
Taylor Dudek, yet another freshman, came off the bench in the opener but started both games the weekend of Feb. 22-24. She tallied two ground balls and a caused turnover at Sacred Heart, then one of each at UConn.In the March 13 game at Vandy, Dudek finished with two GB and two CTO. In seven games (two starts), she has six ground balls and five caused turnovers.

Last Line of Defense

Freshman goalie Issy Torres has started all eight games and played 423:34 of a possible 480 minutes (88%). She has a 5-3 record with an 11.62 GAA and .438 save percentage.
Last Sunday, Torres tallied double-digit saves for the third time this season with 10 in the 15-8 win against Iona.
Torres made 14 saves in her collegiate debut vs. Harvard. She also finished with double-digit saves (13) in the 13-12 win at UConn, and that included one with 66 seconds remaining to preserve the one-goal lead.
Torres stopped 7 of 10 shots on goal in 37:27 of action at Central Connecticut State (March 1).
Junior goalkeeper Amanda Gottlieb has played 56 minutes, 26 seconds in three games. She has a 7.44 GAA and .364 save percentage. She saw action in the first two games of March (March 1 at CCSU; March 3 at Fairfield).

Free & Clear

New Hampshire has scored on 19 of 45 free-position shots (42.2%); in comparison, the opponents are 22-for-53 (41.5%).
There were only a total of three free-position shots in the March 13 game at Vanderbilt, and neither team scored as the Wildcats were 0-for-2 and Vandy was 0-for-1.
Last Sunday, UNH was 4-for-7 on free positions and Kennesaw State netted six goals on 11 free-position shots.
In the first weekend of March, the 'Cats got the better of CCSU (5-for 9 in comparison to 0-for-5). But Fairfield was a perfect 5-for-5 in comparison to UNH's 1 of 5.
UNH has been highly effective on clear attempts. The Wildcats entered the week ranked No. 10 in the nation (89.1%; 98 of 110) and increased that mark to 89.6 percent following Wednesday's 14 of 15 effort (93.3%) at Vanderbilt. Opponents have been slightly less effective at 80.1 percent (109 of 136).

Road Warriors

New Hampshire played six straight games on the road spanning Feb. 22 to March 13 and went 4-2.
It was the program's longest streak of consecutive road games since the 1996 team began the year with seven games on the road (1-6 record).
The 'Cats also played six consecutive road games in 1994.
The last time UNH played more than three consecutive road games was in the 2013 season (four games spanning Feb. 28 to march 16).

Torres Tabbed America East Rookie of the Week

Freshman goalkeeper Issy Torres was honored as America East Rookie of the Week on Feb. 25.
Torres stopped 17 of 33 shots on goal in two road games to record two wins, an 8.87 GAA and .515 save percentage.
She also corralled three ground balls in both games against Sacred Heart University and UConn.
Torres stopped 4 of 8 shots on goal at Sacred Heart to earn her first collegiate win. She exited the game with New Hampshire holding a 12-4 lead at 11:49 of the second half.
Torres made 13 saves, including one with 66 seconds remaining, to backbone UNH to a 13-12 victory at UConn that marked the Wildcats' first win vs. the Huskies since 2014.

Made of Granite

There are five Granite State natives on New Hampshire's roster, and that includes three Wildcats from Amherst: freshmen Taylor Dudek and Abby Cranney, and senior Mickenzie Larivee.
Junior Caroline Hernon calls Hampton home.
Sophomore Gabby Masseur hails from Nashua.

At the Polls

UNH was selected fourth in the 2019 America East Women's Lacrosse Preseason Poll with 32 points, just behind Binghamton University at 33.
Stony Brook received 49 points and all seven possible first-place votes; UAlbany tallied 41 points and the other first-place vote.
UNH was followed by UMBC (28 points), Vermont (20), UMass Lowell (14) and Hartford (7).

Scouting Binghamton

Binghamton University (Vestal, N. Y.) enters Saturday's game at UNH with an 0-8 overall record, which includes 0-3 on the road.
Of the eight losses, two have been by a single goal and one other was a two-goal differential.
The Bearcats are coming off last Saturday's 12-8 loss to Harvard. The Crimson built a 9-2 lead before the Bearcats trimmed the margin to 9-6 with nine minutes remaining. Harvard answered with three consecutive goals to build a 12-6 advantage with three minutes left. • Recap • Box
The Bearcats average 7.63 goals per game on a .357 shot percentage with their opponents averaging 12.75 goals per game on a .378 shot percentage.
Binghamton has scored double-digits in goals once – 13-12 loss to Lafayette.
Paige Volkmann leads the team assists (five) and points (14); she is tied for second in goals (nine),
Amelia Biancardi has a team-high 10 goals and ranks second in points (13).

Rebecca Golderman is tied for second in goals (nine) and is the third Bearcat with double-digit points (12). Golderman is tied for the team lead in draw controls (19).
Taylor Passuello has started all eight games in goal and played all 480 minutes. Passuello has a 12.75 GAA and .485 save percentage. She also leads the team in ground balls with 32.

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