Women's Lacrosse Visits Manhattan for Regular Season Road Finale

QUINNIPIAC BOBCATS (5-9, 2-4 MAAC) at MANHATTAN JASPERS (9-4, 4-1 MAAC)
Date: Saturday, April 13, 5:00 p.m. (ET)
Location: Gaelic Park - Riverdale, New York
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RIVERDALE, N.Y. - With just two games remaining in the regular season, the Quinnipiac women's lacrosse team will travel to Riverdale, New York on Saturday afternoon for a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) matchup with the Manhattan College Jaspers.

The Bobcats are currently holding on to the sixth and final MAAC playoff spot, but have Canisius, Niagara, and Iona all within two games.

LAST TIME OUT – L, 11-7 vs. SIENA
Freshman Maddie Deegan scored a career-high five goals, but the Bobcats dropped a MAAC contest, 11-7, to Siena at the Quinnipiac Lacrosse Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. Deegan scored her fourth of the afternoon and 15th of the season in the opening 90 seconds of the second half, giving the Bobcats a 6-3 lead. It was then that Siena took over the game, scoring six straight goals over next 20 minutes and opening up a 9-6 advantage with 10:51 remaining in regulation.

SCOUTING THE JASPERS
Freshman attacker Cassidy Burns (Massapequa, NY / Plainedge) set the single-season rookie assist record, senior tri-captain Nikki Prestiano (Yorktown Heights, NY / Yorktown) made her 500th career save in net and Manhattan women's lacrosse defeated Iona 14-8 on Wednesday evening at Gaelic Park. Five Jaspers tallied multiple goals on the day, with Burns three goals and two assists a team-best. Lipponer and Burgess each added a hat trick, with the former picking up an assist as well. Senior midfielder Caitlin Murphy (Carmel, NY / Carmel) and senior tri-captain Molly Fitzpatrick (Yorktown, NY / Lakeland) each notched two goals.

CAN YOU DEEG IT?
Freshman Maddie Deegan's five-goal performance against Siena runs her rookie year totals to 16 goals and four assists. The five goals were most by a Quinnipiac freshman since Allison Kuhn scored five against Manhattan on April 23, 2016.

ROAD WARRIORS
Four of Quinnipiac's five wins this season have come in enemy territory (Stetson, Hartford, Canisius, Iona). The Bobcats have not won four road contests in the same season since winning five in the 2012 season. That year resulted in a 9-7 overall record and a trip to the NEC Semifinals.

MOVIN' ON UP
A win over Manhattan on Saturday will give Quinnipiac six wins for the first time since finishing the 2013 season with a 7-9 record. The Bobcats are one of just six of the 115 NCAA D1 Women's Lacrosse teams in the nation have increased their win total in each of the last four seasons and will extend that streak to five seasons with one more victory.

NEW NEWS
This year's victory over Canisius was the first for Quinnipiac over the Golden Griffins since joining the MAAC. The last Bobcats' win over Canisius came in 2002.

HEARTBREAKERS, DREAM MAKERS
The Bobcats have become familiar with tight contests, especially in MAAC play, playing 13 one-goal contests over the last three seasons. All four combined losses to Marist and Fairfield in 2018 and 2019 have been one goal games, while four of Quinnipiac's five conference games this season have been decided by a goal.

THAT'S OFFENSIVE!
Quinnipiac's 19 goals against Hartford was the highest single-game total for the Bobcats since a 20-11 win over LIU Brooklyn on April 5, 2013.

FREEDOM!
Quinnipiac is one of the best teams in the nation when it comes to converting free position opportunities, ranking 11th in Division I and first in the MAAC with a 49 percent conversion rate. The Bobcats scored eight free position goals in the win over Hartford, the most in a game in the program's Division I history.

GET SWAZZY WITH IT
Junior Megan Szawlowski has tallied 29 goals and 16 assists in her first 14 games as a Bobcat. The Central Connecticut State transfer has taken 68 shots, won 24 draw controls, and currently ranks 44th in career points per game among all active Division I players with 3.30 points per contest.

KUHN JOINS CENTURY CLUB
Senior attack Allison Kuhn became only the ninth player in school history to record 100 career goals with her two-goal outing at Hartford. She recorded her 100th career point against Canisius last season and now has 162 points (116 goals, 46 assists) midway through her senior year. Her 53 points (36 goals, 17 assists) this season moved her into a tie for sixth place on the Bobcats' all-time points list, fifth all-time in goals, and tied for seventh all-time in assists.

STELLAR SAMI
Transfer graduate student goalkeeper Sami Walters ranks 13th among all active Division I women's lacrosse goalkeepers with an 9.31 goals against average in her career. Walters has posted the third-best save percentage in the MAAC (.474) and fourth-best goals against average (11.47) this season and has the 23rd-best save percentage in the nation.

ATTACKING THE MAAC
Kuhn and graduate student Sami Walters both earned Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Player of the Week honors for their performances at Stetson. Kuhn was named MAAC Offensive Player of the Week after scoring five goals, including a double-overtime game-winner. She also added an assist, two draw controls, and a ground ball to her stat line. Walters, a transfer from UMass, was named MAAC Defensive Player of the Week after making a career-high nine saves in the win. After entering the game at halftime, the graduate student also picked up six ground balls in her Quinnipiac debut.

MAN DOWN BUT NOT OUT
Quinnipiac played man-down for 14 minutes in this season's game at Brown. In that time span, the Bobcats scored a shorthanded goal and did not allow Brown a single tally.

KOTO-WINS
Head Coach Tanya Kotowicz's squad has tallied more combined wins over the last two seasons than any two-year span since 2013.

UP TO THE CHALLENGE
The 16-game regular-season slate runs from February to April, and will feature two opponents that reached the 2018 NCAA Tournament. In addition, seven of Quinnipiac's opponents won at least nine games each a year ago. The program's seven regular season home competitions feature non-conference matchups with Brown, LIU Brooklyn, and defending Northeast Conference Champion Wagner College, who won a first round game in last year's NCAA Tournament.

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