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Quinnipiac Drives West to Take on Niagara
4/11/2025 3:41:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
HAMDEN, Conn.— The Quinnipiac women's lacrosse team will travel on the road to play Niagara at 1 p.m. on Saturday, with two games left of the season.it's second-to-last road game of the regular season.
THE MATCHUP
Teams: Quinnipiac (7-6, 2-3 MAAC) vs. Niagara (6-8, 4-1 MAAC)
Broadcast: ESPN+
Live Stats: SidearmStats
LAST TIME OUT: vs. MERRIMACK
Quinnipiac exploded for 13 first-half goals while holding Merrimack to just two, taking complete control early. The Warriors responded with four goals in the third quarter while limiting the Bobcats to one, but it wasn't enough. Quinnipiac shut the door in the fourth, scoring four more and keeping Merrimack off the board to seal a dominant 18-6 win.
EllaGrace Delmond matched her career high with seven goals to lead the Bobcats, with Cate Bendowski adding a season-best four. Quinnipiac fired off 32 shots with 23 on target, and seven different players found the back of the net. Shannon Alden anchored the defense with nine saves in goal.
DRAWING CLOSER
Junior Sophia Coan continues to climb the single-season draw control charts for Quinnipiac. She is currently sitting at 61, which brings her even with Sophia Iaccino, who held the record with 61 during the 2021 campaign. She is seated in fourth in the MAAC place for draw controls per game.
Coan also tied a single-game history record earlier this season, recording nine draw controls against East Carolina on March 15. That tied her with Emily Feeney, Phoebe LaPlante, and Gibney for the most in a game in program history. She also has six outings of seven or more DCs in a game since joining the Bobcats in 2024, placing her in the top 10 in program history.
RECORD CHASING
EllaGrace Delmond and Abby Wise are cementing their names as some of the top offensive names in program history when their collegiate careers end in the next couple of weeks. Delmond joined the 100-goal club at Fairfield on Wednesday, becoming just the 11th Bobcat to hit the mark and is eighth seventh all-time in career goals with 113. She is the only Bobcat who will graduate this decade to reach that mark.
Wise climbed to sixth all-time in career assists, currently at 56 career helpers over four years. That has her chasing Kyra Ochwat '15, who recorded 58 over her time. Wise is the only Bobcat who will graduate since Ochwat to record that many assists.
NATIONAL ACCOLADES
Inside Lacrosse recognized first-year netminder Shannon Alden as one of the Top 10 most impactful first-year students in NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse, the organization announced in mid-March. She enters the weekend ranked No. 12 nationally in saves per game (10.31), No. 9 in total saves (134), and sixth in save percentage (.511). She leads the MAAC in saves per game with a 10.38 average. She recorded a 20-save performance against UMass Lowell, just the second by a Bobcat goalkeeper since 2003 (Kyle Larkin, 2017) and the tenth overall in program history. She is also one of five six players nationally to record that mark.
CLIMBING THE LADDER
With three games left in the season, the Bobcats currently lead the MAAC in four five statistical categories. They lead the league in points per game (18.69), save percentage (.509), goals per game (13.00) and shots on goal per game (21.15). They are also second in assists per game (5.69) and woman-up goals per game (2.08).
Along with Alden in the national ranks, Abby Wise is currently leading in the league in total assists (24) and assists per game (1.85), while she's also second in total points (46) and third points per game (3.54). EllaGrace Delmond currently is fifth in the league in points (42), while her sister Mia is two spots below in seventh with 41. Emma Miller-Ayala is currently sixth fifth in the league for caused turnovers per contest, averaging 1.54, while Maggie Kennedy is eighth ninth and averaging 1.38.
PREVIEWING THE MATCHUP:
Niagara enters the matchup with an 11-1 record against Quinnipiac. When the two teams met last season, the Bobcats fell 22-5 after a competitive first quarter in which both sides scored three goals. Niagara closed the game away in just the second quarter, netting 10 unanswered goals.
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