ERIE, Pa. – The Gannon women's lacrosse team won its second game in a row during the home portion of its schedule.

The Golden Knights led 10-0 after the first quarter and 15-0 at the half as they claimed a 20-1 win over Malone University on Tuesday afternoon at McConnell Family Stadium. The game was called by the officials with 13:51 remaining in the fourth quarter because of an injury.

Gannon improved to 2-3 after dropping their first three games of the year, all on the road. Two of those were tough losses in the final minute.

The Knights opened their home season a week ago with a 15-8 victory over Daemen.

On Tuesday, Gannon featured a very balanced scoring attack as senior attacker McKenna Woodworth (Horseheads, N.Y./Horseheads) had four goals and an assist and junior midfielder Caroline Stevens (Syracuse, N.Y./Liverpool) also scored four goals.

Grad transfer Madyson Schwartz (Philadelphia, Pa./Franklin Towne Charter) and sophomore midfielder Angie George (Brecksville, Ohio/Archbishop Hoban) each had a hat trick and an assists. Sophomore midfielder Charlie Hunter (Boston, N.Y./Hamburg) added two goals and an assist.

Maggie McGinnis (Brunswick, Oh./Brunswick) scored a goal and led Gannon with two assists, while Emma-Cait Cogan (Westerville, Ohio/Olentangy Orange) and Macy Hepditch (Waterloo, Ontario/Resurrection Catholic) each added a goal and an assist. Alyssa Lerch (Coraopolis, Pa./Moon Area) also scored a goal.

Gannon goalie Riley Finnegan (Oviedo, Fla./Oviedo) faced only two shots on goal and had one save. Malone goalie Sommer-Jo Grieser made 10 saves on 30 shots on goal.
The Pioneers dropped to 1-3 with their third loss in a row.

Schwartz opened the scoring just 39 seconds into the game off an assist from Skyler Parsons (Reading, Pa./Exeter Twp.). George scored all three of her goals in the first quarter. GU took a 10-0 lead after scoring four times in the final 1:28 of the opening period.
 

What's ahead:

Gannon will face IUP in a PSAC opener on Wednesday, March 20, at 4 p.m.