WILKES-BARRE, PA (February 26, 2019) – The Monarch women's lacrosse team will return to action Wednesday afternoon after Monday's cancellation at Marywood, traveling down to Moravian College for non-conference action with the Greyhounds.

Event Details
Opponent: at Moravian College (0-0, 0-0 Landmark)
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Bethlehem, PA – John Makuvek Field (Directions)
Live Coverage: (Live Stats) (Live Video)

Last Time Out: The Monarchs (1-1), playing in their first road game of the season with a very young team, had trouble stopping Drew University (1-0) in the opening half. The Rangers scored the first two goals before freshman Natasha Koslop tallied with help from sophomore Mary Kate Klodarska to make the score 2-1.

Kendall Hartt and Allie DiDario each scored their first goals of the season for the host Rangers before Klodarska answered with her sixth goal of the year and only of the day on a free position shot with 21:22 to go in the first half. Drew responded with five unassisted tallies including two each from Lauren Cassella and DiDario to make it 9-2.

The Monarchs got one back on a nice passing play, as freshman Emily Sims set up Koslop for her second of the game. Drew wouldn't let up though, scoring three more before King's freshman Jen O'Connor tallied off a turnover to send the game to halftime with Drew up 12-4.

After the break, Drew tallied the first three goals of the period, but King's scored two of the next three to make it 16-6. That was as close as the Monarchs would get, dropping their first game of the season. Koslop established a new career-high for goals in a game, posting three Saturday after scoring twice Thursday evening.

O'Connor finished with two goals, three ground balls, two caused turnovers and a team-best five draw controls. Klodarska had a team-best two assists in addition to her goal, and Sims finished with a goal, assist and three ground balls. Defenders Jennifer Smalley, Mia Dardanelli and Kelly Pierce each had one caused turnovers, and sophomore goalkeeper Orla Cottell recorded 10 saves and four ground balls.

A Look At The Monarchs (1-1, 0-0 MAC Freedom):

• The Monarchs have played well offensively through two games, ranking second in the conference in goals with 29 thus far. King's shooting percentage of 58.0 leads the conference.
• King's leads the conference in draw controls with 30, while its 15.0 per game also tops the conference.
• The Monarchs are currently third in the conference in ground balls per game with 20.50, and have committed the second-fewest turnovers per game with just 20.50 a contest.
• Sophomore Mary Kate Klodarska is fifth in the league in goals per game with 3.0, while her six total tallies are second in the league.
• Freshman Jen O'Connor ranks second in the league in assists per game with 2.50, and her five total helpers is best in the conference. She's also ninth in the MAC Freedom in goals per game, while ranking first in draw controls per game with seven per contest.
• Newcomer Natasha Koslop is 11^th in points per game this season in the MAC Freedom with 3.00 per contest, while her 2.5 goals a game is eighth in the conference.
• Junior captain Kelly Pierce ranks 11^th in the league with 1.5 caused turnovers per contest.
• Sophomore Kylie McCarthy is fourth on the team in points so far with six, after posting four goals in the season opener against Gwynedd Mercy.
• Through two games, sophomore goal keeper Orla Cottell has made 20 saves while stopping 41.7 percent of shots on cage.

A look At The Greyhounds (0-0):

• Last season, the Greyhounds went 11-5 with a 5-2 record in conference play.
• The Greyhounds made it to post season play in the Landmark Semifinals, but came up short to The University of Scranton.
• Liz Bill led the team with 73 goals while starting all 16 games and will return for her junior year.
• Senior Kelley Gavin played a total of 735:47 minutes last year making 96 saves while having a record of 10-5.
• Captains senior attacker Jillian Picciuto, junior attacker Liz Bill, and senior defender Melissa Webber will lead the Greyhounds.
• The Greyhounds had an impressive attack last year scoring an average of 15.69 goals-per game and only giving up a goals-against average of 10.13.
• Nine out of the 10 top goal scorers for the Greyhounds will be returners in 2019.

 
Against Moravian: King's is 1-3 against the Greyhounds since the 2009 season. King's won in 2016 with a score of 17-13 while the Greyhounds took wins in 2009, 2017, and 2018 with scores 16-8, 14-8, and 18-8 respectively.

Up Next: King's travels to Clearwater, FL to face the United States Merchant Marine Academy for non-conference play on Wednesday, March 6.