Box Score
MANSFIELD, Conn. – The Eastern Connecticut State University women's lacrosse team limited SUNY Maritime College to one goal over a span of nearly 20 minutes in a  12-1 scoring run that vaulted the Warriors to a 20-4 non-conference win in their 2025 home-opener Saturday afternoon at Rick McCarthy Field.

The win gives Eastern its second 4-0 start in the last four years, the first under second-year head coach Devyne Doran. Maritime (1-2) was coming off a 2024 season where it reached the championship game of the Skyline Conference.

Leading 4-2 in the final minutes of the first quarter, Eastern outscored the Privateers 12-1 to run away with a 16-3 lead by the final minute of the third quarter. Junior All-Little East Conference attack Alexa Vizzini (Vernon, NJ) collected five of her game-high six goals and an assist in that run, with senior midfielder Abby Parisi (Fairfield) adding two goals, graduate midfielder Kaylee Drobish (Wallingford) a goal and assist and sophomore attack Avonlea LeBeau (North Branford) and first-year attack Hannah Seltzer (Westerly, RI) chipping in one goal each.

In the first meeting between the programs, Eastern outshot Maritime 42-11 and with the help of 11 caused turnovers, forced 23 turnovers. Vizzini also led Eastern with six ground balls, Drobish adding four and four teammates picked up three each. Parisi and senior defender Emma Oliano (Wallingford) both caused two turnovers, with Oliano also winning a team-high five draws and Parisi three.

Behind Vizzini, Parisi had four goals, LeBeau three goals and an assist, Seltzer three goals and Drobish two goals and two assists.

First-year goalie Maizie Rukat (Manchester, VT) won her fourth match in four appearances, needing only four saves to raise her save percentage to .478 and lower her goals-against average to 4.36. Senior goalie Tori Koenig made 14 stops for Maritime, ten in the first half.

In four matches this year, Eastern has outscored its opponent by better than 2-to-1 (67-32) and holds a 147-66 advantage in shots.

Eastern hosts Framingham State University Wednesday in a non-conference match at 4 p.m. The Rams are 0-2 heading into Sunday's noon non-conference home match against Wheaton College.