Box Score  

MANSFIELD, Conn. – Eleven players contributed a point and the Eastern Connecticut State University women's lacrosse team forced at least 20 turnovers for the sixth time this year in the Warriors' 16-5 Little East Conference victory over the University of Massachusetts Boston Saturday afternoon at Rick McCarthy Field.

With its sixth home victory in as many games this year, Eastern (10-3, 2-2 LEC) reached ten overall wins in a season for the first time in seven years and for the tenth time in the program's 30-year history. UMass Boston (5-8, 0-5 LEC), a second-year program competing in the LEC for the first time, dropped to 1-8 in its last nine after opening with four straight wins.

Eastern  led 12-0 at halftime before clearing its bench in the second half, with the Beacons scoring four of their goals in the last 12 minutes after trailing 16-1.

Senior midfielder Abby Parisi's (Fairfield) third point of the game  – an assist on junior attack Alexa Vizzini's (Vernon, NJ) team-leading 42^nd goal of the year (sixth-most in the LEC) – gave her 100 in her career. She finished the match with three goals and two assists that boosted her career point total of 102.

In a man-up situation, first-year midfielder Jocelyn Kennedy (Southington) came off the bench to record her first career goal on an assist from Parisi in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter.

Sophomore midfielder Neely Hart (Colchester) led Eastern by causing three turnovers, while graduate student Kaylee Drobish (Wallingford), seniors Gracie Bresson (Bow, NH) and Addison Twohill (Hamden) and  Vizzini all caused two that led in great part to UMass Boston's 22 turnovers.

Graduate student Avonlea LeBeau (North Branford), who matched Parisi with three goals,  won seven of Eastern's 16 draws, giving her 61 on the season (fourth-most in the LEC) and moved her to within eight of 300 draws in her five-year college career (she had a program-record 231 in four years at Wheaton College from 2021-24).

 Vizzini's two goals gave her more than 40 for the third straight season at Eastern. She ranks fifth in the LEC in points (54) and sixth in goals. Along with Parisi, first-year attack Nina Cirianni (Whitehouse Station, NJ) and Drobish all had multiple assists, with Drobish's two helpers giving her 72 in her career – three shy of fourth place all-time.

Senior goalie Emma Alford (West Hartford) made two saves for her third win in three decisions and improved her conference-best goals-against average to 7.85.

Eastern visits Rhode Island College (1-7, 0-4 LEC) in an LEC match Wednesday at 4 p.m. before returning to host defending LEC playoff champion Plymouth State University  (10-2, 4-0 LEC) Saturday at 4 p.m.  The Anchorwomen dropped their  31^st LEC regular-season decision  Saturday when visiting VTSU Castleton scored the deciding goal with 30 seconds left in a 14-13 victory. Also on Saturday, Plymouth handed Western Connecticut State University its first LEC regular-season loss in five years, 11-10, in Danbury, getting a deciding free-position goal with 10.8 seconds left.