Box Score
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Five different players contributed goals in the first five minutes and the Eastern Connecticut State University women's lacrosse team improved to 4-1 in its last five contest with an 18-6 Little East Conference win over Rhode Island College Wednesday afternoon at Alumni Stadium.
Eastern's (11-3, 3-2 LEC) 24
th win over Rhode Island (1-8, 0-5 LEC) in the 25-match series sends the Anchormen to their 32
nd straight LEC regular-season loss. Eastern climbs over the .500 mark in the conference with its 11
th overall win, which equals the second-most victories in a season in the last 13 years.
The Warriors are locked in a three-way tie for fourth place in the conference with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the University of Southern Maine, with the top six seeds in the nine-team conference competing in the LEC playoffs which get underway with first-round matches in 13 days.
After hosting unbeaten conference leader and defending playoff champion Plymouth State University Saturday at 4 p.m., Eastern closes out the regular season hosting UMass Dartmouth a week from today at 4 p.m. and traveling to Southern Maine a week from Saturday at 1 p.m.
Against Rhode Island, ten players contributed points, with All-LEC junior attack
Alexa Vizzini (Vernon, NJ) moving to within three goals of 50 in a season for the second straight year by scoring five goals to go along with an assist and three caused turnovers. Graduate attack
Avonlea LeBeau (North Branford) won five draws to give her 66 this year and 297 in her five-year collegiate career. Last year at Wheaton College, LeBeau was ranked in a tie for 14
th nationally with 141 draws.
Plymouth is a ten-time LEC playoff champion, winning each of the last two years despite not being the No. 1 seed. The Panthers, who have won five of the last seven titles, ended Western Connecticut' s five-year LEC regular-season unbeaten streak Saturday with an 11-10 win. The Warriors upset the Panthers a year ago at Rick McCarthy Field, 14-10, stopping a streak of seven straight losses to Plymouth.
