Box Score
MANSFIELD, Conn. – The Eastern Connecticut State University women's lacrosse team scored the first seven goals of the match over the first 11 minutes of play and eased to a 17-5 Little East Conference victory over Vermont State University Castleton Saturday afternoon at Rick McCarthy Field.
 
Leading  14-1 at halftime after outshooting Castleton (2-9, 0-3 LEC) 24-8 over the first 30 minutes, Eastern took only nine shots in the  second  half, with two of its three second-half goals coming from reserves Tori Mitchell (Vernon), a first-year transfer, and first-year two-sport athlete Bree Foucault (Wallingford), who recorded her first career goal in the final seconds on her only shot of the match.
 
All 26 healthy players saw action. Eleven contributed at least one point, nine picked up at least one ground ball, and seven won at least one draw for Eastern (9-2, 1-1 LEC), which evened its conference record after dropping its LEC opener to defending LEC regular-season champion Western Connecticut, 14-9, on the road last Saturday.
 
Now 5-0 at home this year, Eastern defeated the Spartans for the 11^th straight time in the 11-game series history, the last six of which have come since Castleton joined the LEC in 2019.
 
First-team All-LEC junior attack Alexa Vizzini (Vernon, NJ) reached 50 points for the third straight season by leading both teams with six goals and an assist to give her 51 points on the season. Vizzini moved into the all-time Top 10 in goals with 135 and from 14^th into a tie for 11^th with 170 points. Graduate midfielder Kaylee Drobish (Wallingford) contributed three assists to give her a team-high 19 this year and 69 in her career – the fifth-high total in program history.
 
Making her third start of the year, senior Emma Alford (West Hartford) stopped 14 shots and gave up only two goals over the first three periods for her second win in two decisions this year. First-year goalie Maizie Rukat (Manchester, VT) closed out the win with two saves in her 11^th appearance of the year.
 
In her first career start, first-year attack Nina Cirianni (Whitehouse Station, NJ) had a goal and assist while senior defender Emma Bringman (Danbury) made her first appearance of the season.
 
First-year graduate attack Avonlea LeBeau (North Branford), who holds the Wheaton College career draw record of 231, led both teams with five draws to give her 50^th in her 11-game Eastern career and 281 in her five-year collegiate career. Senior midfielder Abby Parisi (Fairfield) and Drobish each won three draws to help the Warriors to an 18-7 advantage in that department.
 
Eastern visits Keene State College (8-3, 2-1 LEC) Wednesday at 6 p.m. in a Little East game at the Owl Athletic Complex. The Owls are coming off Friday's 14-8 home loss to Western Connecticut after winning their first LEC contests against Massachusetts Boston (13-7) March 15 and Castleton (16-6) a week ago Friday.
 
As the No. 2 seed in last year's LEC playoffs, Keene defeated Eastern in the semifinal before losing to Plymouth State University in the title game.