Box Score
NEWTON, Mass. – Sophomore Hannah Seltzer (Westerly, RI) scored four consecutive goals in a span of less than five minutes late in the first half that first tied the game and then gave her team the lead for good as the Eastern Connecticut State University women's lacrosse team held on for a 13-11 Little East Conference victory over the University of Massachusetts Boston Friday afternoon at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Mount Ida campus's Alumni Field.
 
A third-year program competing in the LEC for the second year, UMass Boston (3-8, 1-1 LEC) had won its only two conference games in succession – the last game of 2025 and its first game of 2026 – entering play and had cut a four-goal Easten (3-5, 1-1 LEC) to one with three consecutive goals in the final nine minutes.
 
Eastern snaps a two-game losing streak, which ended the Beacons' three-game winning streak which had followed seven opening losses (three by a total of four goals).
 
Senior Alexa Vizzini (Vernon, NJ) scored consecutive goals to give the Warriors their four-goal, 12-8 lead less than a minute into the fourth quarter, and later responded with the clincher when she scored her seventh of the match with five minutes left that provided Eastern with its final two-goal margin.
 
Seltzer, second to Vizzini with 17 goals and 23 points this year,  broke the third and final tie of the game with the first of four straight goals with six minutes left in the first half, and followed with three more that made it 8-5 with 71 seconds left in the first half.
 
Vizzini and Seltzer combined for all but one of Eastern's goals. Vizzini led Eastern with seven goals to give her 29 on the season and 188 in her career – fifth-most all-time – while Seltzer added five goals (two man-up and one shorthanded goal) and three assists to give her 17 goals and 23 points this year.
 
Junior goalie Savannah Goodness (New Fairfield) was credited with her first career win in her second start, making four saves.
 
In addition to her offense, Vizzini won seven of the team's 15 draws – giving her 36 on the season (over 40 percent of the team's total), had a team-high three caused turnovers and picked up three ground balls. Junior Grace Saldaña (Colchester)  had a team-high four ground balls, with graduate player Emma Oliano (Wallingford) picking up three ground balls, as did sophomore Jocelyn Kennedy (Southington), who added two draws, two assists and one goal and one caused turnover.
 
The Warriors survived 12 minutes of penalties to turn back UMass, which had lost the first two games in the series to Eastern by an average of 12 goals.
 
The game featured 19 cards (15 green, four yellow) which accounted for 23 minutes of penalties, with Eastern scoring three extra-man and one shorthanded goal and the Beacons four extra-man goals.
 
Eastern hosts Rhode Island College (currently 1-6, 0-2 LEC) in a conference match Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Rick McCarthy Field. The Warriors have won 24 of the 25 matches in the series with the Anchorwomen, including the last 19.