LOUDONVILLE, NY – The Siena Women's Lacrosse team will celebrate its senior class on Saturday beginning at 11 a.m. as a precursor to a noon opening draw set at Hickey Field against conference opponent Mount St. Mary's.
The game is set to be broadcasted by ESPN+ with Tom Schwan and Madison Jones on the call.
Siena (10-4 overall, 5-1 MAAC) enters playing solid lacrosse, having won eight of its last nine games and is 7-2 in home games this season.
Siena is coming off a comfortable 13-7 road victory at Marist this past Wednesday, in which both
Kelly Logue and
Jordan Bentley notched hat tricks.
The Saints are currently positioned in second place in the 10-team Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference standings, one game ahead of both Niagara and Iona, and one game behind #23 Fairfield.
The top six teams qualify for the MAAC Tournament heading into the final two weekends of play in the regular season.
Mount St. Mary's (5-8, 3-3 MAAC) situates itself in the middle of the pack in jockeying for a potential playoff berth.
The Mountaineers have already won more games under head coach Lauren "Lo" Skellchock than it did all of last season having a 4-13 season in 2023.
The Mount is coming off a 15-6 romp of Rider this past Wednesday, spearheaded by a trio of hat tricks from Madison Harmening, Anna McQuay and Mackenzi Furlong.
Furlong is leading the Mountaineers with 35 goals and 10 assists while Anna Salerno has tallied 27 goals and four assists.
Defensively, Ashlyn Watkins has remained one of the better goalkeepers in the conference with a 11.07 goals-against average (fifth in the MAAC) on a .448 save percentage (fourth in the MAAC) and is averaging 7.83 saves per contest (fourth in the MAAC).
"They're [Mount. St. Mary's] a tall, physical team," said first-year Saints head coach
Danielle Schwan-Tetreault.
"Their offense has been hot. They just beat Rider 15-6 and had a one-goal game against Fairfield so we know it's going to be a dog fight. Our takeaways from being in this conference is that you must show up to every game."
Saints junior
Grace Dobrzynski leads the MAAC in assists per game (3.43) and in points per game (4.79).
Fellow junior
Kelly Logue has totaled a team-high 28 goals with 24 assists.
Taryn Asselin has 26 goals to go along with six assists.
A key factor will be which team can grab possession and this game features two of the best players in the conference at snagging balls.
Asselin leads all players with 88 draw controls (6.29 draw controls per game) while Mount St. Mary's usually goes to Hailey Chester as their main possession player.
Chester has 55 draw controls (4.23 draws controls per game).
Fans can follow along with the corresponding live stats link, while continuous in-game updates will be provided via the women's lacrosse team's official X page @SienaWLAX.
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