Opening Draw: The Tiger women's lacrosse team heads on the road to wrap up the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) portion of the regular season schedule. First up is a visit to No. 18 James Madison on Friday, April 17 for a 5 p.m. game. Audio coverage of the game is available on Towson Sports Network with Kevin Copp providing the call.

Updating the Tigers: Towson saw its three game win streak snapped with a heartbreaking 8-7 double overtime loss to Hofstra on Sunday. Sophomore midfielder Samantha Brookhart scored a team-high three goals in the loss to the Pride. Redshirt senior attacker Andi Raymond leads the squad with 41 points on 25 goals and 16 assists. Brookhart has contributed seven goals and 14 assists for 21 points. Junior defender Emily Roth has collected a team-high 31 ground balls while junior midfielder Breanna Hamm leads the team with 38 draw controls. Senior defender Michelle Dufault has a career-high 22 caused turnovers to lead the team in that category. Senior Kelsea Donnelly enters the weekend with an 8.22 goals against average and a .487 save percentage.

Scouting James Madison: James Madison has won two straight games following a 22-5 win over Elon last Friday night. Stephanie Finley led the Dukes with four goals and four assists for eight points in the game. Betsy Angel leads James Madison on the season with 55 points on 40 goals and 15 assists. Finely has contributed 36 goals and 11 assists for 47 points. She also has pulled down a team-high 47 draw controls. Alison Curwin has a team-high 16 assists this season. Lexi Cross leads the defensive efforts with 18 caused turnovers and 33 ground balls. Schylar Healy has been strong in goal for the Dukes with a 9.86 goals against average and a .454 save percentage.

Towson-James Madison Series History: Friday's game will be the 35th meeting all-time between the Tigers and Dukes. James Madison leads the match-up 22-12. However, the Tigers have won five straight against the Dukes including a 12-11 win in overtime in last year's CAA Championship game. In that contest Michelle Gildea scored with 35 seconds to play in overtime to lift the Tigers to the victory. Andi Raymond had three goals and two assists in the win while Stephanie Finley led JMU with three goals.
 
I'm Honored: Senior defender Michelle Dufault was named the CAA Defensive Player of the Week on Monday. She led the Tigers with eight caused turnovers, five ground balls and a draw control in three games last week. It was the first time in her career, Dufault collected player of the week accolades. She is the fourth Tiger to be honored by the CAA this year (Andi Raymond - player of the week, Erika Cavallo and Kaitlyn Montalbano - rookie of the week).

It Should Be a Close One: The Tigers and Dukes have played some close battles in recent history. Four of the last five contests between the two schools have been decided by one goal (only one not to is Towson's 16-10 win at JMU in 2013). Three of those five contests have required at least one overtime period to decide a winner, including both games last year (Towson won 12-11 in double ot in the regular season and 12-11 in overtime in the CAA Championship game).

Donnelly Closes in on 400: Senior Kelsea Donnelly had eight saves in Sunday's double overtime contest against Hofstra. That raised her season total to 96 and her career saves total to 397. She currently ranks 10th in Towson history for career saves and 13th among Division I active career leaders. Donnelly needs just three more saves to become the 10th player in Towson history with 400 career saves.

Overtime is Our Time: Sunday's double overtime game was the Tigers' second of the season. Despite being 0-2 this season in overtime, the Tigers have found plenty of success when forced to play an extra session. Towson is 15-10 all-time when it plays overtime. The longest overtime game is school history was a four overtime victory over James Madison during the 1993 season. Towson is 5-1 all-time against the Dukes when the game goes to overtime.

That Was Quick: The Tigers showed off their speed getting to the net in Sunday's game against Hofstra. Senior midfielder Paige Duncan scored her 11th goal of the season at 20:47 of the first half tying the game at 1-1. Redshirt senior attacker Andi Raymond won the ensuing draw and passed it to sophomore midfielder Samantha Brookhart who scored with 20:40 showing on the clock. The goals which came just seven seconds apart were the fastest two goals by the Tigers this season and fastest since Raymond and Taylor Moore scored just 10 seconds apart last year against Stony Brook in the NCAA Tournament.

What's Next? Following Friday's game, the Tigers remain on the road to visit William & Mary on Sunday, April 19 at 1 p.m. Towson then returns home to host Johns Hopkins on Saturday, April 25 at 1 p.m. The game against Hopkins will be the regular season finale and the team will honor its eight seniors before the game.