Opening Draw: The Tiger women's lacrosse team returns home to host a pair of Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) games this weekend. The action starts Friday, April 10 when Drexel visits Unitas Stadium for a 6 p.m. game. Audio coverage of the game is available on Towson Sports Network with Kevin Copp providing the call.

Updating the Tigers: Towson has won two straight games after an 11-6 victory at UMBC on Tuesday afternoon. Senior attackers Sarah Maloof and Andi Raymond posted hat tricks to lead the Tigers to the win over UMBC. Raymond leads the Tigers this season with 32 points on 20 goals and 12 assists. Sophomore midfielder Samantha Brookhart has a team-high 13 assists to go along with four goals for 17 points. Sophomore attacker Gabby Cha has contributed 14 goals and one assist for 15 points. Junior defender Emily Roth has scooped up 26 ground balls while junior midfielder Breanna Hamm has collected 31 draw controls. Senior defender Michelle Dufault leads the squad with 16 caused turnovers. Senior Kelsea Donnelly carries a 8.72 goals against average and a .468 save percentage into the action against Drexel.

Scouting Drexel: Drexel comes into Friday night's action looking to snap a two-game losing streak after a 17-9 loss to then No. 14 James Madison last time out. Lacey Aghazarian led the Dragons with two goals and a ground ball in that game. Emily Duffey has posted a team-high 17 points on 11 goals and six assists. Aghazarian has a team-high 16 goals so far this season. Milan White has pulled down 22 draw controls while Jocelyn Quaile has a team-high 21 caused turnovers. Teresha Bradley leads the Dragons not only in the cage but also in ground balls (28). Bradley enters the Towson contest with a 9.77 goals against average and a .447 save percentage.

Towson-Drexel Series History: Friday's meeting will be the 35th all-time between the Tigers and Dragons. Towson has dominated the series and holds a 31-3 advantage in the match-up. The Tigers had won five straight in the series before the Dragons claimed a 9-8 victory last year in Philadelphia. In that game, Kelly Palace led the Dragons with three goals, including the game-winner with 27 seconds to play, and an assist. Andi Raymond paced Towson's offense with two goals and two assists.
 
Hats Off to You! Hat tricks from senior attackers Sarah Maloof and Andi Raymond paced the Tigers' offensive efforts in Tuesday's win over UMBC. Maloof scored the first three goals of the game. She recorded her first hat trick of the year and second of her career. Raymond's hat trick was her second straight and fourth of the season. She now has 18 career hat tricks as a Tiger.

You'll Always Remember Your First: Freshman attacker Jenna Kerr tallied a goal with 6:43 left to play in the game on Tuesday at UMBC. Kerr's goal was the first of her career as she is the fourth Tiger freshman to score their first career goal this season. The Tiger freshmen have accounted for 29 goals and 11 assists this season (Erika Cavallo-12g, 1a, Emily Gillingham-10g, 1a, Kaitlyn Montalbano-6g, 5a, Kerr-1g, 4a).

Donnelly Closes in on 400: Senior Kelsea Donnelly had eight saves in Tuesday's win over UMBC. That raised her season total to 80 and her career saves total to 381. She currently ranks 10th in Towson history for career saves and 13th among Division I active career leaders. Donnelly needs 19 more saves to become the 10th player in Towson history with 400 career saves.

We'll Take That: Towson did a solid job on defense on Tuesday at UMBC. The Retrievers recorded 21 turnovers and 13 of those were caused by the Tigers. Nine Tigers posted at least one caused turnover in the game and that group was led by junior midfielder Breanna Hamm who had a career-high three. Senior defender Michelle Dufault and redshirt sophomore midfielder Michelle Gildea each had two. Towson is now 3-0 this season when it recorded 10 or more caused turnovers in a game.

What's Next? Following Friday's game the Tigers remain home to host Hofstra on Sunday, April 12 at 1 p.m. There will be a free youth clinic for kids 13 and under after the game.