Opening Draw: The Towson women's lacrosse team plays the third of four straight home games, when it hosts Stetson on Sunday, March 12. Opening draw from Johnny Unitas Stadium is set for noon. Towson's Sports Network's Ben Rosenbaum and Eliza Yachimowicz will have coverage of the game starting at 11:45 a.m. Links to live stats and the video feed can be found on the schedule page of TowsonTigers.com. Fans can also follow the Tigers on Twitter (@Towson_WLAX) for updates.

Seeing Pink: Sunday is the Tigers' Breast Cancer Awareness game. Any fans wearing pink to support the cause can purchase a special $5 ticket.

Updating the Tigers: Despite a monster performance from sophomore Angie Benson, the Tigers fell 13-6 to No. 3 Florida last time out. Benson made a career-high 17 saves while fellow sophomore Carly Tellekamp led the Tigers offensively with two goals and two assists. Tellekamp paces the Tigers on offense with 15 goals and four assists for 19 points. Senior Samanatha Brookhart has tallied seven goals and a team-high 11 assists for 18 points. Junior Emily Gillingham is tied for the team lead with 15 goals. Sophomore Natalie Sulmonte adds 11 goals and five assists to go along with a team-best 20 draw controls. Junior Tianna Wallpher has a team-high 13 groundballs while senior Kelly McQuilkin has collected a team-high 13 caused turnovers. Benson carries a 10.50 goals against average and a .525 save percentage into the weekend.

Scouting Stetson: The Hatters fell to Niagara on Friday night, 16-14. Stetson trailed 8-6 at the half and was unable to complete the comeback. Shelby Lehmann led the Hatters with four goals against Niagara. Lindsay Summers has a team-high 16 points on eight goals and eight assists. Lehmann has contributed a team-best nine goals and three assists for 12 points. Maddie Holvey has pulled down a team-high 13 draw controls. Julia Lozano leads the defense efforts with six caused turnovers. Liza Diamond has started all five games in goal and posted an 18.80 goals against average and a .304 save percentage. Diamond also leads the squad with 24 groundballs.

Towson-Stetson Series History: It will be just the second meeting all-time between the Tigers and Hatters. Last year when the two squads met in Florida, Towson jumped out to an 11-1 halftime advantage and cruised to a 17-3 victory over Stetson. Kaitlyn Montalbano matched her career-high with six points in the game (three goals and a career-high three assists). She also added five ground balls, four draw controls and two caused turnovers. Lindsay Summers had two goals and an assist to lead Stetson.
 
Standing Tall in Net: Sophomore Angie Benson had a monster performance in goal for the Tigers against No. 3 Florida. She finished the game with a career-high 17 saves and a .567 save percentage. Benson matched her previous career-high with nine saves in the first half against the Gators. Benson became the second Tiger goalie to finish with at least 10 saves in a game this season (Kiley Keating-10 at Georgetown). Her 17 saves against the Gators were the most by a Tiger goalkeeper since Mary Teeters had 20 against UMBC in 2011. Her 17 saves against Florida were the most by a CAA goalie this season and put her tied for seventh in the NCAA with the third most saves by a goalie this season.

Helping Ourselves: For the fourth straight game and fifth time this season, the Tigers recorded double-digit caused turnovers, finishing with 11 against Florida. Senior Kelly McQuilkin finished with a game-high three caused turnovers while three other Tigers caused a pair of turnovers each. Towson now has 63 caused turnovers in six games. McQuilkin leads the squad with 13 caused turnovers. Freshmen Sami Chenoweth and Olivia Conti have 12 and 11 caused turnovers, respectively. Dating back to the start of the 2016 season, the Tigers are 9-3 when they force double-digit caused turnovers in a game.

Piling Up the Wins: Towson's win over Loyola on Feb. 26 was head coach Sonia LaMonica's 76th on the Tiger sidelines. LaMonica needs three more wins to catch Missy Doherty, who had 79 wins in seven seasons at Towson. Doherty currently holds the program record for career coaching victories. She racked up those 79 wins between 2004 and 2010.

Seeing Double: Sophomore attacker Carly Tellekamp led the Tigers with a pair of goals against Florida. Tellekamp has now scored two or more goals in five of Towson's six games this season. She is tied with junior midfielder Emily Gillingham for the most multi-goal games by a Tiger this season. Tellekamp has 12 multi-goal games in 18 career contests.

Groundball Machine: Senior defender Kelly McQuilkin seemed to get her stick on any loose ball around her against Florida. McQuilkin finished with a career-high six groundballs against the Gators. She was the first Tiger with six groundballs in a game since Nadia Podo had six against Old Dominion in the NCAA Tournament last spring.  

Oh Captain, My Captain: Head coach Sonia LaMonica announced an addition to her team captain group this week. Defender Michelle Gildea has been elevated to team captain status. She joins a trio of Tiger seniors who were selected before the 2017 season. The exsisting group consists of attacker Alyssa Ferro, attacker/midfielder Samantha Brookhart and defender Kelly McQuilkin.

What's Next? Towson has a quick turnaround as the Tigers host Notre Dame on Wednesday, March 15 at 4 p.m.