TOWSON, Md. – The Towson University women's lacrosse team hosted the Monmouth Hawks at Tiger Field in Towson's final game of the season. The Tigers (7-9, 3-5 CAA) defeated the Hawks (3-12, 0-8 CAA) 20-11.
Katie Roszko finished with a career-high nine points, totaling a career-high six assists and three goals.
Milana Zizakovic had a career-high eight points tallying five goals and three assists.
Key Stats vs Monmouth:
- The Tigers scooped up 25 ground balls compared to 17 for Monmouth.
- Towson outshot the Hawks 34-29 today.
- Jenna Cardeno made ten saves while Monmouth's Katie Sullivan finished with eight.
How It Happened vs Monmouth:
- Katie McCormick opened the game with her second goal of the season.
- The Tigers doubled their lead on Milana Zizakovic's first goal of the game, which was her 200th career point.
- Towson made the score 3-0 a few minutes later when Savannah Safchuck found the back of the net for her 22nd goal of the season.
- Katie Roszko found McCormick open in the middle who then fired a shot past Sullivan to score her second goal of the quarter and extended the lead to four.
- The Hawks found the back of the net with 26 seconds remaining in the first quarter, but Mia Rehkemper scored her first goal of the year with one second left to give Towson a 5-1 lead.
- The Tigers scored three quick goals to start the second quarter with Ocea Leavy, Zizakovic and Roszko each finding the back of the net to give Towson a seven goal lead.
- Monmouth cut the deficit to six with 12:17 remaining in the second quarter.
- Roszko, Safchuck and Zizakovic each scored again to extend Towson's lead to nine.
- Halley Koras fired a shot into the back of the net for her third goal of the season to give the Tigers a 12-2 advantage.
- The teams exchanged goals, but the Hawks scored right before halftime to trail 13-4 at the break.
- Monmouth scored to open the third quarter, but Gabby Bjugan responded by scoring her eighth goal of the season to maintain a nine-goal lead.
- The teams traded goals midway through the third quarter, but Monmouth cut its deficit down to eight on Caroline Brennan's fourth goal of the game.
- Valerie Thompson and Zizakovic each found the back of the net to close out the third quarter and give the Tigers a 17-7 lead.
- Koras scored her second goal of the day to start the fourth quarter and give Towson an 11-goal lead.
- The Hawks scored three straight goals to cut their deficit to eight.
- Roszko scored her 30th goal of the year with 5:27 left in the fourth quarter.
- Both teams added a late goal as the Tigers closed out the season with a 20-11 victory over Monmouth.
Inside the Numbers vs Monmouth:
- Milana Zizakovic became the seventh Tiger to reach 200 career points.
- Casey Mederith scooped up a career-high seven ground balls today.
- Jessica Lamapsone finished with career-best five caused turnovers.