Sunday Wrap: McNulty Shines in Hopkins Debut

Weekend Coverage

Saturday Recap: UNC avenges two 2018 losses to James Madison
Friday Recap: Denver holds off Stanford.

Johns Hopkins scored the first three goals of the game and never trailed in a 17-9 season-opening victory on Sunday at Drexel.

Ellie McNulty, a graduate transfer from Princeton playing her first game for the Blue Jays, scored two of those opening goals and finished with a team-best four goals and five points.

Drexel trailed just 7-5 late in the first half, but Maggie Schneiderereith and McNulty, who earned first team All-Ivy League honors last year, scored goals in the final 5:03 of the first half and Drexel never got closer than three goals in the second half.

Schneiderereith and Keegan Barger each had three goals for Hopkins and Miranda Ibello and Mackenzie Heldberg each had two goals and two assists.

Lynch Stays Hot as Irish Cruise

Samantha Lynch, limited to just one game last year due to injury, continued her torrid comeback with a game-high five goals as No. 19 Notre Dame routed Canisius 21-4 on Sunday. Lynch, who scored 37 goals as a sophomore in 2017 before getting injured in the season-opener against Boston College last year, was coming off of a six-goal game in the Irish's 19-4 win over Marquette on Friday.

Lynch had plenty of help on Sunday as 11 Notre Dame players scored a goal and 14 players had at least one point. Lynch, Maddie Howe (3g, 2a) and Nikki Ortega (3g, 2a) all had five points.

Denver Completes Pac-12 Weekend Sweep

No. 20 Denver, which held off No. 15 Stanford 8-7 on Friday night, downed Cal 13-4 to complete a weekend sweep of Pac-12 teams to move to 2-0 for the season.

The Pioneers limited Cal to just two goals through the first 56 minutes of the game and never trailed in the contest. Leading 5-2 midway through the first half, Denver went on a seven-goal run to take control.

Bea Behrins led Denver with five goals and Hannah Liddy had five points for the second straight game. Liddy scored the Pioneers first two goals of the game and later added three assists. Carson Gregg made five saves to pick up the victory.

Notable

Vanderbilt made a winner of Beth Hewitt in her debut as the school's head school, beating Wagner 16-7. Hewitt spent the last four seasons as an assistant coach for the Commodores after previously going 71-19 as the head coach at LeMoyne. Sophie Furlong had a career-best five goals to lead Vandy, which led by as many as 12 goals in the game.
New Duquesne head coach Corinne Derosiers also opened her tenure with a 22-9 win over Longwood. The former Florida Tech mentor got a career-high five goals from Maddie Hart.
Ohio State poured in 14 first-half goals on the way to a 19-5 victory over Detroit Mercy. Liza Hernandez led the Buckeyes (2-0) in scoring for the second straight game, posting 10 points (6g, 4a).
All-American midfielder Grace Gabriel had five goals and eight draw controls as Marquette evened its record at 1-1 with a 15-12 win over Louisville. Marquette jumped out to an early 6-1 lead, but Louisville pulled to within one goal on five separate occasions, the last with 7:49 remaining in the game to make the score 13-12. Gabriel scored her fifth goal just 44 seconds later and Lindsey Willcocks scored the final goal with five seconds left.
Monica Borzillo had 11 points (7g, 4a) as Cincinnati (1-1) beat in-state rival Kent State 19-8. She also had five caused turnovers and six groundballs.
Two games into the season, East Carolina has already equaled the win total from its inaugural season in 2018. The Pirates downed Gardner-Webb 18-11 to improve to 2-0 for the season. Megan Pallozzi had four goals and two assists and Brittany Borchers had two goals and four assissts.
Allison Kuhn scored the game-winner in overtime, her fifth of the game, to lead Quinnipiac past Stetson 14-13 in the season opener for both teams. Sami Walters, a graduate transfer from UMass, took over in goal at halftime and made nine saves, including two in overtime, to earn the win for the Bobcats.
Fresno State trailed by four goals early and trailed for the majority of the game, but closed on a 4-1 run to post a 14-12 victory over visiting UMass-Lowell. Sydney Skalstad scored four times for Fresno.
St. Bonaventure scored first, but Lafayette scored the final 18 goals of the game in an 18-1 season-opening victory. Hannah Davey and Jane Kirby each scored four times for Lafayette. Quinn Lacy made 11 saves while allowing just the one goal.

Nike/US Lacrosse Top 20 Scoreboard

No. 19 Notre Dame 21, Canisius 4
No. 20 Denver 13, Cal 4

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