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Wilkes-Barre, PA – A game after recording the 100th point of her career, Marywood University sophomore Taylor McKeown scored her 100th career goal and finished the game with six goals to lead the Pacers to a 20-5 victory over King's College in non-conference women's lacrosse action on Thursday evening. With the win, Marywood improves to 4-2 on the season while the Monarchs remain winless in three games.
King's would score the first goal of the game when Andrea Alesso tallied an unassisted marker at the 24:38 mark. Allie Sodl (Coplay, PA) scored unassisted to tie the score, but the Monarchs went back in front when Alesso set up Krystina Villarreal for a goal with 21:23 to play in the opening half.
Taylor McKeown (Nashua, NH) leveled the score by tallying a goal on a free-position shot with 15:39 on the clock, starting a run of 11 consecutive goals for the Pacers to end the half. Sodl scored back-to-back goals to give Marywood a 4-2 before McKeown converted her second free-position shot with 13:14 to play in the opening half to give the sophomore her 100th career goal.
Meg Barbarino (Binghamton, NY), Kelly Kryspin (Hopatcong, NJ), Alexis Willey (Hummelstown, PA), and Jennifer Silvestri (Warwick, NY) also scored first half goals for Marywood, who held a 12-2 lead at halftime.
The two teams would trade goals over the first eight minutes of the second half with the Monarch's Villarreal making the score 15-5 with a goal at the 21:51 mark. McKeown scored three straight goals to extend Marywood's advantage to 18-5 with 13:25 to play. Kryspin and Willey would tack on late goals to close out the scoring.
McKeown finished the evening with six goals and reaches the 100-goal milestone in just the 22nd game of her career. Sodl finished with four goals while Kryspin, Silvestri, and Willey each recorded hat tricks to lead Marywood's attack.
Katie Sullivan (Merrick, NY) made 13 saves for Marywood, who held a 34-21 advantage in shots for the game and a narrow 24–22 edge in groundballs.
King's goalie Rebecca Abruzzese turned aside nine Pacer shots in the loss.
Marywood returns to action on Saturday when they travel to Allentown to take on Cedar Crest College in a Colonial States Athletic Conference game scheduled to start at 1:00 p.m.
