{"id":125780,"date":"2026-02-06T23:41:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125780\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:41:33","slug":"womens-lacrosse-drops-2026-debut-at-umass-lowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125780\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Lacrosse Drops 2026 Debut at UMass Lowell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<\/p>\n<p>LOWELL, Mass.\u00a0\u2013 The Manhattan Jaspers women&#8217;s lacrosse\u00a0team (0-1), despite a hat trick from <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/julia-kerr\/12182\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12182\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Kerr<\/a>,\u00a0fell in their season-opening contest against the Riverhawks\u00a0from UMass Lowell\u00a0(1-0) by a final score\u00a0of 13-6\u00a0at Cushing Field on Friday\u00a0afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tGetting the start in goal for opening day was <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/sophie-pasnak\/10241\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10241\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Pasnak<\/a>, registering a save in the first 45 seconds.&#13;<br \/>\n\tUMass Lowell struck first, just shy of three minutes into the game.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tNewcomer <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/logan-pilon\/12206\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12206\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Pilon<\/a> tallied the first score of Manhattan&#8217;s season, capitalizing off a Riverhawk turnover.&#13;<br \/>\n\tFellow freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/ella-brunette\/12199\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12199\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Brunette<\/a> earned a free position opportunity, and took advantage to give the Green and White an early lead.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe home team collected two from Chloe Bowers to retake the lead before the end of the opening 15 minutes.&#13;<br \/>\n\tWhile <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/audrey-ziff\/10217\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10217\" target=\"_blank\">Audrey Ziff<\/a> spent time in the penalty box, Kerr grabbed her first score with just under six minutes in the second.&#13;<br \/>\n\tUMass Lowell ripped off four unanswered to take a six goal advantage into the break.&#13;<br \/>\n\tKerr and Brunette both picked up their second goals\u00a0of the afternoon from free position chances, with the latter coming just under the four minute mark of the third.&#13;<br \/>\n\tKerr collected her hat trick all in the first half, accumulating the third to cut Manhattan&#8217;s deficit to four in time for the final ten minutes.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Riverhawks\u00a0added three more for insurance in the fourth, securing a seven goal victory.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>STATS AND NOTES<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSophomore attacker <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/julia-kerr\/12182\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12182\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Kerr<\/a> scored three goals, matching the career-high she set at Stetson last season.&#13;<br \/>\n\tFreshman midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/ella-brunette\/12199\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12199\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Brunette<\/a> followed behind her with two scores.&#13;<br \/>\n\tFreshman attacker <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/logan-pilon\/12206\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12206\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Pilon<\/a> was the only other Jasper to record a goal.&#13;<br \/>\n\tSix different Jaspers\u00a0caused a turnover, in Kerr, Senior attacker <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/maya-metz\/12187\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12187\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Metz<\/a>, Senior defender <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/colleen-rattigan\/10243\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10243\" target=\"_blank\">Colleen Rattigan<\/a>, Junior defender <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/meghan-dwan\/10225\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10225\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Dwan<\/a>,\u00a0 and Senior attacker <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/lauren-maher\/10235\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10235\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Maher<\/a>.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tJunior midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/audrey-ziff\/10217\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10217\" target=\"_blank\">Audrey Ziff<\/a> led the way in winning draw controls with three.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP:<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan will continue its 2026 campaign on Wednesday, February 11\u00a0when the Jaspers\u00a0travel once again to Hempstead to take on the Pride from Hofstra.\u00a0Action is scheduled to take place from Captains Field at 12 noon and can be viewed on FloCollege with a paid subscription. For a radio broadcast, tune into 88.7 FM-WRHU.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Manhattan Women&#8217;s Lacrosse on Instagram (@manhattanwlacrosse_) and X (@ManhattanWLacrosse).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Read Full Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; LOWELL, Mass.\u00a0\u2013 The Manhattan Jaspers women&#8217;s lacrosse\u00a0team (0-1), despite a hat trick from Julia Kerr,\u00a0fell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-125780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}