{"id":170972,"date":"2026-03-21T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170972\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:50:08","slug":"womens-lacrosse-opens-maac-schedule-against-canisius-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170972\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Lacrosse Opens MAAC Schedule Against Canisius Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<\/p>\n<p>RIVERDALE, N.Y.\u00a0\u2013 The Manhattan Jaspers women&#8217;s lacrosse\u00a0team (1-9, 0-1\u00a0MAAC), fell in its first MAAC\u00a0contest of the season to\u00a0the Golden Griffins of Canisius\u00a0(7-2, 1-0 MAAC) by a final score of 18-3\u00a0at Gaelic Park\u00a0on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/sophie-pasnak\/10241\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10241\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Pasnak<\/a> opened the game with two saves in roughly 100 seconds before Canisius struck first just shy of the four minute mark.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe first quarter proved to not be an offensive-heavy one, as the Golden Griffins&#8217;s second score with 6:27 on the clock was the only one on the menu for the rest of the frame.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIt was the second quarter where the goals started to pile in, as Canisius took a 10-0 advantage into the locker room highlighted by a combined four goals from Ella Forcucci and Maddie Fitzgerald.&#13;<br \/>\n\tOut of the halftime break, Manhattan tallied the first two of the second half, coming off the sticks of <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/lauren-maher\/10235\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10235\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Maher<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/ella-brunette\/12199\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12199\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Brunette<\/a> in that order, both less than 90 seconds in.&#13;<br \/>\n\tCanisius responded with five unanswered throughout the rest of the third quarter, taking a 15-2 edge into the final 15 minutes.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tDespite scoring the first three in the fourth and final frame, Maher connected for her second of the game with just over three minutes to play, off both a free position and man-up chance.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>STATS AND NOTES<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSenior attacker <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/lauren-maher\/10235\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10235\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Maher<\/a> led the team with two goals en route to three points, just her second multi-goal performance of the young season. She is also now the third Jasper with at least 10 goals in 2026.&#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> tacked on the other score for the Green and White, for her 22nd goal of the season, just behind teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/julia-kerr\/12182\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12182\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Kerr<\/a> (24).\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tSenior defender\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/naomi-aristone\/10187\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10187\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Aristone<\/a> caused the most turnovers for Manhattan with two.&#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> won the most draw controls with six.&#13;<br \/>\n\tRedshirt Junior goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/sophie-pasnak\/10241\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10241\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Pasnak<\/a> logged 11 saves through a full 60 minutes.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP:<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan will continue its 2026 campaign on Wednesday, March 25\u00a0when the Jaspers\u00a0take the road again to continue the conference slate, this time squaring off against the Broncs from Rider. Action from Ben Cohen\u00a0Field will get underway\u00a0starting at 3:00 PM\u00a0and can be viewed on ESPN+ with a paid subscription.<\/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; RIVERDALE, N.Y.\u00a0\u2013 The Manhattan Jaspers women&#8217;s lacrosse\u00a0team (1-9, 0-1\u00a0MAAC), fell in its first MAAC\u00a0contest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-170972","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\/170972","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=170972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}