Grand Rapids, Mich. - The Marian women's lacrosse increase their conference win streak with a 21-10 win over the Aquinas College Saints. The Knights are now 6-3 overall and 4-0 in conference.

The first 10 minutes of the first quarter was filled with goals traded back and fourth for the Knights and the Saints with Katie Murphy and Katelynn Gray scoring the two goals for the visitors, and  Rings and Schmader scoring the goals for the home team to bring the score 2-2 at the 9:28 mark. Marian pushed three unanswered goals two from Murphy and one from Chase Searcy to bring the score 5-2 to allow the Knights the lead. 

The opponents weren't done trading goals in the first quarter, with Aquinas' Reynoso and Marian's Ruby Mason scoring consecutive goals. Shortly after the Saints and the Knights traded goals once more with Sullivan scoring for the Saints and Tori Farkas scoring a goal for the Knights. Marian ended the quarter off with Murphy scoring her third goal on the day to end the quarter 8-4 in favor of the visitors.

The second quarter opened up the same as the first with four goals traded between teams, with Farkas and Mason scoring for the Knights, and Rings and Hall scoring for the Saints to bring the score 10-6 at the 9:56 mark. Taleah Nool got her hand in the mix scoring her first goal for the game to increase the Knights lead. Aquinas was quick to follow up with another goal off of a free position shot to decrease the Knights lead back down to four. Noll and Ashlynn Gray finished up the quarter with back-to-back goals to bring the score 13-7 into the half.

Ella Grace Giedd started off the third quarter with a goal within 30 seconds of play to increase the Knights lead. Aquinas answered four minutes later with a goal bring the score 14-8 in favor of the Knights. Mason and Murphy tallied up more goals for Marian with Mason scoring one and Murphy scoring two to increase the lead to nine. The Saints followed up with another goal which was quickly answered by A. Gray to bring the score 18-9 at the end of the third quarter.

The goals slowed down in the fourth quarter for both sides. Aquinas got their last goal of the game at the 13:47 mark to decrease Marian's lead down to eight. Lizzie Piercy, Emily Blackburn, and Rylie Boezeman scored the last three goals of the game for the Knights with Blackburn's being a free position shot to finish off the game and secure the 21-10 win for the Knights. 

The Knights shined offensively with Murphy leading in goals with six and also tallying two assists. Ashlynn Gray and Giedd lead the team on assists with three. Defensively the Gray sisters shined with Ashlynn leading in draw controls with six and Katelynn not far behind with four. Giedd also lead the team in caused turnovers and recovered ground balls, with three caused turnovers and five recovered ground balls.

Katherine Hirsch played majority of the time in the goal taking the win with four saves. Grace Coyne finished off the game in goal for the last 11 minutes with one save tallied.

The Knights are back in action on Saturday, March 30th on the road against Indiana Tech with the first draw set at 12:00 p.m.

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