INDIANAPOLIS - The Marian women's lacrosse finished off senior day with a 19-7 win over the Bethel Pilots. The Knights are now 8-4 overall and 6-1 in conference.

The Knights got off to an early lead with Ruby Mason scoring two unanswered goals in the first four minutes of play to bring the lead 2-0 in favor of the Knights. Marian kept increasing their lead with three more unanswered goals by, Ella Grace Giedd, Tori Farkas, and Ashlynn Gray tallying one each to bring the score 5-0. Bethel answered the Knights back with a goal at the 7:10 mark to bring the Knights lead down to four. Gray and Giedd claimed a combined three goals quickly after with Gray scoring two, one being a free position and Giedd tallying one to end the first quarter 8-1 in favor of the Knights.

Marian continued to increase their lead over the Pilots with four unanswered goals to start off the second quarter with, Murphy, Giedd, and Jada Taylor claiming four combined goals to bring the lead 12-1 at the 9:05 mark. Bethel answered with one goal at the 6:26 mark to bring the Knights lead down to ten. Lizzie Piercy finished off the quarter with a goal at the 0:45 mark to bring the score 13-2 going into the half.

The Pilots decreased the Knights lead with three goals to open up the third quarter to bring the final score 13-5 at the 9:44 mark. Katelynn Gray and Murphy followed up with a combined three goals to bring the game to a 11 goal game once again. The Pilots finished out the quarter with one more goal to bring the game 16-6 in favor of the Knights.

Giedd opened up the final quarter with a goal at the 9:53 mark to extend the Knights lead. In the final attempts for a rally Bethel pushed at Marian's lead once more with a goal at the 8:42 mark to bring the score 17-7 in favor of the home team. The Knights closed out the game with two more goals off of a free position shot for Murphy and a goal in the final minute for Taleah Nool to claim the 19-7 win for the Knights. 

Offensively Ella Grace Giedd led the team in goals with five with Katie Murphy close behind with four. Giedd also led the team in assists with two out of the seven total. Defensively the Knights dominated in draw controls and caused turnovers. Madeline Dumke lead the team in draw controls tallying five and Ashlynn Gray not far behind with four. Marian claimed 24 caused turnovers with, Dumke, both Gray sisters, Murphy, and Hayli Irvin all tallying three each. Mason, Irvin, Dumke, and Giedd all led the team in ground ball recoveries with three each. In goal, Grace Coyne allowed only seven goals and had two saves in the win.

The Knights are back in action on Saturday, April 13th on the road against Lawrence Tech (Mich.) with the first draw set at 1:00 p.m.

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