PAINESVILLE, Ohio – The Slippery Rock University women's lacrosse team scored the first seven goals of the game and never looked back in posting a 15-8 victory on the road at Lake Erie College Tuesday night in non-conference action from Jack Britt Field.
 
The victory is the third straight for Slippery Rock and improves the team to 6-2 overall and a perfect 4-0 in the all-time series against Lake Erie. The Storm drop to 3-4 overall with the loss.
 
Slippery Rock posted advantages of 24-21 in shots and 18-7 in draw controls, while also taking care of the ball on the clear to go 14-of-15 on clear attempts. Both teams managed 16 ground balls and Lake Erie went 12-of-16 on the clear.
 
The Rock were paced by senior leaders Kaytlin Callaghan and Erin Wilcox, who each tallied four goals. Callaghan added two assists to finish with a game-high six points. Danni Wilson scored two goals and Ally Culhane, Chynna Chan and Tia Torchia each scored one goal and handed out one assist to cap the multi-point scorers.
 
Anna-Marie Warrington and Caitlynn Palladino each scored one goal to round out the scorers.
 
Jordan Wagner played the first 53:22 in goal and improved to 6-2 on the year after allowing seven goals and recording seven saves. Taylor Balbierz played the final 6:38 in net and allowed one goal while making one save.
 
Lake Erie was led by Anastasia Crawford with three goals and Cecilia Spin with two goals. Hana Abu-Kwiek added one goal and one assist.
 
Harmony Moore took the loss between the posts after allowing all 15 goals and recording seven saves.
 
Slippery Rock came out of the gates firing, scoring twice in the first two minutes with goals from Warrington and Callaghan.
 
The Rock would continue that momentum as Callaghan found the back of the net two more times to record a hat trick just 5:31 into the action. Wilcox, Wilson and Torchia scored three more successive goals for the visitors to make it 7-0 midway through the first period.
 
Lake Erie rallied with three goals to end the period and tallied two more to open the second half to cap a 5-0 run that made it 7-5 with 24:25 to play.
 
After the teams traded goals to make it 8-6, Slippery Rock took over with a six-goal run that put the game out of reach. Wilcox tallied two markers during that stretch and Chan, Culhane, Callaghan and Palladino each scored once.
 
Tuesday night's game kicked off a three-game road swing for SRU, which will visit No. 9 West Chester Friday for a 3 p.m. game before playing a 2 p.m. game Saturday at Kutztown.
 
 
Notes: Wilcox scored four goals in a single-game for the fifth time in eight games this season … she is the only player on the team to score at least one goal in all eight games this year and has now scored in 35 of the last 37 SRU games … Wilcox's four goals bring her career tally to 114 and move her into sole possession of fifth place on the all-time goal-scoring list at SRU … she now has 121 points in her career, one shy of the No. 8 spot on the all-time list … Callaghan's four goals bring her career total to 109 and move her into sole possession of No. 8 on the goal-scoring ledger at SRU, three goals shy of tying for No. 6 … Callaghan now has 161 career points and moved into sole possession of No. 4 on the all-time scoring list at SRU ... Callaghan is eight points shy of tying for No. 3 on the career scoring list.