Riverdale, NY – Senior Sarah Lang (Golden's Bridge, NY / Vermont) and freshman Alaina Burgess (Holden, MA / The Governor's Academy) each scored twice, but Wagner prevailed 11-6 in Manhattan's final non-conference game of 2018 on Sunday afternoon at Gaelic Park.
With the victory, the Seahawks improve to 4-3, while the Jaspers stumble to 3-5.
Wagner began the game with five straight goals. Marjorie Dehm scored twice, including once on a man-up chance. After a Lauren Ednie goal at 16:35 of the first half, the Seahawks rattled off two straight goals on the free-position.
Lang stopped the run when she caught a pass from fellow captain Kara Hodapp (Oak Ridge, NJ / Jefferson Township) and whipped a shot past Wagner keeper Lucy Darlington to make it 5-1 with 9:31 remaining until halftime.
Wagner went into the break up 7-1, and extended their lead just 32 seconds into the second half with a free-position goal from Dehm, her third goal of the contest.
Hodapp answered three minutes later, taking the ball from atop the fan and fighting off multiple defenders for her 15th goal of the season.
The Seahawks proceeded to score three straight goals within the next 13 minutes to push their lead to nine, the largest of the day.
The Jaspers refused to go down quietly, however. At 10:29 in the second half, Lang potted a free-position shot, giving her the 24th goal she's scored this year. With less than four minutes to play, junior Talia Price (Kinnelon, NJ / Kinnelon) took a foul inside the arc with Manhattan down a player. She converted the free-position shot to make it an 11-4 ballgame.
Burgess took over on offense the rest of the way. As the two-minute mark went by on the game clock, Hodapp lofted a pass to Burgess from the middle of the fan, and the freshman one-timed it on net for her second career goal. Burgess knotted her first-career free-position goal with four seconds to play to cap the scoring.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
- Burgess registered the first multi-goal game of her young career.
- Lang tallied multiple goals for the seventh time this season.
- Hodapp has collected three points in three of her last four games.
- Junior goalkeeper Nikki Prestiano (Yorktown Heights, NY / Yorktown) earned seven saves in net, the fourth time in 2018 she has reached that mark.
- The Jaspers totaled a season-high 35 ground balls.
- Junior Emma Kaishian (Yorktown, NY / Yorktown) led Manhattan with five draw controls, while classmate Caitlin Murphy (Carmel, NY / Carmel) paced the Jaspers with five ground balls.
- In terms of clear percentage, Manhattan (17-21) held the advantage over Wagner (17-25).
- With the three wins in non-conference play, Manhattan equalized last season's non-conference mark.
UP NEXT
The Jaspers open up MAAC play with three straight games on the road, starting off with a matchup against two-time defending champion Canisius on Saturday, March 24 at 11:00 am.