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Carleigh Fountain ties the program's single-game goal record with seven against Edgewood March 2, 2024
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Winner Ill. Wesleyan IWU 1-1
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Edgewood EDGEWOOD 1-1
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Ill. Wesleyan IWU
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Edgewood EDGEWOOD
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Edgewood EDGEWOOD 4 2 2 2 10

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse | | kcarlson

Women’s Lacrosse Edges Eagles

Fountain ties program's single-game goals record with seven

VERONA, Wis. - Picking up its first win of the 2024 season, the Illinois Wesleyan University women's lacrosse team defeated Edgewood College, 17-10, Saturday, March 2. With the win, the Titans improve to 1-1, while Edgewood falls to 1-1. 

Sophomore Carleigh Fountain (Orland Park, Ill.-Carl Sandburg) led the game with a career-high seven goals, tying the single-game program record. Senior Britney Maldonado (Hoffman Estates, Ill.-James B. Conant) also finished with seven points, doing so on four goals and three assists. Sophomore Devon Hanson (Waukesha, Wis.-Waukesha West) posted four points on a trio of goals and an assist. 

Sophomore Sarah Riepe (Aurora, Ill.-St. Francis) shattered her career-best with five ground balls to lead the Green and White, while four Titans scooped up four balls. Junior Mia Fiandaca (St. Charles, Ill.-St. Charles North) led the match with five caused turnovers. Riepe added a career-high four caused turnovers, while Hanson forced three Edgewood miscues. 

Junior Bri Kiser (Crown Point, Ind.-Crown Point) notched her first career win between the posts, as she finished 13 saves on 23 shots, finishing with a .565 save percentage. 

Maldonado got the Titans on the board, utilizing a woman-up, free position opportunity to even the score at one apiece with 11:13 to play in the first. 

Edgewood responded with a free-position goal of its own, taking a 2-1 lead, but Fountain spun around an Eagles defender to notch her first goal of the game. 

Fountain made the most of a free-position, as she recorded her second goal of the game in the first period, tying the score at three all.

With a little over a minute to play in the first quarter, Hanson found the back of the net to give the Titans their first lead of the day, 4-3. Edgewood would tie the score as time expired in the first. 

The Eagles scored the first two goals of the second, but clutch saves by Kiser kept the contest in reach. Fountain struck on a free-position again to notch a hat trick with 5:53 remaining in the first half of action. 

Fiandaca forced a turnover and scooped up the ground ball to regain possession for the Titans, who used the opportunity to their advantage, as junior Avery Setzler (Bloomington, Ill.-Bloomington) fed Fountain the ball. With the hot stick in her hand, Fountain buried her fourth goal of the game to tie the score at six apiece. 

Illinois Wesleyan continued the run with goals from Fiandaca and Hanson on assists from Maldonado to carry an 8-6 lead into halftime.

Kiser stopped a free-position to open the second half of action. The third quarter remained scoreless until Setzler found Maldonado for her second goal of the game, as Illinois Wesleyan took a 9-6 lead with 12:36 remaining. The Hoffman Estates, Ill. would notch the next two goals of the quarter as well, upping IWU's lead to five. 

Hanson found Setzler for a goal with 3:05 left in the third, as the Titans took a 14-8 advantage into the last quarter of action.

The Titans never lost control of the game, cruising to a 17-10 victory to pick up their first win of the season.

Illinois Wesleyan returns home Wednesday, March 6, for a non-conference tilt with the Tigers of DePauw University. Game time is scheduled for 6 p.m.
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