SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The LIU Brooklyn women's lacrosse team continued its winning ways Thursday night in South Carolina, as the Blackbirds beat Wofford, 18-5. Freshman Elise Person led the team scoring four goals, as one of ten LIU athletes to score in the win.
 
Person also got scoring started, when she put LIU on the board. A pass from senior Sierra O'Connor helped create the opportunity just two minutes and 30 seconds into the game, and Person scored to make it 1-0. Just two minutes later, sophomore Bianca Santucci and freshman Amanda Masullo would score back-to-back unassisted goals in less than a minute to widen LIU's lead to 3-0. Senior Carlie Robinson added one eight minutes later, making it 4-0 Blackbirds.
 
Wofford would get on the board in the 18^th minute, but only scored once. And in the final nine minutes of the game, LIU would add four more goals to take an 8-1 lead at the halftime break. Freshman Rachel Masullo scored back-to-back goals, one unassisted and one off a pass from junior Dale Cosgrave, to make it 6-1. Robinson would add her second of the game just 12 seconds later, and senior Candice Mosal closed out the half with her unassisted score, 8-1.
 
Coming out of the halftime break, Wofford scored quickly to make it 8-2, but the Blackbirds answered by scoring five straight goals. Santucci added her second, off a pass from Cosgrave, and two minutes later, had an assist of her own, when senior Christina Zolezzi scored to make it 10-2. And the Person went off. The freshman attacker scored three straight unassisted goals over the next five minutes to catapult LIU to a 13-2 lead. Wofford would score twice more, but then freshman Sarah Smith scored her first collegiate goal with nine minutes left to make it 14-4. Wofford added one more, but LIU ended the game by scoring four more before time ran out.
 
Cosgrave got a goal of her own, off a pass from Amanda Masullo, and then a minute later, the two traded places, with Masullo scoring off a pass from Cosgrave. Senior Christina Zolezzi would have the next two assists, helping Cosgrave score a goal with four minutes left in the game, and with a pass to freshman Rachel Riley, who scored her first collegiate goal to close out the game and give LIU the 18-5 advantage.
 
Keepers Sam Kidd and Virginia Gibbons combined for seven saves in the win. Amanda Masullo led LIU in the circle with seven draw controls, while both Sierra O'Connor and freshman Trista Mears had three caused turnovers.
 
Up next, the Blackbirds head to Richmond, Virginia to take on VCU, Sunday, March 18 at 12 p.m.