Box Score READING, PA – The ninth-ranked York College women's lacrosse team closed out MAC Commonwealth play with an 18-2 win at Albright College on Wednesday afternoon in Reading. The Spartans have secured the second seed in the upcoming MAC Tournament starting next week.
The Spartans are now 10-1 overall and 7-1 in the league. The Lions had their five match win streak snapped as they fall to 7-5 overall and 4-4 in the Commonwealth.
Junior Celly Arthur became the 17th Spartan in school history to reach 100 career points. Arthur reached the milestone on the first goal of the game. She now sits tied for 12th all-time in points with 109.
How It Happened
• The Spartans got off to a quick start as Celly Arthur scored off a Jenna Cholowinski pass to open the scoring and kick off a big day for the junior attack. Arthur's goal came at the 27:39 mark and gave York the early lead. Arthur made it 2-0 on a free position goal just under a minute and a half later.
• The Spartans scored three more goals over the next nine minutes to push out to a 5-0 lead. Madison Kurland, Kiersten Blanchard, and Rachel Della found the back of the net for the Spartans to build on the lead. Albright got on the board with a Maddie Taylor goal at the 15:39 mark. The Spartans answered with four straight goals over the final 8:34 of the first half to take a 9-1 lead after one half of play. Cholowinski, Chloe MacDonald, Teresa Matthias, and Blanchard scored goals for York during the late half spurt.
• Arthur had a big first half with two goals and three assists for five points.
• The teams traded goals to open the second half but the Spartan offense seized control of the game and outscored Albright 8-0 the rest of the way. Della had a trio of second half goals while Arthur, Matthias, Blanchard, Savana Sealover, and Mia Alvarez also scored for York. Arthur had a goal and four assists in the second half for the Green and White.
Spartan Leaders
Junior Celly Arthur set a career-high with 10 points on her three goals and seven assists … the 10 points is the fourth highest single game performance in Spartan history … junior Jenna Cholowinski recorded a career-high 10 draw controls to help the Spartans hold a 16-5 edge in draws for the game … Cholowinski also had a goal and an assist … Rachel Della contributed four goals to the Spartan offense … Kiersten Blanchard contributed three goals and five draw controls for York … junior goalie Riley DiFiore recorded 10 saves in 46:51 of action while Bella Garabo made three stops in 13:09 of scoreless action.
Notes
The meeting was the first between the two programs … the Spartans have locked in the second seed as they will host the seven seed in a quarterfinal game on Tuesday at Kinsley Field … the Spartans committed a season-low seven turnovers in their cleanest game of the year…. the Spartan goalies combined to make 13 saves in the win … the 13 saves marks the fifth time this year York has notched double figures in saves in a game … York put 84.6% of their shots (33-of-39) on goal, their second highest mark of the year (87.9% at King's) … junior Celly Arthur tied the school record for single season assists with 43, a mark that was set in 2019 by former Spartan All-American Devin Hursey … Arthur is now just 20 assists away from tying Hursey for the school career record of 92 … Arthur is averaging 2.12 assists per game for her career … Arthur leads the MAC in total assists (43) and assists per game (3.91) while she is second in total points (60) and points per game (5.45) … Rachel Della is ranked fifth in the MAC Commonwealth in goals per game (2.91) and total goals (32) … Jenna Cholowinski leads the Commonwealth in draw controls (63) and draw controls per game (6.30) … junior goalie Riley DiFiore leads the Commonwealth in save percentage at 62.9% while she is also third in goals against average at 5.39 … York has outscored their 11 opponents by a combined 126-22 in the first half of their games this year.
Up Next
The Spartans conclude their regular season with a trip to Stevens Institute of Technology on Friday afternoon in a make-up game from earlier this season. First draw from Hoboken, NJ is set for 2:00 pm.
