BROOVILLE, N.Y. – The LIU women's lacrosse team beat Sacred Heart at home Saturday afternoon, 12-8. The win was the first for the Sharks in Northeast Conference games, as they improve to 3-0 overall, and 1-0 in the NEC. Senior Paige Sherlock led LIU with three goals in the second half, while eight different LIU players scored in the victory.
 
Sacred Heart scored first Saturday, but the Sharks came back quickly. LIU would see Whitney Moran and Rachel Masullo scored back-to-back goals in 40 seconds to put the home team up, 2-1. SHU would score again, but Rachel Weber would get a goal four minutes later to keep LIU up, 3-2. Masullo would add her second goal of the game ten minutes later, off a pass from Sara Stephens, to widen the LIU lead to 4-2. SHU would add one more before the half ended, and the Sharks led, 4-3 at the break.
 
The Pioneers would tie it up and take a 5-4 lead with 20 minutes to go, but senior Amanda Masullo would score an unassisted goal to tie it up, 5-5. The two teams battled back and forth from there, as SHU would take the lead, and LIU would tie it up once more, on a goal from Francesca Vasile-Cozzo.
 
The Sharks would go up 7-6 on a man-up free position goal by Madeline Schaefer at 14:58, and 32 seconds later, Sherlock scored to make it 8-6. She would score twice more in the final five minutes to get the hat trick, while Amanda Masullo and Elise Person each had a goal before time ran down, and LIU won, 12-8.
 
Sherlock finished with three goals, three draw controls and two ground balls. Rachel Masullo had seven draw controls, two goals and two ground balls, while Elise Person had a game-high two assists to go along with her goal. Junior Hailey Duchnowski had 11 saves in net for the Sharks.
 
Up next, LIU travels to Staten Island to take on Wagner College, Wednesday, March 10.