Sophomore Kaitlyn Carter recorded five goals and two assists to lead the #2 Adelphi University women's lacrosse team to an 18-4 victory over Bentley College this afternoon. The Panthers improve to 7-0, while the Falcon drop to 1-4.

Freshman Marissa Mills broke a scoreless tie at 21:03 to put Adelphi up first. This spurred a 6-0 Panther run with Carter accounting for three of those points. The Falcons made it 7-1 on an unassisted goal by Torre Taylor in the 27th minute. Adelphi scored three more goals in the final minute of play, capped by a Michelle Ceraso goal on a feed by Carter with 15 seconds left in the half, 9-1.

Ceraso tallied the third of her four goals on the day in the opening minutes of the second half, 10-1. Freshman Alison Staudt scored next, then assisted on a goal by senior Rachel Ray with 24:01 left on the clock. Junior Holly Burke made it a 13-1 effort before the Falcons' Michelle LaRosa stopped the rally on a goal in the 41st minute.

The Panthers rattled off four unanswered goals, capped by Mills' unassisted shot before Erica de Silva gave Bentely its third goal of the day on a free position shot. Freshman Erica Devito found the back of the net for the second time on a solo shot with 1:03 left to play, 18-3. However, the Falcons would have the last word on a Maggie Schoening goal with 22 seconds left in regulation.

Junior goalkeeper Caitline Fitzpatrick was solid in goal, with 10 saves on 21 shots faced. Bentely goalie Christina Guglielmo made 15 stops in the contest.

The Panthers remain perfect after a tough four-game week and will return to action next Saturday, March 28, when they host Merrimack College at 2:00 p.m.

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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – Second-ranked Adelphi ran its perfect record to 7-0 with an 18-4 win over Bentley University Sunday afternoon in non-conference women's lacrosse play. Sophomore midfielder Kaitlyn Carter led the Panthers with five goals, and sophomore attack Michelle Ceraso had four. It was the third straight game Bentley has played a team ranked in the top-10 of Division II.

Adelphi scored the first six goals, spread out over 24:41 of the first half. It took nearly nine minutes for the first goal to be tallied, but the Panthers finally dented the scoreboard with 8:57 gone on a goal by freshman midfielder Marissa Mills.

After a goal by Ceraso 51 seconds later, Carter scored Adelphi's next two. Freshman Torre Taylor (Locust Valley, N.Y./Friends Academy) scored the Falcons' first goal of the game with 2:36 left in the first half, but Adelphi added three more in the last 1:05 to take an eight-goal lead into halftime.

The second half went much the same way, with Adelphi scoring eight of the first nine goals.

Junior midfielder Michelle LaRosa (Manhasset, N.Y./Manhasset), junior attack Erica de Silva (Dartmouth, Mass./Dartmouth), and freshman midfielder Maggie Schoening (Dartmouth, Mass./Dartmouth) scored for Bentley in the second half.

Bentley plays its second Northeast-10 match of the season on Tuesday night against Franklin Pierce in Rindge, N.H. at 7:00 p.m.

2009-03-22