Stony Brook, N.Y. (April 2, 2008) – Senior Diana Caroleo (North Babylon, N.Y.) had a career-high six goals on seven shots but UMBC's Ali Levendusky matched Caroleo with six goals of her own as UMBC led from the start and defeated the Stony Brook women's lacrosse team, 17-11 in an America East conference game. Stony Brook is 5-4, 0-2 while UMBC improves to 3-9, 1-4.

After UMBC scored the first two goals of the game, freshman Melissa Cook (Bay Shore, N.Y.) helped Stony Brook get on the board with her 20th goal of the season coming off a free position shot. Levendusky and UMBC answered with two straight goals to give UMBC a 4-1 lead. Stony Brook cut the lead to 4-3 following goals from senior Elizabeth Montreuil (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) and Caroleo.

Senior Jenna Celano (Farmingdale, N.Y.) scored on a free position shot with 7:42 left in the first half to make the score, 6-4 which was the closest the Seawolves got the rest of the afternoon.

UMBC scored the next five goals, spanning over 16 minutes of game action while taking an 11-4 lead. Junior Kimberly Quartier (Cicero, N.Y.) scored her second goal of the season and Caroleo had Stony Brook's next three goals as it got within three, 11-8 with 15:56 to play. But UMBC answered with five straight goals over 5:30 minutes to lead 16-8. Caroleo had two of the three final scores for Stony Brook.

For Stony Brook, Cook totaled two goals on the afternoon. Junior Kaitlin Leggio (Bay Shore, N.Y.) had three assists and six ground balls.

Kelly Burgoyne added three goals for UMBC. Along with Levendusky's six goals, she also picked up six ground balls.

Stony Brook returns to action on Saturday afternoon at 12:00 pm when it hosts #14 New Hampshire at 12:00 pm.

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STONY BROOK, N.Y.-Senior attack Ali Levendusky tied her career high with six goals to lead the UMBC women's lacrosse team (3-9, 2-3 AEC) to its first win in more than a month, as the Retrievers topped America East Rival Stony Brook (5-4, 0-2 AEC) by a score of 17-11 Wednesday afternoon at LaValle Stadium.

The victory snapped UMBC's seven-game losing streak which spanned the entire month of March. The Retrievers' last victory was Feb. 29 at Binghamton, but they extended their winning streak over the Seawolves to five straight, as they have never lost to their conference foe.

UMBC led from the start, scoring the game's first two goals. Levendusky tallied three times in the first 15 minutes to lead the Retrievers to a 4-1 lead before Stony Brook scored back-to-back goals to trim its deficit to one.

But the Seawolves would get no closer, as UMBC tallied four of the final five goals of the first half to take an 8-4 halftime lead. Levendusky led all scorers with four goals in the period.

Freshman midfielder Amanda Pappas, who scored the last goal of the first half, also tallied the first of the second just 21 seconds into the period to spark a 3-0 UMBC run to start the stanza.

The Seawolves scored four straight over a span of 5:30, with three consecutive goals by attack Diana Caroleo that pulled Stony Brook to within three at 11-8. But the Retrievers used a 5-0 surge to a game-high eight-goal lead, 16-8, with 6:14 remaining. Levendusky scored twice during the spurt, and junior defender Ashley Lancer tallied her first career goal.

Stony Brook posted three in a row over the next four minutes, with two more by Caroleo, but UMBC sophomore midfielder Kelly Burgoyne completed her first career hat trick with the game's final goal at the 2:09 mark.

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