I had no idea that we were on the precipice of a bit of history for the last couple of Marquette women’s lacrosse games. Powered by a seven point day from Dani Serrano and a six goal day from Tess Osburn, YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles secured a 19-9 win over Youngstown State on Friday afternoon. More importantly though, it was the 100th win in program history, and as such, it was win #100 in the career of head coach Meredith Black who has been with the team since Day 1.
It is delightful that they thought
to shoot the locker room celebration from two different angles.
How did Marquette go about it? They just overpowered the Penguins. Marquette scored on their second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, and tenth shots of the game. That made it 8-3 Marquette with 90 seconds left in the first quarter. To put it another way: Marquette was up 7-1 when Youngstown State had just three shots. One was their goal, one was saved by Jillian Howell, and one was a free position attempt that missed high.
The scoring slowed down ever so slightly as the two teams scored one each in the first five minutes of the second quarter and then went quiet for a while. Tess Osburn opened the tap back up with 7:07 left before halftime with her fifth goal of the game, and less than three minutes later, Marquette was up 12-4. That doubled as the halftime score, and then MU tacked on the first two goals of the third quarter to make it 14-4 and kick in the running clock for a while.
At that point of the game, Marquette was outshooting YSU 22-7.
The Penguins were able to get the running clock back off for a while, but Marquette scored with 1:54 left in the third to turn it back on and then again at the 12:50 mark of the fourth to make sure that their 10 goal margin would hold the rest of the way. That escorted things to the finale quickly, and only two YSU goals in the final 90 seconds led us to the final margin.
It was a big day for Marquette’s expected scoring leaders to put numbers up, especially as the Golden Eagles established their lead early on. Tess Osburn had five of her six goals in the game in the first 23 minutes, and Hanna Bodner threw in both of her two goals in the game in the first quarter, less than a minute apart. Freshman Dani Serrano played a big part in all of it, scoring MU’s third goal of the game, assisting on one each from Bodner and Osburn in the first quarter, and then tacking on MU’s eighth goal in the opening frame. Marquette finished with 19 goals, but Serrano had all seven of her points wrapped up as MU scored their 13th strike of the night. Seven points on 13 goals is crazy stuff.
Riley Jenkins was Marquette’s only other hat trick scorer next to Osburn, so all told, MU did spread the scoring around quite a bit in this game. Serrano’s five assists led Marquette, but the passing highlight of the day is Adrianna Commodari. The senior from Maryland had four helpers in this game, all in a 22 minute stretch in the middle of the game. That’s a career high in assists for her as well as a career best in points, and it’s one-quarter of the total of points that she had in her three previous seasons with the Golden Eagles. With an assist against Jacksonville as well, Commodari is up to five on the year and is three points away from tying last year’s career best in a season.
Highlights, courtesy of GoMarquette.com and Youngstown State’s YouTube channel:
Up Next: Not quite a quick turnaround, but also not a true Spring Break road trip for Marquette either. The Golden Eagles will be back in the Valley for their next game, which is coming up on Tuesday, March 10th. Detroit Mercy will be coming to Milwaukee, and first draw is scheduled for 4pm Central on ESPN+. The Titans are 0-4 on the year as I type this and coming off a 16-2 loss to Xavier, but they have a Saturday contest against Lindenwood down in Missouri before they arrive at Valley Fields.
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