Stevens Women's Lacrosse Opens NCAA Championships With 19-Goal Win Over George Fox

5/10/2025 4:42:00 PM

By: Courtesy of Stevens Athletic Communications

EWING, N.J. – The Stevens Institute of Technology women's lacrosse team picked up a commanding 22-3 victory over George Fox University in the First Round of the NCAA Division III Championships Saturday afternoon from the campus of The College of New Jersey.
 
Emily Leiby and Alison Lax each had a game-high five points, Stefanie Sellitto added four, and Anna Velardi had three. Maddie Hogan, Alison Murray, Adeline Obitz, and Abby O'Brien all had two, rounding out the Ducks multiple-point scorers.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
Sellitto scored the first two goals of the game and Leiby added a third inside the first five minutes. After George Fox (14-5) got on the board less than a minute later, the Ducks quickly put the game away. Lax scored back-to-back goals, Leiby added her second of the day, then Sellitto and Leiby scored nine seconds apart, giving Stevens (16-4) an 8-1 lead after the first quarter.
 
Two goals from Hogan sandwiched around one from Alina Friz initiated the running clock at the 10:39 mark of the second quarter. Lax, Murray, Leiby (twice), Velardi, and O'Brien all tacked on for the Ducks, who took an 18-1 lead to the locker room, part of a 27-shot first half effort, 26 of them on goal.
 
Murray opened the second half with a goal then 7+ scoreless minutes from both sides followed before the Bruins stopped a 35+-minute scoring drought with two straight goals late in the quarter.
 
After Obitz made it 19-3 Ducks in the closing seconds of the third, Tory Seaton, Obitz again, and Kamryn Kramer added on the final three goals of the game in the fourth.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • Saturday marked the Ducks' ninth 15+ goal win of the season.
  • Stevens has now won its first NCAA Championship game in each of the last four seasons.
  • 22 total draw controls for the Red and Gray marked the seventh time this season the team collected at least 20, and the +17 margin (22 to 5) was the third-best differential in a single game this year.
  • The Ducks out-shot the Bruins 41 to 5, the highest single-game difference this year; the five shots also marked the fewest allowed in a game by Stevens this year.
  • The Ducks forced 18 failed clears from the Bruins, while finishing the game 12-for-13 in the metric.
  • Sellitto grabbed six draw controls, becoming the first player in program history to reach 400.
  • Leiby tallied 50 goals for the second straight season and set a new career high with 81 points, three more than her total from last season.
  • Emily Smart added an assist, extending her program-record total to 153.
  • Hogan scored at least twice for the 10th straight game.
UP NEXT
The Ducks face site host TCNJ – one of the most storied programs in D-III women's lacrosse history – tomorrow at 1 p.m.
 
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