Saturday, April 27
Denver, Colo.
11:30 a.m. MT
University of Denver
vs
Xavier
Photo by: © Tyler Schank/Clarkson Creative Photography
[12/14] Denver Hosts Xavier for Saturday Matinee
4/25/2024 1:26:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
The Pioneers will take on the Xavier Musketeers on Senior Day with opening draw set fo 11:30 a.m. MT
DENVER - The [12/14] University of Denver women's lacrosse team closes out the regular season with a senior day matchup against the Xavier Musketeers on Saturday at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
In the inaugural meeting between the two teams, the Pios defeated the Musketeers, 23-6, in Cinncinati, Ohio.
SCOUTING THE MUSKETEERS: Xavier is 4-11 on the season, with its most recent win coming in overtime at Eastern Michigan on April 17, 13-12. The Musketeers are led offensively by reigning Big East Freshman of the Year Lola Mancuso, who has 41 goals this season, averaging 2.73 goals per game. Goalkeeper Marina Piszczor owns a .376 save percentage and 14.57 goals against average.
THE LAST TIME OUT: The Pioneers defeated [8] Yale on Monday, 12-11, in Philadelphia, Penn. Lauren Black notched a career-high eight points, with five goals and three assists, including the game-winning buzzer beater. Goalkeeper Emelia Bohi made seven saves.
2024 CAPTAINS:
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In the inaugural meeting between the two teams, the Pios defeated the Musketeers, 23-6, in Cinncinati, Ohio.
SCOUTING THE MUSKETEERS: Xavier is 4-11 on the season, with its most recent win coming in overtime at Eastern Michigan on April 17, 13-12. The Musketeers are led offensively by reigning Big East Freshman of the Year Lola Mancuso, who has 41 goals this season, averaging 2.73 goals per game. Goalkeeper Marina Piszczor owns a .376 save percentage and 14.57 goals against average.
THE LAST TIME OUT: The Pioneers defeated [8] Yale on Monday, 12-11, in Philadelphia, Penn. Lauren Black notched a career-high eight points, with five goals and three assists, including the game-winning buzzer beater. Goalkeeper Emelia Bohi made seven saves.
2024 CAPTAINS:
- The Pioneers selected graduate students Sam Thacker and Julia Gilbert, seniors Anna Palmisano and Sloane Kipp and redshirt junior Raegan Wilson as their 2024 captains.
- The 2023 National Defender of the Year Sam Thacker owns the program record for career caused turnovers at 184.
- Gilbert, led the Pioneers with 59 goals and 67 points last season. She was recognized as an IL and USA Lacrosse Magazine Second-Team All American, a member of the Tewaaraton Award Watch List, All-Big East First Team and IWLCA West/Midwest Region Second team honoree.
- Palmisano brings experience to the 'hot pink' defense and has started in every game the last three seasons.
- Kipp was third on the DU squad last season with 57 shots on goal and a .429 shooting percentage with three game-winning goals during the 2023 Championship Weekend run.
- Before missing the second half of the season with an injury, Wilson earned 17 goals and four assists.
- Denver has a 214-183 advantage in the draw circle this season.
- Senior draw specialist Abby Jenkins leads the Pioneers with 70 this season.
- Jenkins hauled in 10 in the Pioneers win over Butler on April 10, her first double-digit output this season and the eighth of her career.
- Yale graduate student transfer Olivia Penoyer leads the team and is ranked 14th in the country in assists with 40.
- Her 40 assists ranks eighth in the Pioneer record books for most assists in a single season.
- Penoyer has 3+ assists in nine games this season.
- Penoyer had back-to-back five assist games in BIG EAST wins over Marquette (April 6) and at Bulter (April 10), one shy of her career-high six which she produced three times in her time with the Bulldogs.
- In her career at Yale, Penoyer broke Yale's career assists record, finishing her time in New Haven with 106 in her career.
- Among active players in NCAA Division I women's lacrosse, Penoyer ranks fifth in career assists with 146.
- Denver held Butler to just 13 shots on April 10 in Indianapolis.
- It was the lowest shots allowed for the Pioneers since holding Georgetown to 10 on April 22, 2023.
- The Georgetown total last season was Denver's lowest since allowing just eight shots at Coastal Carolina on March 11, 2020, the final game before the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- Denver went 4-for-5 from the free-position arc on April 14 vs Arizona State, the program's second best free position percentage this season. The four FPS tallies matched Denver's 4-for-4 day against Colorado on April 3.
- The Pioneers finished with as many as 8 free-position goals twice last season.
- Denver scored six times in woman-up situations on February 25 against San Diego State, its most in a game in the program's Division I history.
- The Pioneers have finished with 4+ woman-up goals four times in 2024 (chart on right), more than the rest of its DI history combined.
- Denver has had double digit caused turnovers in 12 games this season.
- The Pioneers finished with double-digit caused turnovers in all but one game last season (4/8/23 at UConn).
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