DENVER – The University of Denver women's lacrosse program had five different players get hat tricks and dominated the draw circle against the fifth-highest prolific draw unit in the country to earn a 20-6 win over Marquette on Saturday afternoon at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
 
KEY PERFORMANCES:
Lauren Black led Denver's goal scorers with four, to go with an assist for a five-point afternoon. Olivia Penoyer led the Pios in points, combining her third track of the season with a game-high five assists for an eight-point afternoon. Julia Gilbert and Caroline Colimore each had a hat trick and an assist for four-point days and Jane Earley netted her second hat trick as a Pioneer to round-out Denver's multi-goal scorers. Ryan Dineen had four assists and a tally of her own for a five-point day.
 
In the middle of the field, Denver's draw unit quited the Golden Eagles with an 18-11 advantage in the contest. Abby Jenkins kept control of five of her own wins. Trinity McPherson had a game-high eight draw controls and Black pulled down four.
 
On the defensive side of the ball, McPherson added to her stat line with four caused turnovers and three ground balls. Megan Klingenberg also finished with four caused turnovers on the day to go with a pair of grounders and Anna Palmisano stole three Marquette possessions and picked up a ground ball.
 
In net, Emelia Bohi finished above 50% on the afternoon, stopping seven shots againset just six goals allowed.
 
NOTES:

• Julia Gilbert stretched her team-high active point streak to 35 games (95-16-111).
• Gilbert completed her fourth-straight hat trick, her ninth of the season and the 38^th of her career.
• Olivia Penoyer, Lauren Black and Caroline Colimore all stretched their active point streaks to 10 games.
• Black netted her fourth hat trick of the season and the 20^th of her career.
• Colimore tallied her second career hat trick in the first half, her first since February, 2022 at Cal.
• Colimore's four points tied a career-high (at Cal in 2022).
• Penoyer completed her third hat trick of the season and the 16^th of her career.
• Penoyer's eight points were one shy of her career-high that she set all the way back on March 7, 2019 with Yale against Niagara (5G-4A-9P).
• Jane Earley finished her second hat trick of the season and the 44^th of her career.
• Saturday was Denver's first 20+-goal game since April 16, 2023 at Xavier.
• Megan Klingenberg's four caused turnovers were a career-high.
• Trinity McPherson's four caused turnovers tied a career-high that she set multiple times at Johns Hopkins and her eight draw controls were a new career-high.
• Denver outshot Marquette 39-15 and 27-11 on goal.

HOW IT HAPPENED:
First Quarter:
Midfielder Caroline Colimore scored her 13^th and 14^th goals of the season to kick-start a five-goal game-opening run. Julia Gilbert scored a pair of goals on her own a little more than three minutes apart. Following a Marquette timeout, Trinity McPherson took a draw control to the house with 2:01 to go to make it a 5-0 Denver lead.
 
Marquette's only goal came off the stick of Leigh Steiner with 14 seconds left to send the teams into the second quarter with the Pios up four.
 
Second Quarter:
Denver opened the second frame scoring the first two and three of the first four to open up an 8-2 advantage with 10:49 to go. Lauren Black finished an Olivia Penoyer feed for her first of the day, followed by Jane Earley's 16^th of the season to make it a 7-1 Pios advantage. Penoyer got a goal of her own to cancel out a Marquette tally with 10:49 to go in the third.
 
Marquette got three of the next four, sandwiching goals around Black's second of the frame. The Pioneers took momentum into the intermission, getting goals from Penoyer and Colimore's hat trick tally to stretch the lead back out to six at 11-5 at the break.
 
The Pioneers had a 9-2 edge in draws in the second quarter to control possessions. McPherson finished the first half with a goal, seven draw controls, four caused turnovers and three ground balls. Emelia Bohi made five stops in the opening 30 minutes.
 
Third Quarter:
The Crimson and Gold scored all six goals of the third-quarter to stretch their lead to 17-5 heading into the fourth.
 
Earley scored twice to complete her hat trick. Black and Penoyer also scored their hat-trick tallies and Ryan Dineen and Sloane Kipp got their first goals of the game to complete the frame.  
 
Fourth Quarter:
Black's fourth of the day came on the woman-up to open the fourth-quarter scoring. Gilbert then completed her hatty to stretch the run to eight-straight goals in the second half and make it a 19-5 Pio lead.
 
Marquette put and end to the Denver run with 7:22 to play in regulation before Kyra Obert scored the final goal of the game for the Pioneers to complete Denver's 20-6 win.
 
UP NEXT:
Denver will return to the road for a midweek trip to Butler on Wednesday at 10 a.m. MT. The game will be broadcast on FloSports.
 
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