Camden, NJ – Senior
MEGAN MAHLSTADT scored four goals and added three assists while
TRISTIN KONEN registered three goals and three assists as 24
th-ranked Montclair State cruised to a 22-2 victory over Rutgers-Camden on Wednesday afternoon.
Clare Eckles (two assists) and
MAEVE CARNEY each had three goals as the Red Hawks (5-0, 4-0 NJAC) remained unbeaten and inched closer toward claiming the No. 1 seed in next week's NJAC Tournament. MSU will face Rowan University in Glassboro on Saturday, April 24 to close out its regular-season.
BRITTANY COSTIGAN put Montclair on the board 48 seconds into the game with Konen connecting twice a minute later for a 3-0 Red Hawks. After Claire Gailliout scored for the Scarlet Raptors (0-3, 0-3 NJAC), Mahlstadt began a run of eight straight goals over a 12-minute span.
Mahlstadt scored the first two with
MICHAELAH REYNOLDS and
AMBER GONZALEZ finding the back of the net less than minute apart making the score 7-1 with 25:21 left in the first half. Konen added her third and a
MAEVE CARNEY goal widened the lead to 9-1.
HALEY DORAN set up Reynolds for the latter's second goal with 19:50 left before Carney's second capped the spurt as MSU led 11-1.
Gailliout snapped the string of Red Hawk goals midway through the half, however Montclair closed out the opening period with the final four goals.
JULIA EGAN, Mahlstadt, Doran and Carney each had one as Montclair Sate led 15-2 at the half.
Costigan pulled in 10 draws as she hit double digits in a game for the second time this season. Konen registered seven draws with Doran getting three. Goalkeeper
ALLYN LILIEN, the NJAC and IWLCA Division III Defensive Player of the Week, stopped five shots.
Thirteen different players recorded a point in the game with 10 posting two or more.