GAME NOTES
• Millersville opened the 2018 season with two convincing out-of-conference victories away from Biemesderfer Stadium. The Marauders picked up their first win of the season with a 21-11 victory at the Wilmington Wildcats. They followed up that performance with a 17-4 drubbing of the Tigers at Holy Family.
• Senior
Sabrina Fusco leads the team in goals and points two games into her final campaign in the black and gold. Fusco scored five goals at Wilmington and four at Holy Family while assisting two goals in each game. She is rapidly closing in on the all-time goal and points scoring records. Her scoring is aided by her accuracy. Fusco has placed 17 of her 19 shots on goal to start the season.
• Sophomore
Sarah Leverentz is second on the team in goals with seven, and Leverentz's accuracy is in line with Fusco's. The midfielder has shot the ball nine times and all seven shots on goal made it in the back of the net. Leverentz has two assists on the season to take her points total to nine which ranks third on the team.
• Along with Fusco, two more seniors are making significant impacts on the offense. Senior
Kristen Butzner has scored six goals and assisted five more this season. Her 11 points rank second on the team. Senior
Callie Kavanaugh is fourth on the team in goals with five. Kavanaugh is a force from the free position as she already has two goals on three attempts.
• Redshirt junior
Shannon Davis has two wins between the pipes for the Marauders. She's played every minute so far and is only allowing 7.5 goals per game. She's aided by her defense led by defensive captain
Morgan Masiejczyk. Millersville's defense held opponents to only 30 shots so far this season compared to Millersville's offense who fired off 76 shots in the first two games.
SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
• Notre Dame College (Oh.) opened its season with a convincing out-of-conference victory away from home as well. The Falcons blasted the Madonna University Crusaders with a 16-4 victory last week. Â
• The Falcons showed their resiliency after falling down 0-2 early in the first half against the Crusaders. They responded with nine unanswered goals. The Falcons ripped off six goals to close out the first half with a 6-2 lead before opening the second half with three more goals. The Crusaders got one back 24 seconds after the Falcons' ninth goal to make the score 9-3. Four minutes after Madonnas's third goal, NDC started another scoring run and ripped off six more unanswered goals to take a 15-3 lead with just over five minutes remaining in the game. Both teams would score one more goal in the closing minutes of the game and NDC left Michigan with a 16-4 win on its 2018 resume.
• Junior attacker Taylor Henderson leads the team in goals and points after the Falcons' first game of the season. Against Madonna, Henderson scored five goals and assisted one more. Her accuracy aided her scoring as she placed five of her seven shots on goal. She proved she's equally dangerous from the free position after scoring two goals on three free position attempts.
• Freshman goalkeeper Morgan Belting started her career on the right foot after saving 13 Madonna shots last week. She faced down 21 shots while only giving up four goals in 60 minutes on the field.
