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Staten Island, NY – Junior attack Stephanie Peterson (Vernon, NJ/Vernon Township) poured in a season-high four goals while junior midfielder Gretchen Fay (Spring Lake Heights, NJ/Manasquan) and junior attack Kimmy Tumolo (Mullica Hill, NJ/Clearview) supplied three goals apiece in leading the Wagner women's lacrosse team to a convincing 15-8 triumph over Robert Morris.

Junior midfielder Shea Gegan (Belmar, NJ/Manasquan) the nation's leader in caused turnovers (CT) per game, and reigning Northeast Conference (NEC) Defensive Player of the Week, played a superb all-around game for the Seahawks, filling up the stat sheet to the tune of two goals, two assists, seven ground balls, six caused turnovers and four draw controls

With the victory, the Seahawks remain in a tie atop the NEC standings with a 2-0 record while improving to 5-7 overall. In having their four-game winning streak come to a halt, the Colonials fall to 1-1 in the NEC and 10-3 overall.

The Seahawks came out of the gate with a flourish as Fay slammed home a pair of goals in the opening 47 seconds to give Wagner an early 2-0 lead. The Green & White won the game's opening draw on a violation, which lead to a fast-break goal as Gegan hit Fay, her former high school teammate, in stride in the open field. The fleet-footed midfielder out-ran the pack before burying a five-yard blast  to make it 1-0 just 22 seconds into the contest.

On its next possession 25 seconds later, Fay sank her second goal, an unassisted tally at the 29:13 mark, to make it a 2-0 game. Then, with 25:00 to go in the opening half, Peterson delivered her first goal of the game, this one coming on a free-position shot, to widen the Seahawk lead to 3-0. After Dana Davis put Robert Morris on the board with an unassisted score at the 19:45 mark, the score remained 3-1 for more than seven minutes.

But at the 12:05 mark of the opening stanza, Gegan nailed an unassisted goal which opened the flood gates as this score triggered a 6-0 Wagner explosion over span of 8:27, lifting the Seahawks to a commanding 9-1 lead. Tumolo scored two of her three goals during this surge, which RMU's Brittany Byerly ended with 2:00 remaining in the half, scoring an unassisted goal that made it a 9-2 game. That's the way the score remained until Emily Jamison converted a free-position shot for RMU with eight seconds left in the half, cutting the Wagner lead to 9-3 at the intermission.

When Jamison opened the second-half scoring with her second goal, at the 27:38 mark, the Colonials were to within five scores at 9-4. The Seahawks answered, however, with a 3-0 run on goals by Fay, off a Tumolo assist, Peterson and Gegan, to balloon the lead back to eight at 12-4 with 23:07 left to play. RMU countered with a 4-1 run in again drawing to within five goals, this time at 13-8, on a Jamison goal with 7:33 left. After a 6:02 scoreless stretch, senior defender Jessica Roberts (Baldwinsville, NY/C.W. Baker) recorded her second goal off of the day, off an assist from sophomore attack Olivia Streilein (Mt. Laurel, N/Lenape) at the 1:32 mark, to make it a 14-8 game. Tumolo then capped the day's scoring on a free-position shot with 13 seconds to go in fashioning the final score at 15-8.

Tumolo matched Peterson's four-point effort with a three-goal, one-assist afternoon, while senior midfielder Jessica Mills (Vernon. N/Vernon Township) rounded out the Seahawk scoring with one goal on a day where six different players found the back of the net for Wagner. Junior Katie Ferraro (Owings Mill, MD/McDonogh) was stout in goal throughout, recording eight saves in improving her record to 5-6.

Jamison paced Robert Morris with four goals, Byerly had two, while Davis and Alexia Rusnak added one goal apiece. Kristin Yoviene was the Colonials' assist leader with two. In goal, Hallie Yancey was credited with seven saves while playing the game's first 42:13 before giving way to Mackenize Duffy, who came on at the 17:47 mark to record four saves.

Statistically, the Seahawks outshot Robert Morris 33-19 while also holding a healthy 27-17 advantage in ground balls. Draw controls were nearly dead even as RMU held a slim 13-12 edge in this department. The aggressive Seahawk defense, which has been the team's calling card since the arrival of head coach Liz Frisoli last season, came up with 15 caused turnovers, forcing the Colonials into committing 20 turnovers while turning it over just 13 times themselves.

Wagner was 2-of-7 on the afternoon in free-position shots while holding the Colonials to 1-of-6 shooting on FPOs.

The Seahawks' four-game homestand continues on Sunday when the Red Flash of Saint Francis U come knocking. The Senior Day affair at Hameline Field will commence at 1:00 p.m.

NOTES: Wagner is now a perfect 3-0 vs. Robert Morris in the two-year Frisoli era. The Seahawks earned a 9-6 road win over the Colonials in the penultimate game of the 2014 regular season. Five days later, the No.2-seeded Green & White & White advanced to the program's first-ever appearance in the NEC Championship game by defeating No. 3-seed RMU by a 17-7 count in the semifinals. Today's contest was extremely physical as the teams were whistled for a combined 10 yellow cards, six on RMU and four on Wagner.

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