Loretto, Pa –The Saint Francis lacrosse team (3-8, 0-3), will travel to Brooklyn on Thursday, Apr. 18 to take on LIU Brooklyn at 4 p.m. and Connecticut to face-off with Sacred Heart on Saturday, April 20 at 1 p.m.
 
Scouting LIU Brooklyn
 
The Blackbirds are 5-8 overall and 2-1 in conference play heading into Thursday's game, losing its most recent match at Bryant 7-14. Amanda and Rachel Masullo are the Blackbirds leading scorers. Amanda leads the Blackbirds with 57 points on 42 goals and 15 assists, while her twin-sister Rachel is second with 45 points on 34 goals and 11 assists. Defensively, Isabelle Peng leads the team with 17 caused turnovers and 24 groundballs. Goalkeeper Sam Kidd has tallied 152 saves and posts a .486 save percentage. 
 
Scouting Sacred Heart
 
Sacred Heart is 2-10 overall and 1-2 in conference play, falling to LIU Brooklyn in its most recent match 15-16 in overtime. Lead scorer Lydia Werlau has tallied 36 points on 31 goals and five assists. Elizabeth Small is the team leader in caused turnovers with 23, while also contributing 24 groundballs and 16 draw controls. First-Year goalkeeper Shana Hecht is posting a 47.5 save percentage and allowing 13.12 goals per game. 
 
Series in Brief
 
The Red Flash are 6-9 all-time against the Blackbirds, winning the previous two meetings between the two schools. Last year, Morgan Day's (New Park, Pa./Kennard Dale) game-tying goal late in the first half sparked an 11-0 run scoring run for SFU to take a 14-4 lead early in the second half. The deficit proved to be too much for LIU to overcome as the Red Flash went on to win its second conference game of the season 18-9.
 
Saint Francis is 1-15 all-time against Sacred Heart, beating SHU for the first-time last year 14-10. Early on in the second half, Emileigh Scott (Ellicott City, Md./Howard) netted her 27th goal of the season to give the Red Flash a 9-8 advantage. After that, SFU scored three unanswered goals creating a four-goal margin that the Red Flash eventually went on to win by.