WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
>>Saint Francis women's lacrosse got its first taste of playing in the Northeast Conference (NEC) Tournament on Thursday with a 12-6 setback to No. 1 Sacred Heart.
>> Lizzie Fisher (Hagerstown, Md.) paced the Red Flash with two goals.
>> Autumn McHenry (Branford, Conn.) and Danielle Hernandez (New Fairfield, Conn.) added a goal and an assist. Both players came one assist short of program records. McHenry missed the career assist mark by one helper, but finished the year as the second player in program history to have 70 points in a season. Hernandez was aiming for the season record for assist, but ended the season with 26 helpers, one off the single-season record.
>> Elyssa Enrique (New Canton, Ohio) registered 13 saves in her final collegiate game, while Chyler Espino (San Francisco, Calif.) had a team-best eight draw controls.
>> The Red Flash is in its 22nd season of women's lacrosse and made the first-ever trip to the conference tournament.

TURNING POINT OF THE GAME
Sacred Heart scored the first three goals of the game and when Saint Francis registered consecutive goals in both the first and second quarters the Pioneers had an answer to end the historic season for Saint Francis.
 
The Red Flash set a program record with 10 overall wins and five NEC wins in a season and notched its first winning season in program history. The team also enjoyed a program-record six game winning streak along with a three-game winning streak in 2023.

FLASH MOMENTS
Saint Francis scored back-to-back goals in each of the first two quarters. 
 
Lizzie Fisher found the back of the net in the first quarter off a feed from Hernandez at 10:07 and then off a pass from McHenry at 4:19 to cut the margin in half.
 
McHenry (5:28) and Hernandez (4:08) both converted free position attempts in the second quarter.
 
The Loretto program scored two of the three goals in the third quarter. Bella Fisher (Duxbury, Mass.) found the twine at 11:37 in the third quarter and Nancy Alden (East Lyme, Conn.) twinkled the twine at 5:25 in the third quarter for the final Red Flash score of the afternoon.
 
FLASH NUGGETS
McHenry, the NEC Midfielder of the Year and All-NEC first team selection, finished the season with a program-record 53 goals and 17 assists for the second-most points in a single season with 70, three points shy of Danielle Conwell's (73, 2012) single-season mark. The graduate student finished her career ranked in program history second in assists (75), second in draw controls (237), second in points (206), second in caused turnovers (64), fourth in goals (131) and sixth in ground balls (105).
 
Enrique, an All-NEC second-team selection, finished her career with 565 saves to end her career in third place and her 195 saves in 2023 are the third most on the single-season chart.
 
Hernandez, an All-NEC second-team selection, finished the season with 33 goals and 26 assists for 59 points. The 26 assists are one off the program record, while the 59 points are the sixth-most in team history. She has 35 assists for her career to rank seventh on the career charts.
 
Bella Fisher, the NEC Rookie of the Year and All-NEC second-team selection, broke the program record for goals by a freshman with 42 and for points with 48. The 42 goals are also the ninth most on the overall single-season chart.
 
Bella Burke (East Moriches, N.Y.), an All-NEC second-team selection, established a new freshman program record for ground balls (40) and caused turnovers (26). Espino, an All-NEC second-team selection, had her second-most draw controls in her career on Thursday with eight, and finished the season with 51 draw controls, the 10th most in single-season history.
 
The game marked the end of the careers of McHenry, Enrique, Kelly Dickson (Blue Bell, Pa.), Bella Barnard (Milwaukee, Wisc.), Julea Jamison (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Dickson finished her career ninth with 45 caused turnovers.
 
Saint Francis has established the single-season team record for goals (212), assists (99) and points (311), while posting the second-most draw controls (244), fourth-most caused turnovers (135) and eighth-most ground balls (296).