Tuesday, March 5 | at St. Bonaventure | St. Bonaventure, N.Y. | Tom '80 and Michelle Mara Athletic Field Complex | 4 p.m. | LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO

OPENING DRAW 
Tuesday's match between St. Bonaventure and Saint Francis marks the fourth meeting in the all-time series dating back to the 2015 campaign. The Red Flash has won the last two tilts in the series to a take a 2-1 edge, but both of those meetings were in Loretto. The Bonnies won the only meeting in the Empire State 13-9 in 2015.

THE WORD ON ST. BONAVENTURE
The Bonnies come into the contest 2-3 after defeating Cal 10-8 on Thursday. Brooke Piper fuels the team with 14 goals and one assist for 15 points. Fiona McGovern also has 15 points thanks to seven tallies and eight assists, while Kassi Hogan is third on the team with seven markers and an assist for eight points. Brit Colangelo paces the defense with five caused turnovers and eight ground balls and Megan Schillinger has a team-best 19 draw controls. Ashley Herrick has 42 saves, an 11.32 goals against average and a .488 saves percentage.

LAST TIME WE MET 
Autumn McHenry posted six goals and one assist and Bella Fisher scored six times to propel Saint Francis past St. Bonaventure 17-11 on April 19, 2023. Danielle Hernandez added four goals and two assists, while Chyler Espino hauled in a career-high 10 draw controls. Fiona McGovern registered five points (two goals, three assists), Abby Hiltz four points (three goals, one assist) and Grace Hollenback three points (a goal, two assists) to pace the Bonnies. Elyssa Enrique recorded 13 saves for the Red Flash, and Ashley Herrick and Hayley McIntyre each had three stops for the Bonnies.

LAST TIME OUT
Sophomore Bella Fisher and graduate student Lizzie Fisher were popping by combining for 10 goals and an assist to help Saint Francis to a 15-9 win against Robert Morris on Wednesday. The duo scored seven goals in the first half, including five of the first six Red Flash tallies to stake the team out to a 6-2 lead. Bella Fisher finished with five goals, an assist, seven draw controls, and two ground balls, while Lizzie Fisher also twinkled the twine five times. Danielle Hernandez added two goals and an assist, and Julia Givens posted a goal, two assists, three ground balls and a caused turnover. Taylor Coughlin had seven stops in between the pipes.

NEXT TIME OUT 
Saint Francis returns to Loretto to start a three-game homestand. LIU is the first team to come to town on Saturday before Kent State (March 13) and Merrimack (March 16) also make their way to DeGol Field.

NEC HONORS
Bella Fisher and Julia Givens were named NEC Prime Performers for the week of February 19-25. Fisher registered three goals and a career-high three assists for six points, and Givens tallied two goals, three ground balls and three caused turnovers against Rider on February 22. Danielle Hernandez and Givens were named NEC Prime Performers for the week of February 12-18. Hernandez had two goals and two assists, while Givens posted a hat trick against Oregon in the first-ever game against a Power 5 opponent on February 16.

HATTIES 
Sophomore Bella Fisher leads the team with nine hat tricks after registering two in the first three games including a five-goal performance against Robert Morris on February 28. Graduate student Lizzie Fisher also has two hat tricks in 2024 with a career-high five tallies against Robert Morris to notch eight hat tricks in her career. Senior captain Danielle Hernandez is right behind the dup with seven three-goal performances. Sophomore Nancy Alden notched her first career hat trick against Rider, and fellow sophomore Julia Givens had a three-goal performance against Oregon in the season opener on February 16. Givens has five career hatties, while sophomore Brooke Lacey also has a three-goal performance on her resume.

MILESTONE ALERT 
Senior Danielle Hernandez has 99 career points, needing one point to become the 12th player in program history to reach 100 points in her career. Hernandez already sits in sixth place on the program's all-time career assist list with 38 assists and can move into fifth place with 15 assists. In addition, she can move into the Top-10 for career points with seven points with former teammate Amanda Heidt (106, 2018-22) currently holding the 10th spot. Junior Chyler Espino, who became the fifth different player in program history with 10 draw controls in a game against St. Bonaventure last season, is 10th for career draw controls with 79 draws. She can move into eighth place with four draws (83) and seventh place with nine draws (88). Espino can also crack the Top-10 in ground balls and caused turnovers this season. Currently sitting at 35 caused turnovers, she can move into 10th place with 10 caused miscues (45), while her 69 ground balls are 15 ground balls (84) from No. 10 on the career list for that category.

INSIDE LACROSSE FEATURE 
Graduate student Erika Ellison was featured in an article for Inside Lacrosse chronicling her time as a student-athlete and being a member of the ROTC. Click HERE to read the story.

AYE, AYE, CAPTAIN 
Graduate student Lizzie Fisher, senior Danielle Hernandez and junior Chyler Espino have been named captains for the 2024 campaign. The trio along with junior Collen Roche and sophomore Bella Fisher will serve as members of the Women's Lacrosse Leadership Council

RETURNING ALL-NEC PERFORMERS 
Sophomore Bella Fisher was named the 2023 NEC Rookie of the Year to become the first Red Flash player to earn the recognition. She also earned All-NEC second-team recognition. Junior Chyler Espino was named to the All-NEC first team, while senior Danielle Hernandez was selected to the second team. Fisher and sophomore Bella Burke were named to the NEC All-Rookie team. 

WELCOME TO THE LO' 
Saint Francis women's lacrosse head coach Tracy Coyne has added four freshmen and ne junior to the 2024 roster. Junior Victoria DiRenno comes to Loretto after playing two seasons at Niagara. Freshmen Kylie Fischer, Jacks Lesmeister, Elizabeth Mahmud and Molly Riva all joined the squad this season.

FROM THE GREAT WHITE NORTH 
Saint Francis has three players that hail from Canada. Juniors Olivia Baldini (Hamilton, Ontario) and Taylor Coughlin (Hespeler, Ontario) and sophomore Mak Patten (Welland, Ontario) on its roster. Head coach Tracy Coyne also spend some time as the Canadian National Team head coach from 1999-2005 and earned fourth-place standings in the 2001 and 2005 World Cups. 

CHYLER'S WORLD TOUR 
Junior Chyler Espino played in two international tournaments since the 2023 season ended with Team Philippines. The junior played in the World Lacrosse Festival over the summer in California and then played in the Super Sixes Tournament in December in Hong Kong. Espino was joined in the Super Sixes Tournament by former teammate Elyssa Enrique.

PLAYER TO WATCH 
Sophomore Bella Fisher was named a Second Year Player to Watch by US Lacrosse Magazine. She had a Red Flash freshman record for goals (42) and points (48). The 42 goals were the ninth most by any class in single-season program history. Fisher scored six goals twice last season (CCSU on April 15, 2023, and St. Bonaventure), which ranks 10th on the single-game chart in program history. The sophomore, who received the NEC Rookie of the Week honor four times to become just the fourth player in NEC history to turn that trick, scored at least six goals in a game six times in her freshman campaign. 

ABOUT THE COACH 
Head coach Tracy Coyne enters her fifth season at Saint Francis and her 35th campaign in her legendary career. She holds a 314-223 career record. She currently ranks seventh in wins by active Division I head coaches, while she is 11th in NCAA Division I history in wins, 13th at any level for active head coaches and 19th overall for any level. Coyne became the program's winningest head coach in program history in a 17-11 win against St. Bonaventure on April 19. In 2023, under her tutelage the Red Flash has set a program record for overall wins (10), conference wins (5), longest winning streak (6) and clinched the program's first-ever NEC Tournament appearance. She became one of 20 coaches to reach 300 wins with the 10-6 win at Akron on February 27, 2022. She has led 12 teams to the NCAA Tournament between the NCAA DI and DIII levels with six conference championships and several NCAA Final Four appearances. Coyne was inducted into the Roanoke Saint Francis women's lacrosse head coach Tracy Coyne has added four freshmen and ne junior to the 2024 roster. Junior Victoria DiRenno comes to Loretto after playing two seasons at Niagara. Freshmen Kylie Fischer, Jacks Lesmeister, Elizabeth Mahmud and Molly Riva all joined the squad this season.College Hall of Fame in 2023.