GREENEVILLE, Tenn. --- Senior midfielder Kelsey Crow registered seven points on six goals and an assists in Tusculum's 15-4 victory over St. Andrews in women's lacrosse action from Pioneer Field on Friday night. It was the first home game in program history.

Tusculum (2-0) received contributions from several players offensively, including junior attacker Cheyenne Bray who scored three goals for the second-straight game. She also added two assists for a total of five points.

Freshman defender Rachel Del Duca and freshman attacker Savannah Elliott each had four points on a pair of goals and assists. Freshman midfielder Madison Malone had a game-high three assists to go with a goal for a total of four points, while sophomore midfielder Kelli McCalla also tallied a score.

Freshman goalie Brooke Wagner (2-0) earned the victory in the cage after making six saves. St. Andrews' (0-1) goalie Brittani Biddinger was dealt the loss after giving up all 15 Pioneer goals and making three saves. TC freshman Kaitlin Winnie started the game in goal and played 17 minutes in the cage while also playing in the field as a defender.

Del Duca scored the first goal in Pioneer Field history less than a minute into the game. TC would open the contest with four unanswered goals in the first five minutes of action to take a 4-0 lead. Crow scored her first goal in the fourth minute, followed by a score from Elliott and Crow's second tally.

St. Andrews' Risa Wautel put the Knights on the scoreboard with a goal in the ninth minute, but the Pioneers put up four more unanswered scores and took a commanding 8-1 lead with 13:38 to play in the first half. Crow had two more scores during that stretch, while McCalla and Bray each registered a goal.

The Knights' Xavonya Attwood registered an unassisted tally in the 18th minute, but Malone answered with her first career goal two minutes later to make the score 9-2. TC closed out the half with two more goals in the final ten minutes of the opening frame. Elliott recorded her second goal of the game before Bray scored on a free-position attempt with 29 seconds remaining to give TC an 11-2 halftime lead.

Attwood opened the second half scoring less than a minute in, but Crow answered with her fifth goal of the night four minutes later to make the score 12-3. Attwood scored St. Andrews final goal of the game with 21 minutes remaining.

TC possessed the ball for the remainder of the contest and scored three more goals in the game's final 20 minutes. Crow added her sixth and final goal, while Bray and Del Duca added to their tallies.

Defensively, freshman defender Shelby Gray led the Pioneers with three ground balls. On the draw, Bray and sophomore midfielder Calyn Kelly each had three draw controls. TC outshot SAU 21-13 and had 12 draw controls to the Knights' nine.

Attwood led St. Andrews with three goals on five shots, while Wautel added a goal on a pair of shots.

The Pioneers will be back in action next Saturday when they play their first ever South Atlantic Conference game in Hickory, North Carolina against Lenoir-Rhyne University. First-draw is set for noon.

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