Lacrosse

Aztec Lacrosse Returns Home to Face No.17 Stanford

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Aztec Lacrosse Returns Home to Face No.17 StanfordAztec Lacrosse Returns Home to Face No.17 Stanford
Derrick Tuskan/San Diego State

SAN DIEGO – The Aztec Lacrosse team returns home to face No. 17 Stanford in a conference matchup Saturday April 6th at 4 p.m. PT. The game will be streamed on the Aztec Lacrosse Youtube Channel.

Aztec Tidbits

  • The Aztecs last game was a 17-8 loss against No. 22 Colorado in Boulder.
  • Sara Toner (Reston, Va.) leads the Aztecs with 27 points, including a team high 25 goals and two assists
  • Toner leads the Aztecs in shots (55) and shots on goal (40). She also had the game winning goal against Xavier and is tied at the top in free position goals with six.
  • Jenna McDermott (Westminster, Md.), in her first year at SDSU after playing at UMBC for four seasons, is tied with Toner in free-position goals with six.
  • The Aztecs have 29 assists on 118 goals, with Kate Christos (Madison, N.J.) leading the charge with eight assists.
  • Victoria Rankin (Naples, Fla.) leads the team with 45 draw controls.
  • Mia Kohn (San Diego, Calif.) leads the Aztecs with 12 caused turnovers.
  • Goalkeeper Avery Dyer (Elkridge, Md.) made 19 saves in the first game against UC Davis and Caitlin Boughton (South Riding, Va.) tied Dyer with 19 saves in the game against Liberty. They are tied for the sixth most saves in a single game by a DI player so far this season and the second most in SDSU history.
  • Dyer and Boughton lead the Aztecs with 15 ground balls.
  • Boughton is 20th in the nation and second in PAC-12 in saves with 101, 22nd in Saves per Game (9.18) and 23rd in Save Percentage (0.474).
  • The Aztecs play Oregon at home on April 13.


Opponent Notebook (No. 17 Stanford)
The Cardinal are 7-3 overall, 3-0 in conference where their most recent victory was a 20-8 win over Arizona State... The Cardinal lead the nation in shots per game (37.60), are second in shots on goal per game (26.70), fourth in ground balls per game (22.20), seventh in scoring margin (6.80), ninth in caused turnovers per game (10.70), 12th in draw control percentage (0.608), and13th in draw controls per game (16.90)... Redshirt Freshman Aliya Polisky leads the team with 43 points from a team high of 31 goals alongside 12 assists, including seven free-position goals... Polisky is 27th in the nation in points per game (4.78) and 29th in the nation with 3.44 goals peer game... Graduate Student Jay Browne leads the Cardinal with 14 assists... Graduate Student Madison McPherson leads the team with 16 caused turnovers... Junior Annabel Frist leads the Cardinal with 109 draw controls... Frist is third in the country in Draw Controls per game (10.90)... Sophomore Goalkeeper Lucy Pearson has 70 saves and 81 goals allowed on 203 shots faced and leads the team with 23 ground balls... Pearson is 15th in the nation in goals-against average (9.28) and 30th in the nation in Save Percentage (0.464)... The Cardinal last faced the Aztecs in 2020 where they defeated the Aztecs 15-7... The Cardinal are undefeated in all eight matchups with the Aztecs.