Grantham, PA – For the second-straight game Messiah College used a dominating performance from start to finish to defeat a conference foe, this time 17-2 over visiting Lycoming College. The No. 19-ranked Falcons scored the game's first 11 goals and held Warriors to just five shots on cage.
 
Messiah moved to 6-4 with the win, including 2-0 in the MAC Commonwealth. The loss for Lycoming was the first of their season as they fell to 9-1 overall, and 1-1 in the conference.
 
Lycoming came into game carrying the nation's No. 1-ranked offense, with 171 goals scored in nine games. On Wednesday, Messiah held them off the board until the 4:56 mark of the first period. By that point four different Falcons had tallied twice, including Jenna Stover who had tallied two goals and two assists within the Falcons 11-0 opening run.
 
Allie Colson, Annika Johnsen, and Liz Brennan also had two goals in the first-half, and Messiah held an 11-1 lead at the break. Messiah took 18 shots in the first period and went 8-10 on clears to keep pressure on the Warriors' defense. That pressure was on display for Colson's second goal, an impressive score on the back end of a clear through the midfield that made it 10-0 with 8:42 to play. Jamie Bishop collected the assist on the play and, just seconds later after the draw control, Colson found Stover for the aforementioned 11-0 advantage.
 
Lycoming picked up their two goals on back-to-back scores that spanned the first- and second-halves, but their momentum was short lived. Colson tallied her third goal of the game early in the second period (28:16) to put the Falcons back up by 10 scores, 12-2. Messiah finished the game with six-straight goals with Eliza Lortie and Amanda Wivell each tallying with less than 10 minutes to play.
 
The Warriors' last bid for another goal was turned away with 57 seconds to play when Ellery Klineyoung made an impressive save on a free-position shot by Meghenn Jackson.
 
Klineyoung and Alexa Dipeso combined for three saves. Lycoming did hit the crossbar twice in the first-half but they took just three total shots over that stretch.
 
Stover and Colson each tallied three times—on a combined seven shots— and Stover added three assists. Ida Ehrhardt, Brennan, and Johnsen each scored twice. Emma Hawthorne led all players with four caused turnovers, and seven different Falcons collected at least one CT.