April 19, 2025
Payne Has Two Goals, Assist At Mercyhurst for Lacrosse
Payne and Efron both scored twice on Saturday
The Central Connecticut State lacrosse team dropped a 19-6 decision to Northeast Conference host Mercyhurst on Saturday in Erie, PA. The Blue Devils fall to 2-12 overall and 2-6 in league play, while the Lakers improve to 6-7 on the season and 6-2 in league action.
The Blue Devils close out the 2025 campaign on Saturday, April 26th, with a game at FDU in Teaneck, NJ.
KEY MOMENTS
- Mercyhurst opened a 5-0 lead in the opening 6:01 of play with goals from five different players
- Kylee Pay put CCSU on the board with her first of two first quarter tallies, the next with 74 seconds left in the opening period to close the deficit to 7-2 at the quarter break
- The Lakers pushed their advantage to 9-2 2:32 into the second quarter, before Bella Santos tallied her first of the game
- Just shy of five minutes later, after a Mercyhurst goal, Alexa Efron netted a pass from Payne to make the deficit 10-4
- Brynn Hall scored with 2:07 left in the half and Mercyhurst took an 11-4 lead into the break
- The Lakers scored five goals in the third and the first goal of the fourth to build a 17-4 lead
- Efron scored her second with 10:00 to play and Adrien Wise scored with 4:28 to round out the CCSU scoring
NOTES & NUMBERS
- Makayla Winegar finished with a team-best six draw controls and picked up three ground balls
- Cara Kielbasa led the team with four caused turnovers and four ground balls
- Santos, along with her goal, also had four ground balls on Saturday
- The three points are a single-game high for Payne, who had her second multi-goal game of April
- Efron had her third multi-goal game of the season with her two tallies
- Jadyn Jones (six saves) and Maeve Tobler (five saves) split time in goal for CCSU, both playing 30:00
- Maggie Sheehan led the way offensively for Mercyhurst with two goals and three assists
