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St. Mary's City, Md. - A balanced attack led the 18th-ranked St. Mary's College of Maryland women's lacrosse team to a dominant 24-5 victory over the visiting Wolverines of Wesley College in Capital Athletic Conference action Tuesday afternoon.

Junior attacker Kelsey Branch (Jarrettsville, Md./North Harford) paced the Seahawk offense with six points on three goals and three assists, while senior midfielder Lauren Carrier (Crownsville, Md./Old Mill) registered four goals on the afternoon.

Wesley (0-2, 0-2 CAC) opened up the contest an early 2-0 lead at 27:06 with two goals in a 48-second span as senior midfielder Jade Martin (Cape May, N.J./Lower Cape May Regional) and freshman attacker Katelyn Randes (Odenton, Md./Arundel) both found the back of the net.

St. Mary's (1-1, 1-0 CAC) went on to unleash nine unanswered goals to claim a 9-2 lead at 12:46.  Carrier notched a hat trick during the 9-0 run, while junior attacker Nikki Yesalavage (Cranbury, N.J./The Peddie School) added a pair.  Martin tallied her second of the game at 9:42 to end the Seahawk run.  Branch and sophomore midfielder Aubrey Mirkin (Ashton, Md./Sherwood) combined for six points as St. Mary's closed out the first half on a 6-0 run for a 15-3 halftime lead.

St. Mary's kicked off the second half with three more goals before sophomore midfielder Stephanie Bailey (Kensington, Md./Walter Johnson) found the back of the net for the Wolverines at 18:50.  Junior attacker Nora Fallon-Oben (Silver Spring, Md./St. John's College [D.C.]) scored two of the home team's next three goals before Randes tallied her second of the day.  Sophomore attacker Maggie Macleay (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's Ryken) scored twice in 15 seconds to finish off the game's scoring.

Carrier is just two games away from setting the NCAA Division III women's lacrosse record for consecutive games with at least one goal.  She came into the season needing to score at least one goal in her first four games of 2009.  With today's performance, Carrier extended her streak of consecutive games with at least one goal to 44 straight.  She started the streak as a freshman on April 15, 2006 with one goal and one assist in a 10-9 loss to Mary Washington.  The NCAA Division III record is 45 consecutive games set by Liz Baumbach of the University of Scranton from 2001 to 2003.

The Seahawks controlled the game from start to finish, winning 22 of 31 draw controls as Fallon-Oben had a game-high five and edging the visitors 31 to 23 on ground balls as Mirkin scooped up a game-high four.  The home team fired off 41 shots to Wesley's 11.

Freshman goalies Colleen Simpson (Arnold, Md./Broadneck) and Colleen Gradowski (Bethesda, Md./Walter Johnson) split equal time in goal for the Seahawks, combining for five stops.  Sophomore Farryn Kauffman (Havertown, Pa./Haverford) turned away 11 shots in the loss.

The Seahawks will be back in action this Saturday, February 28 when St. Mary's hosts No. 15 Dickinson College in non-conference action at Seahawk Stadium at 1:00.