Women's Lacrosse Weekly Honors Picked up by Pierce, Bull, and Evans
MAAC Sports
Offensive Player of the Week
Marial Pierce, Monmouth
Jr., Midfield, 5-8, Middleburg, Va./St. John's Catholic Prep (MD)
Pierce was a major factor in Monmouth extending its winning streak to five games, including staying perfect in league play. She led the Hawks this week in five stat categories, including goals, points, draw controls, ground balls and caused turnovers. In Monmouth’s overtime win against Quinnipiac, Pierce put together one of her most complete games as a Hawk. The junior tallied a hat trick, won six draw controls, gathered six ground balls and caused four turnovers from her attack position. Pierce’s first goal came as Monmouth overcame a 5-1 deficit; getting MU to within two in the first half. Her second goal tied the game up at 8-8 on a free position shot while her third goal of the game gave Monmouth its first lead with 5:26 to play. In Saturday’s win over Siena, Pierce had four points on three goals and an assist as Monmouth put up 20 goals for the first time since the 2012 season.
Defensive Player of the Week
Ashley Bull, Canisius
Jr., Midfield, 5-4, Langley, British Columbia/Walnut Grove
Junior Ashley Bull has been terrific all season long for the Griffs taking the majority of the draws for Canisius. This week Bull broke her own school record in draw controls in a game, recording 11 against the Red Foxes on Wednesday. Against Iona, the junior also had seven more draw controls, leading to 18 on the week. Bull has been one of the Griffs best two-way players and that showed this week in her stats. Against Marist, Ashley recorded two goals, an assists, 11 draw controls and a caused turnover and against Iona on Saturday, she had a goal, seven draw controls and another caused turnover to lead the Blue and Gold to its fourth victory in the conference.
Rookie of the Week
Erica Evans, Canisius
Fr., Midfield, 5-8, Peterborough, Ontario/St Peter’s Secondary
This season, Erica Evans has been one of the strongest freshmen to play in the MAAC and has been one of the Griffs best performers all season long. That showed again this week when the midfielder went on another scoring tear for Canisius. On Wednesday, Evans had three goals on six shots and also recorded an assist, a ground ball and three draw controls. On Saturday, the freshman had another three goal performance, but this time recorded two assists, two ground balls and four draw controls. Her combined total was six goals, three assists, three ground balls and seven draw controls, an impressive stat for just a freshman player.