SAINT LEO, Fla. – Freshman Isabella Gebinine became just the second Lion freshman to record 100 draw controls. #10 Saint Leo women's lacrosse took down Palm Beach Atlantic on Saturday as it honored its senior class before the game. The Lions used a 12 point day from Holly Hill en route to a 20-12 win. Saint Leo improves to 11-3 overall and 3-1 in SSC play, while Palm Beach Atlantic falls to 6-7 on the season and 0-4 in conference action.  
 
Holly Hill led the game with 12 points on four goals and eight assists. Jana Nuss also had a four goal game including what proved to be the game winner. Sophia Wood, Natalie Jones, Anna Wood, and Grace DeWitt all recorded a multi-goal game with two goals each. Four Lions had a goal each with Marina Dean, Sophia Santella, Brianna Bellando and Ava Calloway finding the back of the net. Calloway netted her first collegiate goal for the final Lions goal of the game. Both goalies saw action in net for the Lions as both Jessica Harclerode and Jordan Rose made a save each.

#10 SAINT LEO 20, PALM BEACH ATLANTIC 12
Saint Leo wasted little time getting rolling, striking first on a goal from Sophia Santella just 1:31 into the game before Holly Hill doubled the lead 40 seconds later. Palm Beach Atlantic answered twice to trim it to 3-2, but the Lions kept control of the opening quarter behind a fast-paced offense and a dominant draw game. Sophia Wood scored off a Hill assist, Hill added a free-position goal, Natalie Jones converted on the player advantage, and Anna Wood scored twice in the final 6:54 of the frame. Jana Nuss also found the net during the stretch as Saint Leo built an 8-4 lead after one.

Palm Beach Atlantic opened the second quarter with a goal from Arianna Tribble, but Saint Leo answered quickly when Nuss finished off another Hill assist at the 11:20 mark. The Sailfish kept battling and got within 9-7 after goals from Tribble and Kayden Cilento, yet the Lions again had a response. Jones scored with 5:58 left in the quarter, then Marina Dean capped the half with a free-position goal in the final minute to send Saint Leo into the break with an 11-7 advantage.

The Lions kept the pressure on in the third. Hill opened the scoring on a player-up chance, and after Palm Beach Atlantic cut the margin to 12-9 with back-to-back goals from Olivia Larges and Annika Limbert, Saint Leo delivered its biggest surge of the afternoon. Nuss scored at 6:37, Grace DeWitt added a free-position goal at 5:38, and Nuss struck again on another player-up opportunity at 4:12 to push the lead out to 15-9. Palm Beach Atlantic stopped the run with a goal from Larges, but Sophia Wood answered in the final 21 seconds off Hill's eighth assist of the day to make it 16-10 heading to the fourth.

Saint Leo put the game away in the final quarter. DeWitt scored less than 40 seconds in, and shortly after, Isabella Gebinine secured her sixth draw control of the afternoon, reaching 100 on the season and becoming just the second freshman in program history to hit the mark. Briana Bellando then finished off a Hill assist midway through the period, and Hill added her fourth goal of the day following a feed from Nuss, recording her 100th career assist on the play. Ava Calloway later added a free-position goal for the Lions' final tally, marking her first collegiate goal. Palm Beach Atlantic scored twice in the closing minutes, but the Lions' early cushion and balanced attack were more than enough in a 20-12 conference win.
 
Inside the Numbers

• 12: Holly Hill led the game with 12 points (4g,8a)
• 102: Isabella Gebinine recorded her 100th draw control making her just the second Lion freshman to reach the 100 mark and currently has the second most in all of NCAA Division II
• 8: Six games the Lions have scored eight or more goals in the first quarter
• 10: Saint Leo saw goals from 10 different players: Hill (4), Nuss (4), Sophia Wood (2), Anna Wood (2), Natalie Jones (2), Grace DeWitt (2), Marina Dean, Sophia Santella, Ava Calloway, and Brianna Bellando

UP NEXT
Saint Leo is on the road for the next two games heading to Tampa (April 8) and then to Embry-Riddle (April 11) before coming home for the regular season finale on April 15 against Lynn.