For the eighth time this spring, The College of Wooster women's lacrosse team scored 20 goals, and the Fighting Scots' 23 in Saturday's 23-13 win at DePauw University tied the program's season-high and were four shy of the single-game program record.

Wooster (15-1, 6-1 North Coast Athletic Conference) entered the weekend as NCAA Div. III's No. 1 scoring team at 18.13 goals per game and put up 12 in the opening 30 minutes. Wooster's halftime lead was 12-5.

DePauw (6-10, 2-4 NCAC) made it interesting late, pulling within six behind Kate Sullivan's goal with a little over eight minutes remaining. Wooster answered with five of the remaining six goals of the afternoon, starting with senior Brynne Snaguski's third score of the day with 7:34 to play. A card on DePauw gave Wooster a Scot up opportunity, and senior Lizzie Hardy found classmate Sophia Mellis to pad the lead back to eight with 5:33 remaining.

The sophomore-to-sophomore connection of Cassidy Driscoll-to-Rowan Pilon was hitting early, as the duo teamed up for two of Wooster's first three goals. Pilon kept the sophomore's rolling, finding Mizan Jacobs at the 6:50 mark of the first. First-year Edi Fisher tallied two early second-period goals and assisted on Snaguski's second goal of the game. Driscoll was the assister on the second Fisher score, which made it an 8-2 game less than four minutes into the second.

Hardy scooped her 200th groundball in Saturday's win, joining alumna Megan Healy as the lone Scots in program history to hit that milestone. With six draw controls, she's now at 392. With four goals, Hardy is 10 away from a top-10 program mark, unless Snaguski gets there first, as the senior attacker for Wooster is two shy of entering the top-10.

Of note, Wooster is now at 295 goals for the year, the second-most in program history, trailing just the 310 scored last spring. Hardy and Snaguski now have top-10 single-season marks at 53 goals each, while Pilon's at 39 assists for second all-time in single-season history.

Wooster's 21 draw controls kept the program well positioned for a top-three national statistical ranking. All three for Wooster in Hardy, Jacobs, and senior Sidney O'Rourke had big days, as they had six, eight, and six, respectively.

Driscoll and Pilon finished with identical lines of three assists and two goals, while Jacobs had a five-point afternoon led by four goals. Junior Audrey Richardson made eight saves.

Sullivan scored five of DePauw's 13 goals and was the leader elsewhere with a team-high five draw controls. Niamh Callahan made 12 saves.

Saturday's shots favored Wooster 38-29, and the Scots scooped five more groundballs than the Tigers at 24-19. Wooster was strong elsewhere, with the team having just four second-half turnovers and 13 for the game. Wooster was 11-of-15 on clears, while DePauw went 9-of-14.

Next, Wooster is set to host a semifinal of the NCAC Tournament on Wednesday, April 29. Per NCAC policy, the conference will officially announce the matchups and game times upon the completion of the regular season. Due to sustained weather in the Columbus area on Wednesday, DePauw has to travel to Denison University (15-1, 6-0 NCAC) for a makeup on Sunday, April 26.