WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ – Six different Hawks scored, including multi-goal games from Elyssa Okken, Josephine van der Hoop, Georgia Garden Bachop and Mallory Kusakavitch, as the Monmouth University field hockey team topped visiting LIU Brooklyn, 10-1, Friday afternoon on So Sweet A Cat Field.  The Hawks, who matched a program-best goal output in a single game, improve to 10-3 on the season and 2-1 in league play with the victory.

Monmouth, which outshot the Blackbirds 29-1, scored seven times in the opening half.  van der Hoop and Kusakavitch both scored their two goals in the first 35-minutes, while Okken and Laszlo also found the back of the cage to allow the Hawks to go into the break with the comfortable seven-goal lead.  

Okken scored 47 seconds into the second half to continue the offensive attack until LIU Brooklyn got on the board in the 40th minute.  Garden Bachop scored twice over a five-minute span to cap off the off scoring.

NOTES & QUOTES
"It was a great team win today.  Everyone implemented what we worked on in practice and I am proud of the progress we made this week." – Head Coach Carli Figlio

- The Hawks have won 19-straight regular season games on their home turf dating back to the 2015 season.
- MU is 2-0 against the Blackbirds all-time.
- Monmouth's 10 goals matches a program best set against Siena in 2010.
- The Hawks' 27 points (10 goals, 7 assists) ranks second in program history, one point shy of matching the record.
- The Hawks' seven first half goals ties the most in a period set earlier this year against Brown. 
- It is the sixth time in program history, and fifth under Figlio, that MU has at least 10 wins in a season.
- Laszlo, who finished the day with five points with a goal and three assists, increased her point streak to 10 games.  For the second time this season, the senior assisted on three goals which matches a program best in a single game, tying teammate Meg Donahue (2016 vs. Siena) and Trish O'Dwyer (2014 vs. Rider).   Laszlo's helper gives her 17 for the season, a new career-best. 
- Garden Bachop, who ended the day with five points with two goals and an assist, posted her second multi-goal game of the season, while adding an assists for a career-high five-point afternoon.
- Okken, who has a career-high four goals this season, recorded her first multi-goal game.
- Kusakavitch and van der Hoop each registered their third multi-goal game of the season.
- Donahue assisted on the opening goal and connected with a goal of her on via the penalty stroke.
- Sydney Southard contributed her first career point, assisting on van der Hoop's second goal of the day.
- Tamar Klinkhamer assisted on Laszlo's tally. 
- Christen Piersanti earned her 46th career victory in cage.

NUMBERS CRUNCH
- Monmouth earned 11 attacking corners on the afternoon without yielding a defense corner.
- Kilinkhammer finished with a team-high six shots, while seven other Hawks had at least two attempts.
- 19 of the Hawks' 29 shots landed on cage.

NEXT UP
Monmouth returns to action on Sunday, October 15, 2017 for a noon affair at Villanova.