Game 7: Arizona State Sun Devils at USC Trojans
Date: Saturday, March 10
Time: 1 p.m. MST
Location: Los Angeles, Calif.
Venue: McAlister Field
Live Stats: usctrojans.com
Watch: pac-12.com/live/usc
The Arizona State lacrosse team (5-1) heads to Los Angeles this weekend in the debut of Pac-12 lacrosse. The Sun Devils will face the No. 12 USC Trojans Saturday, March 10 at 1 p.m. MST at McAlister Field for their first conference game in program history. It will also be the first game for the Sun Devils against a ranked opponent. The game will be broadcasted live via Pac-12+.
QUICK STICKS
- The Sun Devils are on a three-game win streak, the longest win streak in program history.
- Junior co-captain Kerri Clayton is second in the nation for goals through the first part of the season with 27. She sits at fourth in the nation with an average 4.50 goals per game.
- Freshman midfielder Maddy Hunter leads the nation in total ground balls with 31 and is second in ground balls per game (5.17).
- The Sun Devils currently lead the Pac-12 Conference in four categories including goals per game, ground balls per game, points per game and caused turnovers per game.
- Clayton leads the conference is scoring and points with 11 more than the next player in each category.
- Arizona State holds a +6.7 scoring margin over opponents with a 98-58 advantage through six games.
- All 32 eligible players have seen playing time this season.
SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION
USC: The No. 12 Trojans are coming off a 13-12 overtime loss to No. 4 Boston College on Wednesday. Sophomore midfielder Kerrigan Miller matched her career high five goals and had three draw controls, three caused turnovers, and two ground balls. Sophomore attacker Izzy McMahon added two goals herself. Defensively, senior goalie Gussie Johns tied the program's second-highest single-game total with eight ground balls. She also recorded seven saves and had a caused turnover.
LAST TIME OUT
The Sun Devils took down the Presbyterian Blue Hose in dominant fashion, 23-5, in their inaugural home opener last Saturday for their third consecutive win and the longest win streak in program history. It only took a little over a minute for the Sun Devils to get on the board to take the lead, a lead in which ASU never gave up for the remainder of the game. Seemingly almost every Sun Devil scored - 11 ASU players found the back of the net during the rout of the Blue Hose. Freshman attacker Taylor Carson led the charge for Arizona State, scoring a career high six goals on the day. Two other Sun Devils recorded hat tricks during the game - junior attacker Kerri Clayton and sophomore midfielder Avery Hamill. Clayton and freshman Julia Burns also added three assists each to build on the program record 32 total Sun Devil points.
Arizona State's 23 goals marked the most goals scored in program history. The 15 goal differential is also the largest margin of victory in team history. The victory was also full of career firsts as four Sun Devils scored goals for the first time (freshman Kate Dougherty, Kennedy Jamieson, Erin Dibernardo and Haley Gorke) and all eligible players (32) took the field throughout the sixty-minute effort.
On the defensive end, goalkeepers Berkeley Bonneau, Sophia Thomas and Campbell Poe each saw time in the net. Bonneau led the way with four saves while Thomas recorded one of her own. Freshman midfielder Maddy Hunter picked up a career high 10 draw controls and Clayton caused a career high four turnovers.