Sea Gulls defeat conference foe, 20-8, on Senior Day

By Edward Baidoo

Staff Writer

Last Saturday, the top-ranked Salisbury Sea Gulls defeated No. 18 St. Mary’s 20-8 in a pivotal conference game on Senior Day. The victory improves the record of the Gulls to 12-1 with an unblemished conference record of 5-0. St. Mary’s falls to 9-4 on the season and suffered their first conference loss, which drops their conference record to 4-1.

After the festivities to honor the seniors before the match, the Gulls got out to a quick start, scoring the first nine goals of the match. The scoring started with a goal by sophomore attacker Trish DiGirolomo at the 24:59 mark of the first half with an assist from Robyn Bishop. The assist would be only the beginning of a stellar day by Bishop. The senior midfielder scored five goals on the day with an assist. Despite two of the seniors, Jessica Chmielewski and Ashleigh Gender, not being able to play because of injuries, Bishop and the rest of the team wanted to make sure the team celebrated Senior Day with a win.

"We’ve had a lot of injuries and two of our fellow seniors were out, so it was great for us to rally and still put twenty in the back of the net," Bishop said.

Head coach Jim Nestor was very happy with the effort that the Gulls put in versus a very good St. Mary’s team Saturday.

"It was a good performance today. I thought they played well. We got everybody in, intensity did not drop and we played well," Nestor said.

Maggie Macleay, Caitlin Nichols and Lauren Carrier, who each had two goals, led the Seahawks. Macleay scored the first two goals for St. Mary’s. Carrier’s goals allowed her to maintain her streak of at least one goal in 55 consecutive games.

Coach Nestor was happy that the Gulls had a victory on Senior Day.

"It feels good, of course. It was Senior Day and we want to give our seniors that extra prize, even the ones that didn’t play. St. Mary’s is a great squad and we got a good win today," Nestor said.

The next game for the Sea Gulls will be on Tuesday at Wesley College for another important late-season conference match.

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