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Philadelphia, Pa. - Senior attack Gina Mansi (Washington Twp., N.J./Washington Twp.) scored three goals and became the team's all-time leading scorer as the Holy Family University women's lacrosse team defeated Wilmington University by the score of 15-2 Thursday afternoon at Tiger Field.
 
The victory was a historic one for the Tigers as the team extended its program-best winning streak to seven games.  Holy Family is now 10-4 overall and 9-1 in conference action.  Furthermore, the nine victories in conference play are the most ever in program history.  With the win, Holy Family claims at least a share of the CACC regular season title.  The Tigers lead Georgian Court University (7-3) by two games in the standings with two remaining on the schedule for both teams.  However, Holy Family secured the top-seed in the upcoming CACC Tournament with its two victories against the Lions this season. 
 
Wilmington is currently 8-6 overall and 5-5 in conference play.  The Wildcats are one-half game behind Philadelphia University and Dominican for the third and fourth postseason spot.  Both the Rams and Chargers are 5-4 in CACC play.
 
Three players finished with three goals for Holy Family, including Mansi who surpassed former teammate Jennifer James (Philadelphia, Pa./Little Flower) for most goals and points in program history.  With her three goals, Mansi set the new standard as she currently has 155 career goals and 173 career points.  The previous marks held by James were 152 goals and 172 points. 
 
In addition, junior Stephanie McNesby (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) also made history on the afternoon as she became the third player in program history to record 100 career goals.  McNesby came into today's game needing three scores to reach the century mark.   She also added an assist to finish with four points in the victory.
 
Senior Lauren Greco (Richboro, Pa./Council Rock South) also tallied three goals, while freshman Brianna Lancetta (Marlton, N.J./Bishop Eustace) scored a pair of goals to go along with an assist.  Junior Jessica Maloney (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) led the team with five ground balls to go along with three draw controls and one caused turnover. 
 
For Wilmington, junior Molly Taylor and sophomore Meggan Apgar had the two scores for the Wildcats.  Senior Liz Case tallied an assist to go along with two ground balls. 
 
Holy Family scored the game's first goal to take an early 1-0 lead after sophomore Marissa Lawson (York, Pa./Central York) tallied her eighth score of the season.  Wilmington would later answer with a goal by Taylor at the 17:06 mark to tie the game at 1-1.
 
From that point on, it was all Holy Family as the Tigers scored 14 unanswered goals to take control of the game.  The Holy Family defense held the Wilmington offense scoreless for 46:30 minutes until the Wildcats finally scored again with :26 seconds remaining in regulation.
 
Senior goalkeeper Melissa Jenkins (Glenolden, Pa./Interboro) put together a career performance in net for the Tigers as she faced 25 shots and came away with 14 saves on the afternoon.  The two goals allowed is the lowest amount of goals surrendered by Jenkins in her career.  Her previous low came during her sophomore season as she allowed only four goals to Post University twice during the course of the season. 
 
Junior Kaitlyn Hall made eight stops in net for the Wildcats.  
 
Holy Family is back in action on Sunday, April 22 as the Tigers travel to face Post University in a CACC contest.  Game time is slated for 1 p.m.