Box Score GLENSIDE, Pa. – Junior Casandra Honovich (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y./Walter Panas) had a goal to become just the third player in program history to reach 200 career points in three seasons, but that was one of the few highlights as the Manhattanville women's lacrosse team fell to Arcadia by a 21-9 score in Freedom Conference action on Wednesday night at Easton Field.
 
Honovich had one goal to give her an even 200 points for her career, joining senior teammate Melissa Goncalves (Holtsville, N.Y./Sachem East) as two of the six Valiants ever to reach the 200-point plateau. Honovich joins Liz McNamee '03 and Katie Frattarola '02 in the exclusive club of Valiants to reach the mark as juniors.
 
Goncalves was Manhattanville's best offensive option on the night, netting a season-high five goals and adding an assist for six points. Senior Maggie Howley (Philadelphia, Pa./Cardinal Dougherty) also performed well with a goal to go with a career-high 11 draw controls and a team-leading three ground balls.
 
Arcadia was led by Haylee Molloy with a game-high seven goals, followed by Dawn Faranetta and Jaclyn Feffer with four goals apiece.
 
The game was evenly played for the first 10 minutes, as Arcadia scored the first two goals of the game only to be answered by the first collegiate goal from sophomore Kirsten Shaughnessy (Le Center, Minn./LeSueur-Henderson St. Peter) and one from Howley to knot the score 9:48 into the contest. But the Knights used a 7-1 run to open up a 9-3 lead with 6:22 remaining in the half, getting three goals from Feffer and two from Molloy during the stretch.
 
Goncalves scored twice for Manhattanville in the final five minutes, but Arcadia interspersed three goals of its own among her scores and as a result took a 12-5 lead into the break. The Knights posted a 15-10 edge in shots over the first 30 minutes of play.
 
The teams traded goals to start the second half, with Goncalves and sophomore Meghann Haggerty (Centerport, N.Y./Harborfields) answering Arcadia tallies with ones of their own to keep it a seven-goal deficit. However, four straight AU scores, bookended by tallies from Molloy, gave the home team an 18-7 edge with 14:37 remaining and the deficit proved to be too much to overcome for Manhattanville.
 
Despite outshooting the home team by a 15-10 margin in the second half, Manhattanville still finished the night on the wrong side of a 28-27 shot disparity. The Valiants dominated on the draws, controlling 21 of 31 restarts, but lost the ground ball battle by a 21-13 margin.
 
Arcadia's Jordyn Dunacusky picked up the win in goal for the Knights, making nine saves, while freshman Caitlin Sosa (New York, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury) had her two-game winning streak come to a halt by making just two saves on 23 shots.
 
Manhattanville (3-10, 2-1 Freedom), which falls into a three-way tie for third place in the conference with the loss, will take on one of the teams it is tied with, King's (Pa.), on Saturday at 1 p.m. at GoValiants.com Field. The game, and the Senior Day festivities that precede it, will be streamed live on GoValiants.TV beginning at approximately 12:45 p.m.