The Duquesne lacrosse team will open the 2022 season with a pair of games on either side of the weekend.
 
The Dukes will open the season against Pitt on Friday, Feb. 11 at 5 p.m. at Highmark Stadium. Duquesne will then return home to Rooney Field on Monday, Feb. 14 for its home-opener against Youngstown State at 4 p.m.
 
THE SERIES vs. Pitt
This is the first-ever meeting between Duquesne and Pitt.
 
THE SERIES vs. Youngstown State
This is the first-ever meeting between Duquesne and Youngstown State.
 
 
SCOUTING THE DUKES

• Corinne Desrosiers enters her fourth season at the helm of the Duquesne program.
• The Dukes were picked to finish fifth in the Atlantic 10 preseason poll.
• Duquesne is coming off of a 4-5 campaign in 2021.
• The team will be looking to replace the contributions of its top-four goal scorers from a season ago, including leading scorer and 2021 A-10 First Team selection Rilee Bradshaw.
• Desrosiers announced her team captains in January. Seniors Maggie Flynn (Malvern, Pa. / Great Valley), Alana Piano (Brockport, N.Y. / Aquinas Institute) and Kaitlin Rice (Ellicott City, Md. / Mt. Hebron) will serve as team captains for the 2022 season.
• Piano has started all 26 games of her Dukes career at midfield, tallying 10 goals, two assists, 46 ground balls, 30 caused turnovers and six draw controls in three seasons.
• A 2019 Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team selection, Piano had seven points including six goals to go with 31 ground balls and 16 caused turnovers in her debut season on The Bluff.
• She is coming off a hat trick performance in the 2021 season finale at La Salle, her second three-goal performance of her career. 
• Flynn has started 15 of 20 career games at Duquesne, tallying 11 ground balls and nine caused turnovers.
• Rice has started 15 straight games for the Dukes, ranking second on team with 23 ground balls last season while sitting third with 11 caused turnovers.

 
SCOUTING THE PANTHERS

• Pitt is playing in its first-ever game. The program was announced in 2019 and will be playing its first season this year.
• The Panthers were picked ninth in the ACC Preseason Poll.
• Pitt's roster is made up of 15 freshmen, 14 transfers and nine returnees.
• Among the transfers is four-time Inside Lacrosse All-American Paige Petty.
• Petty joined the Panthers for her final year of eligibility after spending four seasons becoming the all-time leading goal scorer in Virginia Tech history with 204.
• The game will also mark the head coaching debut for Emily Boissonneault.
• Boissonneault was hired in 2019 to build the Pitt program after spending four seasons (2016-19) at James Madison.
• She helped James Madison win the 2018 National Championship.

SCOUTING THE PENGUINS

• Youngstown State will play its first full season after finishing 2-7 overall in its inaugural 2021 campaign.
• The Penguins were picked fifth in the Mid-American Preseason Poll.
• YSU will open the season on Friday, Feb. 11 when it hosts St. Bonaventure.
• Erin Clark and Lauren Ottesnmeyer led the team with 16 goals last season. She also led the team in assists (7), ground balls (20) and caused turnovers (14).  

NEXT UP
Duquesne will hit the road on Friday, Feb. 18 to take on Kent State in a non-conference match at 4 p.m.