No. 5 seed Duquesne will open play at the 2022 Atlantic 10 Lacrosse Championship in Amherst, Massachusetts on Thursday, April 28 at 11 a.m. when it takes on No. 4 seed Davidson in a first round game.
 
The winner of the opening round game will take on top-seed UMass in the quarterfinals the following day. All A-10 Championship games will air on ESPN+

CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES

• The Dukes are making their first appearance in the Atlantic 10 Championship since 2019 and just their third appearance since 2016.
• This will be the 15^th A-10 Championship appearance in program history.
• The team enters the postseason on a four-game winning-streak that propelled it up to the fifth seed in the championship.
• The Dukes ended the regular-season averaging 12.44 goals per game, but were scoring 17.00 per game during the current winning streak.
• The Dukes enter the postseason ranked among the top-10 in the country in both caused turnovers and ground balls per game.
• Duquesne ranks second in the A-10 and eighth in Division I with 11.06 caused turnovers per game.
• The team leads the league and ranks fourth nationally with 20.81 ground balls per game.
• The Dukes collected a pair of Atlantic 10 weekly awards for the third-straight week on Monday. Alana Piano was named Defensive Player of the Week and Sam King was named Rookie of the Week.
• It was the third-straight weekly award for Piano and the third-straight Duquesne freshman to earn rookie honors.
• Piano leads the A-10 and ranks third in Division I with 2.62 caused turnovers per game.
• The team captain ranks second in the country with 3.44 ground balls per game. Only Gardner-Webb's Danielle Burke (3.50 per game) is averaging more ground balls.
• Piano also slots ninth in the A-10 with 3.25 draw controls per game.
• An excellent two-way player, Piano is fourth on the team with 31 goals, second with eight assists and tied for second on the Dukes with 39 points.
• Delaney Rodriguez-Shaw was named the A-10 Rookie of the Week four times this season and is the team's leading goal scorer.
• She ranks sixth in the A-10 with 42 goals and eighth with 53 points.
• She ranks second in the league with both 6.00 shots per game and 4.50 shots on-goal per game.
• Defender Maggie Flynn is fourth in the A-10 with 1.38 caused turnovers per game, while Kaitlin Rice slots sixth in the league with 1.31 per game.
• In ground balls, Rice ranks second in the A-10 and 12^th in the nation with 3.00 per game, with Flynn slotting 10^th in the league with 1.94 per game.
• Tina St. Clair is second on the Dukes and 10^th in the A-10 with 37 goals this season, while reigning A-10 Rookie of the Week Sam King is third on the team and 11^th in the league with 36 goals.
• St. Clair matched a career-high with five goals in games versus Butler and UMass this season.
• King scored a career-high five goals in the regular-season finale win at St. Bonaventure this past Saturday.
• King ranks third in the A-10 and 20^th in Division I with a .571 shot percentage.
• Goalie Mady Piersielak ranks seventh in the A-10 with a 13.14 goals against average and eighth with 5.73 saves per game.
• Corinne Desrosiers is in her fourth season at the helm of the Duquesne program and is making her second trip to the Atlantic 10 Championship with the Dukes.
• The Dukes were picked to finish fifth in the Atlantic 10 preseason poll.

 
 
DUKES IN THE A-10 CHAMPIONSHIP
2019* -  #3 Richmond L, 8-20
2016* -  #6 Richmond L, 9-10 (OT)
2015^ -  #2 Richmond L, 9-11
2014^ -  #1 UMass L, 3-16
2013+ -  #1 UMass L, 7-14
2013^ -  #3 Temple W, 12-8
2012^ -  #3 Richmond L, 11-17
2011^ -  #1 UMass L, 8-16
2008^ -  #2 Temple L, 10-14
2005+ -  #4 Richmond L, 8-10
2005^ -  #3 George Washington W, 13-10
2004+ -  #2 Temple L, 11-12 (2OT)
2004^ -  #4 St. Bonaventure W, 12-7
2002^ -  #1 Temple L, 4-16
2001+ -  #1 Temple L, 9-10 (OT)
2001^ -  #3 UMass W, 10-6
2000^ -  #1 Temple L, 9-15
1999^ -  #1 Temple L, 7-11
 
* Quarterfinals
^ Semifinals
+ Championship