PITTSBURGH – The Duquesne University lacrosse team is back at home to battle Central Michigan on Tuesday at 4:00 P.M. ET.
Live stats will be available and the game will be streamed on ESPN+.
These two teams have faced each other twice, but not since 2019. In that game on March 15, 2019, the Dukes lit up the scoreboard and scored 24 goals to win. In the first matchup in 2018, Central Michigan won 15-8.
Duquesne is 1-4 and coming off another tight loss on Feb. 27, this time to Stetson. The Dukes narrowly led going into the fourth quarter, but four goals against in the final frame led to a Stetson victory. Despite the loss, sophomore
Mackenzie Leszczynski scored a career-high five goals while sophomore
Delaney Rodriguez-Shaw recorded a hat-trick for the fourth-straight game.
On the season, Rodriguez-Shaw leads the team with 17 goals and 19 points. Her 3.40 goals per game leads the Atlantic 10. Leszczynski's 14 goals are tied for the sixth-most in the conference.
As a team, Duquesne ranks fourth in the A-10 with 12.00 goals per game and second with a 0.496 shots percentage.
Central Michigan is 1-4 and is on a four-game losing streak, with its most recent loss coming against Towson, 17-10.
Maggie Diebold leads the team with 13 goals and Audrey Whiteside has a team-best 16 points. Alexa Martel and Erin Owens have split time in net this year, but the former has over twice as many minutes played through five games.