FAIRFIELD, Connecticut - Hailey Wagner set the NCAA single-season record in draw controls, and Samantha Mehalick eclipsed the MAAC single-season mark for goals, but No. 5 Marist Women's Lacrosse couldn't overcome No. 1 Fairfield in an 18-14 defeat in the MAAC Semifinals at Rafferty Stadium on Thursday afternoon. 

The Red Foxes end their season at 8-10 overall, with five MAAC wins in the regular season and postseason. The defending-champion Stags advance to their fourth MAAC Championship in five years.
 

FIRST HALF

• Fairfield jumped out in front with two consecutive tallies from Diana DeVita and Taylor Mitchell.
• Marist responded with four of the game's next five goals as Devon Connolly, Kelly George and Mehalick found the back of the net. Marist led 4-3 at that time with 19:40 remaining.
• The Stags proceeded to tally five-straight goals to build an 8-4 advantage.
• Mehalick rocketed a close-range, free position score to make it 8-5 Fairfield at the half.

SECOND HALF

• In the first 12:06, the Stags scored four times, two from Brooke Gallagher, to extend its lead to 12-5.
• Wagner's record draw control, her 218th of the season, came after 20:27 when she scooped the loose ball after one bounce.
• Mehalick scored on the free position, and Tessa Schied found Connolly for two Marist goals in a span of 12 seconds.
• DeVita and Gallagher threaded the twine after that for a 14-7 Fairfield edge past the halfway point.
• Mehalick took over with four goals in a row, her conference-record tally occurring with 11:27 to play in the process.
• Connolly completed the hat trick on a woman-up goal with 8:41 left, trimming the deficit to 14-12 on a 5-0 run for Marist.
• Fairfield broke the scoring drought with two strikes via Kelly Horning and Kathleen Hulseman. 
• Marist cut the score to 16-14 following goals from Audrey Cerrone and Wagner, the latter coming at the 3:53 mark.
• Hulseman and Gallagher capped the scoring in the final 2:15 to seal Fairfield's victory.

STATS

• Five of Mehalick's seven goals came from the eight-meter. She had nine total shots on the day.
• Wagner collected 10 draw controls, eight of which came in the second half.
• Marist held the advantage in draw controls (18-15) and free position shots (9-8).
• The Red Foxes outshot the Stags 19-15 in the second stanza, and both sides finished with 24 shots on goal.
• Delaney Galvin made six stops between the pipes.

NOTES

• Wagner finishes the season with 224 draw controls, breaking the previous record of 217 set by Syracuse's Kayla Treanor in 2016. She finishes her Marist career with 573 career draw controls, which is second all-time in the NCAA Division I history books.
• Mehalick concludes her junior campaign with 79 goals, surpassing Erica Evans' 2017 total of 76 scores for Canisius.
• The Red Foxes celebrate their seniors: Audrey Cerrone, Hailey Wagner, Gabby Childrose, Logan Boyle, and Caroline Polymeros.
• On the year, Marist scored 218 goals and 70 assists.
• The team improved from a season ago in shots (550), free position percentage (.484), ground balls (304), and draw controls (307).
• Thirteen Red Foxes registered a goal in 2019.