ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Augsburg College women's lacrosse team built an 11-2 halftime lead and never looked back, scoring a 16-5 nonconference victory at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul on Thursday evening.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 16, Northwestern-St. Paul 5
LOCATION: Reynolds Field, St. Paul, Minn.
RECORDS: Augsburg 10-4 overall, Northwestern 10-4 overall

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Augsburg scored the first seven goals of the game in the opening 18:05 of play. The Auggies held the lead for all but the opening 48 seconds of the contest, and after they jumped out to a 7-0 lead, the advantage did not dip below six goals the rest of the way.
• Demey Everett (FY, Brooklyn Center, Minn./Champlin Park HS) scored two goals with two assists, while adding two ground balls for the Auggies. Her older sister, Delaney Everett (JR, Brooklyn Center, Minn./Champlin Park HS), scored three goals with four draw controls, two ground balls and a caused turnover.
• Helena Nguyen (JR, Maple Grove, Minn.) scored two goals with an assist, while adding two ground balls. Izzy Snow (SO, Golden Valley, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong HS) scored two goals with four ground balls and a caused turnover, and Dezera Sieracki (SR, Wyoming, Minn./Centennial HS) also scored two goals.
• Rachel Frantz (SR, Mounds View, Minn./Irondale HS) scored a goal with six ground balls, two draw controls and a draw control, and Christina Nelson (SO, Bloomington, Minn./Kennedy HS) scored a goal with five draw controls and a ground ball.
• Katie Kvilvang (SO, Grand Rapids, Minn.) scored a goal and Annika Hegrenes (FY, Maplewood, Minn./Concordia Academy HS) had an assist. Mikayla Jones (FY, Stillwater, Minn.) had three ground balls and a caused turnover, and Jesse Heusinkveld (JR, Mound, Minn./Mound-Westonka HS) had a ground ball and caused turnover.
• Marissa Guillou (JR, Burnsville, Minn./Apple Valley HS) had nine saves in goal, along with four ground balls and two caused turnovers.
• Augsburg outshot Northwestern by a 37-21 margin, including a 25-11 advantage in the first half. Augsburg had 14 draw controls to Northwestern's nine, and converted 15-of-18 clearing attempts, compared to 16-of-32 for the Eagles. The Auggies scored five free-position goals in the game.

FOR THE FOES
• Eugenia Chamberlain scored two goals with eight ground balls, six caused turnovers and a draw control to lead Northwestern.
• Hannah Shands scored a goal with an assist, four ground balls, four draw controls and a caused turnover.
• Sydney Werlein had 14 saves in goal, while adding five ground balls and a caused turnover.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg hosts Hamline in a Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference game on Tuesday (4/18) at 7 p.m. at Edor Nelson Field.