HAMDEN, Conn. – Quinnipiac handed Mount St. Mary's its first Northeast Conference (NEC) loss of the year with a 19-5 victory in women's lacrosse action on Sunday.

Katelyn Catanese (Huntington, N.Y./St. Anthony's) paced the Mount (4-9, 4-1 NEC) with two goals while Breana Waraksa (Media, Pa./Strath Haven) dished out the assists on both of her fellow seniors tallies in the loss.

Devon Gibney paced the Bobcats (7-2, 3-1 NEC) with four goals and two assists. Katie Latonock posted two goals and four assists and Marissa Caroleo found the twine four times in the winning effort.

After Mount St. Mary's took a quick advantage, Quinnipiac went on a run and never looked back for its third-straight win against the Mountaineers.

Brianna Gauthier (Severna Park, Md./St. Mary's) gave the Mount a 1-0 advantage on a free-position goal at 1:53.

The Bobcats answered by scoring the next eight goals to grab an 8-1 lead. Gibney tied the contest on an 8-meter goal at 2:44 before Latonick gave Quinnipiac the lead for good unassisted at 3:11. After Latonick set up Nicole Fiore at 4:17, Tiffany Manzi converted a free-position chance at 5:40 and Lyndsey Banach found the twine unassisted at 10:30 for a 5-1 advantage. Christine Sinnigen registered the Bobcats third 8-meter goal in the first half at 17:04 before Ashley Valentine scored off a Gibney helper at 18:38 and then Gibney squirted the ball into the net off a Latonick feed at 20:48 for a seven-goal advantage.

Ashley Johnson (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West) momentarily halted the Quinnipiac run with an unassisted tally at 21:30, but the Bobcats closed the first period with four-consecutive goals to go into halftime with a 12-2 lead.

Caroleo started the surge with her first goal of the afternoon unassisted at 22:52. Latonick scored off a Sinnigen pass at 23:48 and then the junior set up Caroleo at 25:51. Gibney, who started the offensive burst for Quinnipiac, ended the first stanza with her second marker off a Fiore assist at 26:50.

Mount St. Mary's opened the final stanza with back-to-back Waraksa to Catanese connections at 36:19 and again 22 seconds later to trim the margin to 12-4.

The Bobcats answered by scoring the next five goals to grab a 17-4 margin after Gibney (37:23), Caroleo (40:17), Fiore (41:11), Manzi (45:00) and Banach (49:59) each scored in a span of 12 minutes and 36 seconds.

Nicole Price (White Hall, Md./North Harford) stopped the string of five unanswered tallies with an 8-meter goal at 52:46, but Caroleo and Kaitlyn Kelly scored in the final five minutes to seal the victory.

Quinnipiac held a 27-23 advantage in shots, but the difference in the game was that the 2008 NEC Defensive Player of the Year Hannah Nelson made 14 saves.

Gauthier posted four draw controls, a ground ball and a caused turnover while Lucy Pompa (Baltimore, Md./Bryn Mawr) added four draw controls and a ground ball in the loss.

Mount St. Mary's returns to action at the Waldron Family Stadium against Sacred Heart on Thursday in the final regular season home game. Prior to the game, the Mount will honor seniors Catanese, Gauthier, Waraksa, Caitlin Preas (Rockville, Md./Our Lady of Good Counsel) and Kathleen Rossetti (Perry Hall, Md./Perry Hall).