MANSFIELD, Conn. – Senior attack Lily Anderson (Portland, ME) became the tenth player in Eastern women’s lacrosse history to score as many as 100 career goals in helping the Warriors to a 14-8 Little East Conference opening victory over the University of Southern Maine Saturday afternoon.

Last year’s team leader in goals (47) and points (55), Anderson scored three goals against Southern Maine (0-5, 0-1 little east) to become the tenth player in the program’s 13-year history to record as many as 100 goals in a career. Anderson’s 100th goal came in her 62nd career match on a free position attempt with 21:28 left in the match that gave Eastern a 9-5 lead.

The win is the third without a loss at home for Eastern (3-4, 1-0 little east), which posted its tenth straight conference regular-season win. The Warriors captured the final three regular-season match of 2006, then went unbeaten in six regular-season conference matches last year to win their first regular-season title.

In remaining undefeated (9-0) in this series with Southern Maine, Eastern surged to a 7-2 lead 13 minutes into play and the Huskies were never able to get closer than three goals thereafter. Leading 10-7 with 14 minutes left, the Warriors scored four goals in less than five minutes to ice the win. Sophomore defender Allison Levine (Medford, NY) scored her first two goals of the season to spark that run.

Having allowed twice as many draw controls as it had won this year, Southern Maine won 16 of 24 against Eastern. Freshman midfielder Kristy Kendrick (Waterboro, ME) won six and freshman attack Mary Vaughan (Brunswick, ME) collected four. Sophomore midfielder Erica Robertson (St. Albans, VT) led USM with five ground balls.

Gloster topped the Warriors witih four ground balls, sophomore midfielder Taylor MacDonald (Oak Bluffs, MA) adding three ground balls and three draws.

Southern Maine senior goalie Katie Quartuccio (Poughkeepsie, NY) made 11 of her 14 saves in the first half. Eastern junior goalie Joslin Wells (Marstons Mills, MA) made 13 saves in claiming her third win of the season.

Eastern visits Western Connecticut State University in a Little East Conference match Wednesday at 4 p.m.