ALLENDALE, Mich. – On a special night at the GVSU Lacrosse Field, the Grand Valley State Lakers dominated from start to finish in a 22-3 defeat of the Northern Michigan Wildcats in Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action Friday. The Lakers, clad in orange-numbered jerseys and headbands to represent Multiple Sclerosis awareness, never trailed as they honored Abbi O'Neal and Ashley Bailey in style. The Lakers improve to 11-4 on the season and 9-1 in the GLIAC while Northern Michigan moves to 2-10 on the year and 1-8 in conference play.
 
Carly Shisler continued her recent dominance with a game-high five goals, converting on all five of her shot attempts. GVSU had 11 different scorers in the contest, including seven with multiple tallies. Bailey, on a night partially designed to honor her grandmother, recorded a hat-trick. The Lakers scored the first four goals of the match before the Wildcats got on the board. The Lakers would respond with 18 unanswered goals and their stellar play forced a running clock ten minutes into the match that would never stop (except for half time and ESPN3 media timeouts).
 
Freshman Sophie Conroy, making her second start of her career, by caging a pair of goals, including a beautiful spin-move setup that led to an impressive finish. Senior Meghan Datema recorded six draw controls to move into first place all-time in Laker history in the statistic. Datema and her dozen classmates will celebrate senior day in the final home game of the regular season on Sunday (April 22) at 12:00 ET. Free Jimmy John's will be available to the first 100 students and the game will be broadcast on ESPN3 with live coverage on GVSULakers.com and @GVSUWLAX on Twitter.