Bireley’s Career Night Powers Marquette Past Niagara on Friday Night

The Marquette University women's lacrosse team continued non-conference play on Friday night with a 16-11 win over Niagara at Valley Fields.

The Golden Eagles (4-1, 0-0 BIG EAST) were led by Meg Bireley, who had a career-high nine points with six goals and a career-high three assists. Tess Osburn had a career-high six points with four goals and a career-high tying two assists.

Lauren Grady had a career-high five points and her first career-hat trick. Brynna Nixon earned her third win of the season and had 10 saves, one off her career high.

No team had a greater lead than one goal in the first half until the Golden Eagles scored four unanswered the last five minutes of the second quarter to lead by three at half, 8-5.

The Purple Eagles got it to within one goal at 9-8 at the 7:30 mark of the third quarter before Marquette went on another 4-0 run to make it 13-8.

Niagara (1-4, 0-0 MAAC) was led by Maddy Gill, who had five goals.

NOTABLES:
Meg Bireley became the program leader in shots on goal with 294 for her career.
Meg Bireley moved into third on the all-time points list with 206 career points, passing Grace Gabriel who had 199 points from 2016-19.
Brynna Nixon notched her 24th win of her career, tying her with Jules Horning (2017-21) for most wins all-time in program history.
Marquette improves to 5-2 all-time against Niagara.

UP NEXT: Marquette hosts No. 3 Northwestern next Friday, March 7 at 5 p.m. CT at Valley Fields.

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