FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Fairfield jumped out to a 9-2 advantage and held on for a 15-13 victory against Mount St. Mary's in non-conference women's lacrosse action on Saturday.

Katelyn Catanese (Huntington, N.Y./St. Anthony's) tied her career high with six goals for the Mount (0-7) while Breana Waraksa (Media, Pa./Strath Haven) added a goal and four assists and Ashley Johnson (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West) registered three markers and a helper in the loss.

Kristen Coleman paced the Stags (5-1) with four goals while Erin Rigby added three goals and one assist and Rebecca White found the twine three times in the winning effort.

Fairfield jumped out to the lead and held off a furious comeback attempt by Mount St. Mary's for its third-straight win against the Mount.

Coleman and Rigby started the scoring for the Stags with 8-meter goals at 3:28 and 5:48, respectively, before White capped a 3-0 run with a marker unassisted at 7:05.

Kathleen Rossetti (Perry Hall, Md./Perry Hall) put the Mountaineers on the scoreboard with an unassisted tally at 9:16 to trim the margin to 3-1.

Brittany Bare and Abbey Goodwin helped start a 6-1 surge with unassisted goals at 9:42 and 10:48, respectively. Mary Kate Lavin (Baltimore, Md./Maryvale) momentarily halted the Fairfield run with a free-position goal at 13:24 to cut the deficit to 5-2.

White found the twine unassisted at 15:33 and Rigby followed by taking it herself 11 seconds later. Kylee Martin score unassisted at 16:43 and then set up Bare at 18:11 to give the Stags a 9-2 lead.

Mount St. Mary's ended the half by scoring three goals in the final four minutes. Johnson set up Catanese's first goal of the day at 26:23, and then the junior scored off a Jackie Kearney (Baltimore, Md./Seton Keough) assist at 27:27 and off a Waraksa helper with 1:12 left in the stanza to cut the deficit to 9-5 at halftime.

Fairfield and the Mount traded a pair of goals to start the second half to maintain the four-goal difference. White scored unassisted at 37:05 before Rigby set up Goodwin at 40:12.

Mount St. Mary's answered when Katie Bollinger (Westminster, Md./Winters Mill) converted an 8-meter shot at 41:30 for her first collegiate goal and then Waraksa hooked up with Johnson at 43:04.

The Stags responded with two unassisted markers by Coleman (43:40) and Rigby (44:41) to hand Fairfield a 13-7 advantage.

The Mountaineers rolled off the next five tallies to make it to a one-goal match. Waraksa helped start the surge when she set up Catanese at 45:12 before Waraksa notched a free-position goal at 47:29. Catanese then scored a natural hat trick off a Waraksa assist (48:20), an 8-meter goal (50:01) and unassisted (51:29) to cut the margin to 13-12.

Mount St. Mary's got the ensuing draw control, but turned the ball over and Coleman went down and converted her free-position attempt with 6:46 remaining and then found the twine again 50 seconds later to give the Stags a 15-12 lead.

Catanese would add her sixth goal of the afternoon at 54:43 to cut it to a two-marker game, but the Mountaineers would not get another shot off in the final five minutes.

Lauren Chatnik made eight saves for Fairfield while Brigid McTavish (Mount Airy, Md./South Carroll) and Erin Kelly (Derwood, Md./Magruder) each turned away seven shots for Mount St. Mary's.

Catanese moved into fourth-place on the program's all-time career points list with 164 points. The senior had four draw controls and two ground balls to go along with her six tallies. Waraksa moved into third place on the program's all-time career assist list with 56 helpers. Kearney jumped into eighth place on the all-time career draw controls list with 70 draws. Aly Jost (Abingdon, Md./Bel Air) fueled the Mount with four ground balls.

Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Wednesday at Waldron Family Stadium against Hofstra. Game time is 3 p.m.