EMMITSBURG, Md. – Hofstra defeated Mount St. Mary's 19-5 in non-conference women's lacrosse action on Wednesday.

Ashley Johnson (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West) paced the Mount (0-8) with two goals and an assist while Katelyn Catanese (Huntington, N.Y./St. Anthony's) , Kathleen Rossetti (Perry Hall, Md./Perry Hall) and Lucy Pompa (Baltimore, Md./Bryn Mawr) also found the twine in the loss.

Ashley Jones fueled the Pride (4-3) with three goals and two assists. Corrine Gandolfi added three tallies and a helper and Maryann Miller found the twine three times in the winning effort.

Hofstra rallied from a three-goal deficit and then never looked back to earn the victory in the first meetings between the two programs.

Trailing 4-1 with 11:12 left in the first half, the Pride scored the final six goals of the stanza to take a 7-4 lead going into halftime.

K'Leigh Vanaman started the run with an unassisted tally at 21:03 before Gandolfi set up Miller 83 seconds later and then Falco fed Jones at 23:10 to knot the score at 4. After Gandolfi gave Hofstra the lead for good on an unassisted marker at 25:52, Lauren Whitcomb (27:55) and Kailey Ruszkowski (29:26) ended the string of six-straight goals to end the first half.

Hofstra then scored five-straight goals to start the second half to take a 12-4 advantage. Gandolfi (31:58), Katie Hersch (32:29), Miller (33:29), Jones (35:08) and Stephanie Rice (35:43) each scored in the first six minutes of the final stanza.

Pompa momentarily halted the Pride's run with a free-position goal at 39:41, but Hofstra ended the game with seven-straight to earn the 19-5 win. Jones (40:02), Cat Thoreson (43:42), Gandolfi (48:15), Rice (49:49), Thoreson (55:00), Falco (58:16) and Miller (58:48) scored the goals for Hofstra in the game-ending run.

Mount St. Mary's opened the game by scoring four of the first five goals to take a 4-1 advantage. Rossetti started the scoring with an unassisted tally at 3:29 before Johnson converted a free-position shot at 5:21 for a 2-0 edge.

Jacquelyn Hetzel put the Pride on the scoreboard off a Courtney O'Connor assist at 11:29.

The Mountaineers answered with two-straight markers to grab a three-goal lead. Catanese found the twine off a Johnson assist at 13:25 before Johnson scored off a pass from Breana Waraksa (Media, Pa./Strath Haven) at 18:48. Hoftsra then scored 18 of the final 19 goals for the victory.

Mary Cuddihy made three saves in 46:18 minutes while Jackie Pandolf turned away one shot in the win. Brigid McTavish (Mount Airy, Md./South Carroll) made five saves, Erin Kelly (Derwood, Md./Magruder) had three stops and Melanie Showers (Poolesville, Md./Academy of the Holy Cross) had one save.

Senior Brianna Gauthier (Severna Park, Md./St. Mary's), who scored 1,128 career points for Mount women's basketball team, made her women's lacrosse debut and notched one shot, two ground balls, a draw control and a caused turnovers.

Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Friday when it opens up Northeast Conference play at the Waldron Family Stadium against Long Island. Game time is 3 p.m.