HAMDEN, Conn. - Quinnipiac defeated Mount St. Mary's 13-5 in Northeast Conference (NEC) women's lacrosse action on Saturday.

Ashley Johnson (Arvada, Colo./Arvada West), Esther Rufolo (Woodstock, Md./Chapelgate Christian Academy), Allie Fife (Alexandria, Va./Bishop Ireton), Jordan Certeza (Baltimore, Md./Baltimore Lutheran) and Emily Kirby (Reisterstown, Md./Franklin) each recorded a goal for the Mount (4-7, 2-3 NEC) in the loss.

Katie Latonick paced the Bobcats (6-4, 5-0 NEC) with one tally and five assists. Lianne Toomey and Devon Gibney each added two goals and an assist while Lyndsey Banach, Chelsea Guerrera and Laura Iannotti recorded two tallies apiece in the winning effort.

Quinnipiac scored the first four goals of the match and never looked back to earn its fifth-straight win against Mount St. Mary's.

The Bobcats scored four times in the first two minutes and 59 seconds to jump out to a 4-0 lead. Latonick set up the first tally of the afternoon when she feed Guerrera at 1:45 before Banach found the twine off a Lauren Matuszczak assist 11 seconds later. Gibney then scored unassisted at 2:43 before Latonick hooked up with Guerrera for the second time on the afternoon 16 seconds later for a four-goal margin.

Rufolo got the Mountaineers on a scoreboard with an unassisted tally at 7:24, but Quinnipiac then rolled off the next five goals to grab a 9-1 advantage.

Latonick started this run with an assist to Iannotti at 8:28 before Iannotti converted a free-position chance at 10:04. Latonick connected with Christine Sinnigen at 12:06 before Latonick notched her lone goal of the day the 13-minute mark. Banach capped the five-goal surge with a score off a Toomey assist at 24:45 for an eight-goal lead.

After Johnson halted the Quinnipiac spurt with a goal off an Alexis Salerno (South Setauket, N.Y./South Side) assist at 25:57, Fife posted an 8-meter tally at 27:51 to trim the margin to 9-3, but Toomey closed the scoring in the first half with a marker off a Matuszcak assist with 22 ticks until halftime to give the Bobcats a 10-3 margin at the break.

Kirby, the current NEC Player of the Week, scored to open the final period unassisted at 34:31, but Quinnipiac responded by rattling off three unanswered goals to take a 13-4 lead.

Latonick capped her six-point performance with an assist to Toomey at 40:02 before Gibney scored unassisted at 41:13 and then set up Sarah Allen 18 seconds later.

Certeza scored unassisted with 9:05 left, but the Bobcats came away with a 13-5 victory.

Brigid McTavish (Mount Airy, Md./South Carroll) made five saves for Mount St. Mary's while Lexi DeStefano turned away 11 shots for Quinnipiac.

Lucy Pompa (Baltimore, Md./Bryn Mawr) paced the defense with three ground balls, two draw controls and one caused turnover. Jackie Kearney (Baltimore, Md./Seton Keough), the current co-NEC Defensive Player of the Week, added one ground ball, three draw controls and one caused turnover.

Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Friday at Waldron Family Stadium against Central Connecticut State. Game time is 3 p.m.