After winning back-to-back games for just the second time this season over the last two Saturdays, the UConn women’s lacrosse team (5-8) will have a chance to extend their winning streak to three for the first time in 2026 on Tuesday. The Huskies will host the University of New Hampshire (4-9) in a faceoff between two New England state schools.
The Huskies have been heating up as of late. Beating up on a pair of Big East bottom feeders in Butler (3-11, 0-4 Big East) and Xavier (3-12, 1-4 Big East) the past two weekends, UConn scored a season-high 15 goals against both squads.
Hadley Bethke led the way against Xavier, recording a career-high six points on four goals and two assists. Megan O’Brien also scored her fourth hat trick of the season.
With the three goals plus an assist, O’Brien took back her team lead in points with 35 after missing the Butler contest.
The defense has also been picking up steam. Junior goalkeeper Sofia Oximana has saved 60% of shots faced in each of the last two weekends, and the team allowed a season-low four goals to Butler.
Abby Beran has been as consistent as ever, forcing a career-high eight caused turnovers against Butler and securing two ground balls against Xavier.
The reigning Big East Defensive Player of the Year won the weekly award for her performance against the Bulldogs.
UNH has scored 22 less goals than Butler this season in just one less game. The Wildcats sit outside of the top 100 in both points per game and scoring offense in the country, according to the NCAA.
When the Wildcats have recorded points, there’s a decent chance that Rose Pavuk had something to do with it. The senior has been responsible for 27.6% of UNH’s goals and 26.3% of total points. The attacker leads the team in all of goals (32), assists (13) and points (45).
The Wildcats have also had trouble stopping shots. Though the goalkeeping has improved since making a switch from rookie Makenna Schultz to junior Emma Crater, the duo as whole sits at 93 in the NCAA in save percentage.
Outside of Bathke and O’Brien, Rayea Davis will be called upon to take advantage of the poor goal prevention. The redshirt senior, who leads the team with 24 goals, reached 200 career points against Butler and picked up another goal against the Musketeers.
The Wildcats are winless on the road this season in four tries and haven’t won a game since March 18 against Merrimack, scoring 12 second half goals for a come-from-behind victory.
Since then, the Wildcats have dropped four straight games, including their last contest against Harvard.
UConn is .500 on their home turf and have only lost one game at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium, and one loss came early in the season at the Mark R. Shenkman Training Center.
The weekday contest at Morrone Stadium will be the first of three home games to end the Huskies’ regular season slate. The opening draw is scheduled for 6 p.m. Husky fans can tune in live on UConn+.