thanks to Travis Larner, Athletic Communications Assistant-Florida Southern College for the press release   LAKELAND – No. 8 Florida Southern extended its win streak to five straight games after sweeping its Saturday doubleheader against Mount Olive and Wheeling Jesuit at Bryant Stadium. Mount Olive (7-2, 3-0 Conference Carolinas) tested the Moccasins (6-1, 0-0 SSC) early Game 1, but FSC prevailed 11-8. In the nightcap, the Mocs cruised past the Cardinals (0-2, 0-0 MEC), 18-8, while senior attacker Caitlin Chase racked up a season-high nine points. Neither offense shined in the first half of Game 1. The Trojans turned the ball over 13 times, 10 caused by the Mocs, while FSC committed 10 of its 14 turnovers in the first 30 minutes. Mount Olive was only able to clear the ball eight times in 13 attempts in the period as well. The Trojans, who received votes in the latest edition of the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division II poll, made up for the lack of execution on the offensive end by holding the Mocs to a pair of goals in the first 25-plus minutes, both from junior Ashley Robertson, as they took a 4-2 lead. “We just weren’t making good decisions,” said head coach Kara Reber. “We were making passes that are very uncharacteristic of our team and we were shooting very uncharacteristically. We weren’t playing Florida Southern lacrosse.” The Mocs went on a late run in the opening half to take the lead. With under five minutes to go before halftime, Chase (Mt. Laurel, N.J.), Robertson (Ellicott City, Md.) and senior Megan Asper (Parkton, Md.) scored in order to give FSC its first lead of the game, 5-4, with just over a minute left in the half, but Katie McGovern completed her first-half hat trick as time expired to draw the game even heading into the locker room. Down 6-5, the Mocs recovered from the lethargic start to score six of the next seven goals. Robertson drew the game to a 6-6 tie at 25:39 in the second half with her career-high fourth goal to begin the run. “We just couldn’t to get into a rhythm,” Reber said. “We kind of joked about it being cloudy out and then the sun finally came out and we were able to play. I don’t know if it was mental or if their energy was just low.” Robertson finished with a team-high six points while Chase added two goals and three assists, which all went to Robertson. The duo combined for 11 of the team’s 18 points in Game 1. “Ashely and Cait seemed to work really well with each other today,” Reber said. “If it wasn’t one scoring, it was the other one and it was assisted by the other girl. They certainly clicked well today.” FSC didn’t face as much adversity in the second game of the doubleheader against Wheeling Jesuit. The Mocs outshot the Cardinals, 35-to-21, and on the defensive end, forced the visitors to cough the ball up 26 times. In addition, Wheeling Jesuit only converted 48 percent (12-for-25) of its clear attempts. Sophomore Jackson Marshall (Gorham, Maine) led the backend with a career-high four caused turnovers. “I thought most of the time our defenders stayed tight on the outlet passes, and we were able to ride well on the body and cause some bad passes,” Reber said. “Our defenders read a lot of opportunities well in order to cause an interception or break up a pass.” Redshirt sophomore Ashley Seborowski (Annapolis, Md.) earned both wins Saturday to improve to 4-0 on the season. She made 10 saves in Game 1 and five more against the Cardinals in one half of action before handing the netminder duties to sophomore Taylor Gillis (Bel Air, Md.) for the final 30 minutes. “At the end in the second half when we weren’t up by very much (against Mount Olive), and there were a couple of opportunities where they could have tied it, she came up with some huge saves,” said Reber of Seborowski. “As the intensity picked up, she performed better, and she did a good job for us against Wheeling Jesuit, too.” Chase built off her early-game performance by recording a season-high nine points with three goals and six assists. “She has faced a lot of really tough opponents early and they keyed in on her because she had over 100 points last year,” Reber said. “It’s just going to depend on the games if we are going to have the opportunity to get the ball back there for her to score or pass it.” After being held without a goal for the first time in her young career against the Trojans, freshman midfielder Emily Santoli (Fort Salonga, N.Y.) responded with her third five-goal effort of the season. She also had a season-high six draw controls to go along with three ground balls and a pair of caused turnovers. Santoli scored back-to-back goals 30 seconds apart to give FSC a 10-2 lead with 2:14 left in the first half against the Cardinals. She then opened the scoring in the second half to make it 11-4. Santoli, Chase and freshman Dovey Foote (Cambridge, Mass.) added three in a row to give the Mocs an 11-point cushion, 17-6, with 6:39 left. Wheeling Jesuit’s Jessie Tufnell and Elizabeth Hales were the only two Cardinals to score as they each finished with four goals. Goalkeeper Maire Austin made nine saves in the losing effort. Florida Southern is home at Bryant Stadium to host No.11 Queens (N.C.) on Tuesday, March 10 at 4 p.m. in its fourth top-20 matchup of the season.