Aurora University women's lacrosse and Head Coach Christina Fried claimed a first in the Spartans 11-3 victory at Elmhurst College on Wednesday night. The Spartans picked up the first win of 2015 with Fried claiming her first victory as a collegiate head coach.

The game was scoreless until Elmhurst tallied the first goal at 21:15 of the opening half. The Spartan answered quickly and often the rest of the half, scoring seven consecutive goals with the first coming from Kenny Hughes off an assist by Lexie Wright at 19:57. Shortly after, Hughes scored an unassisted goal to give the Spartans a lead they would not relinquish.

Spartan Rachel Cochran scored the third AU goal with Andrea Colford picking up the assist. Wright would score twice on even strength with Hughes getting her third goal to complete the hat trick with a man-up between the Wright tallies. Colford assisted Hughes. With 2:05 to play in the first, Colford completed the scoring in the half when she tallied a man-down goal.

Coming out of halftime with a six goal advantage, the Spartans maintained the lead until the home Bluejays struck first as they had done in the first with a goal at 24:37.

The score remained 7-2 over midway through the half before the Spartans struck for three straight goals to blow the game wide open. Colford scored her second of the night at 13:34 to get the Spartan offense rolling. Danielle Morgan added the second Spartan man-up goal at 9:33 and Hughes added her fourth of the night at 5:55 for the 10-2 lead.

After an Elmhurst goal with 3:22 to play, Hughes tallied her fifth goal of the night with 14 seconds to play for the final score of 11-3.

Spartan goalkeeper Allee Samuel picked up her first college victory with nine saves. With the win, AU is now 1-3 overall. Next action for the Spartan women's lacrosse comes on Saturday, March 21 when they host Illinois Institute of Technology. Game time is set for 1:00 p.m. on Vago Field.