STANFORD, Calif. — Following a decisive 16-8 win over No. 21/18 Virginia on Saturday, No. 2 Stanford wraps up the two-game road trip with a bout against Virginia Tech on Tuesday, March 3. Opening draw from the Beamer-Lawson Indoor Practice Facility against the Hokies is slated for noon ET / 9 a.m. PT.
Opening Draw
No. 2 Stanford (6-0, 3-0 ACC) is back in action after dispatching No. 21/18 Virginia on Saturday in a dominant display on both offense and defense, clipping the Cavaliers, 16-8, to open the road trip. Stanford opened up a 6-1 lead in the first quarter that it did not let up, while the Cardinal defense caused 13 turnovers on the afternoon as Stanford earned its third Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) win of the season.
Mallory Hasselbeck’s six points and Aliya Polisky’s four goals led the Cardinal in the rout over the Cavaliers as eight different Cardinal recorded a goal. Alongside Polisky, Lindsey Devir and Hasselbeck recorded hat tricks while Charlottesville native Martha Oakey recorded a hat trick of helpers as part of a four-point afternoon. Defensively, Olivia Rose and Rylee Bouvier tabbed seven of Stanford’s 13 caused turnovers during the game while Lucy Pearson recorded five saves for the second time in the last three games - both of which came against ranked opposition.
Reigning ACC Offensive Player of the Week Aliya Polisky leads the Cardinal in goals (20) and points (30) through six games as the junior has recorded a hat trick in three of the last four games. Mallory Hasselbeck slots second on the Cardinal in points after his six-point outing against the Cavaliers while entering the Tuesday affair against the Hokies having earned three or more points in each of the last four games. Offensively, Stanford has 13 players who have recorded a goal while Saturday’s contest marked the third time Stanford had eight or more different goal scorers in a single game this season.
Stanford currently ranks third in the conference in assists per game, averaging 7.67 through six games with Hasselbeck leading the charge with 12 assists this season. 11 players have recorded an assist so far for the Cardinal as Polisky, Oakey and Ava Arceri follow Hasselbeck for the team lead in helpers.
Following a team-leading seven draw controls against Virginia, Jordyn Case leads the Cardinal in the circle with 25 draw controls this season. Annabel Frist is second in draw controls with 19 on the campaign as she sits 35 back from tying Genesis Lucero (2016-21) for the program record in draw controls as Frist has totalled 337 in her career. Bouvier has also done well on the circle with 10 draw controls so far in six games.
Defensively, Bouvier leads the Cardinal having been named ACC Defensive Player of the Week this past week. Bouvier leads the Cardinal with 13 caused turnovers including three in the win over Virginia. Following Bouvier, Frist slots second with eight caused turnovers alongside junior Kaleigh Sommers. Sommers and Kate Bellissimo sit atop the team in ground balls with the former accruing 13 this season.
In cage, Lucy Pearson owns a perfect 6-0 record this season having earned five saves in the win over Virginia on Saturday. Pearson owns a 5.89 goals-against average coupled with a .396 save percentage. Entering Tuesday, Pearson ranks second all-time in goals-against average (8.95) and is sixth all-time in games played by a goalkeeper with 47. Pearson and her defensive corps have yet to allow double-digit goals in a game this season as the Cardinal own the fifth-best scoring defense in the nation, holding the opposition to an average of 6.67 goals-against. Also earning minutes, Ella Morton saw action in the win over USC in what was her third appearance in 2026. Morton has made two saves on 11 shots faced so far in 2026.
Stanford entered the road trip at No. 2 in all three polls (ILWomen/Kane, IWLCA, USA Lacrosse Magazine) for the first time in the program’s history. The No. 2 ranking is the highest by any team along the West Coast, surpassing USC’s No. 3 ranking it held for two weeks in 2017.