Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 8/27/18
From Press Release
The Stony Brook women’s lacrosse program and head coach Joe Spallina have announced the addition of four transfers heading into the 2019 season. Nicole Barretta (Temple, Downingtown East), Kelsi LoNigro (Monmouth), Sara Moeller (UMBC) and Sabrina Tabasso (Loyola, Harriton) will all join the Seawolves heading into the new season.
Nicole Barretta | Sr. | Attack
Downingtown East, Exton, Pa./Temple
Barretta joins the Seawolves after playing 46 games for the Owls from 2015-18, tallying 56 goals and 17 assists for 73 total points. She played in just four games at Temple in 2018 due to injury, recording 13 goals and six assists for 19 total points. Barretta’s shortened season included a seven-goal performance vs. Monmouth, and a four-goal, four-assist contest vs. Rutgers. The four-year letterwinner and two-time team captain at Downingtown East High School scored 93 goals and added 44 assists as a senior, earning the school’s Outstanding Athlete Award. She holds the program record with over 300 career goals, and was twice named to the All-League First Team for her efforts in high school.
Sabrina Tabasso | Sr. | Midfield
Harriton, Lower Merion, Pa./Loyola
Tabasso played in 50 total contests at Loyola over the past three seasons, scoring 48 goals and 34 assists for 82 points. After redshirting in 2015, Tabasso recorded 25 goals and 19 assists for 44 points in 2016 – earning All-Patriot League First Team and IL Women All-Rookie Team honors. Tabasso is also a two-time Patriot League All-Tournament Team selection (2016, 2017). While at Harriton High School from 2012-14, Tabasso was a two-time High School All-American, a two-time All-League honoree, an Phillylacrosse Co-Player of the Year and Team MVP of her club program – Quaker City.
Kelsi LoNigro | So. | Attack
Blue Point, N.Y./Monmouth
LoNigro heads to Stony Brook following a year at Monmouth. She played varsity lacrosse at Bayport-Blue Point High School from 2013-17 as an attack, serving as team captain in 2017 as a senior. In LoNigro’s four years at Bayport Blue-Point, the program went 58-13 in total, capturing the Suffolk County Championship in 2014. She was named to the All-Division team in 2015, the All-County team in 2016, and earned the US Lacrosse Magazine Epoch/USL High School Girls Player of the Week in May of 2017. LoNigro played club lacrosse for the Long Island Yellow Jackets.
Sara Moeller | Sr. | Attack
Phoenix, Md./UMBC
A 2018 America East All-Conference Second Team selection, Moeller joins the Seawolves program as a senior after recording 137 total points over two seasons at conference foe UMBC. In 2017, she tallied 38 goals and 35 assists for 73 points, followed by 35 goals and 25 assists for 64 total points last year. The former three-sport letterwinner at St. Paul’s School was named to the Brine All-America Team twice in high school, and is a two-time All-Star on the Brine National Team. In four years at St. Paul’s school, Moeller tallied an impressive 290 goal and 269 assists.
The Seawolves posted a 20-1 record in 2018, the program’s second-straight season of 20 victories. Stony Brook finished the year leading the nation in six major Division I categories: points per game (29.28), scoring margin (+10.80), assists per game (11.23), shot percentage (.547), turnovers per game (12.00), and team defense (7.09 goals-allowed per contest).
Stony Brook achieved its first No. 1 national ranking in program history during 2018, finishing the year atop all three major lacrosse polls for 11-straight weeks heading into postseason action. The Seawolves have won six-straight America East championships under Joe Spallina, advancing to the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Tournament in both 2017 and 2018.
