Five minutes in, Nick scored the first two goals of the contest 21 seconds apart. Within the next minute, McMahon and Baiocco made it 4-0.

Senior goalkeeper Allie DaCar was solid, with seven saves and five goals allowed for a .583 save percentage. Freshman Trudie Grattan also made a pair of saves in 17:40 of action.

McMahon recorded a game-high eight draw controls and team-high three ground balls and added a goal. Senior Maggie Nick pitched in with three goals and three ground balls while freshman Ali Baiocco scored twice with three assists.

Stanford (8-3, 5-1 Pac-12) scored the game's first eight goals and led 14-5 at the break. The lead was double digits for most of the second half as the Cardinal won its fifth straight and eight of nine overall.

Senior Kelsey Murray scored four times and sophomore Daniella McMahon did a little of everything to fill up the box score and lead No. 16 Stanford past Arizona State, 20-8, in a Pac-12 Conference lacrosse match Friday night at Sun Devil Stadium.

The Cardinal takes on No. 15 USC (7-4, 5-1 Pac-12) in Los Angeles on Sunday at 2 p.m. in a Top 25 rematch on Pac-12 Networks.

Buness added two ground balls to go with her two goals. Stanford led 19-14 in ground balls, 17-13 in draw controls and out shot the Sun Devils, 41-21, en route to reaching the 20-goal plateau for the third time this season.

Buness scored 1:13 into the second half to start a running clock that continued for the remainder of the game. Freshman Galen Lew scored twice, Murray added her final goal, and sophomore Mikaela Watson and freshman Emma Knaus also got in the scoring column in the final half.

Arizona State (6-7, 1-5 Pac-12) scored the next three, but Nick notched her hat trick to end that streak. Sophomore Areta Buness, Schoen and Murray made it 12-4 with 7:24 left in the half, and Taylor Scornavacco and Julia Persche added the final two of the half.

Murray and Baiocco sandwiched three goals between a score from senior Dillon Schoen for an 8-0 advantage at the 15:50 mark.

The Cardinal led 1-0 after claiming the doubles point, winning at the lower two spots of the lineup.

Stanford (10-3, 4-0 Pac-12) collected its third win over a ranked opponent while continuing its recent hot stretch, which has included four shutouts over the last five matches.

Sophomore Hannah Howell, who had two hits, recorded Stanford's first hit when she drove a ball through the left side in the fourth. Howell also had the play of the day defensively with an outstretched catch in the sixth.

Junior Carolyn Lee worked two quick innings to start and retired the first two batters on two pitches in the third. However, Washington (34-2, 6-2 Pac-12) worked a walk and put together four straight hits to plate four.

For the second straight night, Stanford surrendered a big inning and fell too far behind to catch No. 1 Washington. The Huskies clinched the series with a 10-0 win on Friday at Smith Family Stadium.

That was as far as the two standouts would battle, however. The match was abandoned as the Bruins picked up wins at No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5 to clinch the team victory.

Fawcett, the nation's No. 10 ranked collegiate player, and UCLA's Martin Redlicki, the top player in the ITA rankings, staged a battle at No. 1 singles. Fawcett captured the first set in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (4). The two were locked in a tight second set as well, with Redlicki holding a 4-3 advantage.

In Friday's battle with the Bruins, the Cardinal surrendered the doubles point for only the third time all season.

Friday's loss snapped a seven-match winning streak, though Stanford's 15-2 record still matches its best start in 16 seasons. The 2002 Cardinal squad also began the year 15-1, before dropping its 17th match. Both of Stanford's losses have come to top-four teams in the No. 4 Bruins and No. 1 Wake Forest.

The Bruins (18-2) are tied with USC at the top of the Pac-12 standings at 3-0. The Cardinal (15-2) is alone in third place with a 2-1 conference record and has a date with the Trojans on Saturday at Marks Stadium at 1 p.m.

The match evened the series between the two teams. Stanford defeated UCLA, 4-3, during the Dick Gould Stanford/SoCal Challenge at Taube Tennis Stadium in February.

No. 4 UCLA topped No. 3 Stanford, 4-0, a top-four showdown Friday at the Los Angeles Tennis Center. The Bruins handed the Cardinal its second defeat of the season.

Otherwise, Arizona State (10-5, 2-2 Pac-12) was in a great position to extend the match, having already taken the first sets on the remaining three courts.

Michaela Gordon and Emma Higuchi followed with convincing victories at the Nos. 1 and 6 spots, respectively, putting Stanford on the brink of clinching at 3-0.

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