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12
Marywood University MUWL 1-1
19
Winner Misericordia MIWL 2-2
Marywood University MUWL
1-1
12
Final
19
Misericordia MIWL
2-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Marywood University MUWL 9 3 12
Misericordia MIWL 10 9 19

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse |

Women's Lacrosse Suffers First Loss to Misericordia

Dallas Twp., Pa. – Marywood University let a one-goal deficit at halftime slip in a rainy 19-12 loss to Misericordia University on Thursday. Both the Pacers (1-1) and Cougars (2-2) evened their records.

Sam Bussinelli continued her ascent up the active career scoring leaders rankings with four goals and three assists for seven points.

Gwyneth Gleason finished with three goals and an assist for four points. Gina Babcock supplied two goals and an assist.

Defensively, Molly Yelencsics sported four caused turnovers, ground balls and draw controls. Sam Stein had three caused turnovers and four ground balls.

Caitlin Watson chipped in with six draw controls and four caused turnovers. Reserve goalkeeper Mary Leahy wound up with seven ground balls and four saves.

Misericordia was led by six goals by Olivia Garcia – all off of free-position attempts. Kaila Quinlivan tallied three ground and four assists.

The Cougars had 16 free-position shots to the Pacers' four. Marywood scored on all four FPS shots.

Misericordia outshot the Pacers by a 32-19 margin. The Cougars won the ground ball gave by a 27-25 rate.

Twenty-six seconds into regulation, Kate Raab put the Cougars ahead with an assist from Emily Connell. Gleason and Bussinelli connected to even the score at one apiece at the 26:12 mark. The Cougars proceeded to score three straight goals that set the tone for the Pacers' cat-and-mouse crusade for the remainder of the game.

Trailing 6-2, the Pacers kicked it into high gear to get into arm's length of the Cougars. Three goals in as many minutes was capped by a Watson FPS goal to trim the deficit to two with 13:31 left in the first.

Misericordia fought back to extend the lead back to four. Marywood put together a string of three unanswered goals in 75 seconds. Katrina Kelly scored on a FPS shot. Bussinelli added another to her total, and Erin Healy found the back of the net with 6:09 to make it a 9-8 contest.

Emily Connell made the best of another Cougars' FPS opportunity a minute later. Gleason followed with one her own at 4:19 left for the half's final tally.

Marywood's first nine shots on target went unstopped.

Misericordia scored the first five goals of the second half. The Pacers' showed a glimmer of hope with all three of their second half goals coming within a 68-second time frame. Babcok's second goal of the half made it a 15-12 contest. Misericordia had the final four goals of the game.

Marywood hits the road for the third time this year when it travels to Arcadia University on Saturday.
 
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