Addie Stang vs. Eastern 3/26/15
14
Winner Eastern EU 3-6
13
Elizabethtown ETWN-W 3-5
Winner
Eastern EU
3-6
14
Final
13
Elizabethtown ETWN-W
3-5
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 OT F
Eastern EU 7 5 2 14
Elizabethtown ETWN-W 8 4 1 13

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse |

Eastern outlasts women's lacrosse in overtime

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — It took overtime to decide a winner Thursday afternoon between the Elizabethtown College women's lacrosse team and non-conference opponent Eastern. The Eagles overcame a second-half deficit to force the overtime period where they outscored the Blue Jays 2-1 and came away with a 14-13 victory. Addie Stang had a team-high five goals for E-town.

In a back-and-forth game the entire 66 minutes of play, from the start it was going to come down to whichever team could score the final goal.

Eastern (3-6) was on the board first when the team's top two point-scorers connected on the opening goal off the stick of Julie Haggan. Anna Charlebois provided the assist.

A little over a minute later, Molly Hurley took a pass from Cierra Eckenrode and scored her fifth of the season for Elizabethtown (3-5) to tie it 1-1. The teams traded off the next six goals of the game before the Blue Jays were the first to get two in a row.

After Stang assisted on Mary Nell Donahue's tenth of the season with 19:49 left in the first half, Stang scored unassisted at 17:21, her 25th of the year, to give E-town its first lead at 5-4.

Katie Thompson found Carly Thompson to make it three straight E-town and Stang recorded her second of the half with a little over ten minutes remaining to give the Jays a three-goal cushion.

The Eagles finished out the half by scoring three of the final four goals to go into the break down a goal, 8-7.

It only took Stang 25 seconds to get goal No. 27, scoring unassisted to give Elizabethtown a 9-7 lead. Once again, the team's traded off goals over the next 18 minutes. The Blue Jays' lead was back down to one with 11:14 left, 11-10, when Stephanie Hogan scored her second of the game.

Down a goal with less than a minute to go, the Jays were looking for an equalizer and potentially more. A foul gave Eckenrode a free position attempt with 42 seconds left and she cashed in, tying the game at 12-12. Michelle Fuller stopped Hogan's shot with a second on the clock to force overtime.

Eastern built a two-goal lead in the first three minutes of the OT session on goals from Megan Petza and Haggan.

Eckenrode had a chance to bring E-town within a goal, down 14-12, with 1:23 left in overtime, but Alina Odjemski made the save.

Fuller made big save with 21 seconds on the clock and Elizabethtown successfully cleared and got a goal back when Kirstin Quilty recorded her third of the season, Hurley grabbing the assist. The goal, however, came with only seven seconds showing and the Jays couldn't generate anything off the final draw control.

Stang led the Jays with five goals and has now set a new career single-season scoring total with 29 goals. Katie Thompson had a team-high three assists. Carly Thompson and Eckenrode each had two goals, while Quilty, Hurley, and Dana Robidoux were E-town's other goal scorers. Fuller made seven saves in the game.

The women's lacrosse team will host Merchant Marine on Saturday, March 28 at 1 p.m. in its first home Landmark Conference contest of the season.
 
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