The women’s lacrosse team put their second win of the season on the board against Ursinus College in their last game. On Sat., March 14th, the Lady Cavs battled away at Collegeville to gain their victory of 8-7, improving their overall record to 2-4.
“The win was an awesome accomplishment for our team because it was a big out-of-conference win, and this is the first year in a really long time that we were able to beat them,” Allie Vallen, sophomore biology major, said. “Being beaten by them many times in the past, this win felt great because we were able to really show them how our Cabrini Women’s lacrosse team can play.”
The game was a struggle from the first draw when Ursinus took control and led for the first 10 minutes by five goals. The streak was ended and control was taken when Cabrini senior Melissa Scanzano scored the team’s first goal.
From there, other goals were scored by seniors Sarah Means, Lacie Doubet, Bree Thompson, sophomore Allie Vallen and freshman Jackie Neary.
By the halfway mark, Cabrini had narrowed the gap by 3 goals, the score now 2-5. The start of the second half brought the ladies back with 14:43 left to play; the Cavs had come back to tie it up with the Bears.
With about 10 minutes left in play, Means scored for Cabrini’s first lead, shortly followed by the final goal from Thompson, who leads the team in scoring with now 15 goals. Sophomore Megan Barlow recorded five saves as goalkeeper to assist in the Cab’s win.
The team lead the game in cause turnovers with 9, ground balls with 15 and shots on the net with 34.
“Starting off being down by five goals early in the first half motivated the team to come together and work hard,” Vallen said. “We tried not to get down on ourselves because we were down, and instead used that as fuel to make us work 10 times harder so that we could come out on top.”
Coach Jackie Neary expressed her enthusiasm for the win as well.
“The coaching staff and I reinforced to them that they could do this if they were willing to work really hard, and their hard work paid off,” Neary said. “The biggest challenge of this game came at the end when we were trying to take care of the ball and not turn it over. We need the team to play smart and they did.”
The women intend to continue to work hard in preparation for their next game.
“We will work on possession of the ball and our 8 meter shots,” Neary said.
“Between now and our next game,” Vallen said, “we will continue to work on the basics with shooting and defense so that when our next game comes we don’t have to fight our way back from a deficit, and instead we can dominate the entire game.”
The ladies will be returning to play a CSAC game at Gwynedd Mercy’s field on March 18th at 7 p.m. to play their first conference game of the season.
