Unfortunately, the women’s lacrosse team took a tough loss with a final score of 18-15 against the Colorado College Tigers at their season opener in Santa Barbra Ca.
Although the lady cavaliers were unable to pull out a win, their offense was well balanced and several players made contributions.
Senior midfielder, Lacie Doubet, led the team with six goals in the outing. Junior midfielder, Sarah Carzo, was able to match a career high with four goals. Senior Melissa Scanzano produced three goals and sophomore Jess Breuning added two. Senior Sarah Means added a pair of assists.
Scsnzano and her fellow senior Bree Thompson scooped four ground balls and forced two turnovers apiece. Sophomore goalkeeper Megan Barlow tallied five saves in her first ever career start.
Colorado College scored the first goal of the game at the 23:45 mark. Right after, Scanzano scored the Cavs first goal of the 2015 season. 23 seconds later, Means assisted Carzo in a goal to give the blue and white its only lead of the day.
The tigers regained their advantage with two goals. Doubet answered with her first goal of the day and evened the score 3-3 midway through the first half. This was the closest margin that the Cavaliers reached for the rest of the game.
Colorado scored four of the final five goals of the first half. Doubet’s
second goal of the game interrupted their run with five minutes left in the first. Cabrini trailed Colorado after 30 minutes of action, 7-4.
The lady cavs continued to trail early in the first 30 seconds of the second half, the deficit grew to 8-4. Carzo’s unassisted goal snapped a Tiger’s 3-0 run. Now trailing 10-5, Doubet completed a hat trick play with 24:42 left in the game.
Although both Carzo and Scanzano were able to score a tally a piece, the blue and white continued to fall behind 14-8 with just under 15 minutes left in the outing. Breuning, Carzo and Scanzano were able to help cut the deficit with 10:29 left to play.
In just nine seconds, the tigers lengthened their lead back to 16-11 with five goals. Doubet and Breuning proceeded to slice the Cavalier’s deficit to three goals with five minutes on the clock.
The tigers scored consecutive goals to push the lead back to five before Doubet tallied two more of her own in the last minute.
On the plus side, the cavs out shot Colorado 22-16 in the second half while also forcing 12 free position shots and 21 shots on the goal.
The blue and white will travel back to Radnor and try to bounce back from their first loss. The ladies will travel to play Haverford College on Wednesday. The game is set to start at 4 p.m.
