April 5, 2008
Box Score
BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- The Lehigh women's lacrosse team outscored Navy, 11-3, in the second half to overcome a five-goal halftime deficit and defeat the Mids, 15-12, in Patriot League action on Saturday afternoon. The loss drops Navy's overall record to 8-3 and its Patriot League record to 2-2. Lehigh improved to 7-5 and 3-1.
Navy remains winless on the road following the loss with an 0-3 record. The Mids are 8-0 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
The Mids dominated the statistics in the first half, outscoring Lehigh, 9-4, outshooting the Mountain Hawks, 16-12, and winning nine of 14 draw controls. After trading goals to start the game, Navy scored seven of the next eight goals, including two each by Erin Rawlick (So. / Forest Hill, Md.) and Meg Decker (Fr. / Catonsville, Md.) to grab an 8-2 lead with 14:24 to play in the first half.
Lehigh would climb to within 8-4 just three minutes later, but a Mary Ruttum (So. / Annapolis, Md.) goal with 3:07 to play closed out the first half and gave Navy a 9-4 halftime advantage.
Lehigh came out blazing in the second half and took control of the game in the first five minutes. The Mountain Hawks started the second half by scoring the half's first nine goals in the a 15-minute span to grab a 13-9 advantage. Freshman Lauren Dykstra scored three goals during the run and Sara MacIntyre tallied two to give Lehigh the four-goal cushion.
Decker stopped the bleeding with a free-position goal with 13:20 to play, but Inneke Carmola and Tess McGrath tallied goals at the 9:15 and 6:07 marks, respectively, to push the Lehigh lead to five at 15-10.
Amanda Towey (Sr. / Smithtown, N.Y.) and Ruttum scored goals in the last five minutes, but it was too little as Navy fell to the Mountain Hawks, 15-12.
In the second half only, Lehigh outshot Navy, 22-10, won 11-of-15 draw controls and picked up 16 ground balls to Navy's 10. In addition, Lehigh with 5-of-12 for the entire game on free-position shots, while Navy was just 1-of-3.
Rawlick led Navy with five points (2 g, 3 a) and now has 57 points (42 g, 15 a) on the season. Ruttum scored four goals, while Decker added three. Towey contributed four points (2 g, 2 a) and Katrina Nietsch (Fr. / New Canaan, Conn.) added two points (1 g, 1 a).
Natalie Blandon stopped 12 shots in the cage for the Mids.
Carmola scored six points (4 g, 2 a) for the Mountain Hawks, while Dykstra and MacIntyre netted three goals with one assist each. Kelsy Farris stopped nine shots in goal for Lehigh.
The Mids will be back in action on Wednesday (April 9), when they host Howard at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, beginning at 4:00 pm.
# GO NAVY #
