Sports
Lacrosse wins 18-11 The North Central College women’s lacrosse team took the University of Puget Sound’s best shots at Benedetti-Wehrli Stadium Sunday evening, then pressed on and finished with a scoring surge that decked the Loggers, 18-11, and gave the Cardinals their second win of the season.
NORTH CENTRAL North Central (2-5) saw the Loggers trim a large early deficit to a single goal early in the second period, but closed the game by outscoring the visitors, 8-2, over the final 20 minutes to post its first win over Puget Sound in four attempts. The Cardinals made their bid to put the game out of reach early by scoring the first six goals. Puget Sound (1-10) bounced back and closed the gap to 7-5 after scoring four unanswered goals in a 10-minute stretch. North Central’s Danielle Fiala and Jacqui Morgan scored successive goals in the final two minutes, but the Loggers
responded with two goals in the final 31 seconds to leave the halftime score at 9-7 in the hosts’ favor. Caroline Gully scored the initial goal of the second half, but the Loggers scored twice to cut North Central’s lead to 10-9. The Cardinals began the decisive rally of the night with 20:02 to play as Mallory Bahr scored off a pass from Morgan. North Central then got successive goals from Morgan and Rachael Houp in an
18-second span to gain some breathing room. North Central held the Loggers scoreless for the final 12:02, capping off the game with another goal from Bahr and two scores from Fiala. Fiala scored a game-high five goals for the Cardinals, while Morgan tallied four goals and Gully finished with three. Shannon Prince collected five ground balls and caused five turnovers, while Alison Musur recorded four draw controls.
THE BUGLE APRIL 5, 2012
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