Colgate Outguns Lehigh 19-16
from press release
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Colleen Bubnack
and Courtney Miller both tallied nine-point games to lead the
Colgate women's lacrosse team to a 19-16 shootout win over Lehigh
to open the 2011 Patriot League season.
Colgate (3-3, 1-0 PL) got nine points from Bubnack for the second
time this season with a career-high seven goals and two assists,
while Miller came through with five goals and four assists for her
career-high nine points. Katie Sullivan added four goals with three
coming in the first half. Monica White posted a pair of scores and
Alison Flood had a goal and an assist for two points. Goalie
Christina Roa earned her third win of the year with 13 saves, which
was a season-high.
Julie McBrien was the leader for the Mountain Hawks with five
goals and an assist for six points. Kelly Draper chipped in with
seven points on two goals and five helpers. They had seven
different scorers in the game and Alex Fitzpatrick took the loss
with five saves in net. Mary Leah DiNisco saw some time in net,
making two saves.
The Raiders got off to a good start with back-to-back goals from
Sullivan and Bubnack in the first 38 seconds of the game. The
Mountain Hawks fought back with a pair of goals to tie the score at
2-2. Lauren Murray scored 13 seconds after Bubnack made it 2-0,
then Draper score 1:30 later to tie the game.
White came back less than a minute later with 26:55 left in the
first half with her fourth goal in the last two games. Flood was
given an assist on the goal. The rookie combination started a huge
stretch for the Raiders that broke the game open halfway through
the first with five-straight goals, which made it a 7-2 advantage.
White had two of the five goals, while Bubnack and Sullivan both
scored their second goals of the day. Flood added to her point
total with her ninth goal of the season.
Lehigh (3-3, 0-1 PL) jumped back into the game with three-straight
of its own to cut the lead down to 7-5. McBrien scored
two-consecutive goals, while Megan Kelly netted the Mountain Hawks'
fifth goal on a free-position shot.
Miller stopped the Lehigh streak with a free-position goal for her
fourth point of the game and first goal coming with 9:43 left.
Sullivan tallied her third of the half with nine minutes left
before the midpoint and then Miller scored again with an unassisted
goal with 6:49 remaining to push the lead to 10-5. Lehigh made a
push at the end of the first half with McBrien and Alison Thomas
scoring to send the teams to the locker room with Colgate leading
10-7 after the first 30 minutes.
The teams played even throughout the second half as they each
scored nine goals. In the final 30 minutes, Bubnack and Miller
scored every goal except one, which came from Sullivan. Bubnack had
five of the nine herself.
Draper started the half by slicing the lead to 10-8 with her
second of the game just over a minute after coming out of the
locker room. Bubnack and Miller than scored back-to-back goals to
push the lead up to 12-8 with 25:29 left. Lauren Dykstra, who the
Raiders did a great job controlling, scored her lone goal of the
day 16 seconds later, followed by a goal from Thomas at the 23:06
mark to make it a two-goal game again at 12-10.
Colgate answered by scoring five of the next six goals to take its
biggest lead of the game at 17-11 with over 10 minutes left.
Bubnack had four of the five goals scored for Colgate and she
assisted on the other.
Lehigh, however, didn't go away as the Mountain Hawks fired back
with three-straight scores before Sullivan was able to stop the
surge with her second of the day with the assist to Katie Sheridan,
who tallied her first collegiate point. Kelly and Thomas made it
interesting at 18-16 with 2:19 left, but Miller sealed the deal to
give the Raiders a 19-16 win.
The Mountain Hawks had a 36-27 advantage in shots. Colgate
struggled in the clear department with just nine successful on 16
chances. Lehigh also won the draw control and ground ball
battles.
The Raiders will be back in action this coming Tuesday as they
travel south to nationally-ranked Florida for a 6:30 p.m.
start.
NOTES: The 19 goals scored against the Mountain Hawks was the
second-most in the series history for the Raiders … Colgate
scored 22 in 2008 … the Raiders have reached double-digits
for the 16th-straight game against the Mountain Hawks … last
three meetings have been decided by four goals or less …
Colgate is back up to averaging 16 goals a game, while also giving
up 16 … the 27 points scored was the second most by the
Raiders this season as they had 34 against Vermont … 35
combined goals were the most since 2008 when Colgate beat Marist
19-18 in the play-in game of the NCAA Tournament … White
pushed her goal total to seven and has five in the last two games
… all of her points have come on goals this season …
Flood has points in five of her first six games with the Raiders
and each game has been a two-point effort … Colgate scored
10 goals in the first half for the second time this season, the
previous came in the season opener against Stony Brook when the
Raiders scored 11.
