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Upset Bid Spoiled
April 14, 2010
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Lacrosse fans got bonus action on Wednesday afternoon as Lafayette took an 11-win Sacred Heart team to overtime before falling 15-14 in the final minute of the extra session. Despite the outcome, little could have overshadowed what was yet another spectacular performance from the reigning Patriot League Rookie of the Week, Addie Godfrey. Godfrey netted a career and game-high six goals on just eight shots. She was one of six Leopards with a multi-goal game while Jessica Rothstein chipped in three assists. Emily Bjork played all 70-plus minutes in goal and racked up 15 saves. The Leopards (3-12) had 31 shots in the game and held a 21-20 edge on ground balls, but Sacred Heart (11-4) forced Lafayette into 11 turnovers while committing only eight of its own. Lafayette did have a successful day at the eight-meter arc, connecting on 5-of-9 free position attempts. It took Lafayette less than a minute to net its first goal as Godfrey scored with 29:01 on the clock for an early 1-0 Lafayette advantage. Less than two minutes later, classmate Cammie Linville upped it to 2-0 on a free position shot before the Pioneers cut the lead in half on a Carissa Hauser goal with 25:21 left in the half. The Leopards quickly responded with four unanswered goals, the first on Godfrey's free position shot. More than midway through the half, Lauren Brown scored Lafayette's fourth goal and Linville's second score, off a Jessica Rothstein assist, put the squad ahead 5-1.
Maria Drehwing became the fourth different Leopard to score when she also connected on a free position shot with 8:27 on the clock. Sacred Heart snapped a nearly 18-minute scoring drought with back-to-back goals in a span of 60 seconds, cutting Lafayette's lead to three (6-3) with 6:43 left in the half. Brown put the Leopards back on the scoreboard with her second goal of the game at the 3:08 mark for a 7-3 score. Two unanswered Sacred Heart goals capped off the first-half scoring and cut what had been a five-goal Lafayette lead to two (7-5). The Pioneers kept that momentum coming out of halftime, scoring three straight goals in less than five minutes to take its first lead (8-7) of the afternoon. Godfrey tied it at eight with her team-leading 33rd goal of the season with 25:30 still left to play. From there the teams traded goals. Godfrey kept it a tie game (11-11) with 16:52 remaining and Drehwing's score at 15:59 put the Leopards back ahead by one (12-11). Sacred Heart led 14-12, but Godfrey netted her fifth and sixth goals of the game to make it 14-13 in favor of Lafayette with less than four minutes remaining. The Leopards could not hang on for the lead as Cori Horelik tied it at 14 at the two-minute mark and the game was sent into overtime. In a change of pace from the first 60 minutes, both teams actually struggled to find the back of the net and it remained 14-14 after the first three minutes overtime. With 1:02 remaining in the second three-minute overtime period, Kaitlin Rochler scored the game winner off an assist from Jackie Pierce to hand Sacred Heart the 15-14 win. The Leopards close out Patriot League play this weekend with a 1 p.m. game at Holy Cross. |
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