By Pat Delp Staff writer
The Susquehanna women’s lacrosse team fell to nationally ranked conference opponent Catholic by the score of 22-10 while on the road April 8 in Washington, D.C.
Senior attacker Ashley Rose Lynn led the River Hawks offensively with three goals. However, the Cardinals scored 11 of the first 12 goals of the game to get out to a commanding lead that Susquehanna could not recover from.
Ranked No. 11 in the latest IWLCA National Poll, Catholic came out firing and scored the first goal of the game just over one minute into the game.
Lynn and the River Hawks responded just 23 seconds later with an unassisted goal to knot the game at one apiece.
The Cardinals went on a 10-0 run over the course of the next 10 minutes before Lynn ended the run at the 16:13 mark to make the score 12-2 in favor of the Cardinals.
The two teams both scored goals before the end of the half to make the score 15-5.
Goal scorers for Susquehanna included freshman attacker Christine Hoerman, senior attacker Liv Cohn and junior attacker Caroline Rabiecki respectively.
The River Hawks came out firing in the second half with goals from senior midfielder Shannon Kinney and Rabiecki. Catholic responded with four straight goals and five of the next six goals to build a 20-8 lead.
Freshman attacker Stephanie Dowling added a goal of her own and Lynn completed the hat trick in the game with the final goal of the game with 9:52 remaining.
Defensively, Kinney had a strong performance totaling eight ground balls along with four caused turnovers for the River Hawks.
Freshman Emily Digaetano got the start in goal for Susquehanna while freshman Libby Dex came in for the second half and the two combined for 10 saves.
Catholic won the game largely due to dominating the time of possession.
Out of 24 draw controls, Catholic possessed 22 of them. Even when the Cardinals didn’t have the ball, they continued their dominance.
The Cardinals’ defense forced Susquehanna into 25 turnovers, while only committing 13 of their own.
When asked about the team’s performance, Cohn said, “I think we kept our composure throughout the course of the game, using each other’s strengths to our advantage in order to keep a positive attitude on and off of the field.
“Everyone worked hard and there’s no doubt that it will continue going into our next game against Goucher,” Cohn said.
The River Hawks will look to that hard work and positive attitude as they try and bounce back against conference rival Goucher.
The game takes place on Susquehanna’s home turf on Saturday, April 15 at 1 p.m. The next game will be against Scranton on April 22.
