February 28, 2006

Boxscore

LAURINBURG, NC—Trailing by four goals with less than 14-minutes left in the game, the York College women’s lacrosse teams scored the final five goals to slip past host St. Andrews Presbyterian College, 10-9, on Tuesday.

The Lady Spartans (1-0) win their inaugural game while the Knights fell to 1-3 on the season.

Freshman Katie Wright (Waterloo, NY) started the scoring for SAPC, finding the back of the York goal 2:50 into the contest. Freshmen Megan Bell (Westminster, MD) and Carla Thomas (Ellicott City, MD) ripped the Lady Spartans first two goals of the season to leapfrog into the lead. Wright tied everything at two on a freshman Kelsey Binggeli (Newark, NY) assisted goal.

Binggeli answered go-ahead goals by Spartans’ Jaclyn Girsh (Mahopac, NY) and Bell with her first two tallies of the game to keep everything deadlocked at 4-4. Wright and Binggeli put the Knights back into the lead for the remainer of the first half with back-to-back goals. Lindsay Nixon (Westminster, MD) cut the York deficit to one with 3:45 left but Binggeli scored her fourth goal of the half on a free-position attempt with five seconds left to give St. Andrews a 7-5 lead at the intermission.

Freshman goalkeeper Eryn McCaffrey (Cicero, NY) made 10 of her 17 saves in the opening stanza while holding York scoreless on six free-position attempts to help SAPC to the two-goal halftime advantage.

St. Andrews looked to take control of the game with the first two scores in the second half. Wright scored her fourth goal in the 40th minute while freshman Jitase Hall (New York, NY) extended the Knights lead to 9-5 from a Binggeli pass in the 45th minute.

Junior Laurie Graf (Mt. Laurel, NJ) started the Lady Spartan comeback with 13:48 remaining with York’s only free-position goal. Nixon and Jaclyn VanLuit (New Freedom, PA) netted the next two goals within 2:08 of Graf’s tally trim the St. Andrews lead to 9-8. Girsch tied the game at nine apiece with her second goal of the game with 6:52 remaining.

Freshman Alexa Muraida (Austin, TX) looked ready to put the Knights back on top by grabbing a ground ball at midfield with less than three minutes to play and running in for a good looking shot. However, the rifled attempt found the left goal post and ricocheted back into play.

York took advantage of the good fortune by grabbing the ensuing ground ball and moving play into St. Andrews territory. Freshman Carla Thomas (Ellicott City, MD) finally found an open lane and scored the game-winner with 1:37 showing on the clock. The Lady Spartans, who won 13-of-21 draw controls, came up with the most important one and ran the clock down for the one-goal victory.

Freshman netminder Anne Feustle (Baltimore, MD) earned the win in goal for York with seven saves.

Binggeli had a game-high six points with four goals and two assists.

St. Andrews entertains CVAC rival Belmont Abbey on Friday at 2:00 p.m.

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