Philadelphia, Pa. – Senior attacker
Claire Bockstie scored with just over two minutes left in overtime to give the UMBC women's lacrosse team a thrilling, 11-10, victory against the Temple Owls on Saturday afternoon.
Bockstie, who moved into a tie for fifth place (Ali Levendusky '08) on UMBC's all-time goals list with 139, took a feed in front of the goal from junior attacker
Mary Ellis (2 assists) and beat Owls' keeper Taylor Grollman with a shot to the upper left-corner of the net. The play came just seconds after a yellow card was assessed to the Owls for unnecessary roughness.
Bockstie, who also distributed a career-high five assists, recorded seven points to move into ninth place on the Retrievers' all-time scoring list with 178 points.
UMBC (5-2) received four goals and an assist from sophomore attacker
Kolby Weedon while graduate student attacker
Lauren Cremen added three goals and an assist. Junior goalkeeper
Isabella Fontana made eight saves in goal.
Amelia Wright led Temple (5-3) with three goals.
UMBC's defense came up big as the unit allowed just two goals after halftime. In addition, the Retrievers held Temple's top two-scorers without a single goal.
How It Happened (First Half)
-UMBC jumped out to a 2-0 advantage at the 12:34 mark of the opening quarter on goals by Bockstie and Cremen.
-The hosts answered with three consecutive tallies (three different goal scorers) to claim their first lead of the day, 3-2, with 11:28 left in the first quarter.
-Weedon got the equalizer on an assist from Bockstie with 6:02 left but Temple went on another 3-0 spurt to grab a 6-3 lead with 2:53 left in the first.
- Weedon (goal) and Bockstie (assist) struck again at the 11:48 mark of the second quarter to bring UMBC within 6-4 but Julie Schickling responded for the Owls to make it 7-4.
- Weedon found Cremen for her second tally to make it 7-5 with 4:42 left in the second but Amelia Wright scored the final goal of the half to give the Owls an 8-5 lead at intermission.
How It Happened (2nd Half)
-Cremen opened the scoring just 1:03 into the third as she took a feed from Bockstie to record the hat-trick.
-Camryn Zavacky got the goal back for the hosts to restore a three-goal advantage at 9-6 with 9:10 remaining in the third.
- UMBC went on a 4-0 run to grab a 10-9 lead early in the fourth. Weedon took a feed from Cremen to ignite the burst with 6:57 left in the third quarter.
-Sophomore midfielder
Ria Lagdameo closed out the third quarter with an unassisted tally, her second of the season, just nine seconds before the horn.
- Weedon evened the contest at 9-9 off an assist by Bockstie at the 13:32 mark of the final quarter and the Retrievers went ahead just thirty-four ticks later as freshman midfielder
Lauryn Warfield scored her first career goal off another helper from Bockstie.
-The hosts forced overtime with just 1:47 left in regulation as Wright scored her third goal of the afternoon.
Notes
- Bockstie now has 23 goals and 13 assists for 36 points on the season.
- This was UMBC's first-ever win at Temple
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Megan Halczuk recorded a game-high eight draw controls to up her career total to 281.
- Shots were even at 24-24
- Weedon (57 career goals) has recorded back-to-back hat-tricks and now has 11 for her career.
Up Next
UMBC will host La Salle on Tuesday at 4pm.
