Women's Lacrosse Edged by American, 14-11

Bruce Tallies Career High Four Goals

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Washington D.C. – UMBC junior Grace Bruce scored a season-high four goals, but the visiting Retrievers dropped a 14-11 decision at American, in a non-conference contest on Saturday afternoon at Jacobs Complex.

Senior attacker Mary Ellis added three assists while junior midfielder Katana Nelson, junior attacker Alexis Abe and sophomore midfielder Lizzie Bateman all contributed a pair of goals. Junior midfielder Lauryn Warfield won a game-high 12 draws. Senior Isabella Fontana (save) and classmate Mikaela Staranko (4 saves) both allowed seven goals in net.

UMBC fell to 2-2 while American improved to 3-2.

HOW IT HAPPENED

American's Kellie Linehan opened the scoring with a goal just under three minutes into the contest.
UMBC, however, was able to knot it up less than a minute later as Bruce scored off an assist from Mary Ellis.
Several minutes later, Linehan retook the lead for American with her second goal coming on a man-up free position shot attempt.
UMBC, though, was once again able to tie the game up with a goal of its own three minutes later on a marker by Alexis Abe.
The Retrievers took the lead with 33 seconds remaining as Abe converted following a turnover. Ellis picked up another assist on the play.
American's Reagan Murdoch was able to bring the Eagles even with her first goal of the day just before the end of the frame.
UMBC grabbed an early 4-3 lead in the second period with a goal two-and-a-half minutes in. Katana Nelson ripped a shot into the upper right quadrant. That lead, though, was quickly erased as American's Maddy Spratt found the net for her first goal of the game with 9:11 remaining.
Murdoch scored her second goal of the day before Alyssa Apuzzo scored another goal 44 seconds later to stake the hosts to a 6-4 lead.
UMBC answered right back as they were able to time the game up in the next two minutes with a pair of scores from Bruce and Lizzie Bateman.
The Eagles' Jasmine Connor found the net with 2:25 remaining to retake the lead before UMBC was able to knot the score again, 7-7, on a tally by Kolby Weedon with less than a minute remaining in the half.
Spease scored the opening goal of the third quarter to give the Eagles an 8-7 lead with an assist from Spratt 4:45 into the half. From this point, American held the lead the remainder of the day. Spease followed up her first goal of the game with her second less than a minute later to make it 9-7.
Murdoch extended the lead to 10-7 with 5:18 remaining in the quarter.
Before the end of the quarter, UMBC was able to inch within striking distance with another tally by Bateman to make it 10-8.
Murdoch scored her fourth and fifth goals of the game to extend American's led to 12-8.
Bruce and Nelson scored back-to-back goals to bring UMBC within 13-10 but that was as close as they would get. Bruce tallied her final goal with 1:49 left to make it 14-11.