Baltimore, Md. – Senior midfielder Katana Nelson scored a career-high six goals, including a pair of tallies that iced the game as the UMBC women's lacrosse team edged previously undefeated Furman, 13-11, Sunday afternoon at windy UMBC Stadium. The Retrievers improved to 7-1 on the season while the Paladins dropped to 5-1.

Nelson, who leads the Retrievers with 32 goals on the campaign, is now just four shy of hitting the century mark for her career.  Nelson added a team-high three caused turnovers and picked up a pair of ground balls.

Senior attacker Grace Bruce and freshman linemate Emily Knapp scored a pair of goals, while junior Lizzie Bateman dished two assists.

Graduate student goalie Isabella Fontana picked up four ground balls and made three saves, including a huge stop to turn the momentum in the fourth quarter.

The Retrievers led 8-5 at halftime, led by Nelson's four goals in the first thirty minutes of play.

UMBC held a 9-6 advantage after Bruce scored with 9:31 remaining in the third quarter, but the Paladins scored three straight times to even the score with 1:26 left in the stanza.  

The Dawgs reclaimed the lead, 10-9, after freshman attacker Annika Wray scored her first collegiate goal as she bounced in a shot with twenty-second left, but Lily Toole scored her fifth goal to beat the third quarter horn just 19 ticks later.

Still deadlocked at 10-10, Fontana came up with the game's biggest play when she made a point-blank save on Anna Roser (three goals) with 8:58 remaining. Just forty-eight seconds later, freshman midfielder Tess Curtis converted a free-position goal to give the hosts the lead for good.

Nelson found the back of the net just forty-seven seconds later after taking a feed from Bateman. She added a free-position tally to extend the lead to 13-10 with 4:30 left.

Roser scored with 2:32 left to cut the deficit to 13-11, but the Retriever defense held firm and the visitors could not get any closer.

UMBC will host Bryant on Friday evening to open America East Conference play.