Hanover College tops Women's Lacrosse with big Second Half Sunday
HANOVER, Ind. – The University of Dallas women's lacrosse team (2-3) fell 12-5 at Hanover College (1-2) on Sunday afternoon. After battling to a 4-4 score at intermission, the Panthers would surge on with an 8-1 scoring swing to secure the victory.
Hanover had the early momentum with the first three goals coming in less than eight minutes out of the opening draw control. Cassie Hendrickson got the first scoring play on either side with 27:46 left in the half. Mallory Fogus would got back-to-back on goals within two to two and half minutes of each result.
Saturday's hero for the Lady Crusaders, Sarah Schmitz (Huntington, N.Y.) got her squad on the board with a goal a little past the midway point of the stanza. Schmitz had scored three of UD's last four goals dating into the previous match. She has six overall on the season.
With just over five minutes left in the first, Dallas shifted the momentum by tallying three goals in a span of about two minutes. Starting the trio was senior Colby Madrigal (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) with her 10th of the campaign. Adding goals for the Navy and White were junior Gwen Mohler (San Francisco, Calif.) with her second and freshman Lexi Leite (Houston, Texas) with her seventh.
Leite's goal lifted the Lady Crusaders to their one advantage of the match (4-3) with 3:04 minutes left in the half. However, the home squad got a game-tying netter from Rachel Davis in the closing seconds to knot things 4-all at the break.
That sparked an 8-0 run for the Panthers, including seven unanswered in the second half. Four quick goals happened in nearly a four minute stretch to double the margin. Neither team scored for over 15 minutes. Senior Hayley Rodgers (Houston, Texas) ended the UD scoring drought with her seventh on the year with 2:10 on the clock.
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
- Madrigal attempted a career-high 11 shots and put seven on cage. She tied a team-high in groundballs and led in draw controls (5) and caused turnovers (3).
- Rodgers won the other two draw controls and contributed five shots with three on target.
- The Lady Crusaders were outshot 27-20, but did pick up 28 groundballs compared to 22 by HC. Hanover won nine of its 11 draw controls in the second half, while UD won six of seven in the first.
- A quartet of players for Dallas collected four groundballs. Besides Madrigal, freshmen Kyla Mangham (Oklahoma City, Okla.) and Erika Keever (Fort Worth, Texas), and Rodgers completed the unit.
- Mangham nabbed seven saves in the setback.
- For Hanover, a trio of players claimed hat tricks and combined for 10 goals. Davis paced the group with four, while Fogus and Hendrickson each had three. Davis took 10 shots and placed seven on cage, while Hendrickson took seven shots and hit the cage four times.
- Fogus was perfect scoring on all her shots and she dished a pair of assists to garner a game-high, five points. Abby Shroyer picked up five groundballs.
- Amanda Mousa earned the win with 60 minutes of play between the pipes. She had nine saves against 14 shots faced.
UP NEXT
Dallas is at Franklin College on Tuesday to complete a three-game road trip. Start time is at 4 p.m. EST.