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BEVERLY, Mass. – In an early season battled between the top
teams in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) the Endicott Gulls
women’s lacrosse team battled to a 13-10 win over local rival
Gordon College.
The Gulls, while improving to 6-2 on the year and 3-0 in the CCC,
ended Gordon’s spotless season, as the Fighting Scots dropped
to 8-1 (2-1 CCC).
Endicott grabbed a 6-2 lead by the break but needed to regain the
lead and then hold off Gordon as the visitors tied the game at 7
less than halfway through the second half.
Callie Murphy (Woburn, Mass.) scored four times for the Gulls,
including what would prove to be the game-winner halfway through
the second half, which put Endicott in front, 11-8. Murphy was
instrumental in helping Endicott seal the game, picking up one of
her two assists later in the half when she found Rachel Campos
(Shrewsbury, Mass.) cutting in front of an open goal for an easy
score. Murphy added a free-position goal with 3:33 remaining to cap
the Endicott scoring for the day.
Jordan Alexander (Portland, Maine) scored her 31st and
32nd goals of the year for Gordon, the first of which
put the Fighting Scots in front 1-0 less than three minutes into
the game.
Morgan DeShaw (Danville, N.H.) got the Gulls on the board
with the first of her five goals on the afternoon, taking an assist
from Murphy with five minutes gone in the first. Holly Davis
(Guilford, Conn.) gave the Gulls a 2-1 advantage, but Anna
Blomberg’s (Simsbury, Conn.) 31st goal of the year
tied the game at two with just over ten minutes gone.
Blomberg and substitute Stephanie Fitzgerald (Groveland, Mass.)
led the Scots with three goals apiece, with Fitzgerald picking up
an assist to tally four points on the day.
The Gulls ended the first half on a 4-0 run, kicked off by a
DeShaw free position goal. DeShaw tallied again before the break,
as did Davis and Murphy.
Gordon quickly fought back out of halftime, scoring five of the
first six goals of the second half. Strikes by Blomberg and
Fitzgerald 14 seconds apart pulled the Endicott lead back to 6-4
and after a DeShaw goal, Blomberg and freshman Abby Illian
(Hillsdale, N.J.) tallied before Fitzgerald knotted the game at
7.
Endicott followed with goals by Murphy and DeShaw before Kelly
Tierney, who had three points in the game netted a free-position
goal to put Endicott back in front, 10-7.
Senior goalie Leah Neff (South Berwick, Maine) made four saves in
improving her record to 6-2 on the season, while sophomore
netminder Danielle Maguire (Braintree, Mass.) suffers her first
loss (8-1) despite making seven saves.
Endicott outshot Gordon by a slim 28-27 margin and had a 30-26
ground ball advantage, led by Murphy and Campos, who each had five
ground balls. Gordon’s Krysti Leach (Naples, Maine) led all
players with eight ground balls and Murphy was tops with four
caused turnovers.
Campos grabbed four draw controls for Endicott, with Davis
collecting three herself. Fitzgerald and senior Parisa Hassanzadeh
(Winchester, Mass.) led Gordon with tree apiece.
Endicott will take a break from their conference schedule next
Wednesday when they welcome the Tufts Jumbos to town for a 4:00 pm
match. Tufts is currently ranked \#12 in the country, according to
the latest IWLCA poll.
Gordon will play out of conference a day later when Wheaton
College comes to Wenham for a 7:00 pm showdown.
