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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Freshman attack Jessica Norby scored six goals to lead Fort Lewis (7-7 overall) to a 16-10 win over Centre College (10-4) at Colorado College's Stewart Field today.
With the victory, Fort Lewis ended its season with a .500 record for the first time in its three-year women's lacrosse history.
The Skyhawks, who took nearly 14 minutes to get on the board in yesterday's 18-4 loss to Colorado College, struck quickly today. Abby Kvidera scored 1:23 into the game with Norby netting her first marker 34 seconds later to put FLC ahead 2-0 before the game was two minutes old.
The Colonels soon tied the game, though, as Sarah Mastey and Meg Hawthorne each sent shots past Genna Waugh in the next 1:48.
The teams traded goals for the next 6:18 before Jessica Adams scored with 19:57 left in the first frame to ignite a 5-0 FLC run. In the next 10:09, Norby scored two more goals while Kylie Smith and Toki Tajima-Prodnuk also beat CC netminder Lauren Esterle.
Each team scored three goals in the final 9:08 of the half, with Jenna Steele scoring the eventual game-winner with 1:34 left in the opening stanza. The tally was Steele's first and only goal of the 2011 campaign.
Esterle kept the Colonels in the game, making 10 of her 15 saves in the first 30 minutes as FLC carried a 12-7 lead into intermission.
The second stanza beared little resemblance to the first, with Fort Lewis outscoring Centre 4-3. A 3-0 run in a four-minute span midway through the period put the game out of reach, with Norby scoring twice and Ally Kvidera once.
The Kvidera twins combined for six total points (three goals and one assist for Ally, two goals for Abby), while Adams scored two markers.
Waugh made 11 saves and allowed eight goals in 42:47 of action to finish the season with a 7-6 overall record and a 12:24 goals against average. She has earned the victory in each of FLC's all-time wins. Shelby Wichkoski made six saves while allowing two scores in the final 17:13.
Norby shattered FLC scoring records in 2011, finishing the season with 71 total points, 43 goals and 28 assists.
The game marked the end of the collegiate careers of FLC's two seniors, Katharine Allen and Courtney Hancock.
