DURANGO, Colo. – April 19, 2015 –
Jam Vertner scored a career high four goals and her fourth career hat trick Sunday afternoon to lead the Fort Lewis College women's lacrosse team to a 20-2 win over Colorado State University-Pueblo Sunday afternoon at Ray Dennison Memorial Field.
Today's game marked the final conference game of the season. With the Skyhawks 4-2 RMAC record, Fort Lewis is the No. 3 seed in the RMAC Tournament, which will be hosted by Regis University May 2-3.
The Skyhawks defense held the ThunderWolves to four shots in each half.
Ally Guerrero started the game in goal to post her third win of the season after making one save.
Brie Walker closed out the game in the final 30 minutes between the posts, making two saves.
Joining Vertner in the hat trick club was
Ellie Carpenter, who scored two of her goals in the first half. Three of Vertner's four goals also came in the first half.
Fort Lewis netted the first nine goals of the game. Carpenter tallied the first goal of the game at 26:53, followed by
Sara McMahon's goal.
Nikki Fry added back-to-back goals within four minutes of each other before
Rebecca Miller scored a goal with a man down. Vertner added another man-down goal one minute later from a free position shot.
Lauren Appenzeller, Carpenter, and
Brooke Galle found the back of the net before CSU-Pueblo got on the scoreboard with 8:57 left in the first half. Vertner,
Megan Longtain, and Appenzeller combined for the final four goals of the first half to take a 13-1 lead into halftime.
In the second half,
Marisa Mills,
Becky Salamon and
Alyssa Montoya each scored their first goals of the game as part of the Skyhawks seven second half goals.
Vertner led both teams with six points (four goals, two assists). Fry, McMahon, Galley and Appenzeller each tallied two goals as six Skyhawks recorded multiple goals against CSU-Pueblo. McMahon led both teams with eight shots and Longtain and
Katlyne Duffey posted three ground balls each.
Fort Lewis totaled 33 shots to CSU-Pueblo's eight. Fort Lewis scooped up 21 ground balls and won 15 of 24 draw controls.
The Skyhawks will play their final regular season game at home on Friday, April 24 against Adams State University at 1 p.m.
