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19
Winner Westminster College GRIFFI~1 4-7, 4-4 RMAC
18
Fort Lewis College FLC 4-9, 4-5 RMAC
Winner
Westminster College GRIFFI~1
4-7, 4-4 RMAC
19
Final
18
Fort Lewis College FLC
4-9, 4-5 RMAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Westminster College GRIFFI~1 4 6 5 4 19
Fort Lewis College FLC 3 5 6 4 18

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse | | Angela Roberts, Assistant AD - Communications

Syhawks Drop Back and Forth Affair to Griffins at Home

DURANGO, Colo. – A one-goal edge for Westminster College at the end of the first quarter was the difference in a narrow 19-18 loss for the Fort Lewis College women's lacrosse team on Saturday. Fort Lewis falls to 4-9 overall and 4-5 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference while Westminster improves to 4-7, 4-4 RMAC.

The Skyhawks were +10 in shots and held a 30-27 advantage in shots on goal for the contest. Fort Lewis had 22 ground balls and earned 21-of-40 draw controls. Each team had nine free-position shots.

Caprietta Abbadessa and Haley Dostie were lights out offensively, tallying four goals apiece. Dostie added two assists to match Mikki Brown in that category. Liv Crawford picked up a hat trick with three goals on three shots on goal, and Maren Clark rounded out double-digit scorers with two goals on the day.

Rebecca Kiyokawa and Autumn Rymerson led the team with four ground balls each while Rymerson led the Skyhawks with six draw controls. Clark wasn't far behind with four draw controls. Averi Basso went the distance in goal, earning nine saves which include a handful of clutch denials down the stretch.

Abbadessa got the Skyhawks ahead with under one minute gone in the opening quarter, scoring on a feed from Dostie for a 1-0 advantage. Westminster got one back, but the Skyhawks earned back-to-back goals to see a 3-1 lead with 7:15 to go. The Griffins rallied for two goals to knot the score, forcing a Fort Lewis timeout, but the visitors added to the onslaught with the final goal of the quarter to lead 4-3.

The Griffins added another goal to open the second quarter, but a draw control win from Abbadessa set up Crawford for the transition goal to cut the deficit to one. Dostie tied it at 5-5 with a free position goal, and Kiyokawa earned her team the 6-5 lead moments later with her fourth goal of the season. Westminster went on to rattle off four unanswered goals to surge ahead 9-6 before a Crawford goal slowed the momentum with 4:23 to go. The Skyhawks pulled within one just 30 seconds later when Kiyokawa found an open Dostie for the score. The Griffins ended the quarter on a positive note, netting a goal from the top of the circle for a 10-8 lead at half.

The teams traded points to open the second half of play, finding goals from Phoebe Ramirez and Clark to move the score to 12-10. The Griffins added another just 10:47 on the clock, but a clutch groundball pickup from Kiyokawa moved play down the field, resulting in an Abbadessa goal to make it 13-11. Westminster went ahead by as many as four goals, but the Skyhawks were never out of the game. The team benefitted from a pair of clutch draw control wins down the stretch to score three goals, making it a 15-14 game with one quarter remaining.

Clark continued her impressive outing, tying the game at 15-15 just 30 seconds into the fourth quarter on a free position shot. Defense ruled the next six minutes of play with the Skyhawks playing woman down due to a yellow card. The opposing goalkeeper held her own for a period of time, but the persistent pressure eventually led to the go-ahead goal from Abbadessa with 9:30 to go. Westminster scored a pair in quick succession to go ahead 17-16, but Dostie tied it again with a goal assisted by Ramirez.

Westminster built the lead back to a 19-17 margin with under three minutes to play, but a huge save from Basso kept the game within reach for the blue and gold. Fort Lewis found the goal it needed with 1:21 to go, pulling within one off a Crawford goal to set up a key draw control. The Griffins won what would go down at the final draw control of the game, running the clock out on a narrow 19-18 win.

Fort Lewis (4-9, 4-5 RMAC) is on the road next week, starting the trip with a conference game versus No. 5 Regis University on Friday for a 7:00 p.m. start in Denver.
 
 
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