Hogan's Six Scores Push No. 2 Women's Lacrosse Past No. 5 Lock Haven, 18-13
Box Score
BROOKVILLE, N.Y. (April 19, 2009) - Katie Hogan (Farmingdale, N.Y.) scored a career-high six goals and the Pioneer found their “A” game in the second half as the second-ranked women's lacrosse team defeated the fifth-ranked Lady Eagles of Lock Haven, 18-13, in non-conference action on Hickox Field on Sunday afternoon.
The Pioneers improve to 12-1 while Lock Haven slips to 13-3.
The Lady Eagles drew first blood as Clare Gaeng scored off a feed from Kayleigh Johnson at 28:02 for a 1-0 lead. But C.W. Post answered back with two goals, one by Hogan from
Staci Passafiume (Port Jefferson, N.Y.) at 22:28 and one by Passafiume from
Jaclyn Napoli (West Islip, N.Y.) at 19:48 to take a 2-1 lead.
But Lock Haven answered right back with the equalizer as Johnson fired home an unassisted tally at 15:21 to make the score 2-2.
Brianne Jackolski (Shirley, N.Y.) gave the Pioneers a 3-2 lead with a free position shot at 14:19, but again saw the Lady Eagles answer back with Elyse Fisher scoring off a Jamie Uzialko pass at 13:07 for a 3-3 tie.
The teams traded goals again as Passafiume scored at 12:56 and Fisher tied it again at 7:10, and Hogan gave the Pioneers a 5-4 advantage at 4:24 only to see Lock Haven answer back yet again with Leigh Titus' unassisted tally.
However, the Pioneers were finally able to string two goal together as
Samantha Lyons(Farmingdale, N.Y.) and Passafiume each added goals with under one and a half minutes to play, making the score 7-5, and although Titus struck again for an unassisted score with 17 seconds to play in the first, the Pioneers were able to take a 7-6 lead into the halftime break.
The Pioneers picked up right where they left off coming out of the break as Lyons (26:25), Napoli (24:05) and Jackolski (23:46) scored consecutive goals to push the lead to 10-6.
But Lock Haven was not finished threatening as they too scored back-to-back goals to draw to 10-8. But the Pioneers responded with a
Nan Mayott (Islip, N.Y.) at 16:50 and another Hogan tally at 14:46 to push the lead back to four, 12-8.
Lock Haven again struck two goals together by Kate Smyth and Fisher, but the Pioneers answered with three straight goals of their own, all by Hogan, and at 5:53 remaining to play, had a 15-10 lead.
The teams would trade goals over the last five minutes of play but the Pioneer lead proved insurmountable for the Lady Eagles as Napoli, Lyons and Mayott added tallies to ice the win.
Sam Powers (Holbrook, N.Y.) made six saves to preserve the victory and move to 12-1 on the season, while Lock Haven's Heather Sacko tallied nine stops between the pipes.
In addidtion to Hogan's six goals, the senior also caused four turnovers and picked up three ground balls. Lyons scored three goals and added three helpers, Passafiume notched a hat trick and added one assist, and Napoli scored two goals and had three assists. Mayott added two goals and two assists, and Jackolski scored two goals.
Johnson scored four goals for the Lady Eagles, who also got hat tricks from Titus and Fisher.
C.W. Post will take on Molloy on Wednesday, April 22 at 6 p.m. in Rockville Centre.