ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Though the Elizabethtown College women's lacrosse team led for much of Wednesday's non-conference game with Alvernia, it was the Golden Wolves that came out with the win after a big fourth quarter helped them get away from Etown and beat the Jays 18-13. Hannah Cressman had four goals and four assists for Elizabethtown in the loss.

Alvernia (6-2) was up 3-1 with 10 minutes left in the first when Elizabethtown (1-7) started a run of four unanswered to finish out the quarter. Cressman (2), Kate Ziegler, and Megan Gress recorded goals and the Blue Jays led 5-3 after one.

The scoring slowed down in the second as only three were scored between the two teams. Two of them came from Etown thanks to Ziegler's 28th of the year and Cressman's 15th, which gave her a first-half hat trick. The Jays took a 7-4 lead into halftime.

The Golden Wolves got a goal closer after outscoring Elizabethtown 4-3 in the third quarter and trailed 10-8 heading into the fourth.

Ziegler assisted on Cressman's fourth of the game in the early moments of the fourth that gave Etown a 11-9 lead, but from there, Alvernia began to pour it on offensively. They scored three times in a two and a half minute span to retake the lead for the first time since the first quarter as Natalie Frantz's second of the game put the Wolves up by a goal, 12-11.

A little over a minute later, Ziegler would earn her hat trick as Cressman found the graduate student for her third of the game to tie the score at 12-12 with 8:37 remaining.

Six straight from Alvernia helped pad their lead to six and Etown couldn't generate sustained offensive pressure as the Golden Wolves took the non-conference game to get their first-ever win against Etown, 18-13.

The Blue Jays travel to Scranton on Saturday for their Landmark Conference opener at 7 p.m.