Megan Gress vs Drew 040222
Emma Mesko
15
Winner Drew DREW 7-3, 1-1 LC
14
Elizabethtown ETOWN 1-9, 0-2 LC
Winner
Drew DREW
7-3, 1-1 LC
15
Final
14
Elizabethtown ETOWN
1-9, 0-2 LC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Drew DREW 5 1 1 8 15
Elizabethtown ETOWN 2 6 3 3 14

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse |

Drew stuns women's lacrosse with last-second goal

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Drew scored with two seconds left in Saturday's Landmark Conference matchup with the Elizabethtown College women's lacrosse team to stun the Blue Jays at Wolf Field and take the game, 15-14. Hannah Cressman had a career-high 10 points in the game and recorded her 100th career point in the fourth quarter. Kate Ziegler had a game-high five goals for Etown.

The Ziegler-Cressman connection was back at it early in the game as the graduate student gave Elizabethtown (1-9, 0-2 Landmark) a 1-0 lead 1:43 into the game. The Blue Jays held on to that lead for nearly eight minutes until Drew (7-3, 1-1 Landmark) tied it with the first of Meliha Emini's four goals on the day.

The Rangers would score five of the first quarter's final six goals and led 5-2 after one. Ziegler had both goals for Etown in the quarter with both assists from Cressman.

Momentum shifted in the Jays' favor in the second quarter as Cressman flipped the script and was on the scoring end of the first two goals of the second. Megan Gress delivered one of her four assists to Cressman, her second in less than a minute's time, to make it 5-4. Alexis Patterson's eighth of the season and first of the game tied things at 5-5 with 9:14 left before halftime.

Drew took the lead back at 6-5, but not for long as Sam Deiaco got in on the scoring action for her fourth of the year. Ziegler's 36th of the season and Gress' sixth were the final two goals of the first half and Elizabethtown came back to lead 8-6 at the break.

Rachel Murphy and Alayna Trynosky alternated the second and third quarters, as they have done much of the season, and the defense held firm against the Rangers. Etown only allowed one goal in each of the middle quarters of the contest.

Ziegler, Cressman, and Gress all recorded goals for the Blue Jays in the third quarter. Emini got Drew's only third-quarter goal with just over three minutes to go. EC led 11-7 after three.

Gress found Cressman for her 22nd of the year 1:30 into the fourth as the lead grew to five, but from there, the Rangers snatched momentum back and used it to fuel a furious comeback over the final 12 minutes. The next five goals went to the visitors as Jenna Draney's second tally in less than a minute's time knotted the game up at 12-12 with 5:18 left in regulation.

Patterson's second of the game put Elizabethtown back in front, but only for a short while. Drew answered in 24 seconds and then took the lead 34 seconds after that, 14-13.

After an Etown timeout with 1:01 left, the Blue Jays cashed in on the attack as Cressman got the ball to Ziegler, who did the rest, and with 20 seconds showing, the game was tied once more. The goal was Ziegler's fifth of the day and Cressman's sixth assist to tie for the seventh-most in a single game. It was also her 100th career point.

The Rangers proved that 20 seconds was plenty of time as they captured the draw control, and with a couple passes, were able to get it down low to Emma DiPatri. She was able to beat the clock with the game-winning goal with two seconds left to lift Drew to the Landmark victory.

Elizabethtown will host Catholic on Saturday, April 9, at 1 p.m.
 
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