Pictured Above: Senior Lauren Ednie (photo by Mitchell Layton)
Photo Gallery (by Mitchell Layton)
Towson, MD – Northeast Conference (NEC) champion Wagner saw its historic season come to a close on Friday with a 16-6 loss at seventh-seeded Towson of the powerful Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) at Unitas Stadium in the first round of the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship on Friday.
The Seahawks advanced to today's game following a
13-9 home win over Southern Conference champion Mercer on Wednesday in an NCAA preliminary round.
With the loss, the Seahawks, who also claimed the 2016 NEC title, while reaching the championship game in each of head coach
Katie Rowan's three years, conclude the season with a 14-5 record. With the win, the Tigers improve to 16-4 and will now host the winner of the Northwestern-Richmond game in the second round on Sunday.
Towson jumped out to an early 4-0 lead before second-team All-NEC senior attack
Heidi Colford put the Seahawks on the board with a blast from 10 yards out off an an assist from fellow NEC second-teamer, and league rookie of the year,
Ally Alliegro.
The Tigers then closed the half on a 5-0 run to take a 9-1 lead into the locker at halftime and then rattled off the first three scores of the second half in building a 12-1 lead.
Wagner responded with a 3-0 run over a span of less than four minutes to make it a 12-4 game with 18:22 left. Senior
Lauren Ednie, the NEC Midfielder of the Year, started the run by sinking a free position goal at 22:07, her first of a team-high three tallies on the day.
At the 19:04 mark, Alliegro rocketed in a free position goal of her own before unior attack
Marjorie Dehm completed the 3-0 burst with a goal at 18:22 off an Alliegro feed, which made it 12-4.
Towson ended the game on a 4-2 run, with both Wagner goals coming from Ednie, in fashioning the final score at 16-6.
Alliegro (1g, 2a) and Ednie (3g) tied for team-high scoring honors with three points apiece while Colford and Dehm finished with one goal each.
Senior goalie
Lucy Darlington, the started in all 19 games for the Seahawks this season, allowed six goals, while making three saves in the game's opening 11:55 before classmate
Kelsey Fee came on to play the rest of the game in net. In 48:05 of play, Fee came up with seven saves, while allowing 10 scores.
Towson's Kaitlyn Montalbano led all scorers with four goals, Emily Gillingham had three , including the game's first two scores, while Kaitlin Thornton and Abbe Mona added two goals each.
NOTES: The 14 wins recorded by the Green & White are a single-season program record. The 40 wins amassed by the six-member senior class of 2018 (Colford, Fee, Darlington, Ednie,
Carolyn Marron, and
April Simmons) helped Wagner to 40 wins, the most by any senior class in program history.
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