LAKEWOOD, NJ - In a battle of the two top teams in the CACC, Georgian Court Women's Lacrosse came up a little bit short against unbeaten Dominican. The Chargers pulled ahead in the fourth quarter of a close game for a 20-14 win. Georgian Court falls to 9-6 on the season and 5-2 in the CACC.
How it Happened
• Draw controls played a big factor in this one. Dominican doubled up the Lions 24-12. GCU was also called for a number of false starts to give possession to the Chargers.
• Each team had a problem with turnovers. GCU lost the 17 times and Dominican 16.
• Part of those Charger turnovers were on clear attempts where they were 15-20. GCU was 15-17 getting across the timeline.
• The Lions were money on free-position attempts. That kept them in the game for a while as they were 8-10. Dominican cashed in on 4-7 attempts.
• Shots favored Dominican 39-24. They also led in shots on goal 31-20.
First Period
• Georgian Court started the scoring getting two goals in the first 3:02.
Riley O'Connor and
Kasha Elzinga the goal-scorers for GCU.
• After Dominican got on the board, GCU went right back up by two just 36 seconds later as
Isabel Raimondi scored on the free position shot.
• The Chargers finished the first with a pair of goals to get even at three. They held the Lions off the board the final 8:24 of the quarter.
Second Period
• Dominican took their first lead 30 seconds in.
• The Lions got the goal right back on another free-position goal, this one from
Caitlin Petrellese.
• The Chargers answered and went up by two with two more goals and never trailed the rest of the way.
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Bryleigh Tejchman scored the next two goals for the Lions.
• In the final 2:18 there were three goals scored. Two from Dominican at the 2:18 mark and 1:13. O'Connor evened the game briefly at seven before Dominican took an 8-7 lead at the half.
Third Period
• To start the second half, Dominican scored two straight for a 10-7 lead.
• Georgian Court scored four of the next five goals in a 3:10 span to even the game at 11.
• Tejchman and Petrellese each had one and
Gianna Nardini scored twice. Three of the four goals were on free-position shots.
• The Chargers again finished the quarter strong though. GCU didn't score the final 6:15 and Dominican netted two to get the lead back, including one with 23 seconds to play in the third for a 13-11 lead heading to the fourth.
Fourth Period
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Remi Reinhardt on another free-position goal got GCU back within one at 13-12 with 13:55 left to play.
• The Chargers though took over scoring five straight and holding the Lions scoreless for more than 10 minutes.
• Leading 18-12, GCU got a pair of late goals from Elzinga and Reinhardt, but Dominican matched them and remained unbeaten with a 20-14 win.
Lion Stat Leaders
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Isabel Raimondi led the Lions with five points scoring once and dishing out four assists.
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Remi Reinhardt won 10 draw controls while also scoring two goals and adding two assists and causing three turnovers.
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Riley O'Connor scored two goals with two ground balls.
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Bryleigh Tejchman led the Lions scoring three goals.
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Cadence Gentile made nine saves in net.
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Madison Battle grabbed three ground balls and caused turnovers.
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Kasha Elzinga,
Gianna Nardini and
Caitlin Petrellese each scored two goals.
For the Chargers
• Madelyn Grella totaled 10 points with eight goals and two assists.
• Caitlin Costello picked up five points with two goals, three assists and added a team-high four ground balls.
• Jordana Tomasetti scored three times.
• Sydney Strohmayer caused caused three turnovers
• Both Dominican goalkeepers got plenty of action. Kristinamarie Kaszovitz got the win with five saves.
News and Notes
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Remi Reinhardt picked up her 100th career ground ball.
• Dominican wins it's third straight over Georgian Court. GCU is still 18-6 all-time against the Chargers.
• The Lions 10 draw control wins are their fewest in a conference game this season.
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Kasha Elzinga has six goals in her last two games against Dominican.
Up Next
• Georgian Court is back on the field Monday for a quick turnaround at Felician. It is a makeup of their game scheduled back in March.
