Montgomery, Alabama - The Alma College women's lacrosse team fell today (Feb. 29) to Huntingdon College in the Samford Stadium, 15-11.

The Scots suffered a 9-4 deficit in the first half that they could not bounce back from even though they out scored Huntingdon in the second half 7-6, the Scots still fell 15-11 at the end of the day. 

It was a back and forth match up at the beginning of the game with a 2-2 score at the 24:55 mark after junior Kaitlyn Urick (Glen Ellyn, Ill./Glenbrand West) netted a goal and senior Emily Reverman (Grand Ledge, Mich./Grand Ledge) scored a free position goal.

Huntingdon's Shannen O'Leary went on a quick tear scoring back-to-back goals for the Hawks before senior Ashton Street (Brighton, Mich./Brighton) added one of her own to make the score 4-3. Huntingdon would unfortunately score five more goals to Alma's one by Urick to head in to the half down 9-4. 

Alma scored five of the first six goals in the second half and five separate Scots scored at least one goal in the strong attempted comeback. Street also netted three of her four goals in the final 30:00 minutes of play. 

As a team Alma picked up 16 ground balls, recorded five caused turnovers and beat out Huntingdon in draw controls (17-10).

Street had a day as she led the team with four goals, one assist, three ground balls and 10 draw controls. Urick also added three goals and sophomore Brianna Soriano (San Diego, Cali./Serra) chipped in two. 

Quotes

Head Coach Ashley Johnson

"We learned today that we need to be consistent and play a complete 60 minutes. We had moments of greatness and were able to make a comeback, but it comes down to consistency. We will take what we learned from today and apply it moving forward."