HIGH POINT, N.C. – Winthrop lacrosse fell to top-seeded High Point Friday night in the Big South Lacrosse Championship Semifinals, 21-8.
The Eagles finish the 2021 campaign 7-8 overall, 3-3 against conference opponents.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Panthers came out of the gates hot, scoring six unanswered goals to open the contest.
- Molly Dankowski put a stop to the scoring with a score of her own to make it 6-1.
- After back-to-back goals from Abby Hormes, Big South Offensive Player of the Year, McKenna Blick netted her first of the game to make it an 8-2 contest.
- High Point's Mena Loescher and Savanah Paton exchanged goals with 11:50 on the clock, 9-3.
- With nine minutes on the clock, Olivia Deaver knocked the ball away from Kay Rosselli and passed it to Bianca Tedesco for another Winthrop goal, 11-4.
- Molly Dankowski scored Winthrop's fifth and last goal of the half, assisted by Tedesco.
- The Panthers closed out the first 30 minutes with five consecutive goals to take a 17-5 lead after 30 minutes of play.
- Rachel Foster got the scoring underway out of the half to extend High Point's lead, 18-5.
- McKenna Blick scored her 31st goal of the season to get Winthrop on the board in the second half.
- Following another Abby Hormes goal, freshman Ellie Dutton got in on the tournament-scoring action with a score assisted by Lauren Morris.
- After a seven-minute scoring draught on both sides, the Panthers scored a pair of goals to pull ahead, 21-7.
- Freshman Grayson McKenzie netted the final goal of the game with four minutes remaining to make it a 21-8 final score in favor of the Panthers.
NOTABLES
- The Eagles have five different goal scorers with McKenna Blick and Molly Dankowski leading the way with two apiece.
- The Hormes sisters, Abby and Katie, led the game with four and three goals respectively.
- Co-Defensive Player of the Year, Kimora Bailey, won a team-high five won draw controls.
- Sara McGuire made eight saves, playing all 60 minutes of the contest.
- 16 of Winthrop's 18 shots were on goal.
- Lauren Morris had three assists, a season-high, with Tedesco and Deaver each getting credited with two helpers.
- Blick finished with 31 goals this season, the second-most in a single season during her collegiate career.
- Tedesco will finish the season with 42 assists, doubling her previous season-high of 21.
- This was Winthrop's seventh Big South Conference Tournament appearance and third straight season facing High Point.
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