POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – Senior attack Alessandra Fable scored a match-high seven goals to lead the Vassar College women's lacrosse team to a 17-14 victory over Union College on Saturday afternoon. With the victory, the Brewers earn their first win of the season and are now 1-1 overall and in league play. The Dutchwomen are now 2-2 on the season.

It was a wild first half of action which saw the two teams combine for a total of 21 goals. The visitors kicked things off less than a minute into the contest as senior midfielder Lindsay Gerrato netted one unassisted at 29:12. That set off a flurry for the Brewers as Fable connected on three straight to give the home team a 3-1 lead.

Her first came at 27:48 off a beautiful feed from junior midfielder Caeli Porette. Forty-one seconds later saw Fable's second off a pass from rookie attack Natalie Daigle. Following the third Fable goal, Union's Gerrato pulled it to within one at 20:41, while junior attack Grace Heiting made things interesting with the game-tying goal (3-3) less than 30 seconds later.

Fable netted a fourth tally at 19:18 for the go-ahead, this time converting a feed from sophomore middie Maddy Kretten. Porette then pushed the Brewers advantage to two (5-3) a minute later. Sophomore attack Sydney McPartlon scored the next two goals for Union, but sandwiched between the Dutchwomen tallies were goals from junior midfielder Ashley Roberts and Fable to make it a 7-5 game with 14:45 in the opening half.

Vassar continued to gain momentum with Porette notching back-to-back scores, but Union held tough as sophomore midfielder Dana Truini made it 9-6 at 11:38. Fable netted another score off a feed from Porette, who went on to score the next tally for an 11-6 advantage with 6:33 to play.

Union saw Trunini and McPartlon both tally near the end of the half, but Vassar continued to add as Fable netted her seventh of the contest for a 12-9 Brewers lead at half.

Second half action opened with a back and forth flurry as Roberts scored for the Brewers, followed quickly by a Gerrato score to close the gap to 13-10. Two more tallies from Porette pushed VC to a 15-11 advantage, but senior midfielder Isabel Bush had a pair of goals as well during the span to cut the deficit to 15-12.

Both teams continued to press in the offensive zone, but goals from sophomore attack Annie Uyeki and second-year defender Trina Chou sealed up the 17-14 margin of victory for Vassar.

Fable and Porette led the scoring charge for the Brewers with eight points each. Fable had seven goals and an assist with four draw controls, a caused turnover and a ground ball, while Porette posted six goals, two helpers, three draws and three ground balls. Roberts had two tallies, while Daigle posted two assists. Kretten paced the team with five draw controls. Senior midfielder Skylar Herrera-Ross had a team-best four ground balls, while rookie middie Livia Shine recorded three caused turnovers.

For Union, McPartlon had four goals with a draw control. Gerrato, who had three goals with two assists on the day, also recorded a game-best 11 draw controls. Heiting added two goals, as did Bush and Truini on the afternoon. Junior midfielder Kit Christian added four draw controls as well for the Dutchwomen.

In goal, Vassar junior Jackie Molloy played the first 13:45 of the afternoon with two stops, before giving way to rookie Lauren Johns, who had six saves over 46:15. For the Dutchwomen, junior Jenna Paszek had 11 saves.

Vassar returns to the field on Tuesday when it hosts Clarkson at 4pm on the Weinberg Turf Field. Union is back in action next Friday when it hosts Skidmore at 4pm on Frank Bailey Field.