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Box Score

Union (NY) UNIONW 6-4, 4-2 LL

Vassar VASSARW 3-9, 2-5 LL

Union (NY) UNIONW

6-4, 4-2 LL

Final

Apr. 13, 2024

Vassar VASSARW

3-9, 2-5 LL

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Union (NY) UNIONW	5	5	1	5	16
Vassar VASSARW	1	1	1	5	8

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse | 4/13/2024

Women’s Lacrosse Suffers Senior Day Loss To Union

Brewers honor six seniors prior to Saturday’s contest

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Poughkeepsie, NY – The Vassar College Women's Lacrosse team played its final regular season home game Saturday afternoon, suffering a 16-8 Liberty League loss to visiting Union. Prior to the contest, Vassar honored the six seniors on the 2024 roster: Livia Shine (Montville, NJ), Lola Wright (Palisades, NY), Emma Larson (Ramsey, NJ), Natalie Daigle (Warwick, NY), Riley Kelly (Syosset, NY) and Lauren Johns (Havertown, PA).

Saturday's loss stops a two-game run for the Brewers and drops them to 3-9 overall on the season and 2-5 in conference competition. Union improves to 6-4 overall and 4-2 in Liberty League play.

How It Happened

Union opened the scoring with two goals over the opening 2:33 of the contest before Shine potted her first goal of the season at the 11:46 mark of the opening period to bring the Brewers to within 2-1.
Following the Shine goal, Union scored the final three goals of the first quarter and the first two goals of the second frame to open a 7-1 lead on a Maddie Doyle tally at the 12:16 mark of the second quarter.
First Year Siena Wong (Scotts Valley, CA) halted the Union run with her eighth goal of the year, finishing off a feed from Maeve Faigel (North Andover, MA) with 7:41 left before halftime.
Union answered with three goals over the final 1:49 of the first half, including an Anna Smith marker with eight seconds left before the break that sent the Garnet Chargers into the intermission with a 10-2 advantage.
Union finished the first half with an 18-8 edge in overall shots and a 14-8 advantage in shots on goal.
The Garnet Chargers held a slim 7-6 edge in draw controls before the break with groundballs going to Union in the first half, 12-3.
Coming out of halftime, Union built its lead to nine goals twice in the third frame.
Tess Billings (Deerfield, IL) accounted for the lone Vassar goal in the third frame, scoring for the 19^th time on the season with 2:21 left in third quarter.
Each team scored five times in the final stanza with Emilia DiLiberto (Allison Park, PA) potting four goals for the Brewers over the last 15 minutes.
Billings scored her second goal of the game with 3:36 left before Union closed out the scoring in with two goals in the last 1:44.

For The Brewers

DiLiberto pushed her season goal total to 18, moving into second on the team in the category. In addition to her four goals, DiLiberto added a caused turnover and six draw controls.
Billings moved her team-high in goals to 20 with a pair of scores on Saturday, closing a four-point day with two assists. Billings rounded out a strong all-around game with a caused turnover and six draw controls.
Shine and Wong each scored for the Brewers.
Julia Lawless (Valley Stream, NY) led the team with two groundballs and added a forced turnover.
Catherine Peacock (Stockton, NJ) finished the day with a draw and a caused turnover.
Johns closed the game with seven saves in nearly 43 minutes of action.
Bree MacMullen (Medford, NJ) made four saves in just under 18 minutes of work.

For The Garnet Chargers

Doyle led the scoring attack for Union with four goals.
Dana Nelson scored three times and caused a pair of turnovers.
Greta Maurer scored twice and assisted on a third goal to go along with four groundballs and three draw controls.
Anna Smith scored once and assisted on two goals.
Ella Trout caused a game-high four turnovers and picked up two groundballs.
Sydney Widlitz earned the win in goal with eight saves.

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