WLAX Drops Hard-Fought Battle to ASU, 18-14

TEMPE, Ariz. – The Marquette University women's lacrosse team fell in a hard-fought battle against Arizona State this afternoon, 18-14.

Shea Garcia led the Golden Eagles with a season-high four goals. Madison Kane, Caroline Steller and Lydia Foust netted two goals each and MU got scoring contributions from eight different players.

Arizona State got off to a hot start in the first half, scoring five of the game's first six goals. MU followed that up by going on a 5-1 run of their own, capped by a Madison Kane free position goal to tie the game at six with 2:43 to play in the half. ASU scored the final goal of the half with seven seconds to play to take a 7-6 lead at the break.

The Sun Devils scored two goals in the first three minutes of the second half to go up three before Shea Garcia and Lydia Foust scored their second goals of the game to bring the score back to 9-8.

Over the next eight minutes of play, however, ASU scored six straight goals to go up 15-8 and MU couldn't get closer than four goals away the rest of the afternoon.

Kerri Clayton led the Sun Devils with five goals while Carley Adams and Anna Winkeler also tacked on hat tricks.

The Golden Eagles scored nine of their 14 goals from the free position, which is a program record for most free position shots and goals in a single game in school history.

Midfielder Emily Cooper also set a single-game career-high in draw controls with nine.

Sophia Leva started the first half and saved four shots while Jules Horning played the final 30 minutes in goal and had six saves of her own. The two have been splitting time in net for most of the season.

UP NEXT:
Marquette takes on Fresno State on Saturday, Feb. 29 at 1 p.m. Central time at Arizona State's Lacrosse Stadium.

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