Temple 12, Coastal Carolina 7
PHILADELPHIA – Temple earned a 12-7 victory over Coastal Carolina Saturday afternoon to snap a three-game losing streak. With the win, the Owls improve to 2-3 on the season while the Chanticleers fall to 2-1.
Bridget Whitaker recorded her second hat trick of the season to lead the team, while Megan Hoffman and Overman both scored twice.
All four of Whitaker's shots were on target, and her 10 draw controls led both teams.
The Owls continue to dominate off the draw, topping the Chanticleers 13-8.
Each of the keepers saw minutes for the fourth-straight game, with Maryn Lowell recording all four of Temple's saves.
East Carolina 12, Campbell 11
BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Clutch plays on both ends helped ECU defeat Campbell 12-11 on Saturday afternoon.
ECU improves to 3-1 on the season and has the second three-game winning streak in program history. Campbell drops to 0-5 on the year.
ECU got a good start with the Pirates going up 3-1 thanks to goals from France Kimel, Megan Pallozzi and Ellie Bromley. The rest of the first half belonged to the Camels though. Over the final 13:07 of the opening 30 minutes, Campbell outscored ECU 5-1, including a pair of goals in the final minute of the half. Only six saves from ECU goalkeeper Ashley Vernon prevented the deficit from being worse than 6-4.
At the start of the second half, things looked bleak for the Pirates as Mackenzie Kolesar scored her third goal of the game to put Campbell up 7-4 with 25:10 to go.
ECU picked itself up off the mat and not only got back into the game, but took the lead. ECU did not allow Campbell to score for nearly 10 minutes. On the other end, Megan Tryniski scored the bookends of a 5-0 ECU run that also included tallies from Pallozzi, Bromley and Camryn Pennypacker. That run put ECU in front 9-7 with 17:39 to go.
The lead changes were not even close to being over though. Campbell rattled off a 3-0 run to regain a 10-9 lead. The Pirates tied the game with 9:06 to go on a goal from Ally Stanton, but Campbell answered when Megan Matthews scored a goal with a man-advantage for the Camels.
ECU needed a spark and it came from Pallozzi, who was coming off a five-goal game against Wofford. The junior tied the game with her third goal at the 6:14 mark and then gave ECU the lead with another free-position goal with 3:00 to go.
The Pirates needed to sweat out the last three minutes. Campbell got the ensuing draw control and earned a free-position shot. With a golden chance to tie the game, Campbell's Julianna Sanchez was stuffed by Vernon, making her biggest save of the game.
Campbell stopped ECU and had one more crack at tying the game. But before the Camel's could get a shot away. MacKell Schultes caused a turnover and scooped up the ground ball. ECU never gave the ball back to Campbell and held on for the win.
Pallozzi and Tryniski both finished with four points for the Pirates, Pallozzi on four goals and Tryniski on three goals and an assist. Nicole LeGar had five draw controls for ECU while Kimel had four. Bromley and Stanton both had four ground balls. Vernon finished with nine saves in the cage for ECU.
Vanderbilt 13, Lehigh 12 (OT)
NASHVILLE — Freshman Mikela McCauley scored the gamewinner in overtime to give Vanderbilt a dramatic 13-12 win over Lehigh in its home opener Saturday afternoon.
The Commodores overcame a four-goal run and 12-11 deficit with under 10 minutes left in the second half. Vanderbilt tied the game with 3:40 to go, made a defensive stop on the final play of regulation and won it with 31 seconds left in the opening overtime session.
Four Commodores – Gabby Fornia, Paige Finneran, McCauley and Elizabeth Scarrone – each scored two goals. Fornia added two assists, which led all Commodores. Halle Regan scooped up four pivotal ground balls.
Vanderbilt (3-1) jumped out to a 4-1 lead, but Lehigh (2-2) closed to within 5-4 at the 9:50 mark of the first half.
However, Vanderbilt scored the final three of the half for a 7-4 lead at the break and led 8-4 when Mathewson scored the opening goal of the second half.
Scarrone gave the Commodores an 11-8 lead with 13:55 left in regulation, but the Mountain Hawks took the lead with 8:20 to play before Gross tied it and McCauley won it.
Loyola 17, Florida 6
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – No. 3/4 Florida dropped Saturday's contest to No. 12 Loyola, 17-6 at Donald R. Dizney Stadium.
Three Gators each tallied two goals on the day: Brianna Harris, Grace Haus and Shannon Kavanagh. Harris and Kavanagh both notched an assist as well, finishing with three points apiece.
Florida won the draw, coming up with 13 draw controls on the day. Kavanagh won nine draw controls in the game, while Harris notched two draws of her own.