ST. PAUL, Minn. - Concordia-St. Paul women's lacrosse (7-9, 4-8 GLIAC) had its second season come to a close on Sunday afternoon with an 18-10 loss to #12 Indianapolis (14-3, 10-2 GLIAC) on a warm, windy and sunny day at Sea Foam Stadium.
The Golden Bears had the early advantage, scoring a pair of goals in the first four minutes of play and keeping the nationally-ranked Greyhounds scoreless until the 12th minute when UIndy netted a pair of goals to tie the game in a span of 17 seconds.
Concordia went back ahead 3-2 on the first of three goals by sophomore
Alina Boyce in the 15th minute. UIndy didn't take its first lead until the 18th minute of play, when the Greyhounds rattled off six straight goals, the first five coming in a stretch of just 3:26 of elapsed time.
The 6-0 run put UIndy ahead 8-3 at 22:40 of the second half, but the Golden Bears clawed back with the last three goals of the first half to make it an 8-6 game at the break.
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Like its first half run, UIndy showed its nationally competitive pedigree by starting the second half with the first five goals to claim its largest lead at the time, 13-6 just four minutes into second half action.
Following sophomore
Kailey Heinl's 34th goal of the year in the ninth minute, UIndy charged back for three more in a row and its largest of the game at 16-7 at the 15:30 mark.
Concordia finished out the game, and the season, strong by scoring three of the final five goals in the contest and allowing just a pair of Greyhound goals in the last 14:30 of play.
Boyce led the Bears with her second hat trick in a row and sixth of the year with a team high four points. She finished the year with 26 goals and 38 points and is third on the career list with 79 points and 58 goals in two seasons.
Junior
Sheala Osborne also had a hat trick, her second of the year to finish the season with 13 goals and seven assists and ranks fifth in career points (40). She also produced a season-high in draw controls for the second straight game with a new high of seven today, giving her 32 for the year to rank second on the team. Her 66 career draw controls is second for the program.
In the net, sophomore
Katie Lottsfeldt had a strong performance with a season-high 15 saves to give her 121 for the year as she finished with a career best .437 save percentage. She also set a new team single game record with 12 ground balls for the double-double and had three caused turnovers.
Heinl was strong all-around against the Greyhounds, producing two goals, four ground balls, three caused turnovers and a pair of ground balls. She finished the year with a team leading 41 draw controls and tied with sophomore
Kylie Christensen with 21 caused turnovers and was the leading field player with 32 ground balls. She also had 41 points (34g, 7a) and her 88 points and 77 goals rank second among the career leaders. She's the career leader with 81 draw controls in two seasons.
Christensen, meanwhile, had a pair of caused turnovers in the game and three ground balls to lead the defense and freshman
Raelyn Korinek matched Heinl's two goal performance on the offensive end. Korinek's 32 goals ranked third on the team on the season.
UIndy was led by Abigail Lagos with six goals while Lauryn Hardoy had three goals and three assists and Delaney Davidson had a hat trick off the bench. Peyton Romig (7) and Riley McClure (6) produced 13 of UIndy's 16 draw controls and Lauren Granville had three caused turnovers, three ground balls and five saves while playing the first half to earn the win (11-2) in the net.
Much like Friday night's loss to McKendree, Concordia was able to keep the peripheral stats closer than the final goal margin (8) would indicate. Aside from the shot margin (39-26 UIndy) and foul margin (40-22 CSP), Concordia kept things close in ground balls (28-27 UIndy), draw controls (16-14 UIndy), clears (UIndy 21-25, CSP 20-25) and turnovers (UIndy 18, CSP 23).
The Greyhounds advance to the GLIAC Tournament as the second seed and will play the third seed, #24 Tiffin on the campus of GLIAC Regular Season champion and top seed Grand Valley State, who will face fourth seed McKendree.
The Golden Bears finished the year in fifth place and were in the hunt for a playoff bid until the season's final weekend in their first year as a member of a Division II conference, affiliates in the GLIAC. Concordia navigated a stronger schedule in year two than in the inaugural season, facing all Division II opposition and coming just a win shy of last year's 8-8 mark. The highlight of the season was the program's first four game winning streak to get out to a 4-1 start, and the five game road winning streak - all team records.
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