Site: Waldron Family Stadium (Emmitsburg, Md.)
Score: High Point 11, Mount St. Mary’s 6
Records: High Point (0-5), Mount St. Mary’s (4-2)
Emmitsburg, Md. – The High Point University women’s lacrosse team fell to Mount St. Mary’s 11-6 on Saturday afternoon. Abby Hormes led the way for HPU with a hat trick. Three other Panthers scored in Emma Genovese, Lexi Jack, and Mandy Brockamp.
Coach Lyndsey Boswell: “We are never happy when we walk away without the result we came for, but I’m proud of this group for a lot of reasons. We will find a way to put a full game together, and when we do, it’s going to be a lot of fun. Our draw unit did a great job giving us opportunities on offense, and our defense stepped up creating chances for us too. We need to convert those opportunities, and today our shots just didn’t fall. We remain optimistic and look forward to getting better this week as we head into Elon in 10 days.”
Panther Particulars
Mount St. Mary’s jumped out a 2-0 lead and held HPU scoreless in the first quarter, taking a 2-0 lead into the second quarter.
Hormes put HPU on the board with a goal that came off a feed from Nicole Pugh. Hormes scored and made it a 3-1 game with 11:00 remaining in the second quarter.
Mount St. Mary’s answered with a three-goal run to lead at halftime 6-1.
High Point came out of halftime ready to fight, Hormes scored in the first ten seconds of the third quarter. Hormes won the draw and ran straight for the goal and scored on the run. Quickly it was a 6-2 game with 14:50 to play in the third.
Brockamp scored to bring the Mount’s lead down to three with 12:38 to play in the third.
Genovese found a cutting Jack who scored right in front of the goal and made it 8-4 with 2:13 in the third.
With 15 seconds left to play in the third, Hormes ended the quarter the same way she opened it, with a goal. Hormes went box to box and scored to make it 9-5 to end the quarter. Hormes picked up her third goal of the day in dramatic fashion.
The Mount scored two more and kept HPU off the board to win 11-6.
UP NEXT
HPU has a 10-day break before it will be in action again with a midweek contest against Elon on March 16th at 5:00 PM.