Women's Lacrosse: "On This Day" 4-30-19
"On This Day" is a Wells College Athletics feature designed to look back over the past three seasons when most of our 2020 seniors began play for the Express and what highlights happened to Wells' spring teams on this day on April 30
Women's Lacrosse: April 30, 2019
The Wells College women's lacrosse team had its four-game winning streak snapped when it dropped an overtime quarterfinal playoff game to Cazenovia College in North Eastern Athletic Conference play on its first hosting of a postseason contest since 2010 on Tuesday, April 30 at the Wells Turf Field.
Wells College finished its season with an 8-6 overall record, which matched the program's best win total in a season, and qualified for the NEAC playoffs for the second year in a row.
The Express held the edge for most of the game and had a 13-7 lead with 22 minutes left, but couldn't prevent the late Cazenovia rally. The Wildcats scored the last six goals of regulation with the final one coming with just 65 seconds left from a free position shot to force overtime. Cazenovia then scored in the first overtime and prevented the Express from advancing to the semifinals.
Cazenovia held an early lead in a closely-contested opening 15 minutes before Wells went on a four-goal run and held Cazenovia scoreless for the remainder of the opening half. Two goals from Julia Smith gave Wells a 7-6 lead. Mackenzie Maloney and Miranda Mingen added goals in the final 11 minutes of the half and the Express led 9-6 at halftime.
Chloe Marcus scored early in the second half but Cazenovia answered to pull within three. Maloney, Marcus, and Mingen added three goals in a row to boost the Wells lead by six goals.
Wells had three shots in the first three minutes of overtime. Another draw control in the middle of the overtime period was won by Maloney and another shot was off the mark for the Express. Cazenovia cleared the ball and got a transition pass from Sydney Allen to Breana Howe for the game-winning goal at 4:26 of overtime.
Mingen led Wells with seven points on five goals and two assists. It was a single-game high in points for her. Maloney, Smith, and Marcus had two goals each. Amanda Fastiggi and Renee Bartosz also scored for the Express, while Anna Bozeat made nine saves.
