Box Score EMMITSBURG, Md. (February 27, 2021) – Mount St. Mary's women's lacrosse gets their first win of the season behind a 10 point performance from Jordan Butler to win 19-9 over American. Butler scored five goals and tallied five assists, while Alayna Pagnotta added four goals of her own with an assist. Emma Vinall had a game high six goals for American today.
Jenna Oler made eight saves for the Mountaineers in net, while Delaney Oliveira made four saves for the Eagles.
The Mount got off to a quick start with a goal from Butler in the first four minutes. Vinal answered with a goal of her own to tie up the game. Pagnotta and Sara Moeller scored two quick goals to give the Mountaineers a 3-1 lead. Vinall responded with two goals of her own to tie the game back up. Jordan Groover scored a man advantage goal to give the Mount the lead, but Vinall scored another two goals to give American their only lead of the game at 5-4.
The Mount responded with a 6-0 run that spanned about ten minutes. The run started with a man advantage goal from Butler. 30 seconds later Beanie Colson got on the score sheet with a beautiful feed from Butler to beat the goalkeeper over her left shoulder. 10 seconds later Colson scored again from another feed from Butler to extend the lead to two. Groover, Colson, and Butler scored again to cap off the 6-0 run for the Mountaineers to give them a five goal lead.
American scored with 1:21 remaining in the half to cut the deficit down to four, but Pagnotta scored with 10 seconds remaining to give the Mount an 11-6 lead at halftime.
Butler started off the second half with another goal to extend the lead to six. Vinall and Kate Kinsella traded goals 36 seconds apart to keep the lead at six. American scored two goals to make it 13-9. After that, the Mount would not allow American to score again. The Mount wen on another 6-0 run over the last 13:17 to close out the game. Erin Anderson and Pagnotta each scored two goals during the run with Butler and Moeller scoring one goal apiece as well.
The Mount outshot the Eagles 30-20 with 26 shots on goal for the Mountaineers compared to 17 for American.
The Mountaineers next game is their first NEC game of the season against Bryant at Waldron Family Stadium on Saturday, March 6th at 1:00 p.m.
