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Tigers Fall in Overtime of NCAA Tournament, 13-12
May 13, 2016 | Women's Lacrosse
ITHACA, N.Y. (5/13/16) - Junior Olivia Hompe scored with 0.8 seconds left to force overtime for Princeton in the first round of the NCAA women's lacrosse tournament. It would be the first sudden-victory overtime game in NCAA Tournament history.
Check out this goal by Olivia Hompe that sends the @princetonwlax into overtime with 0.8 seconds left pic.twitter.com/V0Bro2PcL5
— Princeton Tigers (@PUTIGERS) May 13, 2016
Both teams had opportunities to score in the extra session but it was Eileen McDonald that laced the winner at 2:23. The Minutewomen won the opening draw in overtime and Ellie DeGarmo made a save before Liz Bannantine was able to force a turnover and give Princeton a chance. Hompe had a great look but Aileen Kelly made the stop. Ellie McNulty forced another turnover and this time it was Finkelston with an attempt to score and again Kelly made the stop. After switching ends, Umass won the draw and McDonald tallied the unassisted marker to advance her team, 13-12.
There were nine lead changes and eight ties in the first meeting between these two teams.
Even more remarkable was that there were 11 different goal scorers for Princeton.
“It was a great game, it was incredibly hard fought by both teams,” Princeton head coach Chris Sailer said. “You have to give credit to UMass, they won the draws in overtime. We got the look we wanted, we got a stop. But you have to be able win draws in overtime. I'm really proud of our kids. They really competed hard, and played well and it was just a great game. It's tough to lose, but it was a great game.”
It took Princeton just 24 seconds to get on the scoreboard, on an Anya Gersoff goal, but the lead wouldn't last as UMass rattled off four straight to take a 4-1 lead at eight minutes into the game.
Princeton called a timeout to regroup and closed out the half on a 5-1 run to enabled them to take a 6-5 lead. Hompe started things off and was followed by Elizabeth George.
Holly Turner briefly interrupted the run at 15:22, before Amanda Leavell inched her team within one. Freshman Nonie Anderson notched her first career goal, coming in to replace Madeline Rodriuez after an injury, and senior Anna Menke put away a Colby Chanenchuk to regain the lead for the Tigers 6-5.
Menke delivered a feed to senior Stephanie Paloscio for the first goal of the second.
UMass went on a 5-2 run over the next 16 minutes to take a 10-9 lead.
Lauren Steidl's free-position goal at 10:59 tied it at 10-10 and Chanenchuk gave Princeton what would be its final lead on a pass from Hompe at 9:11.
Callie Santos scored with 2:55 remaining to tie it 11-11 before a series of stick checks. With 17.6 seconds left Hannah Murphy was given a free-position attempt but she elected to pass off to an open Santos directly to the right side of DeGarmo for the goal with 14.6 seconds left.
Leavell won the next draw and with 8.3 seconds left Princeton called a timeout to draw something up. It played out beautifully as Leavell outletted the ball to Anderson on the left sideline and she tossed into the fan were Hompe reached to catch it and buried it with less than a second left.
The NCAA leader in save percentage, DeGarmo made six saves in net for the Tigers as shots fell 26-25 in UMass's favor. Sam Walters made six saves in the first 30 minutes, while Kelly made five in the final 3:37. The Minutewomen won 19 of 28 draws, while ground balls were nearly even 13-12.
Princeton concludes its season with an 11-6 overall record, its 12th Ivy League title and its 24 NCAA appearance.