Washington, D.C. - The tenth ranked Georgetown University women's lacrosse team could not hold on to an 8-5 halftime lead and dropped a 12-11 non-league decision to fourth ranked Duke on Sunday afternoon at the Multi-Sport Field. The Hoyas fall to 3-2 on the year while the Blue Devils improve to 7-1.

Georgetown senior Schuyler Sutton (Annapolis, Md./Severn School) recorded her second straight multi-goal game with a hat trick while Brittany Baschuk (Chevy Chase, Md./Stone Ridge) and Coco Stanwick (Baltimore, Md./Notre Dame Prep) netted two goals apiece. Junior Patty Piotrowicz (Plymouth Meeting, Pa./Plymouth Whitemarsh) scooped three ground balls. Senior goaltender Maggie Koch (Philadelphia, Pa./Springside) made 10 saves.

After trailing 8-5 at halftime, Duke scored four straight goals to start the second period and took a 9-8 lead with 23:44 to go. Senior Kristen Waagbo got in the scoring column at 28:47, netting the first goal of the second half, closing the Hoya advantage to 8-6. Two-plus minutes later Lindsay Gilbride cut the GU lead to 8-7 with an unassisted goal. Two more minutes expired before Waagbo scored her second of the game to tie the game at 8-8. Waagbo assisted Caroline Cryer from behind the net and Cryer finished for her first of two goals as Duke took their first lead since a 3-2 Blue Devil advantage eight minutes into the contest.

Hoya junior Zan Morley (Philadelphia, Pa./Springside) halted Duke's momentum with an unassisted goal at 16:43. After a Duke foul gave Koch a free position restart, Koch found Morley 30 yards from the GU net. Morley raced up the field untouched and fired a shot past Duke keeper Kim Imbesi.

Senior Ali Rogers (Cortland manor, N.Y./Walter Panas) gave Georgetown a 10-9 lead at 14:40 after taking a pass from Bunny O'Reilly. Cryer tied the game at 10-10 at 8:52, marking the game's tenth tie. Leigh Jester assisted on the play and Cryer had to get the shot off in traffic. Imbesi made a big save at 5:30 on a Stanwick shot from right on the doorstep to keep the game tied.

At 3:38, Waagbo scored the go-ahead goal, giving Duke an 11-10 lead. Waagbo worked her way around the right side of the crease and turned back to her left to slip the ball past Koch. After a turnover on the next Georgetown possession, Duke burned almost three minutes off the clock and scored to give the Blue Devils a 12-10 lead with just 40 seconds remaining. Georgetown wouldn't go away and made it 12-11 on a Baschuk free position goal with 16 seconds remaining, but Duke won the next draw control to seal the win.

Sutton ripped the game's first goal, unassisted, after a restart from just outside the eight-meter at 26:25 on Georgetown's first possession of the game. Duke then netted two goals over a 14-second span to take a 2-1 lead. Jester scored her 17th goal of the season at 25:06. After a GU foul on the ensuing draw, Michelle Menser scored her first goal of the season at 24:52 after taking a pass from Cryer on the restart. At 23:13, after a Blue Devil foul, Sutton knotted the game at 2-2 scoring from almost the identical spot on the field as her first goal.

After Megan Del Monte put Duke ahead 3-2 at 22:33, seven minutes went by without an real good scoring opportunity. The Hoyas tied the contest at 3-3 at the 15:18 mark. Baschuk tossed a perfectly placed feed from behind the cage and found Stanwick on the doorstep. GU took a 4-3 on Ashby Kaestner's (Trappe, Md./Saints peter and Paul) first career goal. Kaestner picked up a loose ball inside of the eight-meter and fired a shot past Imbesi.

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2007-03-18