ST. DAVIDS, Pa.-Eastern University Women's Lacrosse entered this afternoon's non-league match with the visitng Rowan University Profs (6-6) on a three game winning streak. The Profs broke open a close game with a run in the final fifteen minutes of the first half to snap the Eagles streak with a 20-11 win. Allie Gauthier and Allie Fultz had three goals each in the loss.

Rowan led 5-2 ten minutes into the contest, but the Eagles picked up a transition goal from Courtney Reinhold and a pretty quick-stick finish from Allie Fultz on a nice pass from Kendall Rood to close the gap to 5-4 just before the midway point fo the period. The Eagles gained the ball back after a save by Lindsay Corbitt, but aggressive defending by the guests in the Eastern end broke the Eastern clear and resulted in a quick goal by Becca Wood in the unsettled situation. 

The Eagles won the ensuing draw, but when they failed to convert, the Profs were able to push the lead to 6-4 on Wood's third of four tallies on the afternoon. Rowan added another goal off the draw 11 seconds later.

When Julia Furniss scored her first goal of the year on a rare foray into the attacking end a few seconds later, it seemed that the Eagles might have turned momentum back. That did not turn out to be the case as the Profs turned another broken clear into a goal that started a five goal spurt heading into halftime. Reinhold scored a free-position goal with three seconds in the half, but the damage had been done and Rowan took a 13-6 lead to the break.

"We scored some beautiful goals and did some good things on defense," Head Coach Camrin Azzarano noted after the game, "but we gave the ball away in spots where we did not have to, and there were times when our individual defending broke down too easily."

Azzarano noted that the crucial draw control numbers started to go in the Eagles' favor as the game went on and that there was real improvement in that area particularly as Reinhold began to take advantage of her timing and jumping ability.

The Eagles (4-7, 2-0 Freedom) return to league action this Saturday when they host King's College in a noon game.

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