HEEGAN SCORES FIVE AS LADY CHARGERS FALL TO LIONS

Dominican's Alayna Heegan netted five goals this afternoon, but it wasn't enough as the Lady Chargers fell to Georgian Court University.

March 27, 2018

HEEGAN SCORES FIVE AS LADY CHARGERS FALL TO LIONS

Lakewood, N.J. (3/27/18) The Lady Chargers lacrosse team fell to the Georgian Court University Lions in their first CACC conference match-up of the season.

Dominican University New York 1-6, 0-1 CACC

Georgian Court University 4-5, 2-0 CACC

Final

Dominican University New York (1-6, 0-1 CACC)

Georgian Court University (4-5, 2-0 CACC)

Lakewood, N.J. (3/27/18) The Lady Chargers lacrosse team fell to the Georgian Court University Lions in their first CACC conference match-up of the season. Dominican, 1-6 (0-1 CACC), was looking to earn their second overall win of the season and their first conference win of the season when they traveled to GCU T&F Complex. The Lions improved to 4-5 (2-0 CACC).

The Lions opened the scoring quickly start the game with a 2-0 lead within the first four minutes of the first half. The Lady Chargers quickly answered the Lion's fast start with two straight goals of their own. Alayna Heegan (North Babylon, N.Y.) and Jenna Fox (Stony Point, N.Y.) scored just over two minutes apart from each other.

The Lions scored the game's next six goals to extend out to an 8-2 lead over the Lady Chargers. Heegan ended the Lion's scoring run with her second of the game to cut the deficit to 8-3. Georgian Court scored the next three goals to make the game 11-3 with time left to play in the first half. Heegan scored her third goal of the first half to cut the deficit to 11-4 with just over ten minutes left to go in the half. Lions scored the next two goals of the half and went into halftime with a 13-4 lead.

Both teams came out in the second half and played evenly matched half. The Lions outscored the Lady Chargers in the second half 8-7. Both teams traded goals through the first twenty minutes of the second half until the Lady Chargers put together a four-goal run to cut into the deficit.

Fox scored three times in the second half to finish with four goals in the game. Heegan added one more goal in the second half for her fifth of the game and Jenna Kelleher (Holbrook, N.Y.) added two goals. The Lions secured the 21-11 win over the Lady Chargers for their fourth win of the season.

The Lady Chargers will be back in action on Wednesday April 4^th at 4:00 PM when they host Post University.

Team Stats

Game Leaders

Dominican University New York

G: Alayna Heegan - 5

A: Jenna Fox - 2

Sv: Cara Moran - 16

GB: 2 Players (#3, #19) - 4

Georgian Court University

G: 3 Players (#13, #16, #17) - 4

A: Nicole Barbella - 5

Sv: Amber Neumann - 5

GB: Xena Valenzuela - 7

Team Stats

Dominican University New York

Georgian Court University

Shots

Ground Balls

Saves

Clears

18-27

Turnovers

Draw Controls

Free Position Shots

5-9

1-6

Full stats

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement. Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world. Dominican also sponsors 17 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level. To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.