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BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – Florida Tech women’s lacrosse welcomed the England Women’s Under 20 Team on Friday night to Rick Stottler Field a friendly exhibition contest that saw the Panthers defeat some of England’s best young talent by a score of 15-13 under the lights in Melbourne.
FIRST QUARTER:
England was the first to score in the contest taking an early 2-0 lead over the Panthers before Kayla Minton and Sophia Scichilone connected for a goal before Scichilone found the back of the net herself to tie it 2-2.
At the end of the 1st a minute apart, England and Tech would each exchange goals with Tech’s goal scored by Carly Niro from Karly Liebendorfer to keep it tied 3-3 entering the second half.
SECOND QUARTER:
Team England recorded the first goal of the second quarter before Emma Angelo scored off a woman-up free position goal to tie it before Gillian Craig found the back of the net to make it a 5-4 Panther lead.
The English would score yet again only to be answered by another pair of Panther goals this time with Brianna Ellis scoring off a free position goal and Gillian Craig scoring with 1:52 left before the half with an assist from Gabrielle Skowronski.
Just under 30 seconds to play in the first half, England’s Lara Renders scored off a woman-up goal as it would be a 7-6 Florida Tech lead entering the half.
THIRD QUARTER:
In the exhibition contest, both teams would agree to international rules for the second half of the friendly Exhibition and play 10v10.
Neither team would score for nearly the first four minutes of the quarter before Jennie Boyle put the Panthers ahead 8-6 3:50 into the 3rd.
England would answer back with a pair of goals to tie it 8-8 until Carly Niro scored her first goal of the night with an assist from Phoebe Hurt to make it 9-8 Florida Tech.
Down by one, England would put together a short rally scoring three goals in just over two minutes to go ahead by two.
Trailing, with 3:01 left to play in the third Tech scored five unanswered goals to make it 14-11 as time expired.
Highlighting the big end to the third were two goals each by Freshman Sofie Bender and junior Caroline Finn with Scichilone picking up the assist on both of Finn’s goals.
FOURTH QUARTER:
The fourth quarter would not see many goals scored as England started out scoring 2:15 into the quarter to make it 14-12.
For the next six minutes, neither team would score again until Carys Johnson of England found the back of the goal on a woman-up goal to make it 14-13 with 5:34 to play.
From their final goal in the fourth with 0:33 to play, the Panthers would go 14 minutes without a goal until with 1:28 to play in the fourth, Gabrielle Skowronski recorded Tech’s insurance goal to give them the 15-13 lead.
Neither team would go on to score for the remainder of the quarter giving the Panthers the 15-13 victory in the friendly contest.
NOTABLE PANTHERS:
Sophia Scichilone led the team with a total of four points from one goal and three assists. Carly Niro, Sofie Bender, Gillian Craig, Brianna Ellis, and Caroline Finn each recorded two goals. Annabel Frey and Cailey Canessa each recorded three ground balls as Frey also led Tech with three caused turnovers.
In net, the duo of Cailey Canessa and Kellen Lucchesi split halves with Canessa recording three saves and six goals allowed in collegiate rules while Lucchesi tallied six saves and seven goals allowed in the international rules portion of the friendly contest.
BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
Florida Tech is now 1-0 against the England Women’s Lacrosse Under 20 Team. The Panthers recorded 27 shots, nine saves, 14-18 on clear attempts, tallied 17 ground balls, and drew control wins while also going 2-3 on free-position attempts.
England put together 30 shots against Tech with just five saves, were 17-19 on clear attempts, picked up 16 ground balls, won 15 of 32 ground balls, and were 1-for-3 on free-position shots.
UP NEXT: Florida Tech will be back in action Monday, Feb. 12 at home for another friendly exhibition when it welcomes Team Scotland to Rick Stottler Field with the first draw scheduled for 7:00 P.M.
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