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11
St. Bonaventure SBU 1-3
14
Winner Radford RAD 3-2
St. Bonaventure SBU
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11
Final
14
Radford RAD
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
St. Bonaventure SBU 6 5 11
Radford RAD 5 9 14

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse |

DAVIS LEADS RADFORD IN DEFENSIVE VICTORY OVER ST. BONAVENTURE



GAME INFORMATION
Score: Radford 14, St. Bonaventure 11
Records: Highlanders (3-2) | Bonnies (0-1)
Location: Radford, Va. (Cupp Stadium)
 
RADFORD, Va. – In just her second start of the season, Jenny Davis recorded 15 saves – three shy of tying the school record for saves in a game – as the Radford women's lacrosse team won a 14-11 defensive battle against St. Bonaventure on Monday afternoon at Cupp Stadium.
 
The win gives Radford (3-2) back-to-back wins and its first winning streak in program history. Adrian Rius scored the first two goals of the game as the Highlanders took an early 3-0 lead with 24:48 in the first half.
 
Neither team scored a goal for the next 10:45, but St. Bonaventure found the back of the net as Scarlet Joworski made it a 3-1 game. Both teams traded goals, but the Bonnies ended the final 7:08 of the first half with a 5-1 run and took a 6-5 lead into the locker room.
 
Following a goal by the Bonnies with 23:20 left to play, the Highlanders went on a run of their own and scored six of the next seven goals, three by Emma Rogers and one by Lindsey Carroll, which made it an 11-8 Radford lead with 11:42 to play.
 
St. Bonaventure cut the deficit to one, 11-10, as Taylor Fallon and Olivia MacDonald scored back-to-back goals, but Emily Kowalik and Rius scored two goals within five minutes and gave the Highlanders a little breathing room with 2:30 to play.
 
The Bonnies scored once more, but Rogers sealed the victory, 14-11, as she scored her fourth goal of the game with 1:24 to play.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
•  Jenny Davis recorded a career-high 15 saves and improved to 2-0 on the season.
•  Six players scored for Radford, Emma Rogers led the team with four putting her season total at 16 goals.
•  Radford took 39 shots and 25 of them were on goal.
•  The Highlanders corralled 22 draw controls compared to the Bonnies five. Adrian Rius led with eight draw controls, while Lindsey Carroll had four.
•  Defensively, Shea Swingle had six of the Highlanders 14 caused turnovers. Swingle's career-high six caused turnovers set a school record.
•  Swingle, along with Emily Kowalik picked up 10 ground balls as Radford recorded 29 ground ball pick-ups.
•  Haley Harris led the team with three assists as the Highlanders had nine total.
 
QUOTABLE
"Coach Heaps and I are so proud of our team's effort today. They followed the gameplan, put a lot of focus into the scouting report and they closed it out with hard work. The most exciting thing about this team right now is that we still haven't reached our potential. The best and most exciting victories are ahead of us." ~ Radford head coach, Haley Marvine.

UP NEXT
Radford will travel to the Peach State to wrap up spring break with a game at Mercer on Thursday and Kennesaw State on Saturday. Both games are set for a noon first draw.

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