PATCHOGUE, N.Y.—Senior captain
Murphy Newman (Canton, N.Y./Berkshire School) scored six goals to lead the SUNY Potsdam women's lacrosse team (2-2) to a 12-9 win at St. Joseph's College of Long Island (0-4) on Sunday afternoon. Senior captain
Katie Lapinski (Canton, N.Y./Hugh C. Williams) recorded five assists and sophomore midfielder
Cayla O'Connor (Dexter, N.Y./General Brown) contributed two goals and an assist. Sophomore goalie
Katie Longamore (Dexter, N.Y./General Brown) made six saves to improve to 2-0 in her career.
The Bears trailed 2-0 just 53 seconds into the contest, but rallied. Lapinski set up O'Connor at 26:40 for Potsdam's first goal. Lapinski fed Newman for her first goal at 24:05. Nicole Stoppelli gave the Golden Eagles one final lead at 21:29, but Potsdam erased it with three straight goals. Newman connected with Lapinski again at 18:16 and with junior attack
Rachael Huntley (Canton, N.Y./Hugh C. Williams) at 14:55 to give the Bears their first lead of the contest. Lapinski then sent up freshman defender
Kayla McCabe (Watertown, N.Y./General Brown) to make it 5-3. St. Joe's tied the game at 6:35 with goals from Emily Fay and Tricia Barrett. Newman put Potsdam up 6-5 with 30 seconds left in the half.
Newman then opened the scoring in the second half with an assist from O'Connor at 27:06. O'Connor netted her second at 22:35 to make it an 8-5 contest. After Alexis Hillman closed the gap to 8-6, Huntley set up freshman attack
Alli Stark (Walworth, N.Y./Gananda) at 12:55 to regain the three-goal advantage. The Golden Eagles made one final push with three goals, including two from Brooke Kreuscher, to tie the score for the final time at 7:10. Just over two minutes later, Newman connected with Lapinski a third time for the eventual game-winner. Junior midfielder
Danielle Pound (Henderson, N.Y./Immaculate Heart) made it 11-9 on a helper from Newman with 11:57 to play. With just one second left in the contest, freshman Attack
Ashley Burrowes (Brentwood, N.Y./Brentwood) tacked on a final goal to seal the victory.
St. Joe's goalie Lindsay Ramos finished with nine saves.
The Bears outshot the Golden Eagles 27-19 and collected 19 ground balls to St. Joe's 10.
Potsdam is back in action on Wednesday at 4 p.m. when the Bears host St. Lawrence University.
