Bean Town Times

 Junior Lauren Kaye totaled a career-high eight points, and sophomore Tobey Tick also set a personal-best with four goals, but the Boston University women's lacrosse team couldn't complete the comeback against Lehigh and fell 13-12 on Saturday afternoon at Nickerson Field.

The Terriers held the Mountain Hawks off the scoreboard in the fourth quarter, and got two goals from juniors Jennifer Barry and Claire Gola to whittle a three-goal deficit to one. However, despite sophomore Reilly Agres' low-angle save with 13.2 seconds remaining, BU couldn't cover the field to get a shot off in the waning moments of the game.

Kaye tallied four goals and four assists, each of which are career-highs. Agres recorded a game-high 11 saves between the pipes. Redshirt junior Teagan Lucchese added two goals.

Four different Mountain Hawks notched at least three points, led by five from Nora Giordano. Gabby Schneider tallied four points, while Hayley Hunt recorded 10 saves in goal.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Both teams traded goals in the first 6:27 of the game, as Kaye buried two unassisted scores.
• Katia Carnevale and Emma Eberhardt registered back-to-back goals to boost the Mountain Hawk edge to 4-2, but Tick rolled along the crease at the 2:20 mark of the first and beat Hunt to trim the deficit.
• After Lehigh went up 5-3, BU tied the game 1:59 into the second quarter with Lucchese's tallies that came from two Kaye passes and within three minutes of each other.
• Kaye secured the hat trick by working the crease and tucking the ball in the upper-left corner with 9:49 on the clock in the frame, but that was within a stretch where Lehigh scored three of the game's four goals to go up 8-6 midway through the second.
• The Terriers took their first lead of the game with three unanswered goals from there. Tick scored twice, including on a player-up chance, then Kaye ripped a free position shot past Hunt's shoes to make it 9-8 BU with 1:18 until halftime.
• Eberhardt scored with six seconds left to knot the halftime score at nine, then the Mountain Hawks rattled off three more goals in the first 3:12 of the third quarter, prompting a Terrier timeout with the home team trailing 12-9.
• Tick fought off a Mountain Hawk defender at the top of the 12-meter fan and found the back of the net to stop the run, only for Olivia Memeger to answer two minutes later to replenish the three-goal Lehigh lead midway through the third.
• Forty seconds into the fourth quarter, Kaye tossed the ball to Barry from eight meters out to the far post, allowing Barry to score on a low-angle shot to close the gap to 13-11.
• BU earned a free position attempt with 10:39 on the clock. Sophomore Kaelin Isaacson drew the foul, but tossed to a cutting Gola down the middle to score BU's 12th and slashing the deficit to one.
• With 6:13 to play, Hunt turned away Lucchese's point-blank, woman-down shot on the doorstep, but Agres made a nifty save on Carnevale the other way to keep the score the same.
• With 13.2 ticks on the clock, Schneider went low on a shot that Agres crouched down to corral. BU called time with a chance to tie the game, but got as close as Lehigh's restraining line before time expired.

GAME NOTES

• Shots favored Lehigh 30-28, including 24-22 on goal.
• BU held the advantage in draw controls (19-10) and ground balls (9-8). The Terriers were also 11-for-12 on clear attempts.
• Kaye's eight points were the most by a Terrier this season, and the most since Class of 2021 graduate Emily Vervlied recorded 10 points against Colgate on Apr. 24, 2021.
• Barry controlled 14 draws on the afternoon, marking the ninth time this year she has reached double digits in that category. With 224 career draw controls, she now sits 12 away from Jill Horka's all-time draw controls record.
• Tick recorded her first-career hat trick in the effort. During her six-game goal streak, she has notched 11 points on 10 goals and one assist.
• Lucchese has eight points in her last four games after scoring four points in her last eight games.
• Agres has made 10 or more saves in three games this season, and nine-plus in six.
• The all-time series between BU and Lehigh is now even at 5-5.

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