Eliza Marcus, Katie Hadro and Lauren Friedman each scored twice Wednesday night, but it wasn't enough as the Amherst College women's lacrosse team's late rally fell short in an 11-9 loss to Trinity College.
Amherst (9-6, 4-6) will be the eighth-seed in the upcoming 2022 NESCAC Tournament. The Mammoths will face No. 1 seed Middlebury in Vermont Saturday at 12 p.m. in a tournament quarterfinal.
GAME HIGHLIGHTS:
* Amherst trailed 7-4 at the half against Trinity and 9-5 with 6:45 left in the third quarter but rallied to toe the game, 9-9, Sydney Larson got the comeback started with an unassisted goal with 5:50 left in the third. Hadro scored off an assist from Larsen with 3:29 remaining to make it a 9-7 score.
* Neither team would score for nearly 11 minutes until Marcus scored an unassisted tally with 7:50 remaining in the contest to make it 9-8. With 5:20 to go in the fourth quarter, Friedman scored off an assist from Fiona Jones to tie the game at 9-9.
* Trinity would score twice in the final 4:45 of the game to preveil, 11-9.
BY THE NUMBERS:
* Trinity outshot the Mammoths 24-16 in the game. Caroline Stole had eight saves for Amherst in the defeat.
* Kendall Kurlander and Brynn Korpi each had three caused turnovers in the game for the Mammoths. Megan Larmann had a team-high three groundballs.
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