Spartans Pounce On Mountain Lions
March 1, 2017

Spartans Pounce On Mountain Lions

Senior Amanda Voges scored her 100th career goal. She is the first Spartan to reach this milestone.

TAMPA, Fla. – The University of Tampa women's lacrosse won their home opener against Young Harris College and improve to 2-2 on the season.  

INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
Final: Tampa 16, Young Harris 3
Records: Tampa (2-2), Young Harris (4-2)
Location: Naimoli Field | Tampa, Fla.
All-time Series:  This is the second match-up, Tampa leads the series 2-0.

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HOW IT HAPPENED:

1st Half

  • Young Harris opened the game with back to back goals to take an early lead 2-0.
  • Amanda Rom was assisted by Shannon Sweeney at 20:32 to shrink Young Harris' lead to one.
  • Amanda Voges fired back to back goals to take the lead 3-2 over Young Harris.
  • Claire Swanson was assisted by Rachel Crawford to make it 4-2 with 11:11 on the clock.
  • Maggie Gladden was assisted by Rom at 10:26 to increase the lead to 5-2.
  • Tampa jumped to 6-2 with a goal from Rom, assisted by Sweeney.
  • Voges reached her 100th career goal with an assist from Gladden. Voges is the first Spartan to reach this milestone.
  • To make the score 8-2, Voges was assisted by Sweeney with 1:50 left in the half.
  • Crawford from Rom made it 9-2 to end the first half.

2nd Half

  •  Natalie Carraway tacked on the 10th goal of the game for the Spartans to open the second half at 27:54.
  • 30 seconds later Allie Popelar was assisted by Crawford to make to score 11-2 over Young Harris.
  • Cali Edgar increased the deficit to 12-2 over the Mountain Lions with an assist Sweeney.
  • Paige Johnson made it 13-2 with 18:23 left on the clock.
  • Edgar and Sweeney teamed up again to set the score to 14-2.
  • With 8:28 on the clock, Voges scored her third goal of the game with an assist from Popelar, now 15-2.
  • Young Harris scored their third goal of the game with 4:44 left in the half.
  • Tampa scored their final goal of the game from Mallary Weinsz ending the game with a score of 16-3.

INSIDE THE STATS:

  • Voges had five goals and three ground balls.
  • Emily Stevenson had three ground balls.
  • Rom scored four points, two goals and two assists.
  • Sweeney had four assists.
  • Johnson had one goal and one ground ball.
  • Swanson had one goal and three draw controls.
  • Crawford had three assists and one goal.
  • Popelar had one goal and one assist.
  • Edgar had one goal and three ground balls.
  • Mackenzie Hackett had three saves in goal.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE:

  • Senior Amanda Voges reached 100 career goals this game, now totaling 101 goals. The Bayshore, N.Y. native is the first Spartan in program history to reach this milestone.

UP NEXT:

Tampa returns to action on Saturday, March 4th against Montevallo. The match-up will start at 12:00 p.m. at Naimoli Field in Tampa, Fla.  Live stats will be available through TampaStats.com.

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