SU Women's Lacrosse starts with a BANG!

The Women's Lacrosse team travelled to Baylor on Sunday to play its first game ever, and wasted no time making history with a come from behind win in the second half against one of the better teams in the league.

The first half revealed that SU had never played a game before, as Baylor quickly scored a couple of goals, and consistently outhustled SU to every ground ball.

A 30 yard pass over the defense from Ginny Calloway to Brittany Kornmann led to the first goal and assist in SU Women's Lacrosse history. As the half went on, the women settled down and by halftime, were only down 4-1.

 
A quick strategy talk and a couple of changes on the field, and the women were ready to give Baylor a run for their money. The second half belonged to Southwestern, allowing only one goal and outplaying Baylor in every facet of the game. Although it was only the second half of lacrosse the team had ever played, it looked like they had been playing for years.

Heather Martin, 2nd home from Bowie High school, scored four of the six goals for Southwestern, three of those in the second half as SU came storming back. Two big reasons why SU played so well in the second half, were because of our goalie play by Coty Maypole, and our ability to win almost every draw thanks to newcomer Ally McDonald. 

Coty, in her first game ever as a goalie, played like a seasoned veteran in goal and made great outlet passes to our attack wings in the second half as she got more comfortable. At one point, with the sco

re tied at 5, Coty made a point blank stop on a one on one that helped to keep the momentum in SU's favor.

Ally McDonald, thrown into the "faceoff" or draw duties only this week, came in, and after a discussion with the ref on which side she should be able to face, won every facoff in the second half. The rest of the team picked up on the energy, by tenaciously going after ground balls, and doing whatever it took to win the game.

With a little over 4 minutes left in the game, Ginny Calloway took an outlet pass at midfield and ran past several defenders before placing a perfect bounce shot past the goalie for SU's first lead of the game. The goal ended up being the winning goal as SU was able to maintain possession and control the ball for almost the entire remaining four minutes, with a great job on ball control by Brittany in the attacking area as time ran out.

The defense played an exceptional game, with MandyShelton, Sara Emslie, and several other players shutting down any offensive threat Baylor tried to mount in the second half.

This was a great way to start a program, and is sure to be the beginning of great things to come for the girls as they continue to learn the game and come together as a team. To a person, every girl on the team made a big play at some point to help SU win the game. A total team effort, the girls enthusiastically invite all of the SU community to come out and experience the first ever Women's lacrosse game at SU at 11a.m. on February 23rd against Austin College during Parent's Weekend.

For those that trravelled up to Waco to cheer the team on, a big thanks for the support. We hope to see you on the 23rd.