The Columbia women’s lacrosse team will look to win its first conference game when it travels to Rhode Island to take on Ivy rival Brown. The Lions (5-4, 0-3 Ivy) will also be trying to snap their current four-game losing streak this weekend.
On Wednesday, the Light Blue dropped its most recent conference game to Princeton (8-1, 2-0 Ivy), 15-5. The Lions trailed 6-1 at the half, but were able to cut the deficit to four during the second period. But the Tigers went on a 5-0 run in the last 11 minutes of play, successfully crushing any hope the Lions had of making a comeback.
Junior Brittany Shannon was the only Columbia player to make more than one goal, scoring twice on three shots on goal. Senior Rachael Ryan, junior Megan Donovan, and freshman Kelly Buechel each scored one goal for the Light Blue.
Brown (4-4, 1-1 Ivy) is also coming off an Ivy loss, having fallen to 16th-ranked Dartmouth 16-1 on Saturday. The Big Green scored its first goal just under one and one-half minutes into the game and continued to unleash a torrent of shots on Bears goalie Isabel Harvey, leading 11-0 in the first half. Brown was unable to mount a comeback in the second half, its only goal coming from freshman Katelyn Caro with fewer than 10 minutes remaining in the game.
Columbia lost its most recent game with Brown last season 11-7. Columbia was first to score in the game, with Donovan netting her first and only goal of the game fewer than four minutes into the first half. However, the Bears scored four of the next five goals, bringing the tally to 4-2 at the end of the first half.
After Brown’s Kelly Robinson scored a goal to open the second period, Columbia went on a 3-0 run to tie the game at 5-5, but this was as close as the the team would get.
Columbia will face Brown this Saturday at noon at Stevenson Field.
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