Second-half Lions rally comes up short

In its match last Saturday, the women’s lacrosse team fell to Brown 14-12 on its home field.

The Bears opened up the game with four unanswered goals before senior Megan Donovan scored for the Lions. Brown continued its scoring, hitting two more goals to grab an early 6-1 lead. At this point, Columbia started to gain momentum, with goals by freshmen Olivia Mann and Kacie Johnson bringing the score within three. However, Brown responded with three more goals before Donovan and Johnson put a pair of shots in for the Lions. Brown responded again with two goals to close out the half ahead 11-6.

The Lions started the second half strong, with Johnson and senior Brittany Shannon scoring the first two goals. The Lions also scored two of the next three goals, with Caroline Seery scoring her first collegiate goal and Gabrielle Geronimos scoring the other, bringing the score to within two with 18 minutes remaining.

Competition became intense at the end of the second half, with two of Brown’s players getting sent off with yellow cards, forcing the Bears to play down by two players. However, Brown pulled ahead again by scoring a pair of goals before Taylor Gattinella put in a free-position shot for the Lions to cut the lead to two again.

From there, the Bears stalled for the remainder of the game, holding possession of the ball on offense and the lead over the Lions until time ran out.

With the loss against Brown, Columbia fell to 4-6, 0-5 Ivy, while Brown improved to 6-4.

The Lions will have two chances this week to improve their record, hitting the road to play Quinnipiac on Wednesday, April 14 and Ancient Eight rival Yale on Saturday, April 17.