Box Score

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (April 26, 2014) – The Stevens Institute of Technology women's lacrosse team dropped a 14-8 game at St. John Fisher College Sunday afternoon despite two goals from freshman midfielder Kathleen Kalbian (Cheshire, Conn.), junior attack Caitlyn Hughes (Randolph, N.J.) and sophomore midfielder Erika Wilcox (Baldwinsville, N.Y.).
 
Stevens finishes its regular season with an overall record of 7-9 and a ledger for 4-3 in the Empire 8. The Ducks will enter the 2014 Empire 8 Championship as the No. 4 seed and will face Ithaca College on Saturday, May 3 in the semifinals. Second-seeded St. John Fisher and third-seeded Nazareth College will square off in the other semifinal.
 
Fisher – ranked No. 18 in the latest IWLCA poll – held a 32-16 edge in shots, putting 22 on goal. The Cardinals won 14-of-24 draw controls and held a 15-12 cushion in ground balls.
 
The hosts jumped out to an early 6-2 lead behind multiple goals from junior Lindsey Shoales (West Monroe, N.Y.) and Sierra Badger (Constantia, N.Y.), but the Ducks closed the first half with two scores – one from freshman midfielder Mariel Haubrich (Ocean City, N.J.) and senior attack Kara Rafferty (Bayshore, N.Y.).
 
The Cardinals went up 8-4 early in the second half, with Hughes' second bring the Ducks back within three goals with 24 minutes to play.
 
Two more from Fisher gave it is a 10-5 edge, with Kalbian and Wilcox accounting for the final three Stevens goals of the game.
 
Kalbian added two caused turnovers and a draw control to her line, while freshman defender Madison Annitto (Smithtown, N.Y.) had two ground balls and a caused turnover. Rafferty had one goal, one assist and two draw controls, and junior defender Gabriela Sanchez (Auburn, N.H.) scooped up three ground balls and caused a turnover. Wilcox finished with two draw controls, two ground balls and a caused turnover as well as her two tallies. Her second goal gave her 100 points for her career. The second-year Duck had 32 points as a rookie and currently has 62 through 16 games in 2014.
 
Junior Mel Welcome (Winsted, Conn.) made seven saves in goal for the Ducks.
 
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