Blazers Drop Home Game to Pilgrims

Chicopee, MA - The Elms College women's lacrosse team dropped a tight home game to New England College (13-9) Tuesday night on Leary Field. The loss puts the Blazers at 1-1 on the young season.

Elms opened up the scoring 27th minute off a free position goal from Elise Paier (West Springfield, MA). The Pilgrims would answer with five straight goals and take a (5-1) lead into the half.

The second half saw 16 combined goals with each team scoring 8 apiece. After a goal from Taylor Borla (Southington, CT) off an Erienne Dowe (Somers, Conn.) assist, the Blazers closed the gap to (10-8); however that was as close as Elms would get. The visitors maintained a two goal lead throughout the rest of the game and eventually won (13-9).

Borla led the way for the Blazers with 4 goals and 6 ground balls. Emma Walsh (Dracut, MA) stood tall in goal, making 13 saves.

Elms is back in action on Friday 4/9 at 7pm when they travel to New England College.