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5
Augustana AUGIE 4-5, 0-1
20
Winner Ill. Wesleyan IWU 3-9, 1-1
Augustana AUGIE
4-5, 0-1
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Final
20
Ill. Wesleyan IWU
3-9, 1-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Augustana AUGIE 2 0 3 0 5
Ill. Wesleyan IWU 5 6 2 7 20

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse |

Women’s Lacrosse Stuns Augie with 20-5 Victory

Titans picked up first CCIW win of the season

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - The Illinois Wesleyan University women's lacrosse team overpowered Augustana College, 20-5 in College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin play Saturday, April 9 inside Tucci Stadium. The Titans (3-9, 1-1 CCIW) saw five different goal-scorers with four recording three or more goals, as IWU picked up its first conference win of the season.

Senior Landry Elliott (Milwaukee, Wis.-Nicolet) led the Green and White with a single game season-high six goals, which also tied her single-game career-high. Junior Sarah Gleason (Park Ridge, Ill.-Maine South) and sophomore Brittney Maldonado (Hoffman Estates, Ill.-James Conant) put up five goals apiece as Gleason added one assist with Maldonado tallying two. Both Gleason and Maldonado recorded career-best, single-game highs in goals with five. 

The Titans went on a four-goal unanswered run to open up the quarter. Freshman Mia Fiandaca (St. Charles, Ill.-St. Charles North) kicked off the scoring with the first goal of the game at the 11:12 mark. Goals followed by Elliott and Gleason that gave IWU a comfortable 3-0 lead before Elliott tallied her second of the day to give the Titans a 4-0 advantage. 

The Vikings capitalized on a free position attempt to close the deficit to 4-1 with 3:19 to go in the first 15. Elliott quickly responded, just 40 seconds later, as junior Carlyn Bratt (Palatine, Ill.-Palatine) found the Milwaukee native the ball as she picked up her 20th goal of the season and pushed IWU back up, 5-1. Augie found a last second opportunity, as they closed the quarter trailing to the Titans, 5-2.

IWU kept the Vikings scoreless in the second quarter and tallied six goals of their own. Gleason won the opening draw control in the second period where she then sped past the Augie defense to net the Titans sixth goal. Similarly, the Titans won the next draw control, which found Gleason's stick once more as the Park Ridge, Ill. native put up back-to-back goals for the Green and White. 

Up 7-2, Fiandaca picked off a Augie clear attempt scoring her 20th goal of the season and gave IWU an 8-2 lead. Sophomore Hannah Trousdale (Hoffman Estates, Ill.-Hoffman Estates) also added to the scoreboard as she netted the Titans ninth goal of the day, encouraged by an Augie turnover. 

Two more goals produced by Elliott and Gleason, respectively, ended the first half with the Titans in the lead, 11-2. 

A closer third quarter saw IWU put up three goals to the Vikings two. Augie got off to a fast start with a quick goal at the 14:24 mark as they still trailed, 11-3. After a caused turnover from junior Jennie Hubbard (St. Charles, Ill.-St. Charles East) and a successful clear attempt, Elliott found herself on the end of another successful Titan goal at the 12:28 mark. 

It wasn't until the 3:19 mark where Gleason netted another, widening the difference to 10 and ignited the running clock. However, the Vikings scored two goals just 29 seconds apart and all under a minute left in the third quarter to put a stop to the running clock and ended the third still behind 13-5. 

Similar to the second quarter, the Titans defense kept Augie scoreless once again in the final 15. Maldonado went off for a total of five goals alone in the fourth quarter. The Hoffman Estates, Ill. native scored back-to-back goals to start off the period before Elliott grabbed her final and sixth goal of the game. With the Titans still in the lead, 16-5 Maldonado scored three more as Findaca tallied one which ended the game in favor of the Green and white 20-5.

The Titans have a quick turnaround as they head to Chicago for a neutral site game against Christopher Newport University for a 12 p.m. start. 
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