TOWSON, Md. (April 25, 2015) – The Drew University women's lacrosse team was edged, 12-10, in a Landmark Conference Championships win-and-in contest at Goucher College on Saturday afternoon to conclude the 2015 regular season.
 
The loss eliminates the Rangers (9-6, 3-3) from Landmark Conference playoff contention, while the Gophers (11-6, 3-3) clinch the fourth and final spot with the home victory. Drew is now eligible to qualify for the ECAC Mid-Atlantic Championships with a plus-.500 record, but will have to await the selection process after conference championships wrap up on Saturday, May 2.
 
Senior midfielder Krysta Cento scored twice and added three assists for the Rangers in the setback, and now sits just one point away from becoming the fourth member of the women's lacrosse 300 Point Club at Drew. The third member to join that club, senior attacker Nikki Kleiman, also notched five points for Drew on three goals and two assists.
 
Freshman attacker Maddie Spiess added two goals, while sophomores Anna Fiorini and Morgan Mason and freshman Nicole Kinney each netted one.
 
The two sides traded three-goal runs in the first half, which Goucher ended with the 7-6 lead. With Goucher leading 1-0 after scoring in the opening 25 seconds, Drew was the first to go on a run with two straight by Kleiman and a woman-up goal by Cento after a Gophers yellow card. Goucher halted the scoring spurt with a tally at the 22:06 mark, but the Rangers maintained the two-goal lead with Cento's second of the game at 18:24.
 
After a six-minute scoreless stretch, Goucher went on a 4-1 run, including three straight after Drew's Mason scored on an unassisted shot. With the Gophers up 6-5 now, Spiess tied it up on another woman-up opportunity off a feed from Cento. Goucher took the momentum into halftime with a goal to make it 7-6 with 2:39 left in the opening period.
 
Goucher started the second half with another quick goal, this one just two minutes into the period. Another three-goal streak by the Gophers pushed the lead to 10-6 at the midway point of the second half.
 
Drew got as close as 10-8 on goals by the freshmen Kinney and Spiess, but Goucher answered with two of its own for a 12-8 advantage with 8:09 to play. Despite playing a women down, Fiorini got one back at the 5:09 mark, and then the sophomore assisted on Kleiman's third goal of the game to cut the deficit to 12-10 with 22 seconds remaining. The late Drew spurt was just too late as Goucher held on for the victory that sent them to the 2015 Landmark Conference Championships.
 
The Rangers wrapped up the regular season with their 15^th straight double-digit goal scoring output of the season, and 32^nd straight dating back to early 2014.
 
Goucher held a slight advantage in shots, 24-22, and the Gophers won the battle on the ground with a 14-9 advantage in ground balls. The Rangers led in draw controls 13-10, but turned the ball over 12 times compared to Goucher's nine.