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Women's Lacrosse

Women's Lacrosse: Purple Raiders Fall to John Carroll in OAC Play

Box Score

ALLIANCE, Ohio – The No. 19 ranked Mount Union women's lacrosse team was defeated by John Carroll 19-13 Wednesday night in Ohio Athletic Conference Play.

The Purple Raiders (4-0, 4-0) were led by senior Sydney Bumbarger (Newbury Park, Calf. / Newbury Park) with five goals, junior Mackenzie Lewis (Hudson / Walsh Jesuit) scored three goals and freshman Eden Kesler (Chagrin Falls / Kenston) both scored two goals.

Mount Union had a 21 game OAC regular season win streak broke after with this loss. The last loss for Mount Union was against this John Carroll team here at Mount Union stadium on April 5th, 2017.

John Carroll (4-0, 4-0) was led by Colleen Grombala with six goals and Jenna Ginsburg with four goals.

John Carroll grabbed a 3-0 lead early on with goals from Ginsburg twice and Grombala. Bumbarger got Mount Union on the board twice with two goals within five minutes of each other.

John Carroll went on a 5-0 run to lengthen its lead to 8-2 with 9:45 left in the first half.

Mount Union responded with three goals of its own with Lewis scoring two straight and a goal from Kelser all within three minutes of each other.

In the final 3:37 of the half John Carroll outscored Mount Union 3-1 with Bumbarger scoring the goal for the Purple Raiders.

Sophomore Sam Karr (Newark Charter, Del. / Newark Charter) and Kesler got Mount Union's first two goals of the second half to bring the score to 11-8 with 24:18 left in the second half.

Bumbarger stopped a 5-0 run by John Carroll with 16:21 left to play.

Bumbarger scored another goal in between two John Carroll goals.

Freshmen Ashley Carr (Livonia, N.Y. / Livonia) and Katie Clark (Cuyahoga Falls / Walsh Jesuit) and Lewis  scored for the Purple Raiders within 1:19 seconds of each other to bring the score to 19-13 with 2:07 remaining in the game.

Mount Union is back in action Saturday, Mar. 13 at 1 p.m. down in Marietta.

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Players Mentioned

Sydney Bumbarger

#10 Sydney Bumbarger

A
5' 4"
Senior
Ashley Carr

#28 Ashley Carr

M
5' 4"
Freshman
Katie Clark

#22 Katie Clark

A
5' 8"
Freshman
Sam Karr

#27 Sam Karr

M
6' 0"
Sophomore
Eden Kesler

#30 Eden Kesler

D
5' 6"
Freshman
Mackenzie Lewis

#0 Mackenzie Lewis

A
5' 7"
Junior

Players Mentioned

Sydney Bumbarger

#10 Sydney Bumbarger

5' 4"
Senior
A
Ashley Carr

#28 Ashley Carr

5' 4"
Freshman
M
Katie Clark

#22 Katie Clark

5' 8"
Freshman
A
Sam Karr

#27 Sam Karr

6' 0"
Sophomore
M
Eden Kesler

#30 Eden Kesler

5' 6"
Freshman
D
Mackenzie Lewis

#0 Mackenzie Lewis

5' 7"
Junior
A