Pratt Lifts UNH to 13-12 Overtime Win vs. Bryant

Wednesday, March 16

Durham, N.H.

2 PM

University of New Hampshire

5-3

Bryant

3-2

BRYANT

New Hampshire

Photo by: Jess Speechley

3/16/2022 6:51:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

Box Score

DURHAM, N.H. – Senior captain Delaney Pratt (Lafayette, Colo.) scored 2:54 into overtime to lift the University of New Hampshire women's lacrosse team to Wednesday afternoon's 13-12 victory against Bryant University at Wildcat Stadium.

Pratt finished the game with three goals for three points. Sophomore Mackenzie MacEachern (Bedford, N.H.) scored a career-high five goals for a personal best of five points.

Freshman Allie Connerty (Norwell, Mass.) recorded two goals and two assists to match her highs in both goals and points (four). Sophomore Kelsey MacCallum (Franklin, Mass.) matched her best of three assists – including a helper on the game-winning tally – and also had a goal for a total of four points.

Freshman goalkeeper Maria Hagan (Downers Grove, Ill.) made a career-high 12 saves, including one in overtime, and had two ground balls. Senior captain Meghan Doyle (Pittsford, N.Y.) equaled her career high of four caused turnovers and had a team-high three ground balls.

Bryant was led offensively by Alexa Weber's five points (three goals, two assists) and Sam Centofante was credited with eight saves.

New Hampshire won its fourth consecutive game to improve to 5-3. Bryant is now 3-2.

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COACH'S QUIPS (UNH head coach Kacie Lewis)

Today was a complete team win. I'm really proud of the composure they had from the first draw through the end of overtime. This team fights hard and really we're just having a good time. I think the sideline is the best example of that.
Mackenzie MacEachern was a huge offensive presence for us despite being face guarded and Delaney Pratt executed with 20 seconds left on the OT clock to get us the win.
The majority of our sets today started on the defensive end and without our defense being so dependable, the outcome would have looked a lot different.
Maria Hagan played out of her mind in cage and I couldn't be more proud of her performance.
This is a special group and now they know how to win in pressure situations.

UP NEXT

UNH returns to action March 19 (1 p.m.) at Iona College.
The Wildcats' next home game is the America East conference opener March 26 (1 p.m.) vs. UMass Lowell.

FIRST QUARTER

Bryant recorded the edge in shots (12-7) and draw controls (7-1) in the opening 15 minutes to build a 5-2 lead.
UNH took a 2-0 lead on goals 73 seconds apart by Connerty and MacCallum at 11:01 and 9:48, respectively.
The Bulldogs closed the quarter with five consecutive goals. Kenna Kaut began the run at 6:35 and struck again at 3:05 to give Bryant its first lead of the game.
Weber scored a free-position goal at 2:01 and set up Margaret Adams' goal 61 seconds later to give the visitors a 5-2 lead.

SECOND QUARTER

Both teams scored three goals in the second quarter.
Amelia Piercy extended Bryant's run to 6-0 and lead to 6-2 at 13:59.
MacEachern converted a free position into a goal to stop the run and trim the deficit to 6-3 at 11:23.
Weber's free-position goal reestablished a four-goal margin, 7-3, at 8:35.
MacEachern responded with another free-position goal at 5:45.
Piercy's second goal of the game pushed the advantage to 8-4 at 4:25.
Senior Lily Powell (Marcellus, N.Y.) finished Connerty's feed into a goal that lifted the 'Cats within 8-5 at 2:13.
Neither team recorded a shot the rest of the half.

THIRD QUARTER

UNH outscored Bryant 7-2 with a 10-5 shot advantage in the third quarter to take a 12-10 lead through 45 minutes.
Sophomore Olivia O'Connor (Hopkinton, Mass.) controlled the opening draw of the second half, then MacCallum's pass found MacEachern cutting down the middle of the fan and her shot inside the right post trimmed UNH's deficit to 8-6 at 14:32.
Goals by Weber at 13:49 and Piercy at 12:59 quickly pushed Bryant's lead to 10-6.
Hagan made a save to deny Lily Auger at 10:55 and that led to MacEachern's fourth goal of the game, which lifted the Wildcats within 10-7 at 10:20 and ignited UNH's 6-0 run.
Junior Liv Dunn (Newbury, Mass.) set up Pratt's goal at the front doorstep to trim the deficit to 10-8 at 5:14.
The Bulldogs controlled the ensuing draw, but Hagan once again denied Auger to give possession back to UNH.
The Wildcats scored three goals in a 52-second span to turn a two-goal deficit into an 11-10 lead.
Connerty, deep on the right wing, slipped a pass to senior Abby Cranney (Amherst, N.H.) and she fired a shot inside the near post to pull the 'cats within 10-9 at 2:52.
MacEachern won the draw control, then Connerty rolled to the top of the circle for a goal that forged just the second tie of the game, 10-10, at 2:32.
O'Connor controlled the next draw and Pratt, once again cutting down the middle, finished MacCallum's freed from the top to give UNH an 11-10 lead at 2:00; it was the Wildcats' first lead since scoring the first two goals of the game.
Another save by Hagan kept the 'Cats in front and Doyle corralled the ground ball.
At the other end of the field, MacEachern beat her defender on the right wing and dodged another in the middle of the fan before scoring her fifth goal of the game to give UNH a 12-10 lead with 50 seconds on the clock.

FOURTH QUARTER

Bryant scored the only two goals of the fourth quarter to force overtime.
Chamberlaine Bell lifted the Bulldogs within 12-11 at 11:00 and struck again at 9:29 to tie the score.
Hagan made a save to deny Weber at 6:58 and turned aside Cassidy Burns at 3:59 to once again keep the score deadlocked.
The Bulldogs called time out at 3:09. With the shot clock winding down, Cranney blocked a shot by Peyton Woodward at 2:07. The visitors retained possession, but then lost it with a shot clock violation at 1:51.
UNH successfully cleared the ball into the attack zone but then lost possession in the waning seconds to send the game into overtime.

OVERTIME

Emily Diaz recorded her 12^th draw control of the game to give Bryant first possession of the three-minute extra session.
The Bulldogs called a timeout at 2:01, and Kaut ripped a shot that caromed off the crossbar at 1:49.
Bryant kept possession but Weber's shot was stopped by Hagan with 1:08 remaining to give the ball to New Hampshire.
UNH called time out with 20 seconds to play. From outside the 12-meter fan, MacCallum slipped the ball to Pratt, who was cutting left to right at the top of the 8-meter. Pratt fired back across her body into the bottom-left corner of the net to end the game, 13-12, with six seconds on the clock.

GAME NOTEBOOK

UNH finished with the edge in ground balls (15-14) and committed just 11 turnovers in comparison to the Bulldogs' 14.
Bryant had the advantage in shots (32-27) and draw controls (21-8).
Both teams were perfect on clear attempts; UNH had 22 and Bryant had 16.
The Wildcats scored on 2 of 4 free-position shots; Bryant was 3-for-6.

UNH NOTEBOOK

MacEachern's five goals are the most by any Wildcat in a game this season.
Pratt, MacCallum and MacEachern all extended both goal and point streaks to six games.
MacEachern and O'Connor led the Wildcats with three draw controls apiece.
Dunn had two assists to extend her point streak to five games.
Junior Ava Schroeder (Niskayuna, N.Y.) finished with two ground balls, two caused turnover and a draw control.
New Hampshire recorded seven assists on 13 goals.
The four-game win streak is the program's longest since the 2019 squad also won four straight.
UNH went 1-1 in overtime last season; most recently, the 'Cats defeated UMBC, 14-13, on March 20, 2021, at Wildcat Stadium.