Curtis' Five Goals, Rothbard's Defensive Effort Lift UNH Past Binghamton, 15-14

Saturday, April 23

Vestal, N.Y.

1 PM

University of New Hampshire

7-7

Binghamton

6-8

New Hampshire

Binghamton

Photo by: Andrew Yourell

Curtis' Five Goals, Rothbard's Defensive Effort Lift UNH Past Binghamton, 15-14

4/23/2022 5:36:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

Box Score

VESTAL, N.Y. – Emily Curtis (Walpole, Mass.) scored five goals and Adena Rothbard (Newport Beach, Calif.) made a defensive stop in the final 30 seconds to lift the University of New Hampshire women's lacrosse team to Saturday's 15-14 victory against Binghamton University at Bearcats Sports Complex.

The five goals and five points matched career highs for Curtis. Rothbard recorded a caused a turnover and ground ball with 17 seconds remaining to preserve UNH's one-goal lead, and the Wildcats maintained possession the rest of the way. She finished with a career-high three caused turnovers and tied her best of three ground balls.

Allie Connerty (Norwell, Mass.) tallied a personal-best four assists – all in the first half. Kelsey MacCallum (Franklin, Mass.; three goals, one assist) and Liv Dunn (Newbury, Mass.; two goals) were the other Wildcats with multiple points.

UNH goalie Issy Torres (Elmhurst, Ill.) reentered the game when Binghamton tied the score 14-14 with 10:31 remaining in the fourth quarter and held the Bearcats scoreless the rest of the way. Torres, who also played the entire second and third quarters, was credited with the win and three saves; she allowed six goals in 41:36 of action.

Starting goalie Maria Hagan (Downers Grove, Ill.) allowed eight goals and was credited with one save in two stints totaling 18:24.

Binghamton was led offensively by Abby Carroll (four goals) and Madison Murphy (three goals, one assist). Emily Manning stopped 11 shots.

UNH improved to 7-7 overall, 4-2 on the road and 2-3 in America East. Binghamton is now 6-8, 1-4.

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UP NEXT

UNH closes out the regular season April 30 (12 p.m.) at UMBC.

COACH'S QUIPS (UNH head coach Kacie Lewis)

Today was a big win to help impact our seeding for the post season. We had a lot of players rotating through multiple spots today and being versatile.
Emily Curtis was a huge threat for us offensively and capitalized on her FPS opportunities. Kelsey MacCallum has been consistent as well.
Jordan Davis came off the bench to execute immediately in a scoring play and stayed composed in a crucial situation.
Defensively, the caused turnovers and transition game shifted the momentum in our favor continuously. There are some game situations we need to learn from and work through this week but I feel that we're in a good spot to head into our last regular-season game next weekend.

FIRST QUARTER

After falling behind 18 seconds into the game, UNH rattled off five consecutive goals and led 5-4 through 15 minutes.
Dunn's unassisted goals at 12:12 and 7:12 sandwiched a player-up goal by Curtis at 10:30 and gave the Wildcats a 3-1 lead.
MacCallum scored 37 seconds later and then Mackenzie MacEachern (Bedford, N.H.) finished a feed from Connerty at 3:17 to extend the advantage to 5-1.
Binghamton scored three goals in the final 81 seconds of the first quarter to trim the deficit to one goal, 5-4.

SECOND QUARTER

Curtis scored consecutive goals – albeit nearly six minutes apart at 13:16 and 7:26 – to give New Hampshire a 7-4 lead.
Connerty tallied an assist on back-to-back goals when her pass set up a goal by Lily Powell (Marcellus, N.Y.) that gave the Wildcats an 8-4 advantage at 3:29.
Jesse Barer ended the visitor's streak of three consecutive goals with a tally at 2:48.
Olivia O'Connor (Hopkinton, Mass.) won the ensuing draw control, however, and that led to a Connerty-to- Delaney Pratt (Lafayette, Colo.) goal combination and 9-5 lead just 23 seconds later.
MacEachern controlled the next draw and MacCallum netted her second goal of the game to give UNH its largest lead of the game, 10-5, at 1:23.
Murphy scored with 19 seconds on the clock to reduce the deficit to 10-6.

THIRD QUARTER

Curtis' fourth goal of the game reestablished a five-goal margin, 11-6, 40 seconds into the third quarter.
The Bearcats responded with a 3-0 run, however, to close within 11-9 at 8:47.
Curtis scored another unassisted goal at 7:06 to stop the spurt and give New Hampshire a 12-9 advantage.
Kenna Newman answered 47 seconds later to once again make it a two-goal differential, 12-10, at 6:19.
MacCallum found O'Connor in the middle of the fan for a goal and 13-10 lead with 1:01 on the clock.

FOURTH QUARTER

MacCallum's third goal of the game – an unassisted player-up tally – extended UNH's lead to 14-10 at 13:55.
The Bearcats scored four goals in a span of 2:35 to quickly tie the score, 14-14, at 10:31; the game had not been tied since 1-1.
Binghamton won the ensuing draw control but Torres, who had just reentered the game, denied Carroll at 9:06 to keep the score deadlocked at 14.
Meghan Doyle (Pittsford, N.Y.) collected the ground ball off the rebound and Jordan Davis (Redondo Beach, Calif.), who hadn't played since March 5, beat a defender down the middle of the fan and rifled a sidearm shot into the goal to put the Wildcats back on top, 15-14, at 7:57.
O'Connor controlled the next draw, but this time Davis had one shot blocked and another that went high of the crossbar.
Binghamton's Kristen Scheidel fired a free-position shot high and Doyle alertly picked up the ground ball behind the net to give possession to UNH with 2:46 remaining.
Another ground ball – this time by O'Connor – gave the ball back to the Wildcats with 2:28 to play.
New Hampshire called time out at 1:50 and, with the shot clock winding down, Katie Taranto (Brewster, N.Y.) was denied by Manning to keep the score 15-14 with 59 seconds left.
Binghamton called a timeout with 37 seconds on the clock, but Rothbard preserved the one-goal lead by forcing a turnover.

GAME NOTEBOOK

UNH finished with the edge in shots (35), shots on goal (26-18) and ground balls (20-19), and also committed just eight turnovers in comparison to Binghamton's 19.
The Bearcats had the advantage in draw controls (21-12).
UNH was 17-for-20 on clear attempts; the home 'Cats were 12 of 17.
The Wildcats scored on 4 of 10 free-positions shots; Binghamton went 4-for-7.
The Bearcats were issued four yellow cards; UNH had one green card.

UNH NOTEBOOK

MacEachern and Pratt both extended their goal and point streaks to 12 games.
MacEachern leads UNH in both goals (31) and points (40).
In addition to one goal, MacEachern tallied three draw controls, two ground balls and one caused turnover.
Dunn pushed her point streak to 11 games.
Connerty, the reigning America East Rookie of the Week, surpassed her previous career-high assist total of three.
Connerty has a team-high 23 assists and ranks second in points (36).
Emma Magazu (Newtown, Conn.) matched her career high of three ground balls and had one caused turnover.
Doyle was credited with two ground balls and two caused turnovers.
O'Connor finished with a personal-best six draw controls.