FROSTBURG, Md. –
Ebony Reddick scored a season-high six goals and
Mackenzie Levine saved 15 shots, on Saturday, but the Falcons were unable to tie the game in the final minute as Frostburg State University won, 13-12.
FSU grabbed an early 2-0 lead, but graduate student
Emileigh Scott won the next draw control and Notre Dame maintained possession against Frostburg's tough defensive pressure. Sophomore
Charlotte Vari found freshman
Piper Hammond cutting in front of the goal to put NDC on the board with 11:06 on the first quarter clock.
Scott won the next draw control, but NDC would turn it over. Scott then caused a turnover and took possession with a groundball. Hammond would tie the score at two, with an assist by
Ebony Reddick.
The two teams went back-and-forth, as Frostburg State scored twice to take a 4-2 advantage before Scott and Vari both put the ball in the net, about four minutes apart. Stephanie King scored and gave the Bobcats a 5-4 lead after one stanza.
FSU bookended the second quarter with goals, but the Falcons went on a 4-0 run in the middle of the quarter and led by as many as two goals (8-6), at one point. The Reddick and Hammond show began on the offensive side, as Hammond scored a goal to reach three goals for the second consecutive game. Reddick scored three times in the quarter.
On the defensive side, senior
Mackenzie Levine made a couple clutch saves late in the first quarter to keep the game close. She then stopped five shots in the second quarter, including two free position shots. At halftime, the Falcons led by one goal, 8-7.
The first four goals of the second half went Frostburg's way. NDC's
Megan Dano stopped the FSU run with a goal at the 9:34-mark. The Bobcats scored again before Reddick added onto her total with a goal late in the quarter. A shot by Scott, with a few seconds to go in the third, was high and NDC went into the fourth, trailing 12-10.
The FSU defense was making it tough for the Falcons to move the ball, but
Mackenzie Levine kept NDC in the contest with three saves in the first five and a half minutes of the final stanza. Reddick scored and then Frostburg State won the following draw control and responded with a goal.
The final goal of the game came on a free position shot by Reddick, her sixth of the contest, to pull NDC within one, with 6:07 on the clock.
In the final minute, NDC had a couple of chances at tying the game, but the first shot went high and the second was saved.
Freshman
Joselyn Storm led the team with three assists and three caused turnovers. Scott won 10 draw controls and now has 103 on the season.
NDC comes home to face West Virginia Wesleyan, on April 22. First draw is scheduled for 3 p.m.