NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The 2024 season opener at Reese Stadium provided the exact type of challenge the Yale women's lacrosse team was looking for – and the Bulldogs were up to that challenge. On a cold and snowy day, Yale fell behind six times against a Stanford team that, like Yale, is among the teams receiving votes in the ILWomen/IWLCA national poll. And each time they fell behind the Bulldogs battled back, with the last rally winding up as the most dramatic. Trailing by three with 14:16 to play, Yale outscored the Cardinal 4-0 the rest of the way to come through with a 13-12 win. Junior midfielder
Sky Carrasquillo netted the game-winner with 3:53 left.
There were many contributors on the day for Yale, with the game-winning rally serving as a microcosm of that. The four goals that turned a 12-9 deficit into a 13-12 win came from four different players: junior attacker
Jenna Collignon, junior midfielder
Taylor Lane, junior attacker
Taylor Everson and Carrasquillo. Everson was playing her first game since Feb. 25, 2023.
Yale's defense shined down the stretch, with caused turnovers by first-year midfielder
Katie Clare, junior midfielder
Molly McGuckin (three) and sophomore midfielder
Bella Saviano all helping to limit Stanford to just two shots on goal after the Cardinal took that 12-9 lead. Junior goalkeeper
Cami Donadio stopped both of those shots, including one with 6:05 to play – shortly before Everson tied the game 12-12.
McGuckin's caused turnover with five seconds left sealed the win, touching off an emotional celebration.
Notes
- Five players had at least three points for Yale.
- Carrasquillo, Collignon and senior attacker Chloe Conaghan all had three goals each. Clare, Everson, Lane and junior midfielder Fallon Vaughn had one each.
- Four Bulldogs had assists: Lane and Vaughn had three each, while Collignon and Conaghan had two each.
- Donadio, who played the final 16:21, finished with three saves. First-year goalie Laura O'Connor made five saves.
- The Bulldogs started three first years: Clare, O'Connor and defender Sydney Grogan.
- Clare had a team-best four ground balls.
- Lane led Yale in draw controls with six.
- McGuckin had five caused turnovers.
- Yale and Stanford had last played Apr. 1, 2017 – a 15-12 Yale win at Reese Stadium back when the Cardinal was ranked No. 19 nationally. That was the second game of the day for the Bulldogs, who beat Sacred Heart 17-5 earlier.
Around the Ivy League Saturday
- Brown 15, UMass 14
- Cornell 13, Cal 7
- Harvard 21, Colgate 6
- Virginia 14, Princeton 12
- Columbia 8, Lafayette 7
- Penn 11, Drexel 8
Up Next
- Yale hosts Quinnipiac Wednesday at 3:00 p.m.
