Ashley Newman.
David Schamis
8
Brown BROWN 4-4, 1-1
10
Winner Yale YALE 8-1, 2-0
Brown BROWN
4-4, 1-1
8
Final
10
Yale YALE
8-1, 2-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Brown BROWN 1 1 2 4 8
Yale YALE 2 4 2 2 10

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse | | Sam Rubin

No. 5 Bulldogs Stay Perfect at Home, Top Brown 10-8

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The No. 5 Yale women's lacrosse team continued its unbeaten streak at Reese Stadium with a 10-8 win vs. Brown Sunday. That was the team's 11th straight win at home, including six wins this season. Sophomore goalkeeper Niamh Pfaff made a career-high 11 saves.
 
After allowing the first goal of the game, the Bulldogs scored the next five. The Yale defense held Brown scoreless for 25:31 in the first half, getting three saves from Pfaff in that span. 
 
Yale led 6-2 at halftime. After Brown pulled within 7-4 late in the third, senior attacker Ashley Newman scored to send Yale into the final quarter with an 8-4 lead. Newman then had a highlight-reel goal in the fourth, shoveling it behind her back past Brown keeper Mackenzie Conway with 13:08 remaining to extend Yale's lead to 10-4. The Bulldogs held on from there.
 
Yale improves to 8-1 (2-0 Ivy League) on the season while Brown falls to 4-4 (1-1 Ivy League).
 
STATISTICAL LEADERS
  • Sophomore attacker Kelly Holmes had a game-high three goals.
  • First-year midfielder Kate Gould had a game-high three assists and a game-high (tie) five draw controls.
  • Junior defender Katie Clare and senior defender Emmy Pascal had a game-high (tie) three ground balls.
  • Sophomore defender Maggie Bellissimo had a game-high three caused turnovers.
  • Sophomore goalkeeper Niamh Pfaff made 11 saves.
 
TURNING POINT
  • Yale outscored Brown 5-0 from 11:38 of the first until the Bears scored with 2:38 left in the second. After that the Bears got no closer than within three goals until there were 20 seconds left in the game, when Brown closed to within 10-8.
 
KEY STAT
  • Yale had a 20-12 advantage in ground balls.
 
NOTES
  • Yale is the only 2-0 team in the Ivy League. RV Penn and No. 18 Princeton, who are both 1-0 in Ivy play, are the only other teams in the league that have not lost a league game.
  • Yale is 12-2 in its last 14 games vs. Brown.
  • After Brown had a 7-2 advantage in draw controls in the first half, Yale had an 8-3 advantage in draw controls in the second half.
  • Pfaff limited Brown to a 2-for-7 performance on free position shots.
  • That was Holmes' fifth hat trick this season.
  • This represents the eighth time in the season's first nine games that the Bulldogs have held their opponent to eight goals or fewer.
 
WHAT'S NEXT
  • Yale plays at Princeton Saturday at 12:00 p.m.
 
 
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