Box Score Newburgh, NY
(April 2, 2015) – Despite a furious late comeback by the Panthers, Mount Saint Mary snapped Purchase's seven-game win streak Thursday night.
The Knights improved to 4-4 overall and 2-0 in Skyline Conference play, dropping the Panthers to 7-1 and 2-1 in the league in the 14-11 decision.
Behind seven goals by attacker Katie Gattoni, the Mount earned the victory at Kaplan Field. Gattoni totaled eight points with seven goals and an assist in the win. After the Knights went down 1-0 in the second minute of the game, Gattoni accounted for the next five goals across 11 minutes. Gattoni now has 33 goals and 38 points.
After Gattoni scored five straight goals, attacker Jen Gries scored the next two, followed by defender Claire Duffy's first of the game to put the Knights up, 8-1.
Kelly Turtell (FR/Farmingdale, NY) scored for Purchase with 7:26 left in the first half, ending the Knights' eight-goal run and the Panthers' 21-minute scoring drought. MSMC's Kayla Goman scored her 14th of the year with 1:17 left in the half, but
Madi Smith (FR/Lagrangeville, NY) got one back for Purchase with just 35 seconds left to send the game to halftime with the Knights leading, 9-3.
Smith scored again to open the second half, followed by a score by
Amber Brisacone (FR/Monroe, NY) to cut the deficit to four.
Duffy scored again to get the Knights back out to a five-goal advantage, but the Skyline's leading scorer
Zoe Hines (FR/Maplewood, NJ) scored her only goal of the game just 12 seconds later to cut it back to four.
Purchase made its largest run of the game with just under 19 minutes remaining in the game.
Samantha Rich (JR/Providence, RI) scored off a feed from Brisacone at 18:32 before Duffy tallied her third. Rich then scored two in a row, followed by two more by Turtell to cut the Knight lead to two at 13-11 with 3:29 to play.
Gattoni made sure the Panthers could not get back in the game, scoring her seventh with 2:50 left.
Rich led the Panthers with five points on three goals and two helpers on Thursday, as well as a game-high five ground balls. Turtell netted three with a pair of caused turnovers. Brisacone scored twice and assisted another for three points.
-MSMC Sports Information Contributed to this report
