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Sports
The Clarion \ February 19, 2020
Women's lacrosse falls short
to Berry College on the road
By Joseph Marvin
Assistant Sports Information Director
MOUNT BERRY, Ga. - Freshman attacker
Autumn Kraemer led all Tornados with five
goals, but the Brevard College women’s
lacrosse team (0-1) fell by a final of 15-12 on
the road against Berry College (1-2) in the
Tornados’ season-opening contest on Saturday
evening in Mount Berry, Georgia.
Kraemer, a freshman from Stewartstown,
Pa., scored five of BC’s 12 total goals on 10
shots-on-goal. Returning sophomore midfielder
Hannah Scharf added three scores, while senior
Micaiah Vacchiano and freshman Savannah
Colliver each scored twice. Colliver dished our
Brevard’s lone assist in the contest.
Making her first career start in goal, freshman
goalkeeper Carlie Henning recorded four total
saves.
Berry was led offensively by Maddie Myers,
who produced a six-goal outing. Viking
goalkeeper Andrea Lindgren turned away a
total of 14 Brevard shot attempts.
The Vikings got the scoring started with back-
Photo by Victoria Brayman
Some of the women’s lacrosse team members watch from the sideline.
to-back goals inside of the first six minutes,
as Berry struck for scores that were just 36
seconds apart from each other to take the
early lead, 2-0. Just under two minutes later,
Kraemer found the back of the net for the first
time in her collegiate career, cutting Berry’s
slim lead in half
The hosts were able to tack on another
goal before Colliver and Kraemer scored
consecutively to tie the match up, 3-3, with
15:47 remaining in the first half.
Berry was able to string together a four-goal
run over the next 10-plus minutes of action,
scoring a power-play goal and a short-handed
goal to push its lead up to a 7-3 margin.
However, Scharf ended the Vikings’ scoring
run with a free-position goal with 4:39 left in
the half Kraemer notched two-straight goals
before the intermission to cut the deficit to
one goal, 7-6.
Brevard started the second half firing on
all cylinders, scoring four-straight goals in
a matter of five minutes to take its first lead
of the contest, 10-7. The host Vikings were
able to answer right back, however, as Berry
notched five-consecutive goals in under six
minutes to retake the lead, 12-10, with 18:27
left in regulation.
Scharf cut Brevard’s deficit in half with her
third goal of the evening, but a three-goal Berry
run sparked by a power-play goal pushed the
Vikings up to a four-goal, 15-11 advantage.
Brevard’s Vacchiano scored at the 8:02 mark
to attempt to cut into Berry’s lead, however,
the Tornado offense would go quiet for the
remainder of the contest as the Vikings wrapped
up their first win of 2020.
The Tornados will face a quick turnaround as
Brevard gets set to travel to Cleveland, Georgia
to battle Truett McConnell University in non
conference action on Tuesday, February 18 at
2 p.m. BC will open up its home schedule on
Wednesday, March 4 at 6 p.m. against Johnson
& Wales University - Denver at Ives-Lemel
Family Field.
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