Box Score

West Palm Beach, Fla. – Senior Whitney Kukol scored the game-winning goal at 3:17 of overtime to lift the Rensselaer women's lacrosse team to a 13-12 victory over Ithaca College, this afternoon in the Championship Game of the Spring Fling Tournament. With the win, the Engineers improve to 3-1 overall, while the Bombers drop to 1-1.

Sophomore Alissa Peterson (Gaitherburg, MD/Quince Orchard) notched a game-best seven points on six goals and an assist, while senior Afton Marshall (Windham, NH/Salem) added three goals and two assists.

After five consecutive Ithaca scores over the course of seven and a half minutes, RPI tallied three straight, including the game-tying goal with six seconds lingering on the game clock, to send the game to overtime. The Engineers tallied the only goal of the extra six minutes at the 3:17 mark to secure the victory.

RPI jumped out to an early 2-0 lead before Ithaca responded to knot the game at 2-2. The Bombers continued to play catch-up until two consecutive unassisted scores by sophomore Tracy Rivas (East Meadow/East Meadow) put Ithaca ahead, 5-4, with 2:05 remaining in the first frame of action. The Engineers scored just 17 seconds later to send the game to intermission with the score tied, 5-5.

The squads each recorded seven second-half goals to force the extra period. Rensselaer again opened the half with a pair of scores but senior Ali DeCirce (Binghamton/Binghamton) responded with the first of her team-high tying hat trick to bring the Bombers within one. RPI scored two of the next three to take a 9-7 lead at the 10-minute mark of regulation.

Ithaca freshman Katie Long (Ithaca/Ithaca) recorded her first collegiate goal on a free position shot to tip-off five straight Ithaca scores. Sophomore Kim Armbruster (Montville/Boonton, N.J.) followed with a free position goal of her own just 23 seconds later to tie the game at 9-9 before Rivas notched her third score of the day to put the Bombers in front. Junior Nicole Borisenok (Albany Academy for Girls/Watervliet) scored at 3:34 before DeCirce found the back of the net a minute later for a 12-9 advantage.

RPI tallied three goals over the final 2:06 of regulation to force overtime.

Ithaca sophomore Jess Worthman (Hauppauge/Commack) suffered the loss in goal, making five saves.

The Bombers outshot RPI, 30-24, and scooped up 11 ground balls to the Engineers' six. Ithaca made good on 13 of 15 clears.