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TROY, N.Y. - Freshman Abbey Salvon scored with 43 seconds remaining to break a 7-7 tie and give the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's lacrosse team an 8-7 victory over Williams College in a non-league contest at Renwyck Field. Junior Sophie Hager, who finished with three goals and two assists, set up the game-winner with a pass from the high slot to Salvon, who pivoted while in front of the cage and found the lower left part of the net.

RECORDS

• Rensselaer: 2-1
• Williams: 0-2

NOTEWORTHY

• The Engineers jumped out to a 2-0 lead on goals by Hager (28:29) and Salvon (28:02), while playing two players up ... Williams received two yellow cards, a pair of two-minute unreleaseable penalties, at the start the contest due to illegal sticks ... The goal by Salvon was the first of her career.
• The Ephs got a goal back 10 minutes later when Jenna Chodos scored, but Hager tallied twice - her team-leading seventh and eighth of the season - and Erin DeLucca once for RPI, which led 5-1 with 4:27 left in the first half.
• Freshman Emma Tenbarge scored her first of three markers late in the first half and Williams trailed 5-2 at the break.
• RPI held a 12-8 advantage in shots in the first half, despite the Ephs winning six of eight draw controls.
• Freshman Michelle Bolger, who assisted on RPI's second goal of the game, put the Engineers ahead by four, 6-2, less than two minutes into the second half.
• Williams scored five of the next six goals to tie the game at 6-6 ... Anne Rehfuss had two goals and Tenbarge scored twice ... Eleanor Lustig had the other for the visitors, who knotted the game with 4:34 to play in the second half.
• Rensselaer's goal in the sequence came from Morgan Doyle, who was playing her first game of the season.
• The Engineers held possession for nearly two minutes before calling a timeout and setting up Salvon's game-winner.
• The Ephs won the final draw control and had an opportunity to tie the game with just over a second left, but freshman goalie Aleena Milinski stopped a shot from the right side by Eliza Quigley ... Milinski held the ball as the clock ran out.

MULTIPLE POINT PRODUCERS

• Rensselaer: Hager - 3 goals (1 FP), 2 assists; Salvon - 2 goals; Bolger - 1 goal, 1 assist
• Williams: Tenbarge - 3 goals (2 FP); Rehfuss - 2 goals, 1 assist

SAVES

• Rensselaer: Milinski - 9 saves (3-6)
• Williams: Ana Alvarenga - 4 saves (3-1)

OTHER KEY STATS

• Williams outshot Rensselaer, 24-16, including 16-4 in the second half ... Chodos had a team-best five attempts
• Ground balls were even at 24-24 ... Tenbarge led the Ephs with six, while three players had four for the Engineers, including DeLucca

UP NEXT

• Rensselaer heads to Florida for Spring Break ... The Engineers face Endicott College on Monday (10am) and Westfield State on Thursday (9am) ... Both games take place in Clermont
• Williams hosts NESCAC foe Bowdoin on Saturday at 11:30am