Losing against two quality opponents during a long-distance road trip wouldn\u2019t have been disastrous for the Colorado women\u2019s lacrosse team.<\/p>\n
But freshman Rowan Edson made certain it didn\u2019t get to that point.<\/p>\n
The 15th-ranked Buffaloes salvaged a split of their two-game trip through Florida, using Edson\u2019s putback goal midway through the extra session to earn a 10-9 overtime victory at Jacksonville on Monday.<\/p>\n
With the match tied 9-9 at the end of regulation, CU\u2019s Teagan Ryan fired a shot that was turned away by Jacksonville goalie Brookelynn Hodgin. But Hodgin was unable to secure the ball, giving Edson a chance to scoop-and-score and send the Buffs back to Boulder with a victory.<\/p>\n
CU (8-3) suffered a 9-7 loss at No. 5 Florida on Saturday. The Buffs entered Monday\u2019s match at No. 16 in the RPI, while Jacksonville stood at No. 34. The Dolphins had been unbeaten (7-0) at home and had won nine consecutive home matches dating back to last season.<\/p>\n
The Buffs led 5-3 at halftime but Jacksonville dominated the third quarter to take an 8-7 lead going into the fourth. The Dolphins took the lead on a goal by Jessica Giller with 9 minutes, 36 seconds remaining, but the Buffs evened the score just 2:04 later on a goal by Rachel Kennedy. The 9-9 score held until Edson\u2019s overtime winner.<\/p>\n
The Buffs outshot Jacksonville 26-19, but the Dolphins owned a 12-11 edge in shots on goal. CU goalie Elena Oh finished with six saves.<\/p>\n
\u201cJacksonville is just a tough team,\u201d CU head coach Ann Elliott Whidden said in a release. \u201cThey\u2019re scrappy, they\u2019re aggressive, they\u2019re talented on both sides and they\u2019re really good at the draw. We knew (it would be) a battle, even from a possession standpoint of giving ourselves opportunities and that\u2019s what it ended up being. For our group, I\u2019m proud of them for finding a way to get it done \u2014 that was the most important part. At the end of the day, we were able to stay composed enough and committed enough to just make one more play than they did.\u201d<\/p>\n
CU returns home to resume Big 12 Conference play on Saturday against Cincinnati (noon, ESPN+).<\/p>\n
No. 15 CU Buffs women\u2019s lacrosse 10, Jacksonville 9 (OT)<\/p>\n
Colorado\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2 3 2 2 1 \u2014 10<\/p>\n
Jacksonville\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3 0 5 1 0 \u2014 9<\/p>\n
Goals \u2014 Colorado: Kennedy 3, Edson 2, Hill 2, Assini, Gardner, Ryan. Jacksonville: Brennan 3, Giller 3, Berry, Hagans, Scrubbs.<\/p>\n
Assists \u2014 Colorado: Shoup 2, Assini, Hill. Jacksonville: Brennan 2, Garguilo, Giller, Hagans, Scruggs.<\/p>\n
Goalies (Min.-goals allowed-saves) \u2014 Colorado: Oh (60-9-6). Jacksonville: Hodgin (60-10-6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Losing against two quality opponents during a long-distance road trip wouldn\u2019t have been disastrous for the Colorado women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53449,100328,100329,111,100327,16516,16519,48181,116,118,117,114,266,115,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-221448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-boulder","9":"tag-boulder-county","10":"tag-buffzone","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-college-lacrosse","13":"tag-colorado","14":"tag-colorado-news","15":"tag-front-range","16":"tag-jacksonville","17":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","18":"tag-jacksonville-news","19":"tag-latest-headlines","20":"tag-local-news","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}