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Philadelphia, Pa. - Senior Jennifer James (Philadelphia, Pa./Little Flower) scored a game-high eight goals to lift the Holy Family University women's lacrosse team to a 14-12 victory over Dominican College in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) contest at Tiger Field Saturday afternoon.

Holy Family is now 5-8 overall and 4-5 in the CACC, while Dominican is now 6-5 overall and 5-4 in conference play.  With the win, the Tigers keep their postseason hopes alive as they currently hold a half a game lead over Chestnut Hill College for the fourth seed.  

James led Holy Family with eight goals and now has 49 goals this season.  Junior Gina Mansi (Washington Twp., N.J./Washington Twp.) recorded a hat trick as she scored three goals, while fellow classmate Katherine Podlinski (Cherry Hill, N.J./Camden Catholic) added two goals.  Sophomore Jessica Maloney (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) controlled six draws and had two ground balls for the Tigers.

For Dominican, senior Silje Karlsen led the team with four goals, while fellow classmate Sarah Kiernan tallied three goals.  Freshmen Traci Muniz and Maggie Brocklebank each tallied two goals apiece.

 Dominican jumped out to a quick lead as the Chargers scored four goals in the first ten minutes of action.  Muniz capped the run with a free position goal at the 20:40 mark as Dominican led 4-0.  Holy Family ended the Chargers' run when James scored her first goal of the game to make the score 4-1.  However, Dominican answered back with back-to-back goals scored by Kiernan to give the Chargers a 6-1 lead with 15:49 to play in the first half.

Later in the half with Dominican leading 7-2, Holy Family scored five unanswered goals in the final ten minutes of the half to tie the game at 7-7 heading into halftime.  James scored three of the five goals including two in the final two minutes of the half.

Dominican's Brocklebank broke the 7-7 tie with a goal a minute into the second half to give the Chargers an 8-7 lead.  However, Holy Family tallied three straight goals to take a 10-8 lead with 21:07 on the clock.

Later in the half, Holy Family extended its lead to three goals after James scored her eighth and final goal of the game off a pass from sophomore Stephanie McNesby (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) to make the score 13-10 in favor of the Tigers.

Holy Family would hold off Dominican limiting the Chargers to only one goal in the final nine-plus minutes to secure the 14-12 victory.

Junior goalkeeper Melissa Jenkins (Glenolden, Pa./Interboro) made nine saves for the Tigers, while her counterpart freshman Amanda Caprio tallied nine saves as well.  

Holy Family is back in action on Tuesday, April 19 as the Tigers host Chestnut Hill College in the team's final home regular season contest.  Game time is slated for 4 p.m.