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Holy Family University Athletics
Header Claw
WLAX - Erin Harmer
CACC
8
Holy Family HFU 7-12
12
Winner Philadelphia U PHI 13-5
Holy Family HFU
7-12
8
Final
12
Philadelphia U PHI
13-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Holy Family HFU 5 3 8
Philadelphia U PHI 8 4 12

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse |

Tigers Come Up Short in CACC Semifinals



Lakewood, N.J. - The Holy Family University women's lacrosse team was edged out by cross-town rival Philadelphia University, 12-8, in the semifinals of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Tournament hosted by Georgian Court on Saturday afternoon.
 
Score: #1 Philadelphia 12, #4 Holy Family 8
Records: Holy Family (7-12) | Philadelphia (13-5)
Location: Lakewood, N.J. (GCU Athletic Complex)
 
Leading Scorers
Holy Family: Erin Harmer (Philadelphia, Pa./Nazareth Academy) - 4 points (4G) & Vanessa Pagliei (Linwood, N.J./Mainland Regional) - 4 points (2G/2A)
Philadelphia: Liz Mower - 4 points (3G/1A)
 
How It Happened
Holy Family led on a couple of occasions early in the first half.  The Tigers took a 2-1 lead when senior Paige Settar (Mullica Hill, N.J./Clearview Regional) scored a man-up goal at the 26:18 mark.  The Rams would go on to tie the game before freshman Vanessa Pagliei (Linwood, N.J./Mainland Regional) scored her first goal of the game to make the score 3-2. 
 
Philadelphia responded with three straight goals over a three-minute span to take a 5-3 lead with 16:37 to play in the first half.
 
The lead would be short lived as Holy Family answered with back-to-back goals from senior Erin Harmer (Philadelphia, Pa./Nazareth Academy) to tie the game by the 8:20 mark.  However, Philadelphia closed out the first half with three unanswered goals and as a result took an 8-5 advantage entering halftime.
 
In the second half, the Rams opened the scoring with a goal from Kathryn Avanzato to increase the lead to 9-5.  The Tigers countered with a goal from Pagliei minutes later to cut the deficit back down to three goals.
 
That turned out to be the Tigers' final goal until the 4:27 mark of the half.  Holy Family went over 20-minutes without a goal and in the process the Rams tallied three unanswered goals to lead 12-6 with 10:34 remaining in regulation. 
 
Senior Nicole Braungart (Medford, N.J./Bishop Eustace) and Harmer scored back-to-back goals in the closing minutes to cut the lead to 12-8 but that would be as close as the Tigers would get, as time was not on their side.
 
 
 
Inside the Box Score
Holy Family: Harmer led the Holy Family offense with four goals to go along with a pair of ground balls… Pagliei tallied four points on two goals and two assists…Junior Ursula Coyle (Philadelphia, Pa./Little Flower) picked up a team-best five ground balls and caused one turnover…Senior Grace Deckert (Jarrettsville, Md./Fallston) made eight saves in net for the Tigers as she finished the season with a career-high 180 saves.
 
Philadelphia: Liz Mower led the Rams with four points after totaling three goals and one assist…Isabella DiGnazio and Elizabeth Seitzinger each added two goals… DiGnazio also added three ground balls, two caused turnovers and four draw controls…Katie Parent totaled a game-high seven ground balls and caused a pair of turnovers while also scoring a goal and assisting on another… Goalkeeper Corrine Etter recorded 13 saves in net… The Rams, as a team, controlled the draw throughout the game controlling 14 of the 20 draws. 
 
All-Time Series
Today's match up marked the 19th meeting all-time between Holy Family and Philadelphia as the Rams improved on the series lead with a 13-6 record.  It also marked the fourth time the teams faced one another in the CACC Tournament.  The victory pushed Philadelphia to 3-1 all-time versus Holy Family in postseason play.
 
All-Time CACC Tournament
Holy Family was appearing in its seventh straight CACC Tournament in the program's eight-year history.  The Tigers are now 9-4 all-time in the conference tournament.
 
Setting the Mark
Settar finished the semifinal game with one goal and one assist for two points as she put a final mark in the program's all-time scoring record. The three-time All-CACC selection finishes her career as the Tigers' all-time leading scorer with 220 points and the all-time goals scorer with 190… Junior Kacie Booth (Maple Shade, N.J./Maple Shade) will enter her senior season with 51 caused turnovers; seven shy of the program record after causing a new single-season mark of 33 this year…Harmer finished her senior season with a career-high 61 goals as she became just the third player in program history to record 60-plus goals in a season.  Harmer wraps up her career with 116 goals… Between the pipes, Deckert concludes a record-setting career as she holds the program record in goals against average (10.96 and victories (43). She is also second in saves (570) and save percentage (.421).  

 
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