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A group picture of the HFU Women's Lacrosse Class of 2026 with family and coaches
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Winner Caldwell CALDWELL 5-9, 3-6
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Holy Family HOLY FAM 3-9, 2-7
Winner
Caldwell CALDWELL
5-9, 3-6
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Final
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Holy Family HOLY FAM
3-9, 2-7
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Caldwell CALDWELL 3 2 5 3 13
Holy Family HOLY FAM 3 3 4 2 12

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse |

Women’s Lacrosse Closes Out Season with Senior Day

PHILADELPHIA - The Holy Family University Women's Lacrosse Team closed out its season with a 12-13 loss to Caldwell on Saturday afternoon at Tiger Field. 
 
Prior to the to the contest, HFU honored its senior class of Tiana Harkins, Renee Althoff (Lancaster, Pa./Solanco), Jocelyn McLaughlin (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem) and Kaelah Carter (Watervliet, N.Y./Shaker (The College of Saint Rose)). 
 
Individual Highlights
  • Harkins led all players with seven points, tying a career-best, on a career-high four goals and three assists
    • She ends her career with 41 assists, now seventh in program history
  • Lexi Ryan (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem) had triple the amount of draw controls as any other player with a career-best nine, while adding four points and a team-high three caused turnovers
  • Julie Gallardo (North Brunswick, N.J./North Brunswick Township) had four points too, netting a hat trick, and she topped the Tigers with four ground balls
  • Elle Fitzgerald (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) and Symia Brazleton (Burlington, N.J./Burlington City) both caused multiple turnovers
  • Gwen Varley (East Earl, Pa./Garden Spot) had three points on two goals and an assist, while Casey Schuette (Warrington, Pa./Archbishop Wood) scored and assist another
  • Althoff made nine saves in net
 
Inside the Box Score
  • Holy Family more than double the amount of draw controls, 19-8, while outshooting Caldwell 32-24, but the Cougars would outpace the Tigers 0-5 in free-position goals
 
How it Happened
  • The entirety of the game was played within two goals
  • HFU led by two thrice, at 2-0 less than four minutes and then twice in the third, as Harkins putting the Tigers ahead 10-8 with 5:07 left in the penultimate period
  • Caldwell came back with two in a row though, knotting the score at 10 entering the final quarter, before the two teams alternated goals to begin the fourth
  • Gallardo made it 12-11 with 8:04 to go, but the Cougars would net the final two scores with the game-winner coming at the 2:15 mark
  • Holy Family had an opportunity to tie it in the final minute and a half, as Ryan won the ensuing draw control, but both Varley and Julia Leibig (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem) were denied by Caldwell's goalkeeper 
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