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GW Women's Water Polo Splits Pair of League Games
3/2/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Water Polo
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March 1, 2015
LEWISBURG, Pa. - The George Washington women's water polo team earned its first CWPA victory of the season with a 10-4 win over Gannon on Sunday evening at Bucknell's Kinney Natatorium. Earlier in the day, the Colonials dropped a 15-14 overtime contest to Mercyhurst.
GW (5-6, 1-3 CWPA) and Mercyhurst battled in a back-and-forth game in which neither team led by more than two. The teams were tied at 2-2 after one quarter and the Lakers led, 5-4 at halftime.
Freshman Erin McGeoy netted the equalizer 40 seconds into the third period, but Mercyhurst scored two in a row to go up 7-5 at the 5:13 mark. The Colonials rallied to tie it at 7-7 with 2:48 left in the third, and after the Lakers went back on top 21 seconds later, GW took its first lead since it was 1-0 as McGeoy and junior Hannah Cox went back-to-back for the 9-8 advantage after three.
The Lakers knotted the game early in the fourth quarter and the teams traded goals for most of the period until consecutive Mercyhurst goals gave the Lakers a 13-12 lead with 1:06 remaining, but freshman Jacqueline Bywater tied the game with 20 seconds left to force overtime.
Cox put the Colonials on the board first 66 seconds into the extra session, but Mercyhurst tied it at 14-14, then scored the only goal of the second three-minute period for the 15-14 win.
Cox paced GW with five goals and three ejections drawn while McGeoy notched a hat trick and added three ejections drawn and two steals. Freshman Jacqueline Bywater recorded six points on two goals and four assists to go with six steals and freshman Maddie Goodell had five assists and three steals as the Colonials recorded 19 takeaways in the game. Senior goalkeeper Chandler Vilander made nine saves.
In the second game of the day, GW led Gannon, 3-0, after the first quarter and extended its lead to 4-0 on freshman Scarlett Hallahan's second goal of the contest before the Golden Knights scored twice to end the second for a 4-2 GW lead at halftime.
Hallahan tallied the first two goals of the third stanza to put the Colonials on top, 6-2, and after Gannon scored two of the next three to pull within three at 7-4, sophomore Maddy Johnson tallied twice in the final minute to give GW a 9-4 lead at the end of three. Freshman Maggie Ball then scored the only goal of the fourth quarter as the Colonials defeated the Golden Knights, 10-4, for their first league victory of the season.
Hallahan led the Colonials with four goals and added three steals while Johnson scored twice and drew two ejections. Vilander recorded nine saves and added three steals and two assists in the cage. GW had 20 steals in the game.
The Colonials return to action next weekend when they begin their annual West Coast trip with four games at the Convergence Tournament in Claremont, California.
Mercyhurst 15, GW 14
GW - 2-2-5-4-1--14
MC - 2-3-3-5-2--15
GW Goals: Cox 5, McGeoy 3, Bywater 2, Hallahan 2, Johnson 1, Pyrch 1
GW Assists: Goodell 5, Bywater 4, Johnson 2, Hallahan 1, Vilander 1
GW Steals: Bywater 6, Pyrch 3, Goodell 3, McGeoy 2, Vilander 2, Hallahan 1, Cox 1, Ball 1
GW Field Blocks: McGeoy 1, Bywater 1, Hallahan 1
GW Ejections Drawn: Johnson 3, McGeoy 3, Cox 3, Bywater 1
GW Saves: Vilander 9
GW 10, Gannon 4
GW - 3-1-5-1--10
GU - 0-2-2-0--4
GW Goals: Hallahan 4, Johnson 2, Bywater 1, Goodell 1, Cox 1, Ball 1
GW Assists: Bywater 2, Vilander 2, Johnson 1, McGeoy 1
GW Steals: Bywater 4, Hallahan 3, Vilander 3, McGeoy 2, Ball 2, Cox 1, Goodell 1, Johnson 1, Bakos 1, Belliveau 1, Pyrch 1
GW Ejections Drawn: Johnson 2, Cox 2, McGeoy 1, Bywater 1
GW Saves: Vilander 9
