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Young Harris College Athletics

Meghan Tonnesen
S and S Pix
2
Montevallo UM 6-12
19
Winner Young Harris YHC 12-5
Montevallo UM
6-12
2
Final
19
Young Harris YHC
12-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Montevallo UM 0 2 2
Young Harris YHC 13 6 19

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse | | Michael MacEachern
Assistant Director of Athletics for Sports Communications

YHC flies by Falcons 19-2 to advance to championship game of GSC Invitational

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YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. |
Young Harris College scored the first 18 goals of the match as the Mountain Lions recorded a 19-2 semifinal win over the University of Montevallo Friday (April 22) in the semifinals of the Gulf South Conference Women's Lacrosse Invitational Tournament.

The top seeded Mountain Lions improved to a program-best 12-5, surpassing last year's 11 wins, as they advance to the 1 p.m. championship match Sunday (April 24) where they will face No. 2 seed University of Alabama in Huntsville, which defeated Shorter University17-9 in the other semifinal. YHC defeated UAH 17-16 earlier this month. Montevallo ends its inaugural campaign with a 6-12 ledger.

Five different Mountain Lions – Kendra Parenteau, Erika Cross, Nicole Kernohan, Maddie Peek and Rachel Lepine – found the back of the three times against the Falcons. Katie McNutt and Jaclyn Kernohan added two goals apiece. Sarah Bialecki led Young Harris with three assists while Katie McNutt and Jaclyn Kernohan tallied two assists each.

Young Harris held advantages over Montevallo in shots (31-7), ground balls (18-13) and draw controls (17-6) as the Mountain Lions recorded their fourth consecutive win.

Meghan Tonnesen led the way for Young Harris with seven draw controls while Lepine had three, and Taylor Lincoln and Cross had two more. Jaclyn Kernohan scooped up four ground balls while Parenteau and Kaylynn Roach had two each.

Julia Darroch (one) and Cater Moore (two) combined for three saves between the pipes for the Mountain Lions.
 
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