Corie Hack Reaches 200 Career Points as CMS Women's Lacrosse Defeats Montclair State
MONTCLAIR, N.J. - Senior Corie Hack became only the fifth player in Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's lacrosse history to reach 200 career points on a free position goal in the second half, and junior Allie Hill had seven points on three goals and four assists, as the Athenas captured a 12-10 road win over Montclair State on Sunday afternoon.
With the win, CMS moves to 7-1 on the season with the only loss coming to No. 24 Colorado College in a non-conference contest, while Montclair State slips to 3-3 with the loss. Hack, who came into the day with 198 points, had two goals and an assist to give her 201 career points, while freshman midfielder Sammie Cohen added three goals and an assist.
The game was tied 8-8 with just over 20 minutes left when CMS seized control with a quick 3-0 run. Hack broke the tie with her second goal of the game off a feed from Hill at the 20:43 mark, before Hill added her third goal at the 18:29 mark to put CMS ahead by two. Sophomore Sally Abel won the ensuing draw control, and 20 seconds later, Cohen scored her third goal of the game off a feed from fellow freshman Alex Futterman, pushing the lead to 11-8.
Montclair State stopped the run to pull back within two, but Hill found junior Emily Cohen for her fourth assist to answer and put CMS back ahead by three at 12-9 with 12:47 left. The Red Hawks closed back to within 12-10 with 5:39 left and won the ensuing draw control, but Hack stick-checked the ball loose and came up with the ground ball. After Montclair State got possession back, freshman goalie Emma Goldfield saved her sixth free position shot of the day (her 11th save overall) with just under two minutes left to seal it.
CMS used a 4-0 run in the first half to take a 6-3 lead after a low scoring start to the contest. Hill and Sammie Cohen each had two goals during the first half, with Hill getting back-to-back assists to Emma Johnson and Sally Abel just 10 seconds apart at the 2:12 and 2:02 marks, winning the draw control in between, to put CMS ahead by three.
Montclair State's Chelsea Orban scored her fourth goal of the half, or every goal for her team in the first 30 minutes, to close the deficit to 6-4 with 10 seconds left in the half. Goldfield had a strong opening stanza, stopping three free position shots to help hold Montclair State to four goals and enable the Athenas to take the lead into intermission.
Montclair State used the momentum from the late first-half goal to tie the game up at 6-6 early in the second half, before Hack broke the tie with 25:41 left on a free position goal from Hack, her 200th career point. Hack was held to one assist in the first half for her 199th point, and then became the fifth Athena to reach 200 with her first goal of the contest.
The Red Hawks bounced back to tie it 7-7 on Orban's fifth goal, before Cohen answered with a free position shot at the 22:55 mark to make the score 8-7. Montclair State answered again just 20 seconds later to knot it up for the third time in the second half, but the Athenas rattled off the next three goals in quick succession to take the lead for good.
Goldfield finished with 11 saves on the day, six of which came on free position shots, to get the win for CMS, while Hill had four caused turnovers and four ground balls and junior Luis Valles added two caused turnovers and three ground balls. Hack also had five ground balls to add to her 200-point milestone.
CMS will be back in action on Tuesday when it plays the second game on its East Coast trip, facing Kean College at 3 p.m. (EST).