WORCESTER, Massachusetts The American International College women's lacrosse team spent over a quarter of the game playing shorthanded in a 20-11 loss at No. 24 Assumption College on Wednesday, April 11.

FAST FACTS:
Final Score:No. 24 Assumption 20, AIC 11
Location: Multi-Sport Stadium, Worcester, Massachusetts
Records: AIC falls to 3-10 and 0-9 in the Northeast-10 Conference; Assumption improves to 7-4, with a 4-4 NE10 mark.

STATS LEADERS:
AIC:
Jessica Fontana: Two goals, two assists, three caused turnovers, two draw controls
Mikayla Demanche: Two goals, one assist, five draw controls, four ground balls
Devin Coulter: Three goals, one ground ball
Allison Roy: Two caused turnovers
Chelsea Davis: Loss (3-10), 15 saves, four ground balls

Assumption:
Sarah Reilly: Six goals, two assists, three ground balls
Kailyn Hart: Four goals, three assists, three ground balls
Jenny Bush: Four goals, two draw controls
Calie Dwyer: One goal, one assist, three caused turnovers, three ground balls, four draw controls
Kyra Goucher: Win (7-4), 10 saves, one ground ball

HOW IT HAPPENED:

• In what would be a theme of the night, Assumption opened the scoring while up a player at 1:10; they would take a 3-0 lead before the four-minute mark. AIC countered with two goals in 56 seconds, as junior midfielder Mikayla Demanche set up junior attacker Mary Bates for a tally at 7:04 and then senior defender Jessica Fontana found freshman attacker Devin Coulter open in front of the net for a score at the eight-minute mark.
• The teams traded goals, with Assumption scoring 41 seconds later, but Fontana responding just 50 seconds after that to make it 4-3; after a save by Kyra Goucher, the Hounds went down the field and scored at the 10:43 mark to take a 5-3 lead. They would score six more over the following eight minutes to build to an 11-3 lead.
• The Hounds found themselves up two players in the final minute and scored on both ends of the two-man advantage, but in between, redshirt senior attacker Deanna Fortin set up Coulter's second of the game, a shorthanded tally, to put the deficit at 13-4 at the break.
• Out of the halftime, AIC scored first, as junior attacker Lauren Witherspoon snapped a shot home at 1:22, but the Greyhounds won the next draw and scored just five seconds later. AIC then went down a player again, but a brilliant run through the zone by Fontana ended with her in front of the net to pot the team's second shorthanded goal of the game at 4:13.
• The teams essentially alternated scoring from there all the way to the 20-11 final; Fontana set up senior attacker Brittany Hutchison for a goal, redshirt senior attacker Erica McLean scored AIC's lone man-up marker of the night, Demanche tallied a pair, and Coulter completed a hat trick from freshman attacker Reagan Nichols.

ROY TIES TURNOVERS MARK:

• Redshirt sophomore Allison Roy caused two second-half turnovers, giving her 29 on the year; she is tied with Cheyenne Carden for the most in a single season in program history.

UP NEXT:

• The Yellow Jackets next trip will be Saturday, April 14 to Franklin Pierce University for a 2 p.m. NE10 matchup.

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