WALTHAM, Mass. – The Southern New Hampshire University women's lacrosse team fell to Bentley University by a score of 12-9 Wednesday evening in Northeast-10 Conference play. The Penmen fall to 4-10 overall and 2-7 in league play, while the Falcons improve to 6-7 and 5-4 in the conference.

Phoebe Clark (Concord, N.H.) led the Penmen with five points, including four goals and one assist, while Lindsay Bucknam (Bow, N.H.) added a goal and an assist, and Jenna Crupi (Albany, N.Y.), Alexa Allen (East Longmeadow, Mass.), Emily King (Florence, Mass.), Taylor Graf (Hanover, Mass.), and Ellie Morin (Scarborough, Maine) each added a point to the offense as well.

The Penmen struck first in the game when Allen scored at the 27:40 mark from Crupi to take an early 1-0 lead on the Falcons. However Bentley quickly answered with four straight goals in the next four minutes to go up 4-1 with 22:19 to play in the half. King was able to cut the lead minutes later with an unassisted goal, and Clark scored her first tally of the game on a free position shot to cut the deficit to one. The Falcons boosted the lead back to two on a Jackie Brown score, but another Penmen goal from Morin made it a one-goal game with 12:55 left to play. After a scoreless five minutes, the Falcons closed out the half with back-to-back goals to regain the 7-4 lead.

Bentley came out in the second half scoring just 21 seconds in to take an 8-4 lead. SNHU countered with three goals, including two more from Clark, and a Graf score to cut the lead to one once again with 12:40 to play, but the Falcons did not go away, and scored the next four goals to take their biggest lead of the game at 12-7. Despite scoring the last two goals, the Penmen were unable to recover from the five-goal deficit and ran out of time.

Maria Ploof (Middlebury, Vt.) had 13 saves in net for the Penmen, while Ally Dorman has 13 saves en route to the win for Bentley.

The Penmen return to action on Saturday, April 19 when they travel to New Haven for a 1:00 p.m. league game.

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