The Utica College women's lacrosse team defeated Empire 8 rival Elmira College Friday 11-9 and in the process snapped a four game losing streak. The Pioneers were led by junior Tammy Kohanski (Syracuse, NY/Corcoran) (Syracuse, NY) who netted five goals to give her 29 on the season, while sophomore Shelby Barbay (Waterloo, NY/Waterloo) (Waterloo, NY) recorded 14 saves and earned her fourth win of the season.

UC fell behind early as the Soaring Eagles netted the first two goals of the game. The Pioneers would get on the board at the 20:09 mark as Kohnaski scored unassisted to cut the Elmira lead in half. After allowing one more Elmira tally, UC scored four consecutive goals behind junior Kelley Fullerton (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool) and sophomore Brittany Herbert to take a 5-3 lead going into halftime.

In the second half, the Pioneers would allow the Soaring Eagles to score the first goal to bring the lead to within one. At the 25:55 mark sophomore Katlyn Banker (Henrietta, NY/Rush-Henrietta) netted her first of two goals off an assist from Kohanski to bring the UC lead back to two. The Pioneers gave up the lead at the 20:47 mark as Lindsay Mitchell scored her third goal of the game to put Elmira ahead 7-6. The Pioneers would out score Elmira 5-2 from this point on as four second half yellow cards hurt the Soaring Eagles and the Pioneers went on to win 11-9.

Utica College improves to 4-6 overall and 2-4 in conference as Elmira falls to 6-8 on the season and 1-5 in the Empire 8.

The Pioneers will be back in action tomorrow as they travel to Alfred University to play the Saxons with an expected start time of 1 p.m.

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