Box Score

ERIE, Pa. –  Mercyhurst's Angelina Simon scored the tying goal with 7:29 remaining, and she provided the game-winner with 3:30 left in regulation to send No. 11 East Stroudsburg University to a 7-6 road defeat on Saturday.

The Lakers (10-5, 7-3 PSAC) held the Warriors (12-4, 9-2 PSAC) off the scoreboard for the final 21 minutes to secure the upset win. ESU is now a half-game back of West Chester (13-2, 9-1) for first place in the PSAC standings heading into the final week of the regular season.

The Warriors, who had scored 56 times during their three-game winning streak entering the afternoon, were held under 10 goals for the first time all season. Kaitlyn Lippert finished the contest with 11 saves for the home side.

Goals were hard to come by for both sides throughout, as it took over 10 minutes for junior Hana Cicerelle to score the game's first marker in the opening half. It was ultimately a 3-3 deadlock heading into the intermission.

Senior TJ Jefferis and Mercyhurst's Julia Rescott traded goals over the first eight minutes of the second half, and the Warriors grabbed a 6-4 advantage on back-to-back strikes by sophomore Krista Mitarotonda and Cicerelle 15 seconds apart. ESU, though, was held to a single shot on goal the rest of the way.

Mercyhurst held slim advantages in shots (30-27), draw controls (9-6) and ground balls (19-16) in the back-and-forth contest. Junior Tatyana Petteway made nine saves with a .563 save percentage in goal for the Warriors.

Cicerelle and Mitarotonda each finished with two goals and an assist in the defeat. Sophomore Shannon Dent added a goal in the first half, extending her streak of recording at least one point to 15 games.

ESU, which clinched a PSAC playoff spot with its 17-5 victory over Shippensburg last week, returns to Whitenight Field for its regular season finale, as the Warriors host Bloomsburg at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.