SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Fifth-ranked Boston Faculty girls’s lacrosse staff surprised No. 1 Syracuse with an exhilarating come-from-behind 17-16 victory to seize the ACC co-regular season championship and the highest seed within the league postseason match that begins Wednesday in Charlotte, N.C.
The Eagles end the common season 13-3 with an 8-1 ACC mark for his or her third ACC common season title since 2018. BC handed Syracuse its first lack of the season, snapping the Orange’s 15-game win streak. Syracuse held a five-goal lead 5 occasions throughout the course of the sport. With 8:14 left within the contest, the Eagles scored 5 of the ultimate six objectives to upend the Orange. Belle Smith began the run earlier than the dynamic duo of dual sisters Cassidy and Courtney Weeks have been as much as their clutch antics, because the Weeks mixed for 3 of the objectives. Cassidy’s second aim tied the sport, 16-16, earlier than Smith discovered Mckenna Davis for the sport winner.
Ryan Smith then got here away with crucial draw management of the sport to assist BC run out the clock. The Eagles outscored the Orange within the last body, 7-2, ending the competition on a 9-3 run going again to the three:10 mark of the third quarter. Davis scored a career-high 4 objectives with one helper for 5 factors. Belle Smith stepped up within the second half, having a hand in seven of the staff’s 11 second-half objectives. The junior midfielder scored all of her season-high seven factors within the last two intervals. Kayla Martello scored 4 objectives within the contest, whereas Jenn Medjid registered a hat trick with three objectives and a helper for 4 factors. Courtney Weeks netted two scores and a team-best three helpers, equaling 5 factors. Shea Dolce stopped 12 pictures for her second sport of the season with 10 or extra saves.