Late Run Haunts Ducks at UC Davis

Saturday, March 1

Davis, CA

12:00 p.m.

University of Oregon

4-2

UC Davis

1-3

ORE

UC Davis Aggies

Photo by: Molly McPherson

03/01/25 | Women's Lacrosse

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DAVIS, Calif. – The Oregon lacrosse team battled for three quarters but a 6-0 UC Davis run in the fourth proved to be the difference as the Ducks fell on the road on Saturday, 20-15.

Neither side could find much separation through the first 45 minutes of play in a game that saw seven ties and three lead changes. Oregon (4-2) trailed 5-4 after the opening quarter and 10-8 at the half but were able to knot it up at 12 with 4:26 left to play in the third. The Aggies (1-3) answered with an 8-1 scoring run over the next nine minutes of play to hand the Ducks their second loss of the week.

Five cards ailed the Ducks as they enabled UC Davis to score three woman up-goals, and two yellow cards meant that Anna Simmons did not see the field for the final 18 minutes of play. Oregon was narrowly outshot, 35-34, as four Ducks scored three-plus goals, but UO lost the draw control battle for the first time this season by a 23-14 margin.

How It Happened: Simmons got the scoring started for the Ducks for the second game in a row, finding the back of the net just 46 seconds after the opening draw, and tallied a second score after UC Davis netted the equalizer. Lyla Hurley answered two Aggie goals with one of her own to tie the game at 3 and Mady Sweeney scored for the second game in a row after UC Davis retook the lead minutes later. A last-second free position shot gave the home side a one-goal edge at the quarter break.

UC Davis scored twice to open the second, but Simmons, Hurley, Bri Carrasquillo and Gabby Santucci each struck paydirt to give Oregon an 8-7 edge, spurred on by a strong defensive stretch from Cassidy Eckert and the UO back line. The Aggies would answer with a run of their own, however, scoring three times in the final 1:35 to hold a two-score advantage at the half.

Kate Shields subbed in for Eckert to start the second half, making four saves during the third quarter in just her second Duck appearance. Santucci and Carrasquillo each answered two Aggie goals with a pair of their own to secure their hat tricks and level the game at 12-12, but UC Davis netted two more as the clock wound down to the lead back out to two.

Hurley tallied the fourth Duck hat trick of the afternoon to start the fourth and bring the Ducks within one, but UO would get no closer. Carrasquillo snapped the Davis scoring run with her fourth and fifth of the day in the closing minutes to match her career high set back in 2020, but there was not enough time left on the clock for an Oregon comeback.

Notable: Rachel Pallo led the Ducks with five draw controls, bringing her career total to 133 and moving her past Jessica Drummond and Alex Breiner for seventh in program history … Three goals marked a new single-game high for Santucci while Hurley set new bests with three goals and four points … Simmons has recorded a first-half hat trick in four of six games.

Up Next: The Ducks return home to face San Diego State on Thursday at noon.