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ORANGE, Calif. – It was an emotional evening Wednesday night for the Whittier College Women's Lacrosse team playing what might have been their final game of the 2020 season in a 21-6 loss to Chapman University.
The Purple & Gold drop now to 1-5, 1-5 SCIAC, while Chapman ends their 2020 season at 3-4, 3-3 SCIAC.
Whittier got their first goal of the game from freshman Loren Sepulveda (Middleburg, VA) who converted a person-down goal at the 28:42 mark. But after that the Poets would get held scoreless until the 14:00 minute mark when they would tack on two goals within seconds of each other from Jai Battle (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Molly Landon (San Marcos, Calif.).
Out of the break trailing 12-3 Whittier earned a free-position, which they would convert from Morgan Miracle (Tustin, Calif.). Larkin McDermott (Centennial, CO) then added another free-position midway through and freshman Georgia Bachiochi (Henderson, NV) would end the game with her sixth of the season off a feed from Sarah Morgan (Tustin, Calif.).
Whittier was outshot on the game 37-11, picked up 11 groundballs, was 7-for-14 on clear attempts and 3-for-4 on free-positions. They did though collect 15 draw controls and saw freshman Jaelin Isquith (Las Vegas, NV) finish with seven saves between the posts.
Six different Poets recorded goals on the night. Chella Davidson (Portland, OR) added four groundballs and three draw controls and Neely O'Grady (Lorton, VA) added six draw controls.
