The College of Wooster women's lacrosse team turned it on in the second half, scoring 13 times to overcome Kenyon College's halftime lead, and then leave the Owls in the dust, 18-11 on Tuesday afternoon.

Wooster (10-0, 1-0 North Coast Athletic Conference), one of three remaining undefeated teams of the 276 NCAA Div. III women's lacrosse programs, tied Tuesday's game moments into the third quarter. Senior Lizzie Hardy tracked down the opening draw control of the third and threaded her first goal of the day over a Kenyon (5-6, 1-1 NCAC) defender and goalkeeper Meagan Lacombe's shoulder.

Next, senior Sidney O'Rourke checked the ball from Spencer Kirsch's stick inside the eight-meter and collected the groundball. Kenyon did get possession back before Wooster scored the tying goal. Junior Cassidy Driscoll's double team on Delaney Champeau on the sideline worked to perfection, keeping the Owls from getting much of an offense set going. Following the Kenyon turnover, senior Brynne Snaguski utilized her length to shoot around an Owls' defender for the go-ahead goal with 12:16 left in the third. Snaguski's score gave Wooster its first lead of the game.

Snaguski's third score of the afternoon gave Wooster the lead for good at 8-7 and kicked off the Fighting Scots' decisive 5-0 stretch. Senior Sophia Mellis padded the lead with a free-position goal with 7:40 to go in the third, and the senior added another at the 5:15 mark. Wooster kept the pressure on following a Kenyon free-position shot that went wide near the 6:30 mark. Two Wooster shots were off the mark before Hardy kept possession with the Scots, scooping up a groundball following a Lacombe save. Mellis cashed in with the goal that made it 10-7.

In the fourth, sophomore Mizan Jacobs scored two straight goals to up Wooster's lead to six. Kenyon answered with two straight scores to pull within 14-10 at 9:05. O'Rourke's draw control marked a key possession that ended with the lead back at five, as Snaugski found classmate Priya Nehria for a goal with a little under nine minutes to go.

Kenyon dominated early, opening a 4-1 lead on Lily Mason's goal at 6:42 of the first. Wooster tied things up at four and five in the second. First-year Kylie MacMillan's Scot-up goal came just seconds into the second quarter, as Wooster carried over possession following a Kenyon green card. A long women's lacrosse scoreless stretch of nearly seven minutes ended when Mellis tied the game at five with just inside two minutes to go before halftime.

Snaguski, Hardy, and Mellis all scored four times. Snaguski hit 130 career goals in Tuesday's win, while Hardy surpassed 120. Driscoll scooped up four of Wooster's 22 groundballs, as did Hardy. Driscoll was credited with three of the Scots' 10 caused turnovers. Hardy's eight draw controls led Wooster and were followed by five from Jacobs and three from O'Rourke. Junior Audrey Richardson made seven saves.

Ashley Auerbach netted four goals for Kenyon. Kirsch was the big playmaker with seven draw controls and two groundballs. Lacombe tallied 11 saves on the stat log.

Wooster outshot Kenyon 37-27 and had 22 groundballs to the Owls' 14. Wooster went 17-of-18 on clears after entering the game seventh in Div. III, with a just-shy-of 90-percent success rate. Kenyon on the other hand, missed on the execution standpoint on seven of its 18 clears. Wooster's 16 draw controls were just off the program's 17.89 per-game average, which was second in Div. III entering the day.

Wooster's biggest test to date is on tap next, as No. 9 Denison University (8-1, 0-0 NCAC) visits John P. Papp Stadium for a 4:15 p.m. contest on Wednesday, April 8. The teams were originally scheduled to play on Friday, April 3, but the contest had to be postponed due to continuous thunder and lightning in the area at game time.