WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Freshman Finley Allen scored three goals to lead Lewis & Clark College women's lacrosse and record her first career hat trick against future Northwest Conference opponent Whitworth University during the first day of the Whit Classic hosted by Whitman College.
 
THE BASICS
 
Whitworth 20, Lewis & Clark 7 
(Lewis & Clark 0-4)
(Whitworth 2-0)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Allen kicked off the scoring for the Pioneers by netting the team's first goal in each half, then capped off her performance by achieving her first collegiate hat trick through a free position shot with just 2:14 remaining in the game. She also secured two ground balls, won two draw controls, and caused a turnover against the Pirates. Allen became the first player in the program's history to successfully convert every shot she took into a goal and to achieve a perfect shot-on-goal percentage in a single game.
 
Freshman Lauren Elliott contributed two goals to Lewis & Clark's effort and led the team with five ground balls and five shots on goal.
 
Freshman goalkeeper Zoey Hamel-Hyland recorded a career-high and program-record nine saves. She went the full 60 minutes for the second time in her collegiate career.
 
Allen opened the scoring for her team by netting an unassisted goal with 5:36 remaining in the first quarter, reducing Whitworth's lead to 4-1. However, Whitworth managed to extend their lead to 8-1 by the end of the first quarter.
 
Elliott found the net twice in the second quarter, first with a free position shot at 12:36 to bring the score to 9-2 and again at 2:48 to make it 12-3. Just before the half-time whistle, freshman Rowan Levandoski scored her first career goal. Classmate Evelyn Burnett posted her first collegiate assist on the goal. The man-up goal narrowed the gap, with the Pioneers trailing 12-4 at halftime.
 
Allen scored the lone goal for Lewis & Clark in the third quarter to make it 15-5 at 6:19.
 
Freshman Sage Swegle scored her team-leading ninth goal of the season with just under 10 minutes left in the game to make it 18-6. Whitworth scored two free position shots before Allen scored one of her own to record the game's final goal.  
 
 
BY THE NUMBERS 

• Sophomore Kate Meinhard won two of her team-leading five draw controls in the second quarter, during which the Pioneers won six draw controls to the Pirates' two.
• Allen posted the first multi-goal game of her career on Saturday. She joined Swegle as the lone Pioneers to post a hat trick thus far this season.
• Lewis & Clark picked up more ground balls (12-10) than their opponent for the third time in four games.  
• Swegle, Elliott, and Allen lead the Pioneers with 12 ground balls each, followed by Meinhard (10) and sophomore Delaney Jones (7).  
• Hamel-Hyland made three saves in each of the first two quarters and at least one save in all four stanzas.

 
WHO'S NEXT
 
Lewis & Clark will take on the host Whitman tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. to close out the Whit Classic.