Ashland, Va. – Junior captain Tori Poffenberger (Sharpsburg, Md./Boonsboro) notched the game-winning goal while fellow classmate Kayla Dunn (Rockville, Md./Good Counsel) made a game-winning save to lift the St. Mary's College of Maryland women's lacrosse team to a 13-12 overtime win over the host Randolph-Macon College Yellow Jackets.

Poffenberger netted the game-winner with 45 seconds left in overtime. Then junior defender Kate Somerville (Baltimore, Md./Notre Dame Prep) won the ensuing draw control for St. Mary's and the Seahawks worked to kill the clock but sophomore midfielder Susie Snee (Bel Air, Md./John Carroll) forced a turnover with eight ticks on the clock.

Junior Jenelle Whitman (Silver Spring, Md./Springbrook) drew a foul inside the eight-meter arc with 4.5 to go. Whitman took the shot but Dunn was up to the challenge, forcing a rebound back into the field of play which sophomore midfielder Laney Dee (Norfolk, Va./Bishop Sullivan) picked up but time expired before another attempt was made.

Poffenberger and senior captain Christy Bishop (Glenwood, Md./Glenelg) both tallied four points on a hat trick and one assist to lead the Seahawks while junior midfielder Shelby Newman (Hampstead, Md./Manchester Valley) also added three goals for her second hat trick of the season.

Dunn finished the afternoon with six saves in 62:10 minutes of action while sophomore Allie Walker (Towson, Md./Mercy) made nine stops, including seven in the second half, in Randolph-Macon's first loss of the season.

St. Mary's (4-0) opened up with a 4-0 lead at 16:01 but the Yellow Jackets (2-1) responded with a 3-0 run of their own to close the gap to one at 8:18. The two sides alternated the next four goals and the Seahawks headed into halftime with a 6-5 advantage.

Poffenberger and Bishop each had two goals to pace St. Mary's in the first half while Whitman led all scorers with a hat trick.

Snee tied up the game at 6-6 with a free position goal just 24 seconds into the second stanza but the Seahawks scored five of the next seven goals to stake an 11-8 lead at 18:39. Randolph-Macon notched four out of the next five, including three straight in a five-minute span, to even up the score at 12-12 with 7:21 remaining in regulation.

St. Mary's outshot the Yellow Jackets, 30-23, while owning the advantage in ground balls by a 20-16 margin as Bishop had five loose ball pickups. Randolph-Macon controlled the draw controls, 17-12, as Dee and Whitman each grabbed four.

The Seahawks will be back in action on Wednesday, March 11th when St. Mary's travels to Towson, Maryland to take on Goucher College in non-conference action at 5:00 p.m.

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