Waltham, Mass. - It came down to last second heroics for Alexandra Leggio, who netted the gamewinner with 10 seconds in regulation to give the Adelphi University women's lacrosse team a 19-18 win over Bentley on Sunday afternoon. 

Series History:

• Adelphi holds on to a 24-2 advantage all time against Bentley since 2002 after today's matchup. The Cats' only losses took place in the 2021 and 2023 seasons. Today's victory also marks the smallest margin of victory as only two other games have been decided by a single goal (2024 and 2021). 

Highlights: 

• Julia Foppiano posted a team-high nine points, matching her career-high, after scoring a hat trick and producing six assists in the win. With her second point of the game, she notched her 100th career point. 
• Also recording a milestone was Marielle Colalillo, who needed a trio of draw control wins to reach the century mark - she finished the game with seven, behind a game-high eight from Rita Sefransky. 
• Ashley Kolomechuk scored a team-leading six times, in the high-scoring affair. She finished with seven points after adding one assist to her stat line and also collected three ground balls. 
• Rookie Nikola Debicka recorded four points, chipping in a pair of goals and two assists, with a perfect shot-on-goal percentage to boot. 
• Leggio finished with a hat trick, with her third goal going in the books as the gamewinner with seconds to spare. 

How It Happened:

• After trading goals to open the game, the Panthers (1-4, 1-0 NE10) rattled off a trio of scores to take a 4-2 lead at the conclusion of the first. Foppiano found Kolomechuk for the fourth goal for the Panthers and the former's 100th career point. 
• Emma Mclam scored the opening goal of the second frame, but a busy offensive quarter for both sides saw the game knotted at 10 at the halftime break. Fourteen goals were scored in the second, with Bentley taking an 8-6 advantage to make it a tie game at the break. 
• Nearly every possession in the second landed on cage, and Adelphi held an 8-6 edge in draw control wins in that stretch. Colalillo's last win of the frame marked her 100th career draw control in a Panther uniform. 
• The Falcon offense continued to roll in the third, scoring three of the quarter's first four goals, but Debicka's tally at 8:54 sparked a three-goal spurt for the Panthers that still saw the visitors trailing by one. 
• Still down by one entering the fourth, Adelphi used a Kolomechuk solo shot to make it a 16-all contest. The home team responded with a pair of goals just minutes apart to sit with a two-goal lead and 8:43 to play. A timely save by Alexandra Stec put Adelphi on offense where a slew of shots eventually concluded with a Foppiano goal. 
• Nearly a minute later Mclam netted the equalizer at 5:04 after a Colalillo draw control win. Rory Meehan picked up a pair of caused turnovers in the ensuing minutes but none more timely than the last, followed by a successful clear. 
• A Pat McCabe timeout set up a left-handed strike, as Foppiano connected with Leggio for the game's final tally.

Up Next: 

• Adelphi will return home and host Franklin Pierce University on Tuesday, March 16 at 4:00 p.m. on Motamed Field.