Box Score SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--Senior co-captain Jessica Scannapieco scored two of her game-high five goals in overtime to lift Western New England University to a thrilling 15-14 non-conference victory Tuesday over visiting Mount Holyoke College in women's lacrosse action at Golden Bear Stadium. With their 12th consecutive regular-season home win, the Golden Bears improve to 2-1 on the season. The Lyons fall to 2-2.

Western New England also got five assists among a game-best seven points from senior Kaitlynn Stevens, and junior Taylor Scialdone, senior co-captain Sarah Stevens and junior Tori Cirocco also had multi-goal games with two. Junior Brooke Kumnick chipped in with a goal and two assists.

Julia Bell and Leila Kouakou led Mount Holyoke with four goals apiece, Catherine Ryan dished a game-best six assists and Katherine Guinee scored twice. Kirsten Kilburn had a hat trick including the game-tying free-position goal with 23 seconds left in regulation to send it into overtime tied 13-all, and she had two assists.

Western New England had a good look at the cage with 2 seconds left in regulation but Scannapieco was stopped by Isa Rodriguez, who finished with 11 saves.

Kouakou gave the Lyons a 14-13 lead with an unassisted goal after 72 seconds elapsed in the 6-minute extra session. Mount Holyoke had a chance to increase the lead, but a turnover gave the Golden Bears possession and Scannapieco took advantage by potting her fourth goal of the afternoon to knot things 14-all 23 seconds later.

Mount Holyoke forged a 3-1 lead after 9:28 gone in the first half on goals from Kouakou, Bell and Guinee.

After Kumnick and Bell traded goals to make it 4-2 in favor of Mount Holyoke, the Golden Bears used a strong possession game to make a move and rattle off five consecutive goals in a span of 11:31 to take a 7-4 advantage. Kaitlynn Stevens sparked the offense with two goals during the stretch, including a tally after Kristi Barriteau was sent off with a yellow card to put the Lyons down a player. That goal gave WNE its first lead of the contest, 5-4.

Guinee got one back for Mount on a feed from Ryan with just 31 ticks before the halftime horn.

Western New England opened the second half with a pair of goals by Scialdone and Cirocco only 18 seconds apart, giving the hosts its biggest lead at 9-5 with 28:15 remaining.

Kilburn scored at the 22:40 mark with WNE a player down as the Lyons began to chip away at the deficit. After Scialdone found the back of the cage to restore WNE's four-goal lead at 10-6, Kouakou scored twice to rally Mount with a 4-1 rally to make it 11-10 in favor of WNE with 6:13 left.

Scannapieco then scored back-to-back goals to make it 13-10, but Mount scored three goals--Bell, Charlotte Wagner, Kilburn--in the final 2:58 of regulation to force OT.

Kaitlin Braz picked up six ground balls, Kouakou and Rodriguez, five apiece, to help Mount hold a 31-22 advantage in that department. Junior Emma Norden paced the Golden Bears with five.

Western New England outshot Mount 34-25 and on goal 26-21, and also won 19 of 33 draw controls. Scannapieco led all student-athletes with nine draw controls.

The Golden Bears will host Castleton State College in another non-conference home game at 4 p.m. Thursday.

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