The Stony Brook Women’s Lacrosse team fell to the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) Retrievers on Saturday by a score of 12-11. This marks their first loss of the year in conference play, and the end of a 7-game winning streak.

Only 9 seconds into the game, UMBC took the 1-0 lead on a shot by Kara Dorr. Amy Taylor answered with a goal to put SB on the board. UMBC then went on a 4-0 run to widen their lead to 5-1. Taylor scored her second goal of the game to make it 5-2. Dorr answered that goal to make it 6-2. SB then rallied with a 4-0 run of their own, with goals from 4 different players, to tie it at 6 all. UMBC scored once more before the half, to go into the break leading 7-6.

The second half was neck-and-neck, with goals exchanged between both sides. SB’s Diana Caroleo had 2 goals during the half, for a total of 3 on the day. SB was never able to gain dominance over the UMBC defense, never tying the game up in the half. Goalkeeper Jen Sandtorv played the entire 60 minutes for SB, and had 12 saves and 12 goals against. Her UMBC counterpart, Kate Quick, had 11 and 11, also playing the entire time.

The Seawolves go to Staten Island to face Wagner on Tuesday. The game starts at 3:30 PM.