ROCHESTER, NY – Keeley Rice scored with 1:08 left in the second overtime to lift No. 19 The College at Brockport to a 9-8 win over the RIT women's lacrosse team (1-1) at the RIT Turf Field on Wednesday afternoon.

Rice intercepted a clearing attempt from RIT and found herself all alone in front of the Tigers net. She made a fake and beat goalkeeper Elizabeth Hughes (Williamsville, NY/Williamsville South) low for her fourth goal of the season.

Both teams scored four goals in each of the first two halves. RIT would come out of halftime and score three goals over the first 9:16 to take a 7-4 lead. From there, Brockport's Kelly Wall, who finished the afternoon with six goals, scored four unanswered tallies in a span of 4:31 to give the Golden Eagles an 8-7 lead with 10 minutes left in regulation.

With 7:05 remaining, RIT's Sammy Ward (Baldwinsville, NY/C.W. Baker) scored her third goal of the game to knot the game at 8-8. From there, the two teams clamped down defensively, sending the game into overtime. In the first overtime, Brockport had possession for the entire three minutes, but could not score. RIT would have the ball early in the second overtime, but turned the ball over.

Overall, Brockport out-shot RIT, 26-19, while RIT won the ground ball battle, 22-20. Both teams turned the ball over 15 times.

Wall led the Golden Eagles with six goals, while Rice, Makensie Schuber, and Ciara McKeon also scored. Rice added four ground balls and four caused turnovers, while Jessica Boddery also had four ground balls. In net, Sara Shaddock earned her third win of the year, stopping five shots.

Ward enjoyed the finest afternoon of her RIT career to date, finishing with a career-high five points on three goals and a pair of assists to go along with a pair of ground balls. Sage Sarkis (Honeoye Falls, NY/Honeoye Falls-Lima) and Corrina Mandell (Corning, NY/Corning East) scored two goals each, while Sydney DaCosta (New Bedford, MA/Bishop Stang) added a goal. Holly Leone (Centerport, NY/Harborfields) recorded three ground balls and caused three turnovers. Maegan Schmauder (Franklin, MA/Franklin), Nicole Bingo (Webster, NY/Webster Schroeder), and Jordan Guerreri added three ground balls apiece.

Hughes made 12 saves the loss, giving her 37 saves in two contests this season.

"I thought we grew as a team today, despite the loss," said RIT head coach Jeff McGuigan. "We battled hard against a good Brockport team and put ourselves in position to win the game. This is a good lesson for us in how we need to finish out games. In the end, we made one too many mistakes and that cost us."

Both teams went on three-goal runs in a hotly contested opening half in which both schools scored four times.

Mandell gave RIT a 1-0 lead with her second goal of the season six minutes into the contest off a shot from in tight. The Golden Eagles tallied three times in a span of 2:43, as Schuber, McKeon, and Wall scored to make it a 3-1 contest. After Sarkis cut the Brockport lead to 3-2 with her fourth goal of the year with 7:07 remaining in the half, Ward scored two consecutive goals, both on rushes to the net 59 seconds apart to give RIT a 4-3 lead. Wall would get her second of the game with 3:04 left to deadlock the game at 4-4.

In an evenly played opening half, RIT held a 10-9 edge in shots and 8-7 advantage in ground balls. The two teams combined for nine opening half turnovers.

RIT is back in action on Saturday, as they head to SUNY Oswego for a non-conference contest that gets underway at 1 p.m.