March 15, 2017- The Concordia University Chicago Cougar Women's Lacrosse team has been road warriors over the first four games of the season. Today the Cougars would return to Concordia Stadium for the 2017 home opener. With the program's first two wins already under their belt, the next goal would be notch their first home win in the programs short history. After the field would be plowed clear, the Cougars welcomed Beloit College for a Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference match. The Cougars and Buccaneers played an up and down game, but it would be the three-goal run by Beloit to close the game that downed CUC by a final score of 7-5.
 
The Cougars jumped out quickly in the home opener with two goals in the first seven minutes. The first coming from Margaret Doane who sliced through the Beloit defenders to give CUC the early lead. Sydney Fuller then made it 2-0 with a spin move past the defender on the left side shooting over the Beloit goalie.
 
The two teams then settled into a defensive battle with the next goal not coming for almost 10 minutes. Unfortunately for CUC the next four goals would come from the sticks of Buccaneers players. Two of those came to tie it at two at the half, and the second two early in the second half making it 4-2 Beloit.
 
CUC answered with a three-goal run of their own to reclaim the lead. The first came from Anna Kellar off of a forced turnover by Fuller. Sonja Sorensen then joined in on the scoring with a free position goal to tie the game at four with 12:49 remaining. The final Cougar goal of the day came from Kellar just 13 seconds after the Sorensen goal. Fuller controlled the draw for CUC, then raced quickly down the field with Kellar finding open space during the run. Fuller then found a wide open Kellar who buried the goal to make it 5-4 CUC.
 
Beloit's defense stiffened up from there, not allowing the Cougars to net another goal. The Buccaneers then turned their strong defense into a streak of three goals over the last 10:22 to close out the 7-5 victory over CUC.
 
Krystal Phillips who came in ranked eighth in the country in saves per game, made another seven today in net. In total Beloit was able to out-shoot CUC 19-15, while the Cougars were unable to take advantage of forcing 23 Buccaneers turnovers in the game.
 
The Cougars (2-3, 0-2 MWLC) will return to action with two games over the weekend at home inside Concordia Stadium. The first coming on Saturday at 4:00pm against Augsburg.