Philadelphia, PA- The Philadelphia University women's lacrosse team (3-4, 3-1 CACC) took their first Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) loss this year in close 10-9 defeat to the Georgian Court University Lions (4-2, 1-0 CACC) on Sunday afternoon.  The Lady Rams needed one score to tie it with under a minute remaining, but GCU held on for the conference win. 

PhilaU outshot GCU 37-22 in the contest, and held the ground ball advantage 13-4. 

GCU's Lauren Conaty got her squad an early 1-0 lead at 21:53, but PhilaU went on a 3-0 run as junior attacker Lauren Woodie (Monmouth, NJ/ Shore Regional), freshmen attacker Taylor Peltzer (Holland, PA/ Archbishop Wood) and senior attacker Sarah Davis (Dublin, OH/ Dublin Scioto) all scored to go up 3-1. 

Two more Lion goals near the 15:00 mark made it 3-3, but the Lady Ram's sophomore midfielder Jennifer Sica (Long Valley, NJ/ W. Morris Central) notched her only goal of the day at 12:48 to keep PhilaU up 4-3 on a free position shot. 

The Lions then went on a scoring binge, netting five goals to go into the half leading 8-4.  GCU's Natalie Bermudez had the eventual game-winner. 

In the second half, PhilaU sophomore midfielder Danielle Coffaro (Webster, NY/ Webster Schroeder) notched her first goal at 27:45, but GCU responded with a goal just 30 seconds later.  Peltzer and sophomore midfielder Michelle O'Hanlon (Springfield, PA/ Springfield) both notched free position goals to close the gap 9-7 at 7:11.

GCU put one more goal into the PhilaU net, but the Lady Ram's got the second goals of the day from Coffaro and O'Hanlon to trail just 10-9 with under a minute remaining.  The Lady Rams had five shots in the final minute- all of which went wide as GCU held on for the win. 

PhilaU junior goalie Katherine Sullivan (Mt. Laurel, NJ/ Lenape) had seven saves in the loss.

The Lady Rams return to CACC action on Thursday, March 26^th vs. Holy Family University at 4:30 p.m. at Ravenhill Field.