Women's lacrosse overcomes early deficit to beat Delaware

Seven minutes into women's lacrosse's game against Delaware last night, Princeton found itself in an unusual position, down 3-0 to a fiesty Blue Hen squad.

That was when junior attack Kim Smith stepped up her game.

Smith would score two goals in a three-minute stretch to tie the score at three, and would add two more later on in the game to lead the Tigers to a 9-6 victory over Delaware in Newark, Del.

After Smith tied the score, 3-3, the two teams would trade goals until halftime when both teams went to the locker rooms with five goals.

Delaware was the squad to come out of the half hot, however, as the Blue Hens took a 6-5 lead on Ashley Moderacki's second goal of the game one minute, 12 seconds into the second half.

Junior attack Lauren Simone would even up the score four minutes later and the Tigers would never look back en route to their seventh win of the season. Simone finished with three goals and an assist.

After Simone tied the score up, Smith would taly two more and sophomore attack Whitney Miller would put a shot past Delaware netminder Laurie Tortorelli to give Princeton a three-goal margin of victory.

Freshman goaltender Meghan McInnes made six saves to keep the Tigers ahead. McInnes was following up an 11 save performance at Cornell which earned her Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors for this week.