Junior Kieran Rodning and senior Nicole Dolcimascolo combined for eight goals to lead the Beloit College women's lacrosse team to an 11-8 win at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon. 

Mother nature didn't play nice as the temperature was listed in the 40s but wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour were compounded by an onslaught of rain during part of the game but not even the weather could dampen the Buccaneer spirit. The Falcons opened the scoring nearly nine minutes into the contest but the answer would come shortly from none other than the combination of Rodning and Dolcimascolo. Less than a minute after CUW's goal, Rodning found Dolcimascolo for her first score of the game to tie it up 1-1. Then Rodning drew a foul and capitalized on the free position attempt to give the Bucs a 2-1 lead.

Following a nearly 13-minute scoring drought, an offensive flurry ensued for the final eight minutes of the half. CUW found the back of the net twice before Beloit countered with goals from Dolcimascolo and Sy Dragon. A free position shot and goal for the Falcons with under two minutes to play in the half knotted the game at 4-4 but Dolcimascolo would send Beloit into the intermission with the advantage on a nifty goal with 47 seconds on the clock. 

On the other side of the break, Olivia Nasatir found the back of the net on a free position attempt to equalize an earlier Falcon goal with 27:04 remaining. Another CUW goal was negated by Dolcimascolo whose free position shot beat the keeper reclaim the lead for Beloit with just under 25 minutes remaining. The lead didn't last long as the Falcons controlled the draw and quickly pushed the issue scoring just 11 seconds after the Bucs to tie the game once again, this time 7-7, with 24:43 to go.

Rodning struck again to sway the advantage into Beloit's favor and then following a Falcon miscue, groundball pickup by Melinda Balades and a successful clear attempt, Rodning weaved her way through three Falcon defenders for a one-on-one with the goalie. Driving at full speed, Rodning went right and beat the keeper top shelf to give the Bucs a two-goal cushion, 9-7, with 17:45 on the clock. 

CUW pulled to within one at the the 11:02 mark before Rodning pushed lead back to two with her fourth goal of the contest with just under 10 minutes left. Fiona Milchman put the final touches on the scoring colum with a goal with exactly eight minutes left to give Beloit the 11-8 lead. 

Each team registered great scoring opportunities the rest of the way with each keeper making fantastic saves to keep the opposing team off the board. Senior goalie Alexa Arakelian made three huge saves down the stretch to seal the win for the Bucs. 

The Falcons posted a 41-26 advantage on shots but the Bucs were more efficient with 20 of their scoring opportunities recorded on goal. Beloit was also more efficient on free position shots turning three of their five opportunities into goals while CUW was just two for seven. 

Dolcimascolo and Rodning led Beloit offensively with four goals each. On the defensive end, Dolcimascolo and Kayla Erickson registered four groundballs and two caused turnovers apiece. Arakelian captained the defense with 17 saves in the complete game in net. 

Up Next: The Bucs will host Benedictine Saturday at 1 p.m. at Strong Stadium. Beloit's scheduled spring trip to Washington has been cancelled so the Bucs will return to Strong Stadium Sunday, March 15 to host Concordia-Chicago at noon.