North Andover, Mass. (April 6) -- The women's lacrosse team dropped a 20-10 final to Merrimack on Sunday afternoon at Warrior Field. The win improves Merrimack to 5-2, 4-2 Northeast-10. The loss drops the Hawks to 2-6, 1-4 in league play.

The Hawks took a 2-0 lead with goals from Tiea Kurlowecz (Concord, Mass.) and Meghan Ayers (Sayville, N.Y.), but the Warriors responded with a pair of goals. The Hawks scored another pair of goals, with Beth Millian (Arlington, Mass.) and Michaela Rocha (Rye, N.H.) scoring, putting the Hawks up 4-2. Merrimack again responded with a pair of goals to tie the game, but Jennifer Carew (Concord, N.H.) scored a pair of goals to put the Hawks up 6-4.

Merrimack then struck for three goals, but Courtney Ford (Concord, Mass.) stopped the bleeding with a goal to tie the game back up at 7-7. The Warriors went on to score four goals through the end of the first half to take an 11-7 lead into the second half though.

The Warriors went on to dominate most of the second half, scoring three more goals early in the half to extend the lead to 14-7. Ford struck for her second goal of the game to put the Hawks down 14-8, but another three-goal stretch from the Warriors put them up 17-8. Ford struck again, but the Warriors extended the lead to 20-9. Ford scored with 9:28 left in the game to account for the final goal of the game, as neither team managed to net a goal from there on out.

The Hawks are back in action on Tuesday, heading to Franklin Pierce for a 6 p.m. game against the Ravens.