YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. | The University of Alabama in Huntsville women's lacrosse team fell in the 2017 Gulf South Conference Invitational Championship to Young Harris by a final score of 16-12 on Sunday afternoon. UAH finishes the season at 14-5, while YHC improves to 12-7.
 
Turning Point
- With the game tied at 9-9 with 23:50 to go in the second half, Young Harris proceeded to score three straight goals and outscore UAH 7-3 down the stretch for its second GSC Invitational Championship.
 
Inside the Box Score
- The UAH offense was led by junior Natalie Pachinger with a team-high four goals, while both Nicole Federovitch and Alanna Carvalho had two goals in the loss.
- Overall, seven different Chargers scored during the contest.
- Pachinger also recorded a team-high three ground balls and five draw controls.
- Five Chargers had two ground balls in the game, including Shannon Kruse who also rated second on the roster with three draw controls and tied for the team lead with two caused turnovers.
- Leslie Allen Brown finished the year at 13-5 in goal, after totaling 11 saves in the loss.
- UAH held the edge over YHC in ground ball (18-16), with the Mountain Lions besting the Chargers in shots (34-31). The squads tied in the game in draw controls (15-15) and caused turnovers (6-6).
 
Inside the Flow
- Young Harris started off the scoring on Sunday with back-to-back goals, but UAH negated those tallies and tied the contest at 2-2 on goals by Carvalho at 23:05 and Federovitch at 19:51.
- The Mountain Lions rattled off two more goals to regain the advantage, prior to UAH taking its first lead of the game on a trio of unanswered goals by Megan Hartnett at 16:51, Federovitch at 12:32 and Jenna Carr at 9:46.
- After trading goals to make it a 6-5 UAH lead, Young Harris outscored UAH 3-1 over the final 7:35 of the half to own an 8-7 advantage after 30 minutes.
- UAH would strike first in the second half on a goal by Abby O'Brien to tie it at 8-8, which was followed by one goal apiece to knot it at 9-9.
- Young Harris then registered its game-deciding three goals and outscored UAH 7-3 over the final 23:50 for the 16-12 win on Sunday.
 
Noteworthy
- UAH finishes the season with program records for a season as a team in goals (332), assists (87), points (419), ground balls (411), caused turnovers (159), and draw controls (305).
- Brown, Kruse and Pachinger were named to the All-GSC Invitational Team.