Women's Water Polo | 3/10/2018 12:01:00 PM

ONEONTA, NY – Lauren Brennan's (Canberra, Australia / St. Clares College) goal with under a minute to play proved to be the difference as the thirteenth ranked Hartwick water polo team defeated seventeenth ranked Princeton in a non-conference game at Moyer Pool Saturday.
           
The Hawks snap an 11-game winless streak against the Tigers dating back to 2012. Six of those losses were by a single goal. With the win, the Hawks improve to 15-3 overall.
           
Brennan pounced on a turnover in the Tigers' defensive end and swiped it home for the winner with 55 ticks remaining. Princeton had one more chance on the offensive end but came away empty and the Hawks ran out the rest of the clock.
           
Tori Wilson (Kitchener, ONT / Grand River Collegiate Institute) scored four goals for the Hawks to lead the way. Zsofia Polak (Dunaujvaros, Hungary / Rudas) and Lena Kotanchyan (Moscow, Russia / Elk Island School) each added three goals with Brennan finishing with two. Charlotte Cottle (Sydney, Australia / Presbyterian Ladies College) contributed a tally in the contest. Kotanchyan and Cottle each dished out a pair of assists.
           
Hartwick jumped out to a 3-0 lead and led comfortably by a 5-1 margin after the first quarter. Wilson had two of the Hawks' goals in the period. The Tigers would score three of the first four goals in the second quarter to pull within two, 6-4, before Wilson answered for a 7-4 margin at halftime.
           
'Wick led 8-5 at the midway point of the third quarter only to have the Tigers rally to tie the game at 8-all less than three minutes later. Polak put Hartwick in front, 9-8, just before the horn and the Hawks held a one-goal lead heading into the final quarter.
           
The two teams traded goals for the first three and a half minutes of the fourth before two straight Tiger goals evened the game at 12-12 with 2:37 left. Both teams had offensive chances until Brennan's winner closed out the scoring.
           
Hannah Edwards (Encinitas, CA / Cathedral Catholic) and Josette Santos (Huntington Beach, NY / Edison HS) split time in goal for Hartwick. Santos made three saves. Edwards stopped two shots.
           
Hartwick hosts Brown University at 6 p.m. this evening.