Box Score HARTFORD, Conn. - Senior Ellie Kirkpatrick (Bryn Mawr, Pa.) scored three goals, including the game-winner with 4:36 remaining in the fourth quarter, and added a pair of assists to lead the Trinity College Bantams to an 11-9 victory over the visiting Amherst College Mammoths in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) women's lacrosse action this evening on Sheppard Field.  Trinity, ranked No. 17 in the nation, finishes the regular season with a 9-6 overall record and a 5-5 mark in the NESCAC.  No. 19-ranked Amherst ends up at 9-6 overall and 4-6 in the league.  Trinity secures the No. 6 seed in the NESCAC Championship Tournament and will visit No. 3-seeded Tufts on Saturday in the opening round.  No. 8-seeded Amherst visits top-seeded Middlebury in its quarterfinal match-up on Saturday.

Trinity found itself in a tie game late after a 4-0 Amherst run made the score, 9-9, with 5:20 left in the contest.  Senior tri-captain Samantha Booma (Marblehead, Mass.) won the ensuing draw and Kirkpatrick gave the Bantams the lead for good, coming from behind the goal to score unassisted.  Bantam senior Emma Alpaugh (Darien, Conn.) secured another draw control moments later and Kirkpatrick fed Booma for the game's final tally at the 3:05 mark.  Amherst gained possession twice in the final minutes but turned the ball over both times.

The game as tied 2-2 after one quarter thanks to a pair of goals by Trinity junior attacker Lily Ives (Chappaqua, N.Y.).  The second ignited a 4-0 Bantam spurt that included two goals and one assist by senior attacker Lilianna Khosrowshahi (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.) and one goal and one assist by Kirkpatrick.  The teams traded goals twice over the final 10 minutes of the first half with Booma feeding both Khoswrowshahi and Kirkpatrick once more each, and the Bantams led, 7-4, at the break.  Four different Mammoths scored in the first half.

Katie Hadro opened the second half with an Amherst goal, but Trinity senior attacker Christine Taylor (Westport, Conn.) answered with a score from Booma that gave Taylor her 100th career point as a Bantam.  Taylor went on to assist Khosrowshahi for her game-high fourth goal of the game with 6:45 left in the third quarter, but Sydney Larson scored on a free-position shot and fed Hadro for a second Mammoth marker to start the visitors' final rally.  Eliza Marcus scored Amherst's eighth goal on an errant pass from outside eight meters that ended up in the goal, and Lauren Friedman tied it at 9-all with her second goal of the game.

Khosrowshahi (4g, 1a) and Booma )1g, 4a) joined Kirkpatrick as five-point scorers for Trinity, while senior tri-captain goalie Gabriella Young (Raleigh, N.C.) made five saves with two ground balls and a caused turnover.  Caroline Stole had eight stops for the Mammoths.  Alpaugh collected a game-high four draw controls, two caused turnovers and a ground ball and junior Molly Broderick (Rye, N.Y.) added three caused turnovers and two ground balls.  Three Mammoths scored twice, while Fiona Jones recorded a goal and two assists, and Bryne Korpi had three caused turnovers for Amherst.