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Detroit's women's lacrosse team came up short at Niagara Friday evening as the Titans were edged by the Purple Eagles, 10-9, at Niagara Field.

With just over four minutes remaining in the game, freshman Lindsey Saunders (Pasadena, MD/Northeast) scored off a free position shot to knot the game at nine for her 11th goal of the season. Then, with 18 seconds remaining, senior Leigh Downing netted the game-winning goal for the Purple Eagles.

Niagara took a 2-0 lead early, but Detroit responded with five consecutive goals with two coming from sophomore Emily Boissonneault (Brooklin, ON/Donald A. Wilson), who ended with a game-high four goals, and freshman Madison Noland (Dallas, TX/J.J. Pearce) was the last of the five goals to give the Titans a 5-2 advantage with about eight minutes remaining in the half. Detroit then had a man advantage and Boissonneault netted Detroit's final goal of the opening stanza and the Titans ended up leading 6-4 at the break.

Boissonneault scored her final goal of the night with help from sophomore Corina Mahorn (Whitby, ON/Anderson CVI) at the 20:11 mark to give the Titans a two-goal advantage (8-6), but the Purple Eagles responded with three-straight goals to take a 9-8 lead with less than 10 minutes left in the game.

Sophomore Brett Yenger (Cincinnati, OH/Sycamore) was in net the entire 60 minutes for the Titans and collected 10 saves, while allowing 10 goals. Sophomore Alma Aponte saw action the entire game for Niagara and tallied eight saves, while allowing nine Titan goals.

Detroit (3-7) had a slight 32-30 advantage over NU (1-4) in shots, while ground balls were even at 14 a piece.

The Titans will return to action when they face Canisius in Buffalo on Sunday at 10 a.m.