Box Score (New/Sortable Format) EDINBORO, Pa. (April 2, 2013) – If Edinboro head coach Kevin Cooke could have kept his team playing for all sixty minutes like it did for the first 20 minutes of its game on Tuesday with 14^th-ranked Mercyhurst, the Fighting Scots may well have had their first win over a ranked opponent.  Unfortunately, that was not the case as Mercyhurst ran off ten straight goals to post a 13-6 win.
 
Edinboro has now lost three straight games to fall to 4-4 overall and 0-3 in the PSAC.  The Lakers won their seventh straight match to improve to 8-1 and 3-0, respectively.
 
The Fighting Scots caught the Lakers off guard at the start, jumping out to a 4-1 lead after seven minutes.  Mercyhurst's Rebecca Himes scored the first goal just 35 seconds into the match, but Edinboro ran off the next four goals.  Shannon Rohrich scored the first two less than two minutes apart.  Alexandria DeReamer made it 3-1 with 24:33 to go in the first half, and Katie Magee brought the lead to 4-1 at 22:59.
 
Mercyhurst would score the next two goals, but Anna Purdy's third goal of the year gave the Scots a 5-3 lead with 10:56 left in the half.
 
With a depleted bench and cold temperatures, Cooke had his team play very deliberately, and the strategy worked for much of the half.  Neither team would score for the next seven minutes, but Mercyhurst closed with a rush, scoring four goals in the final 3 minutes, 40 seconds for a 7-4 lead at the half.  Himes and Kayla Miner each accounted for two of the goals, the last two coming with 24 and five seconds remaining.
 
Mercyhurst would continue its run in the second half, scoring the first six games to make it ten straight goals before Purdy scored her second goal of the match with 1:12 to play, snapping a string of almost forty minutes without a score. 
 
Miner finished with six goals and two assists for Mercyhurst, with Himes adding four goals and an assist.  Mercyhurst held a 29-13 advantage in shots.
Freshman Autumn Held finished with eight saves for Edinboro.
 
The Fighting Scots return to action on Friday, April 5 playing at Shippensburg at 3 p.m. in the first of a two-game swing to the east.  The next day they play at Millersville.