Box Score ADRIAN, Mich. – The Kenyon College women's lacrosse team got off to a hot start Wednesday and complemented it with a furious finish. It was the time in between that cost the Ladies an 18-16 loss to the Adrian College Bulldogs in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament.

Kenyon (13-3) ran out to a 6-3 advantage to begin the game. Junior Alex Bair and freshman Ansen Burr both scored twice in the run. Senior Emily Nichols and junior Amy Morgan fired in the other two tallies to give the Ladies a three-goal cushion with 17:45 left in the first half.

After that, momentum did a swift 180 and the wheels came off the Kenyon coaster. Adrian won seven of the next ten draw controls and scored nine straight times to close out the half with a 12-6 lead. Hannah Early got the ball rolling for the Bulldogs with two goals and then Olivia Duncan fired in four straight.

In the early stages of the second half, things didn't really change much. Adrian scored five of the first seven goals after the break and forged ahead for a 17-8 lead. At that point, the game again took another huge U-turn and the Ladies took control.

Bair, Morgan, and Leah Sack all scored within a two-minute span to bring the score to 17-11. Freshman Jane Symmes then matched that total on her own. She scored three more consecutive goals for the Ladies, who now had new life with 6:44 left on the game clock.

Things didn't stop there for the Ladies. Nichols notched another goal and so did Symmes. Now the Kenyon women were one goal short of completing the improbable comeback. With 4:56 left, Adrian clung to a 17-16 lead.

Down the stretch run, the fireworks fizzled. Adrian added a free position goal with a little more than two minutes to go and that brought a close the all the scoring.

Symmes ended up with a team-high seven points on five goals and two assists. Burr and Bair finished with three goals apiece and both Nichols and Morgan tossed in two.

Adrian (17-2) moves on to the second round of NCAA tournament play to face No. 4-ranked Cortland State, which upended Keuka College, 23-2, Wednesday.