Army West Point Athletics
Army West Point
American International
Women's Rugby Falls to AIC
September 27, 2014 | Women's Rugby
WEST POINT, N.Y. – Four second half scores lifted the Yellow Jackets of American International College (AIC) to a 32-29 victory over Army from Anderson Rugby Complex Saturday afternoon.
At halftime, Army led 17-8, but was unable to keep the Yellow Jackets off the board in the final 40 minutes.
American International opened up scoring in the 10th minute, successfully converting on a penalty kick to take the 3-0 lead.
Six minutes later, Kate Roose added a try and Carissa Pekny was successful on the conversion, giving the Black Knights the 12-3 lead.
AIC answered in the 26th minute, cutting the Army lead to 12-8.
With just over six minutes to go in the half, Pekny picked off an AIC pass and ran the length of the field before being brought down just shy of the goal line. Allison Wilson punched the ball in for the score and sent Army into the break with a 17-8 lead.
The Yellow Jackets came out strong in the second half, scoring in the 54th minute and converting on the kick to cut the Army lead to 17-15. They would go on to add three more scores to get up by 32-17.
With just two minutes to go in regulation, Pekny turned the momentum in Army’s favor, scoring a try to cut the Yellow Jackets’ lead to 32-22. In extra time, Wilson added her second of the game and Pekny converted the kick, but AIC walked away with the 32-29 victory.
“It’s an 80-minute game, not a 40-minute game. If it was, we would have been okay,” head coach Bill LeClerc said. “We started well in the second half but we didn’t finish the opportunities we created. Momentum is a funny thing and it decided to swing the other way and we just couldn’t do anything to stop it.
“The last three minutes was pleasing to see that we could still come back after basically tanking the first 30 minutes. The girls never stopped trying and there was some positive stuff to take from the game.”
With the loss, the Black Knights fall to 1-3 on the season. They’ll return to action on Saturday, Oct. 5 when they host Northeastern at noon. |
