BOCA RATON, Fla. – Lynn University scored just 21 seconds into its match with Eckerd and the Fighting Knights rode that momentum to a 5-2 win over the visiting Tritons, Saturday evening.
The five goals are a season-high for the Fighting Knights as they improve to 4-6 overall and 2-4 in the league.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
- Lynn scored the game's first three goals and the final two, while Eckerd scored two in the middle
- Graduate student
Anniina Sankoh's hat trick is the sixth of her career and first since late in the 2021 campaign
- Two of six career hat tricks have come against Eckerd as she scored three against the Tritons in Sept. '21
- Freshman
Amanda Jansson scored one goal and handed out three assists
- Jansson found Sankoh for a break away goal just 21 seconds into action for a 1-0 lead
- Jansson scored the game's second goal in the 15
th minute off a crossing pass from junior Katja Orshmann
- Sankoh made it 3-0 in favor of the Fighting Knights as she dribbled back and forth and around defenders directly in front of the goal waiting for the perfect moment before capping the dance with a left-footed shot that found the net at 23:16
- Andi Wells (25:29) and Kendall Drummond (55:16) narrowed the Eckerd deficit to 3-2 just over 10 minutes into the second half
- Lynn tacked on two more goals to seal the win
- Sankoh connected on her third tally of the night in the 65
th minute off a pass from both Jansson and freshman
Kayla Bradby
- Junior
Brigitta Pulins later buried a shot in the 90
th minute off a crossing pass from Janson to seal the win at 5-2
- Lynn outshot visiting Eckerd 14-7
UP NEXT:
- Lynn travels to Palm Beach Atlantic on Wednesday for a match at 7:00 pm
