Women fall in exhibition match

Nicholas Valenzuela Arizona Daily Wildcat UA women's lacrosse attacker Praecia Costley (left) passes the ball over a Union defender to one of her teammates. The women's lacrosse team lost yesterday to Union College 8-7 and will play Westmont College away on Friday.

It showed, too, as the Wildcats didn't seem prepared to take on Division III Union College in an exhibition game yesterday afternoon at Wildcat Field.

Arizona lost 8-7, but the Wildcats did manage to come back in the second half from being down 6-2 to at least make it close.

The Wildcats (5-0) used the game to prepare for a grueling three-game road trip to the Los Angeles area this weekend.

Union proved to be more than just a tuneup match, taking control of the game early. Arizona was trailing 3-0 when attacker Sarah Schier finally managed to push her way through Union's stifling defense to score.

Another goal gave Union a 4-1 lead at the half.

"Usually it's us who hold onto the ball," Farmer said about Union's patient offensive attack.

Union held the ball for almost 12 minutes in the second half after an Arizona scoring surge, led by Farmer, who had three goals on the day.

The Wildcats scored three goals in 57 seconds at one point in the second half, cutting Union's lead to 6-5. That would be as close as Arizona would get, as Union won the next two faceoffs to extend the lead to 8-5.

Andrea Bozzolo, Heather Kalmbach and team captain Jessica Deal also scored for Arizona. Their next home game is against UCLA April 11.