Marquette’s Offense Scuffles Against Niagara

Through 10 minutes of lacrosse on Sunday in Niagara Falls, Marquette women’s lacrosse had a 3-1 lead on Niagara. However, all three goals came by way of fouls handed out by the Purple Eagles and were free position attempt goals. If that doesn’t sound like solid footing for the entirety of your offense in a game of lacrosse, well, you’d be right.

Marquette didn’t score a run of play goal until nearly midway through the third quarter of Sunday’s game as the offense struggled in a 12-9 loss to Niagara. MU drops to 3-4 on the year at the end of their season high six game road trip.

The 3-1 lead was nice, but the lack of goals with the clock running came back to hurt MU almost immediately as…