• Final Score: Gannon 14, McKendree 9  
• Records: Gannon (6-14, 3-0 WWPA) | McKendree (7-11)
• Location: Prep-Villa Events Center – Erie, Pa.
• The Short Story: The Gannon women's water polo team cashed in early and often, mounting a 9-5 lead at the break behind a 4-1 second period. The four goal differential proved to be the difference in the second half as the Lady Knights were able to finish off the weekend with a conference win over McKendree on Sunday afternoon.  

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• Kelly Fehr (Erie, Pa./Villia Maria) pushed Gannon ahead 2-0 early with a pair of goals in the opening quarter before McKendree tied the game with two goals of its own. Nicole Wiemken (Napoleon, Ohio /Napoleon) handed the lead back to the Lady Knights with a marker at 2:16 before Libby Tirak (Erie, Pa./Villia Maria) and Sydney Fountain (Okemos, Mich./Okemos) capped the first quarter scoring for Gannon.
• The Lady Knights continued to apply the pressure, and pulled away in the second quarter by scoring four of the five goals in the frame. Fehr and Wiemken notched a pair of goals each while Isabelle Vieira (Erie, Pa./Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy) stood tall in goal behind a swarming defense that helped the Lady Knights take a 9-5 lead at the half.
• Quality scoring chances were harder to come by in the second half, but Fehr and Tirak posted the first two goals to balloon the Gannon lead to 11-5 at the 3:23 mark in the third. The fourth quarter was more back and forth, with each time scoring three times in the final eight minutes. Campbell Ruh (Walnut, Calif./Lutheran High School of Orange County) and Naomi Peltier (Honolulu, Hawaii/Farrington) got on the board for the Lady Knights in the period.

• Sunday's win was the second of the season for the Lady Knights over McKendree, previously grabbing a 16-9 triumph back on February 24 in the W&J Invitational.
• With a goal today, Ruh is just four goals away from moving into a tie for eighth on Gannon's all-time scoring list with 125. She is currently tenth in school history in career goals with 121 markers.
• Fehr led the Lady Knights with five goals. She is one of two players (Ruh) with at least 120 shot attempts this season.
• The Lady Knights have scored in double figures each of the past three games, including Saturday's exhibition win over the PSU Club Team.
• Gannon outscored the Bearcats in each of the first three quarters.

• Gannon takes a weekend off from competition before squaring off with local foe Mercyhurst on April 13.
• Game time is slated for noon from the Prep-Villa Events Center in Erie.

WWP: Gannon finishes up the weekend with a 14-9 conference victory over McKendree this afternoon! pic.twitter.com/sgDmZwpRXu

— Gannon Athletics (@GUKnights) March 31, 2019